Principal Investigator
Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Meysam Salari
Energy Management Materials
Ph.D. Graduate Students
M.A.Sc. Graduate Students
M.Eng. Graduate Students
Atiqur Rahman
Next-Generation Aerogel Materials for EV Battery Safety and Clean Technologies
Alumni
Post Doctoral Fellow
- Yu-Chen Sun, Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Sensing Applications
- Esmat Sheydaeian, Additive manufacturing of green composite materials
- Cherif Azzaz, Multilayered composites development and characterization
- Sung Hwa Hong, Lithium Ion Batteries using 2D Materials
- Pardis Ghahramai, Piezo resistive sensing for rehabilitation
- Zia Saadatnia, Biomedical soft electrodes materials
- Yasamin Kazemi, Rheological Behaviors of High Performance Composites
- Harvey Shi, Shape Memory Materials development for biomedical devices
- Elahe Jabari, Additive Manufacturing of Smart Membranes
- Solmaz Karimkamkar, Synthesis of Organic Aerogels
- Nastaran Shahmansouri, Auxetic Materials for Textiles Computing
- Nazanin Khalili, Smart Skins Applications
- Marzieh Ebrahimi, High temperature polymer composites rheology
- Zahra Bagheri, Antislip Resistance Materials
- Shahrzad Ghaffari, Dynamics of Polymeric Materials
- Zandi Mojgan, Electrospun Conductive Fibers
- Reza Rizvi, Development of New High Friction Materials (co-supervision)
- Sunny Leung, Design and Modeling of Electronic Composites
- Choonghee Jo, Development and Optimization of Electroactive Polymers
- Wentao Zhao, Characterization of TPO Foams (co-supervision)
- Maher Al-Dojayli, Simulation and Optimization of Electronic Composites
- Lia Xio, Development and Characterization of PLA composites
- Florent Goldberg, Thermomechanical Properties of Shape Memory Alloys
Ph.D. Graduate Students
- Yuhang Huang, Active polymers for wound dressing applications (co-supervised withEugenia Kumacheva)
- Tianhao Chen, Synthesis for new electrodes for neural applications (co-supervised with Milos Popovic)
- Ryan Nam, Auxetic materials based smart materials for morphing application
- Mahdi Rastagardoost, Aerogels development for triboelectric nanogenerators
- Weiqing Fang, Fracture and failure behaviour of smart structure health monitoring system
- Melissa Marquez Chin, Smart materials based sensors and electrodes
- Zeineb Ben Rejeb, Synthesis of novel aerogels with high mechanical properties
- Maryam Fashandi, Synthesis of hybrid aerogels hybrids
- Terek Li, Additive manufacturing of 2D and 3D multifunctional materials
- Omid Tafreshi, Synthesis of aerogels hybrids for filtration applications (co-supervised with Chul Park)
- Ashkhan Darghahi, Mechanical and electrical charge dissipation in functional composites
- Sara Mohseni Taromsari,
- Jamie Li, Development of Smart Materials Actuators for Aircraft Engines
- Pardis Ghahramani, 3D printing of biomedical sensors (co-supervised with Kamran Behdinan)
- Sung Hwa Hong, Smart skins for sensing applications
- Ladan Eskandarian, Smart fibres for textile computing
- Adam Pearson, Composite fiber matrix interactions
- Anastasia Wickeler, Auxetic materials under extreme conditions
- Zhiquiang Chen, Vitrimir Polymers for multifunctional properties (Visiting Xi’an Jiaotong Univ)
- Wei Wang, Multilayer graphene-based composites for sensing (Visiting Xi’an Jiaotong Univ)
- Shasha Jiao, Graphene materials for supercapacitors applications (Visiting Xi’an Jiaotong Univ)
- Shahriar Ghaffari, Aerogles synthesis for multifunctional applications (Co-supervised with C B Park)
- Arturo Ugalde, New Aluminum Based Batteries Materials (Co-supervised with O. Kesler)
- Harvey Shi, Novel Supercapacitors Materials for Energy Storage
- Solmaz Karamikamkar, Development of flexible aerogels (co-supervised with C. B. Park)
- Sai Wang, Conductive Foams (co-supervised with C.B. Park)
- Yu-Chen Sun, Smart Materials Hybrids Based Artificial Muscles
- Muhammed Anwer, Fracture Mechanics of Hierarchical Composites Materials
- Zhongjie Li, Energy Piezoelectric Materials for Low Frequencies Applications
- Zia Saadatnia, Energy Harvesting Tribological Systems (co-Supervised with E. Esmailzadeh)
- Nazanin Khalili, Optimization of Electroactive Polymers Sensors for Smart Skins Applications
- Mohammed Elsharah, Aerogels foams (co-supervised with C.B. Park)
- Mohammed Kshad, Development and Characterization of Meta Origami Materials
- Kyle Eastwood, Smart Surgical and Adaptive Tools (Co-supervised with Dr. Jim Drake Sick Kids)
