By Dr Sajjad Seifi Mofarah

Journal articles

Jiang Y; Liang J; Zhuo F; Ma H; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC; Wang D; Koshy P, 2025, 'Unveiling Mechanically Driven Catalytic Processes: Beyond Piezocatalysis to Synergetic Effects', ACS Nano, 19, pp. 18037 - 18074, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c02660

Huang S; Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Zhou S; Zheng X; Guan P; Yao Y; Fang X; Xue K; Wong V; Huang YC; Scott J; Wang D; Sorrell CC; Koshy P, 2025, 'Impact of Dual Functionalities of Mo-Doped BiFeO3 Decorated with Bi4MoO9 Heteroatoms for Piezo-Photocatalytic Activity', Chemcatchem, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202401005

Zaman T; Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Bhattacharyya SK; Koshy P; Daniels JE; Sorrell CC, 2025, 'Phase equilibria in the system BaO–TiO2', Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jace.20143

Shahmiri R; Standard OC; Hart JN; Gharagozlu N; Bahmanrokh G; Yin Y; Mofarah SS; Adabifiroozjaei E; Webster R; Sorrell CC, 2024, 'Role of 3Y-TZP grain boundaries in glazing and layering', Dental Materials, 40, pp. 2148 - 2156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dental.2024.10.005

Khayyam Nekouei R; Hajian-Foroushani M; Maroufi S; Sajjad SS; Akhter R; Biswal S; Bustamante H; Sahajwalla V, 2024, 'Microwave-assisted transforming of biosolids into engineered activated carbon employed for adsorption from wastewater', Journal of Cleaner Production, 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142941

Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Mofarah SS; Shen X; Bartlett SA; Koshy P; Sorrell CC; Sun H; Pozo-Gonzalo C; Dastafkan K; Britto S; Bhargava SK; Zhao C, 2024, 'Stacking Fault-Enriched MoNi4/MoO2 Enables High-Performance Hydrogen Evolution', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202402156

Khayyam Nekouei R; Maroufi S; S. Mofarah S; Sahajwalla V, 2024, 'Regeneration of waste Zn-MnO2 batteries: Value-added transformation to regenerate essential materials for sustainable battery manufacturing', Journal of Energy Storage, 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.110159

Jiang Y; Zhou S; Mofarah SS; Niu R; Sun Y; Rawal A; Ma H; Xue K; Fang X; Toe CY; Chen WF; Chen YS; Cairney JM; Rahman R; Chen Z; Koshy P; Wang D; Sorrell CC, 2023, 'Efficient and stable piezo-photocatalytic splitting of water and seawater by interfacial engineering of Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3/Na0.5Bi4.5Ti4O15 self-generated heterojunctions', Nano Energy, 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108830

Tseng YF; Mofarah SS; Zheng X; Arandiyan H; Wang Y; Abbasi R; Gao Y; Sorrell CC; Koshy P, 2023, 'Engineering of Micro-mesoporous two-dimensional CeO2-based heterojunction oxides for energy storage applications', Surfaces and Interfaces, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2023.103520

Xue K; Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Doustkhah E; Zhou S; Zheng X; Huang S; Wang D; Sorrell CC; Koshy P, 2023, 'Composition-driven morphological evolution of BaTiO3 nanowires for efficient piezocatalytic hydrogen production', Chemosphere, 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139337

Wong V; Zheng X; Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC; Koshy P, 2023, '2D-3D metal oxide heterojunction nanostructures for catalytic applications', Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2023.107588

Leung BAY; Joe W; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC; Abbasi R; Azadeh M; Arsecularatne JA; Koshy P, 2023, 'Unveiling the mechanisms behind surface degradation of dental resin composites in simulated oral environments', Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 11, pp. 7707 - 7720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3tb00756a

De Villenoisy T; Zheng X; Wong V; Mofarah SS; Arandiyan H; Yamauchi Y; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2023, 'Principles of Design and Synthesis of Metal Derivatives from MOFs', Advanced Materials, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202210166

