2020- Present

 

  • Syed Ibrahim, G. P. M. ; Zhang, T.; Jiang, Z.; Rappe, A. M., and Nejati, S. “One-step synthesis of porphyrin-based cationic covalent organic frameworks” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02543
  • Syed Ibrahim G. P. M. ; Nguyen, T.; Bavarian, M. and Nejati, S “One-step Synthesis of Ionic Covalent Organic Polymer for CO2 Capture” ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2022, (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.2c01436
  • Firouzjaei, M. D.; Zolghadr, E.; Ahmadalipour, S.; Taghvaei, N.; Akbari Afkhami, F.; Nejati, S.; and Elliott, M. A. “Chemistry, abundance, detection and treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in water: a review” Environmental Chemistry Letters 2022, 20, 661–679. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-021-01340-6
  • Syed Ibrahim G. P. M.; Nejati, S.; and Bavarian, M. “All-polymeric Thin Film Nanocomposite Membranes for Organic Solvent Nanofiltration” ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2021, 3, 12, 6040–6044  (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.1c01291
  • Ems, H.; Tsubaki, A.; Sukup, B.; Nejati, S.; Alexander, D.; Zuhlke, C. and Gogos. G. “Drag Reduction in Mini channel Laminar Flow Past Superhydrophobic Surfaces”, Physics of Fluids 2021, 33, 123608 (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0075171
  • Mokarizadeh, H; Moayedfard, S.; Salehi Maleh, M.; Syed Ibrahim G. P. M. ; Nejati, S. ; Rabbani Esfahania, M. “The Role of Support Layer Properties on the Fabrication and Performance of Thin-film Composite Membranes: the Significance of Selective layer – Support Layer Connectivity” Separation and Purification Technology 2021, 278, 119451 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2021.119451)
  • Shuldes, B. ; Bavarian, B. and Nejati, S. “Multiphysics Modeling and Analysis of a Solar Desalination Process Based on Vacuum Membrane Distillation” Membranes 2021, 11 (6), 386 (https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes11060386
  • Mohammadi Ghaleni, M. ; Kavinai, S. ; Rajwade, K.; Bavarian, M.; Perreault, F. and Nejati, S. “All dry bottom-up assembly of omniphobic interfaces” Advanced Materials Interfaces 2020, 7(12) 1902159 (https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201902159)
  • Mohammadi Ghaleni, M. ; Tavakoli, E. ; Bavarian, M.; and Nejati S. “Fabricating Janus membranes via physicochemical selective chemical vapor deposition” AIChE Journal 2020, 66(11) e17019 (https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.17019)
  • Syed Ibrahim G. P. M.; Mohammadi Ghaleni, M. ; Isloor, M. A.; Bavarian, M. and Nejati, S. “Poly (Homopiperazine–Amide) Thin-Film Composite Membrane for Nanofiltration of Heavy Metal Ions” ACS Omega 2020, 5, 44, 28749–28759 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c04064)
  • Mohammadi Ghaleni, M. ; Al Balushi, A. ; Bavarian, M.; and Nejati S. “Omniphobic Hollow Fiber Membranes for Water Recovery and Desalination” ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2020, 2, 8, 3034–3038 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.0c00353)
  • Syed Ibrahim G. P. M.; Isloor, M. A.; Bavarian, M. and Nejati, S. “Integration of Zwitterionic Polymer Nanoparticles in Interfacial Polymerization for Ion Separation” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2020, 2, 4, 1508-1517 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.9b01192)
  • Abarghani, A.; Ostadhassan, M.; Hackley, C. P.; Pomerantez, E. A. and Nejati, S. “A chemo-mechanical snapshot of in-situ conversion of kerogen to petroleum” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020, 15, 273, 37-50. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.01.019)
  • Firouzjaei D. M.; Afkhami, A. F.; Esfahani, R. M.; Turner C. H. and Nejati S. “Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Study of Dye Removal from Water by a Graphene oxide-copper-Organic Framework Nanocomposite” Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2020, 34, 101180. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101180)

 

2014-19
    • Tavakoli, E. , Kakekhani, A.; Kaviani, S.; Tan,P.; Mohammadi Ghaleni, M.; Asle Zaeem, M.; Rappe, M. A., and Nejati, S. “In Situ Bottom-up Synthesis of Porphyrin-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks” Journal of American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 50, 19560-19564 https://doi.org/10.1021/JACS.9b10787
