Dr. Parvaneh Mokarian
Research Associate Professor, CRANN
Research Associate Professor, Chemistry
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
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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
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
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
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
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
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-
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
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-
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
Sajjad Husain Mir, Larry Akio Nagahara, Thomas Thundat, Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, Hidemitsu Furukawa, Ajit Khosla, Review Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Functional Materials: An Integrated Platform for Applied Technologies, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 165, (8), 2018, pB3137--B3156
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-
Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Senthamaraikannan, R. and Glynn, C. and Collins, T.W. and Cummins, C. and Nugent, D. and Oâ Dwyer, C. and Morris, M.A., Large Block Copolymer Self-Assembly for Fabrication of Subwavelength Nanostructures for Applications in Optics, Nano Letters, 17, (5), 2017, p2973-2978
Catalina Vallejo-Giraldo, Niccolò Paolo Pampaloni, Anuradha R. Pallipurath, Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, John O'Connell, Justin D. Holmes, Alexandre Trotier, Katarzyna Krukiewicz, Gemma Orpella-Aceret, Eugenia Pugliese, Laura Ballerini, Michelle Kilcoyne, Eilís Dowd, Leo R. Quinlan, Abhay Pandit, Paul Kavanagh, Manus Jonathan Paul Biggs, Preparation of Cytocompatible ITO Neuroelectrodes with Enhanced Electrochemical Characteristics Using a Facile Anodic Oxidation Process, Advanced Functional Materials, 28, (12), 2017, p1605035
Daniel T. W. Toolan, Kevin Adlington, Anna Isakova, Alexis Kalamiotis, Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, Georgios Dimitrakis, Christopher Dodds, Thomas Arnold, Nick J. Terrill, Wim Bras, Daniel Hermida Merino, Paul D. Topham, Derek J. Irvine, Jonathan R. Howse, Selective molecular annealing: in situ small angle X-ray scattering study of microwave-assisted annealing of block copolymers, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19, (31), 2017, p20412--20419
Biggs Manus, Mokarian-Tabari Parvaneh, Vallejo-Giraldo Catalina, Thomas Dilip, Morris Michael, Pandit Abhay, Nanopillar modified neuroelectrodes through block copolymer self-assembly, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 4, 2016
Cummins, C. and Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Andreazza, P. and Sinturel, C. and Morris, M.A., Solvothermal Vapor Annealing of Lamellar Poly(styrene)-block-poly(d,l-lactide) Block Copolymer Thin Films for Directed Self-Assembly Application, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8, (12), 2016, p8295-8304
Erothu, H. and Kolomanska, J. and Johnston, P. and Schumann, S. and Deribew, D. and Toolan, D.T.W. and Gregori, A. and Dagron-Lartigau, C. and Portale, G. and Bras, W. and Arnold, T. and Distler, A. and Hiorns, R.C. and Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Collins, T.W. and Howse, J.R. and Topham, P.D., Synthesis, thermal processing, and thin film morphology of poly(3-hexylthiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate) block copolymers, Macromolecules, 48, (7), 2015, p2107-2117
P Mokarian, T W Collins and M A Morris, The kinetics of swelling in block copolymer thin films during``solvo-microwave''and solvo-thermal annealing: The effect of vapour pressure, APS Meeting Anbstracts, Physical Aspects of Polymer Science, Manchester, 8 -10 September 201, 2015, P.08-
Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Vallejo-Giraldo, C. and Fernandez-Yague, M. and Cummins, C. and Morris, M.A. and Biggs, M.J.P., Nanoscale neuroelectrode modification via sub-20Â nm silicon nanowires through self-assembly of block copolymers, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 26, (2), 2015
Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Cummins, C. and Rasappa, S. and Simao, C. and Torres, C.M.S. and Holmes, J.D. and Morris, M.A., Study of the kinetics and mechanism of rapid self-assembly in block copolymer thin films during solvo-microwave annealing, Langmuir, 30, (35), 2014, p10728-10739