- Farooq Al Jahwari, Modeling of Functionally Graded Materials
- Eunji In, Development of multimodal phantoms for biomedical imaging
- Merle Biscoff, Electrospinning of PEEK materials (Intern from University of Achen Germany)
- Davood Alizadeh, Prefoamed Polymers Beads (co-supervised with C.B. Park)
- Reza Rizvi, Smart Sensors and Actuators (co-supervised with E. Bidiss, Bloorview Hospital)
- Shahrzad Ghaffari, (Prefoamed Polymers Beads (co-supervised with C.B. Park)
- Aaron Price, Electroactive Polymers based Artificial Muscles
- Linus Leung, Mechanics of Cellular Structure for tissue engineering
- Richard Lee, Prefoamed Polymers Beads (co-supervised with C.B. Park)
- Ahsan Ahmed, Polymer/Metal Composites (co-supervised with Dr. A Fahim, U of Ottawa)
- Choonghee Jo, Constitutive Modeling of Nanocomposite Foams (University of Ottawa)
M.A.Sc. Graduate Students
- Ivy Hwang, Fiber based flexible batteries for smart wearables
- Heeju Jin, Design and manufacturing of new flexible batteries
- Toby McMurray, Fiber matrix interaction in polymer composites
- Kayah St Germain, Smart surface for ultra hydrophobic materials
- Dina Castelletto, Low smoke zero halogen green polymer compounds
- Jacob Sorken, Graphene based nanocomposites for structural materials
- Aliesha Johnson, Triboelectric biobased nanogenerators
- Jackie Cheng, Polymers and composites under extreme conditions
- Antharv Ambhorkar, Development and Dynamic Characterization of Green Epoxy Nanocomposites
- Zinan Cen, Strain Sensor-Enabled Motion Monitoring SmartClothing (co-supervised with Prof Goldie Nejat)
- Aleisha Cerney, Smart materials-based sensors for environmental sensing
- Anastasia Aubeeluck, Development of microsensing system for biomedical robotics
- Ivana Perkucin, Synthesis for new biogels for neuro electrodes applications (co-supervised with Dr. Cindi Morshead)
- Kyra Mclellan, 4D printing for new functional materials
- Sophie Kiddel, Development of novel graphene nanocomposites
- Cameron Whittle, Aging properties of thermoplastics composites and hybrids
- Ryan Nam, Design of Smart Materials Actuators
- Terek Li, 3D printing for new functional materials
- Marco Chu, Smart skins for sensing applications
- Tianhao Chen, Biomedical sensing for surgical tools
- Jintian Wang, Biobased chitin composites for low carbon footprint
- Syed Husseini, Biobased fillers composites
- Harrison Lin, High temperature and pressure-based thermoplastics
- Karolina Spetniak, Additive manufacturing of medical phantoms
- Taylor Morrison, Additive Manufacturing of flexible air batteries substrates
- Xuechen Shen, Additive Manufacturing of flexible sensing substrates
- Akshay Seshadri, Development of nanostructures-based materials for sensing applications
- Ahmed Anwer, High Impact Polymer Composites
- Anastasia Wickler, Modeling and Fracture Mechanics of Materials
- Adam Pearson, Modeling and Characterization of rubber composites
- Desmond Vandenberg, Antibacterial surfaces of polymer fabrics
- Ali Anwer, Development of Biocomposites Materials
- Sherif Ramadan, Development and Validation of Biomaterials for Medical Phantoms
- Sharon Li, Biocomposites Materials Based on Chitosan Nanowhiskers
- Harvey Shi, Energy Harvesting Nanocomposites
- Muhammed Anwer, Biocomposites foams
- Carlton Hoy, Biomedical Phantoms
- Yu-Chen Sun, Thermoelectric and Dielectric Materials
- Saad Khaled, Thermal Management Materials (Co-supervised with University of Torino, Italy)
- Terrence Lee, Supercapacitors Conductive Polymers (co-supervised with K. Lian MSE)
- Nazanin Khalili, Optimization of Conductive Polymer Actuator
- Shahriar Ghaffari, Biobased Conductive Polymer Composites
- Aaron Guan, Polymer bio nanocomposites
- Omer Khan, Smart Electronic Composites
- Ellen Chan, Smart Electronic Composites (co-supervised with Dr. Francis Dawson ECE)
- Gingwen Wang, Fuel Cells Membranes (co-supervised with A. Bazylak, U. of Toronto)
- Eunji In, Fabrication of Aerogels
- Christine Chan, Biopolymers for Drug Delivery Systems
- Reza Rizvi, Environmental and Biodegradable Polymers
- Julia Campbell, Polymer/Metals Composites (co-supervised with Dr. Glenn Hibard, Toronto)
- Joe McRae, Acoustics of Metallic Foams (co-supervised with Dr. N. Atalla, (U of Sherbrooke)
- Steven Simkevitz, Development of Shape Memory Polymers
- Linus Leung, Development and Simulation of Bioscaffolds
- Steven Wong, Development of Light Weight TPO Materials (co-supervised with C.B. Park)
- Raymond Chu, Smart Acoustic Absorption Foams (co-supervised with Dr. N. Atalla, Sherbrooke)