    • Kaufman, G.; Mukhopadhyay, S.; Rokhlenko, S.; Nejati, S.; Boltyanskiy, R.; Choo, Y.; Loewnberg, M. and Osuji, C. O. “Highly stiff yet elastic microcapsules incorporating cellulose nanofibrils” Soft Matter 2017, 13, 2733-2737. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00092H
    • Ojha, K.; Debnath, T; Maity, P.; Makkar, M.; Nejati. S.; Ramanujachary, K. V.; Chowdhury, P. K.; Gosh, H. N.; and Ganguli, A. K. “Exciton Separation in CdS Supraparticles upon Conjugation with Graphene Sheets” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121(12), 6581-6588.( https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01150
    • Kaviani, S.; Mohammadi Ghaleni, M.; Tavakoli, E. and Nejati, S. “Electroactive and Conformal Coatings of Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition Polymers for Oxygen Electroreduction” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2019, 1, 3, 552-560 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.8b00240
    • Mohammadi Ghaleni, M.; Bavarian, M.; and Nejati S. “Model-Guided Design of a High-Performance Membrane Distillation Modules for Water Desalination” Journal of Membrane Science 2018, 530, 158-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2018.06.054
    • Kaviani, S.3; Kolahchyan, S.; Hickenbottom K. L.; Lopez, A. M.; and Nejati, S. “Encapsulated Ionic Liquids with Enhanced Capacity for Carbon Dioxide Capture” Chemical Engineering Journal 2018, 35, 753-757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.08.086
    • Mohammadi Ghaleni, M.; Al Balushi, A.M.; Tavakoli, E; Bavarian, M. and Nejati, S. “Fabrication of Janus Membranes for Desalination of Oil-contaminated Saline Water” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2018, 10(51) 44871-44879. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b16621
    • Mohammadi Ghaleni, M.; Albalushi, A.; Bavarian, M.; and Nejati, S. “Modeling and Design of a Solar-Driven High-Performance Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System” Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering, 2018, 44, 1921-1926. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64241-7.50315-3
    • Shaulsky, E; Nejati, S.; Boo, C.; Perreault, F.; Osuji, C. O., and Elimelech, M.“Post-Fabrication Modification of Electrospun Nanofiber Mats with Polymer Coating for Membrane Distillation Application.” Journal of Membrane Science 530, 2017, 158-165
    • Ben-Sasson, M.; Lu, X.; Nejati, S.; Jaramillo, H., and Elimelech, M. “In situ Surface Functionalization of Reverse Osmosis Membranes with Biocidal Copper Nanoparticles” Desalination 388, 2016, 1-8.
    • Feng, X.; Nejati, S.; Tousley, M. E.; Cowan, M. G.; Wiesenauer, B. R.; Noble, R. D., Elimelech, M.; Gin, D. L. and Osuji, C. O. “Thin Polymer Films with Continuous Vertically Aligned 1-nm Pores: Towards Ideal Nanoporous Membranes” ACS Nano 2016, 10(1), 150-158.
    • Nejati, S.; Boo, C.; Osuji, C. O., and Elimelech, M. “Engineering Flat Sheet Microporous PVDF film for Membrane Distillation” Journal of Membrane Science 2015 492, 353-363.
    • Nejati, S.; Patel, A; Wallowitch G. R. and Lau, K. K. S. “Electrical Conductivity and Stability of oCVD Copolymer Thin Films of Thiophene and Pyrrole” Nanoscience and Nanotechnology letters 2015 7 (1), 5055.
    • Lu, X.; Nejati, S.; Choo, Y.; Osuji, C. O., and Elimelech, M. “Elements Provides a Clue: Nanoscale Characterization of Thin-Film Composite Polyamide Membranes” Applied Materials and Interfaces 2015.
    • Perreault, F.; de Faria, A. F.; Nejati, S., and Elimelech, M. “Antimicrobial Properties of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets: Why Size Matters” ACS Nano 2015 9 (7), 7226–7236.
    • Doubek, G.; Sekol R. C.; Li, J.; Ryu, W.; Gittleson, F.; Nejati, S.; Carmo, M.; Linardi, Bordeenithikasem, P.; Kinser, E.; Liu, Y.; Mukherjee, S.; Osuji, C. O.; Schroers, J., and Taylor A. D. “Guided Evolution of Bulk Metallic Glass Nanostructures: A Platform for Designing Three-Dimensional Electrocatalytic Surfaces” Advanced Materials 2015, 28(10), 1940-1949.
    • Spurgeon, S. R.; Balachandran, P. V.; Kepaptsoglou, D. M.; Damodaran, A. D.; Karthik, A.; Nejati, S.; Jones, L.; Ambaye, H.; Lauter, V.; Ramasse, M. Q.; Lau, K. K. S.; Martin, L. W.; Rondinelli, J. M. and Taheri, M. L. “Polarization Screening-Induced Magnetic Phase Gradients at Complex Oxide Interfaces” Nature Communications 2015 6 (6735)
    • Kaufman; G.; Nejati, S.; Boltyanskiy, R.; Dufresne, E., and Osuji, C. O. “Soft Microcapsules with Highly Plastic Shells Formed by Interfacial Polyelectrolyte-Nanoparticle Complexation” Soft Matter 2015.