Cummins, C. and Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Holmes, J.D. and Morris, M.A., Selective etching of polylactic acid in poly(styrene)-block-poly(d,l) lactide diblock copolymer for nanoscale patterning, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 131, (18), 2014, p9493-9504
Helgesen, M. and Carlé, J.E. and Helt-Hansen, J. and Miller, A. and Krebs, F.C. and Cummins, C. and Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Holmes, J.D. and Morris, M.A., Erratum: The following articles belong to this special issue on polymers for microelectronics and appear (Journal of Applied Polymer Science (2014) 131:18), Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 131, (24), 2014
Y. Mouhamad, P. Mokarian-Tabari, N. Clarke, R. A. L. Jones, M. Geoghegan, Dynamics of polymer film formation during spin coating, Journal of Applied Physics, 116, (12), 2014, p123513
O'Driscoll, Benjamin; Kelly, Roisin A; Shaw, Matthew; Mokarian-Tabari, Parvaneh; Liontos, George; Ntetsikas, Konstantinos; Avgeropoulos, Apostolos A; Petkov, Nikolay; Morris, Michael A, Achieving Structural Control with Thin Polystyrene-b-Polydimethylsiloxane Block Copolymer Films: The Complex Relationship of Interface Chemistry, Annealing Methodology and Process Conditions, European Polymer Journal, 49, (11), 2013, 3445-3454
Reginald H. Rice, Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, William P. King, Robert Szoszkiewicz, Local Thermomechanical Analysis of a Microphase-Separated Thin Lamellar PS-b-PEO Film, Langmuir, 28, (37), 2012, p13503--13511
Mokarian-Tabari, P., Brushless and controlled microphase separation of lamellar polystyrene-b-polyethylene oxide thin films for block copolymer nanolithography, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 50, (13), 2012, p904-909
Parvaneh Mokarian-Tabari, Timothy W. Collins, Justin D. Holmes, Michael A. Morris, Cyclical "Flipping" of Morphology in Block Copolymer Thin Films, ACS Nano, 5, (6), 2011, p4617--4623
A. D. F. Dunbar P. Mokarian-Tabari A. J. Parnell S. J. Martin M. W. A. Skoda R. A. L. Jones, A solution concentration dependent transition from self-stratification to lateral phase separation in spin-cast PS: d-PMMA thin films, The European Physical Journal E, 2010, p369-375
P. Mokarian-Tabari, M. Geoghegan, J. R. Howse, S. Y. Heriot, R. L. Thompson, R. A. L. Jones, Quantitative evaluation of evaporation rate during spin-coating of polymer blend films: Control of film structure through defined-atmosphere solvent-casting, The European Physical Journal E, 33, (4), 2010, p283--289
Beamson, G. and Mokarian-Tabari, P. and Geoghegan, M., Composition depth profiling of polystyrene/poly(vinyl ethyl ether) blend thin films by angle resolved XPS, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 171, (1-3), 2009, p57-63
Research Expertise
Description
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.Projects
- Title
- Subwavelength Nanostructure Pilot (SUN-PILOT)
- Summary
- SUN-PILOT is a large-scale collaborative H2020 funded project on Subwavelength Nanostructures. The project has 13 partners located across Europe with TCD as Coordinator (Dr Parvaneh Mokarian). The projects aims to develop a novel and cost effective platform for up-scaling sub-wavelength nanostructures fabrication techniques that can be applied to curved surfaces such as optical lenses, and the mass production of metal moulds for injection moulding of plastic parts for the Optics and Automotive Industries. SUN-PILOT is hosted by the Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER) and School of Chemistry.
- Funding Agency
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (European Commission)
- Date From
- 2018
- Date To
- 2021
- Title
- A cost effective platform technology for structural antireflective surfaces for applications in optics
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 2017
- Date To
- 2020
Recognition
Awards and Honours
The "One-to-Watch " Innovation Award, Trinity College Dublin.
SFI/NSF I-Corps@SFI Entrepreneurial Training Programme
1st Prize for "The Best Innovation Award" by a multilateral project, SPIE Photonics Europe, Innovation Village, Brussels, Belgium
AMBER Director Fund. Visiting Fellowship. Neural Technology and Physiology lab, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.
Dorothy Hodgkin award (Prestigious postgraduate award), UK
Chevening Scholarship (Prestigious British Council Scholarship).
Memberships
Institute Of Physics (IOP)
SPIE member and Conference Program Committee