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Dr. Parvaneh Mokarian

Research Associate Professor (CRANN)
CRANN

 PARVANEH.MOKARIAN@tcd.ie

 3531896 4690

Research Associate Professor (Chemistry)

 (3531896) 3852


Biography

Parvaneh Mokarian is a Research Associate Professor in School of Chemistry and Principal Investigator at (SFI) Science Foundation Ireland Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research Centre (AMBER) in Trinity College Dublin. She is the coordinator of an €8.3 million European Horizon 2020 consortium called SUN-PILOT:1,2 Subwavelength Nanostructure Pilot Line (2018-2021). She has earned her PhD in 2009 in University of Sheffield in the UK being awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin's scholarship. Since then she worked as a Research Fellow in University College Cork in collaboration with Tyndall National Institute and Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), before joining TCD in 2016. Her research interest are on polymer thin films, polymers at surfaces and interfaces, light- nanostructure interaction, cell-nanosurface interaction and soft nanotechnology. Her research team (Intelligent Nano Surfaces Group) is currently focused on using materials such as block copolymers as templates for sub-wavelength nanostructures for nanofabrication, photonics applications, antireflective surfaces, self-cleaning and functional/smart surfaces. Dr. Mokarian's team has won the 1st prize for the "Best Innovation Award" by a multilateral project or technology in SPIE, Europe's biggest optics conference held in Brussels in April 2016.3 She is the winner of the "One-to-Watch" Trinity Innovation Awards 2017. 1 www.sunpilot.eu / Twitter: @sun_pilot 2 https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/dublin-led-sun-pilot-project-a-guiding-light-in-nanotechnology-1.3331563 3 https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/photonics-europe/photonics-innovation- village/2016-award-winners

Research Tags

  BLOCK COPOLYMERS   Cell-Topography interaction   light-topography interaction   Nano-Materials   NANOSTRUCTURES   POLYMER   POLYMER SURFACES   polymer thin films   SELF-ASSEMBLY   SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY

Research Projects

 Subwavelength Nanostructure Pilot (SUN-PILOT)
 A cost effective platform technology for structural antireflective surfaces for applications in optics

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Institute Of Physics (IOP)
SPIE member and Conference Program Committee
Brian D. Jennings, Riley Gatensby, Elsa C. Giraud, Andrew Selkirk, Sajjad Husain Mir, Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, Large-area patterning for broadband, quasi-omnidirectional low-reflectance glass, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 32, (8), 2022, p085009 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Andrew Selkirk, Nadeza Prochukhan, Ross Lundy, Cian Cummins, Riley Gatensby, Rachel Kilbride, Andrew Parnell, Jhonattan Baez Vasquez, Michael Morris, & Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, Optimization and Control of Large Block Copolymer Self-Assembly via Precision Solvent Vapor Annealing, Macromolecules, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Neppalli, S.N. and Collins, T.W. and Gholamvand, Z. and Cummins, C. and Morris, M.A. and Mokarian-Tabari, P., Defining swelling kinetics in block copolymer thin films: The critical role of temperature and vapour pressure ramp, Polymers, 13, (23), 2021, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Sajjad Husain Mir, Brian D. Jennings, Goekalp Engin Akinoglu, Andrew Selkirk, Riley Gatensby, Parvaneh Mokarian‐Tabari, Enhanced Dye Degradation through Multi‐Particle Confinement in a Porous Silicon Substrate: A Highly Efficient, Low Band Gap Photocatalyst, Advanced Optical Materials, 2002238, 2021, p1-9 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Sajjad Husain Mir, Gaulthier Rydzek, Larry Akio Nagahara, Ajit Khosla, and Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, Review-Recent Advances in Block-Copolymer Nanostructured Subwavelength Antireflective Surfaces, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 167 , 2020, p037502-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
GE Akinoglu, SH Mir, R Gatensby, G Rydzek, P Mokarian-Tabari, Block Copolymer Derived Vertically Coupled Plasmonic Arrays for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 2020, p23410 - 23416, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Mouhamad, Y. and Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Jones, R.A.L. and Geoghegan, M., Application of mean-field theory to the spin casting of polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate) blend films from toluene, Polymer, 178, 2019, p121578-, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mir, S.H. and Rydzek, G. and Nagahara, L.A. and Khosla, A. and Mokarian-Tabari, P., Erratum: Reviewâ€"Recent advances in block-copolymer nanostructured subwavelength antireflective surfaces (Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2020) 167 (037502) DOI: 10.1149/2.0022003JES), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 166, (14), 2019, pX7 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Elsa C. Giraud, Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, Daniel T. W. Toolan, Thomas Arnold, Andrew J. Smith, Jonathan R. Howse, Paul D. Topham, Michael A. Morris, Highly Ordered Titanium Dioxide Nanostructures via a Simple One-Step Vapor-Inclusion Method in Block Copolymer Films, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, p3426-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Rydzek G, Pakdel A, Witecka A, Awang Shri D.N, GaudiÚre F, Nicolosi V, Mokarian-Tabari P, Schaaf P, Boulmedais F, Ariga K, PH-Responsive Saloplastics Based on Weak Polyelectrolytes: From Molecular Processes to Material Scale Properties, Macromolecules, 51, (12), 2018, p4424 - 4434, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
The "One-to-Watch " Innovation Award, Trinity College Dublin. 2017
SFI/NSF I-Corps@SFI Entrepreneurial Training Programme 2017
1st Prize for "The Best Innovation Award" by a multilateral project, SPIE Photonics Europe, Innovation Village, Brussels, Belgium 2016
AMBER Director Fund. Visiting Fellowship. Neural Technology and Physiology lab, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. 2015
Dorothy Hodgkin award (Prestigious postgraduate award), UK 2004
Chevening Scholarship (Prestigious British Council Scholarship). 2003

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My research interest are on polymer thin films, polymers at surfaces and interfaces, light- nanostructure interaction, cell-nanosurface interaction and soft nanotechnology. My research team (Intelligent Nano Surfaces Group) is currently focused on using materials such as block copolymers as templates for sub-wavelength nanostructures for nanofabrication, photonics applications, antireflective surfaces, self-cleaning and functional/smart surfaces.