- Aaron Price, Kinematics of Smart Materials Based Actuators in Artificial Muscles (University of Ottawa) (co-supervised with Dr. A. Jnifene at the Royal Military College)
- Josee Perron, Processing and Characterization of Novel Biopolymers in Tissue Engineering (University of Ottawa)
- Matthew Crawly, Fracture Mechanics and Failure Modes of Foamed Structure (University of Ottawa)
- Jin Fu, Processing of Smart Foams for Acoustics Insulation (University of Ottawa)
- Allan Manninnen, Polymer/Nanoparticulate Composites (University of Ottawa)
M.Eng. Graduate Students
- Sharavan Ranga, Permeation and dynamic properties of composites
- Tian Tian Zhang, Composite system visualization and modeling
- Kartik Anilkumar, Development of new composites under extreme conditions
- Malek Jnifene, Self powdered sensor for force and temperature measurement
- Zekai Li, AL in 2D Materials Design
- Xueching Zheng, Additive Manufacturing of dual thermosets and thermoplastics
- Yige Huang, Fiber alignment and adhesion in polymer matrices
- Weifeng Chen, Permeation and creep behaviour of polymer composites
- Zhijie Hou, Dynamic properties of polymer composites
- Xiayu Wang, PVDF Reduced Graphene Oxide (RGO)
- Xinye Yang, Multiphysics modelling of lithium-ion battery materials
- Jake Heselgrave, Soft robotics-based actuators for vocal cords regeneration
- Tao Wen, Permeation and dynamic properties of polymer composites
- Changxin Zhang, New polyimide aerogels for thermal insulation
- Jia Xi Mary Chen, Modeling of electrodynamic responses of brain tissue and stimulation electrodes for stem cell applications
- Sajid Asm, Design and modelling of origami materials for high impact properties
- Hans Deng, Biobased materials and composites
- Sridutt Meduri, Multifunctional Aerogels materials
- Yimie Wan, Development of a dielectric sensor system for energy application
- Weijan Liao, Fiber matrix interaction of advanced composites
- Vinayak Nair, Graphene-based systems in polymer composites
- Carlo Porreto, Mechanical properties of fibre composites
- Umar Haque, Design of new creep resistance setup
- Faissal Hariri, Development of sensing mechanism for oil and gas industry
- Saad Khattak, Biobased composites for low carbon footprint materials
- Ganesh Vedula, Development of sensing mechanism for oil and gas industry
- Arslan Javad, High temperature and pressure composites
- Haodan Li, Biobased polymers for barrier properties
- Feng Shi, Organic-based aerogels for thermal insulation properties
- Shawn Zou, High impact performance multilayered materials
- Nicola McFadden, Biopolymers based materials for consumer products applications
- Jinyuan Zhang, Low transition temperature shape memory polymer (SMP)
- Zhuiri Wang, Epoxy carbon nanotubes nanocomposites based materials
- Linghong Li, Foaming technology of thermoplastics polyurethane materials
- Wan Wang, Foaming technology of thermoplastics polyurethane materials
- Yannan Zhou, Development of bio-inspired hierarchical materials
- Qiazhi Liu, Dielectric Properties of Biomedical Materials
- Sean Li, Mechanical properties of Graphene Nanocomposites
- Jinyuang Zhang, Thermoelectric Materials Development
- Tianyu Lan, Dynamic Medical Phantoms
- Jennifer D’Cunha, Biocomposites Self-Healing
- Calum Mascarenhas, Functionally Graded Materials
- Vishaal Narkedamalli, Acoustics Functionally Graded Materials
- Timotheus Gmeiner, Bioprosthetics Design
- Honya Kordnejad, Electrospinning of Conductive Polymers
- Vincent Liu, Thermal Biocomposites
- Quan Chen, Shape Memory Composites
- Terri Zhang, Shape Memory Polymers
- Kordnejad Honya, Electrospinning of Polymer composites
- Elisabeth Walker, Medical Phantoms Materials
- Yuanhao Huang, Rubber Dynamic Properties
- Chaofan Hou, Polymers Fatigue
- Sri Rao, Shape memory Alloys Design for Automotive Components
- Jack Chang, Shape Memory Polymers
- Pedram Raghib, Development of biopolymers for microfluidics applications
- Neha Patel, Processing and Characterization of Biodegradable Polymers
- Wayne Chan, Processing and Characterization of Porous Conductive Polymers
- Andrew Edgerton, Shape Memory Alloys (University of Ottawa) (co-supervised with A. Jnifene, RMC)
- Mohamad Mannan, Design Optimization of Smart Materials Based Sensors/Actuators (University of Ottawa) (co-supervised with Dr. A. Jnifene at the Royal Military College)
- Andrew Minkoff, Weld Joint Design of High Pressure Vessel Applications (University of Ottawa),
