Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh

Results-driven materials science Ph.D. with expertise in ion-selective membranes and metal-organic frameworks. Demonstrated success in postdoctoral research at Macquarie University and as an affiliate scientist at CSIRO, contributing to innovative projects and securing research grants.

Top-up from CSIRO (Mineral Resources, Clayton), 36000 AUD, Develop MOF-based electrochemical sensors to detect heavy metal ions

• International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES), 2019
• Research Training Program (RTP), 2019
• PGRF (Postgraduate Research Fund), 2000 AUD, Macquarie University
• Ranked 8th among 23600 participants of nationwide entrance exam for mechanical engineering graduate studies (M.Sc. Konkoor), 2013
• Ranked 13th in National Olympiad of Mechanical Engineering, 2013
• Ranked among top 0.3 % in B.Sc. nationwide entrance exam with nearly 400000 participants, 2009
• Exceptional in national university exam, Shiraz University, 2009

• Mentoring 3 undergraduate students through their final year thesis project
• Supervision of a research collaborator in designing wireless sensors
• Supervision of a vacation student in CSIRO

• Macquarie University, LDH Anion-Selective Membranes: Successfully synthesized an anion-conductive PDA-coated LDH membrane. The membrane was characterized using XRD, SEM, TEM and its performance was evaluated using a potentiostat by voltammetry techniques.
• Macquarie University, GO-Tannic Acid membranes: Helped in synthesis, performance analysis and characterization of the membrane.
• Macquarie University, MOF-on-MOF membrane: for the first time, synthesized a membrane with angstrom-scale asymmetric nanochannels capable of showing high lithium separation performance and ionic current rectification.
• Macquarie University, Wireless sensor array: currently working on developing an array of sensors capable of detecting multiple ions at the same time.
• Macquarie University, Asymmetric GO membrane: Involved in performance analysis of asymmetric GO-rGO membrane.
• Macquarie University, Li-selective MOF-on-MOF thin film: Involved in designing experiments for performance evaluation of the membrane.
• CSIRO, Chief Investigator in the project: Developing electrochemical MOF-based sensors to detect metal ions. The MOF was characterized by SEM, XRD, SEM-EDS mapping, and FT-IR. The sensor's output was data was processed and analyzed.
• Sharif University of the Technology, Enhancement of surface adsorption-desorption invoking rates in microarrays surface charge heterogeneity. Developed a numerical approach and a C++ code to solve the mass distribution inside a microchannel with chemical surface reactions.
• Sharif University of the Technology, Shape optimization of a helical microswimmer for biomedical applications. Developed a numerical method and a MATLAB code to solve the motion of helical microswimmer
• Shiraz University, Simulating two-phase nanofluids heat transfer in a minichannel using a mixture model by ANSYS FLUENT software.
• Shiraz University, Designing HVAC System of KHARAZMI Library of Shiraz University by Carrier
• Shiraz University, Simulating fluid flow around a turbine blade by ANSYS FLUENT

• Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh, Bita Bayatsarmadi, Mikko Vepsäläinen, Amir Razmjou, and Mohsen Asadnia, Highly stable Li+ selective electrode with metal-organic framework as ion-to-electron transducer, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 350, 2022, 130799
• Hadi Ahmadi, Ehsan Hosseini, Withita Cha‐Umpong, Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh, Asghar Habibnejad Korayem, Amir Razmjou, Vicki Chen, and Mohsen Asadnia, Incorporation of natural lithium‐ion trappers into graphene oxide nanosheets, Advanced Materials Technologies, 6, 10, 2021, 2000665
• Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh, Ehsan Hosseini, Hadi Ahmadi, Sean Lim, Asghar Habibnejad Korayem, Amir Razmjou, and Mohsen Asadnia, Low humid transport of anions in layered double hydroxides membranes using polydopamine coating, Journal of Membrane Science, 624, 2021, 118974
• Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh, Mohammad Said Saidi, and Arman Sadeghi, Enhancement of surface adsorption-desorption rates in microarrays invoking surface charge heterogeneity, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 242, 2017, 956-964
• Huan Xiao; Milton Chai; Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh; Hadi Ahmadi; Vicki Chen; Damian B. Gore; Mohsen Asadnia, A Lithium ion-selective membrane synthesized from a double layered Zr-based metal-organic framework (MOF-on-MOF) thin films, Desalination Journal, in press

• Hydroxide-selective layered double hydroxide membranes, 1st Annual workshop of IEEE sensors Council NSW chapter, 12/11/2020
• Investigation on In-plan Membrane's Selectivity Through Intercalation of Natural Lithium-ion Trapper into Graphene Oxide Nanosheets, MSA Annual Meeting, 11/23/2020, Monash University, Australia
• Selectivity and conductivity evaluation of Tannic acid fictionalized graphene oxide nanosheets on monovalent ions, Symposium on Lithium Supply Chain, 11/19/2020, UNSW, Australia
• Low Humid Transport of Anions in Layered Double Hydroxides, MSA Annual Meeting, 11/23/2020, Monash University, Australia