    • Ben-Sasson, M.; Lu, X.; Bar-Zeev, E.; Zodrow, K. R.; Nejati, S.; Qi, G., Giannelis E.P. and Elimelech, M. “In situ Formation of Silver Nanoparticles on Thin-Film Composite for Biofouling Mitigation” Water Research 2014 62, 260-270.
    • Lin, S.; Nejati, S.; Boo, C.; Hu, Y.; Osuji, C. O. and Elimelech, M. “Omniphobic Membrane for Robust Membrane Distillation” Environmental Science and Technology 2014 1 (11), 443-447.
    • Nejati, S.; Minford, T.; Smolin, Y. Y. and Lau, K. K. S. “Enhanced Charge Storage of Ultrathin Polythiophene Films within Porous Nanostructures” ACS Nano 2014 8 (6), 5413–5422.
    • Feng, X.; Tousley, M. E.; Cowan, M. G.; Wiesenauer, B. R.; Nejati, S.; Choo, Y.; Noble, R. D., Elimelech, M.; Gin, D. L. and Osuji, C. O. “Scalable Fabrication of Polymer Membranes with Vertically Aligned 1-nm Pores by Magnetic Field Directed Self-Assembly” ACS Nano 2014, 8 (12), 11977–11986.
    • Xiaokai, L.; Jing-Shun, H.; Nejati, S.; Guard, L. G.; Osuji, O. C.; Hazari, N., and Taylor, A. D. “Role of HF in Oxygen Removal from Carbon Nanotubes: Implications for High-Performance Carbon Electronics” Nano letters 2014 14 (11), 6179-6184.
    • Smolin, Y. Y.; Nejati, S.; Bavarian, M.; Lau, K. K.S.; Lee, D. and Soroush M. “Effects of Polymer Chemistry on Polymer-Electrolyte Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Performance” Journal of Power Sources 2015 274, 156-164.
    • Azoz,S.; Marquez, A.; Exarhos, A.; Gilbertson, L. P.; Nejati, S.; Cha, J. C.; Zimmerman, J. B.; Kikkawa, J. and Pfefferle, L. D. “Highly Conductive Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Preparation by Direct Alignment on Substrates from Water Dispersions” Langmuir 2015 31 (3), 1155–1163.
    • Kaufman, G.; Boltyanskiy, R.; Nejati, S.; Dufresne, E., and Osuji, C. O. “Single-Step Microfluidic Fabrication of Soft Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules by Interfacial Complexation.” Lab on a chip 2014 14, 34943497. (Front cover page)
    • Spurgeon, S. R.; Sloppy, J. D.; Winkler, C. R.; Jablonski, M.; Nejati, S.; Jambunathan, K.; Damodaran, A. R.; Idrobo, J. C.; Lau, K. K. S.; Lofland, E.; Martin, L. W.; and Taheri, M. L. “Substrate-Controlled Strain and Polarization Effects on Magnetization and Curie Temperature in LSMO / PZT Thin Film Oxide Heterostructures” ACS Nano 2014 8 (1), 894-903.
Earlier work
  • Bavarian, M.; Nejati, S.; Lau, K. K. S.; Lee, D. and Soroush M. “Effects of Critical Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Parameters on Cell Performance: a Theoretical Study” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 2013 53 (13), 5234–5247.
  • Bose, R.; Nejati, S.; Stufflet, D. and Lau, K. K. S. “Grafted Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) Anti-fouling Surfaces using Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD),” Macromolecules 2012 45 (17), 6915–6922.
  • 53 (13), 5234-5247.
  • Nejati, S., and Lau, K. K. S. “Pore Filling of Nanostructured Electrodes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition” Nano letters 2011 11 (2), 419–423.
  • Nejati, S. and Lau, K. K. S. “Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of Tunable Unsubstituted Polythiophene” Langmuir 2011 27 (24), 15223-15229.
  • Nejati, S., and Lau, K. K. S. “Integration of Polymer Electrolytes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition” Thin Solid Film 2011 519 (14), 4151-4155.
  • Alemzadeh, I. and Nejati, S. “Phenols Removal by Immobilized Horseradish Peroxidase” Journal of Hazardous Materials 2010 166(2), 1082-1086.
  • Afsahi, B.; Kazemi, A.; Kheirolomoom, A. and Nejati, S. “Immobilization of Cellulase on Non-Porous Ultrafine Silica Particles” Scientica Iranica 2007 14 (4), 379-383.