Salehi H; Maroufi S; Mofarah SS; Nekouei RK; Sahajwalla V, 2023, 'Recovery of rare earth metals from Ni-MH batteries: A comprehensive review', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113248

Luo Y; Zheng X; Vutukuri CV; Ho N; Atanacio AJ; Manohar M; Arandiyan H; Wang Y; Sorrell CC; S. Mofarah S; Koshy P, 2023, 'Tailored Fabrication of Defect-Rich Ion Implanted CeO2-x Nanoflakes for Electrochemical Sensing of H2O2', Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/acd41f

Zhang L; Fan H; Dang Y; Zhuang Q; Arandiyan H; Wang Y; Cheng N; Sun H; Pérez Garza HH; Zheng R; Wang Z; S. Mofarah S; Koshy P; Bhargava SK; Cui Y; Shao Z; Liu Y, 2023, 'Recent advances in in situ and operando characterization techniques for Li7La3Zr2O12-based solid-state lithium batteries', Materials Horizons, 10, pp. 1479 - 1538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3mh00135k

Jiang Y; Toe CY; Mofarah SS; Cazorla C; Chang SLY; Yin Y; Zhang Q; Lim S; Yao Y; Tian R; Wang Y; Zaman T; Arandiyan H; Andersson GG; Scott J; Koshy P; Wang D; Sorrell CC, 2023, 'Efficient Cocatalyst-Free Piezo-Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution of Defective BaTiO3-x Nanoparticles from Seawater', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 11, pp. 3370 - 3389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06573

Mao P; Arandiyan H; Mofarah SS; Koshy P; Pozo-Gonzalo C; Zheng R; Wang Z; Wang Y; Bhargava SK; Sun H; Shao Z; Liu Y, 2023, 'A comprehensive review of cathode materials for Na-air batteries', Energy Advances, 2, pp. 465 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2ya00340f

Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Tudela I; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Determination of the optimum potential window for super- and pseudocapacitance electrodes via in-depth electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analysis', Journal of Energy Storage, 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.106137

Pachuta KG; Zheng X; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC; Tsounis C; Scott JA; Sehirlioglu A; Pentzer EB; Koshy P, 2022, 'Engineering Multifunctional Stratified LiCoO2Catalysts: Structural Disorder to Microstructural Exfoliation', ACS Applied Energy Materials, 5, pp. 14290 - 14300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c02846

Xu Y; Koshy P; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC, 2022, 'Morphological Mapping of Hydrothermally Synthesised Nanoceria at High Ce Concentrations', Chemnanomat, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202200132

Abbasi R; Tang J; Baharfar M; Zhang C; Allioux FM; Zhang J; Tajik M; Yang J; Biazik J; Centurion F; Han J; Mofarah SS; Esrafilzadeh D; Koshy P; Sorrell CC; Chan SLI; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Induction heating for the removal of liquid metal-based implant mimics: A proof-of-concept', Applied Materials Today, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101459

Kabir II; Mofarah SS; Sorrell CC, 2022, 'Non-blockage of atomic-scale active sites in photocatalytic TiO2 thin films deposited on silica-based substrates', Materials Chemistry and Physics, 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126148

Khayyam Nekouei R; Mofarah S; Hossein R; Maroufi S; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Roles of experimental variables in optimised fabrication of microrecycled CuO-based photoelectrodes', Materials Today Sustainability, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtsust.2022.100111

Maroufi S; Mofarah SS; Khayyam Nekouei R; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Tailoring of a highly stable Mn1−x−y(CexLay)O2−δ pseudocapacitor thin-film and rare earth oxide nanospheres through selective purification of rare earth oxides derived from Ni-MH batteries', Green Chemistry, 24, pp. 1659 - 1672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1gc02802b

Fan H; Mao P; Sun H; Wang Y; Mofarah SS; Koshy P; Arandiyan H; Wang Z; Liu Y; Shao Z, 2022, 'Recent advances of metal telluride anodes for high-performance lithium/sodium-ion batteries', Materials Horizons, 9, pp. 524 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1mh01587g

Assefi M; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Khayyam Nekouei R; Wang W; Kert E; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Regeneration of hydrogen through thermal micronisation of end-of-life polymers for sustainable reduction of iron oxide', Fuel Processing Technology, 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2021.107038

Mehmood R; J. N. Amaldoss M; Mofarah SS; Zheng Q; Kaushik NK; Ariotti N; Rawal A; Yang JL; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2022, 'Green stealth engineering of lifetime-biocatalytic nanocatalyst', Applied Surface Science, 572, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151464

Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Wang W; Mansuri I; Sahajwalla V, 2022, 'Unraveling the Role of Oxides in Electrochemical Performance of Activated Carbons for High Voltage Symmetric Electric Double-Layer Capacitors', Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aesr.202100130

Zheng X; Mofarah SS; Cen A; Cazorla C; Haque E; Chen EY; Atanacio AJ; Manohar M; Vutukuri C; Abraham JL; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Role of Oxygen Vacancy Ordering and Channel Formation in Tuning Intercalation Pseudocapacitance in Mo Single-Ion-Implanted CeO2–x Nanoflakes', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 59820 - 59833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14484

Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; Maroufi S; Cazorla C; O'Mullane AP; Yao Y; Lim S; Tricoli A; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Self-adhesive flexible patches of oxide heterojunctions with tailored band alignments for electrocatalytic H2O2generation', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, pp. 26727 - 26740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ta06473h

Jiang Y; Chen WF; Ma H; Ren H; Lim S; Lu X; Bahmanrokh G; Mofarah SS; Wang D; Koshy P; Sorrell CC; Seifi Mofarah S, 2021, 'Effect of Bi/Ti ratio on (Na0.5Bi0.5)TiO3/Bi4Ti3O12 heterojunction formation and photocatalytic performance', Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9, pp. 106532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.106532

Jiang Y; Mofarah SS; Koshy P; Chen WF; Fang X; Zheng X; Wang D; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 phase relations: Thermodynamics and phase equilibria in the systems Bi2O3 – TiO2, Na2O – TiO2, and Na2O – Bi2O3 – TiO2', Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 41, pp. 7005 - 7013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2021.07.048

Arandiyan H; Mofarah SS; Wang Y; Cazorla C; Jampaiah D; Garbrecht M; Wilson K; Lee AF; Zhao C; Maschmeyer T, 2021, 'Impact of Surface Defects on LaNiO3 Perovskite Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction', Chemistry A European Journal, 27, pp. 14418 - 14426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202102672

Arandiyan H; S. Mofarah S; Sorrell CC; Doustkhah E; Sajjadi B; Hao D; Wang Y; Sun H; Ni BJ; Rezaei M; Shao Z; Maschmeyer T, 2021, 'Defect engineering of oxide perovskites for catalysis and energy storage: Synthesis of chemistry and materials science', Chemical Society Reviews, 50, pp. 10116 - 10211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cs00639d

Zheng X; Mofarah SS; Cazorla C; Daiyan R; Esmailpour AA; Scott J; Yao Y; Lim S; Wong V; Chen EY; Arandiyan H; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Decoupling the Impacts of Engineering Defects and Band Gap Alignment Mechanism on the Catalytic Performance of Holey 2D CeO2−x-Based Heterojunctions', Advanced Functional Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202103171

Khayyam Nekouei R; Tudela I; Mofarah SS; Vahidi E; Maroufi S; Wang K; Pahlevani F; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Dual functionality of mixed Cu-based two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures derived from electronic waste', Green Chemistry, 23, pp. 5511 - 5523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1gc00354b

Maroufi S; Nekouei RK; Mofarah SS; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Nanoscale design of 1D metal oxides derived from mixed Ni-MH battery/transition metal dust', Journal of Hazardous Materials, 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125645

Maroufi S; Khayyam Nekouei R; S. Mofarah S; O'Mullane AP; Yao Y; Lim S; Cazorla C; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Transparent and Flexible Mn1−x−y(CexLay)O2−δ Ultrathin-Film Device for Highly-Stable Pseudocapacitance Application', Advanced Functional Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202100880

Mofarah SS; Schreck L; Cazorla C; Zheng X; Adabifiroozjaei E; Tsounis C; Scott J; Shahmiri R; Yao Y; Abbasi R; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Sheppard L; Wong V; Doustkhah E; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Highly catalytically active CeO2-: X-based heterojunction nanostructures with mixed micro/meso-porous architectures', Nanoscale, 13, pp. 6764 - 6771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr08097g

Shen P; Zhang B; Wang Y; Liu X; Yu C; Xu T; Mofarah SS; Yu Y; Liu Y; Sun H; Arandiyan H, 2021, 'Nanoscale niobium oxides anode for electrochemical lithium and sodium storage: a review of recent improvements', Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, 11, pp. 33 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40097-020-00367-5

Mofarah SS; Khayyam Nekouei R; Maroufi S; Biswal S; Lim S; Yao Y; Sahajwalla V, 2021, 'Controllable design of defect-rich hybrid iron oxide nanostructures on mesoporous carbon-based scaffold for pseudocapacitive applications', Nanoscale, 13, pp. 3662 - 3672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr06880b

Sarmadi N; Gharabaghi M; Tamadoni Saray M; Darestani M; Garman D; Koshy P; S. Mofarah S; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Highly Mesoporous Hybrid Transition Metal Oxide Nanowires for Enhanced Adsorption of Rare Earth Elements from Wastewater', Inorganic Chemistry, 60, pp. 175 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02762

Xu Y; Mofarah SS; Mehmood R; Cazorla C; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2021, 'Design strategies for ceria nanomaterials: Untangling key mechanistic concepts', Materials Horizons, 8, pp. 102 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0mh00654h

Kabir I; Sorrell CC; Mofarah SS; Yang W; Yuen ACY; Nazir MT; Yeoh GH, 2020, 'Alginate/Polymer-Based Materials for Fire Retardancy: Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications', Polymer Reviews, pp. 1 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15583724.2020.1801726

Milićević JS; Ranđelović MS; Momčilović MZ; Zarubica AR; Mofarah SS; Matović B; Sorrel CC, 2020, 'Multiwalled carbon nanotubes modified with MoO2 nanoparticles for voltammetric determination of the pesticide oxyfluorfen', Microchimica Acta, 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00604-020-04406-4

Adabifiroozjaei E; Mofarah SS; Ma H; Jiang Y; Assadi MHN; Suzuki TS, 2020, 'Molecular dynamics simulation of vacancy cluster formation in β- and α-Si3N4', Computational Materials Science, 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109632

S. Mofarah S; Adabifiroozjaei E; Wang Y; Arandiyan H; Pardehkhorram R; Yao Y; Assadi MHN; Mehmood R; Chen WF; Tsounis C; Scott J; Lim S; Webster R; Zhong V; Xu Y; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2020, 'Assembly of cerium-based coordination polymer into variant polycrystalline 2D-3D CeO2-x nanostructures', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, pp. 4753 - 4763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta11961b

Bahmanrokh G; Cazorla C; Mofarah SS; Shahmiri R; Yao Y; Ismail I; Chen WF; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2020, 'Band gap engineering of Ce-doped anatase TiO2 through solid solubility mechanisms and new defect equilibria formalism', Nanoscale, 12, pp. 4916 - 4934, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9nr08604h

Mofarah SS; Adabifiroozjaei E; Pardehkhorram R; Assadi MHN; Hinterstein M; Yao Y; Liu X; Ghasemian MB; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Mehmood R; Cazorla C; Shahmiri R; Bahmanrokh G; Bhattacharyya S; Spadaro MC; Arbiol J; Lim S; Xu Y; Arandiyan H; Scott J; Koshy P; Sorrell CC, 2019, 'Coordination Polymer to Atomically Thin, Holey, Metal-Oxide Nanosheets for Tuning Band Alignment', Advanced Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201905288

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