M.G.Mahjani Professor Department of Chemistry K. N. Toosi University of Technology Fax:    (+9821)2285-3650 Phone: (+9821)2285-3551   mahjani 'at' kntu.ac.ir

Educational Background

Ph.D.  Physical Chemistry, University of Tarbiat Modaress, Iran1996. M.Sc  Chemistry, Salford University, England 1976. B.Sc   Chemistry, National University of Iran,1970.   Professional Background:       Founder of Chemistry Department, 1987         1-Professor of Chemistry 2010 KNT Uni of Tech., Tehran, Iran     2-Associate professor of Chemistry 2002-2010 KNT Uni of Tech., Tehran, Iran     3-Assistant Professor of Chemistry 1996-2002 KNT Uni of Tech., Tehran, Iran     4-Instructor of Chemistry 1977-1996 KNT Uni of Tech., Tehran, Iran       Founder of Research Center for Complex Systems, 2004       Executive position:         1- Head of Chemistry Department 1987-1992         2- Head of Chemistry Department  1999-2002         3- Vice-chairman in Graduate  Education, Faculty of Science 2002-2005         4- Head of Research Center for Complex Systems 2004-present   [ Top ] Interests                  1. Dynamics of Ion Movements and Fractal Dimension in Electrochemistry.          2. Electrochemical Oscillation and Chaos          3. Conductive polymers          4. Complex Systems, emergent property, robustness, anticipatory behavior, foundation of complex systems (My main interest at the present time)            [ Top ] Recent publications, conference posters, talks 1. Electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol on Ni and NiCu alloy modified glassy carbon electrode Danaee, M. Jafarian, F. Forouzandeh, F. Gobal and M.G. Mahjani International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 33(2008), 4367-4376   2. Prediction of Lead Corrosion Behavior Using Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Network S. Jalili, A. Jaberi, M.G. Mahjani and M. Jafarian Iran. Chem. Soc., Vol. 5, No. 4, December 2008, pp.669~676.   3. Correlation between irregular surface geometry and certain electrochemical quantities in poly-ortho-aminophenol Niloufar Bahrami Panah, Mohammad Ghasem Mahjanib and Majid Jafarianb  Progress in Organic Coating, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 33-38   4. Investigation of hydrogen adsorption on platinum decorated single walled carbon nanotubes using molecular dynamics simulations   S.Jalili , A. jaberi , M.G.mahjani , M.Jafarian International journal of nanoscience, Vol .8, No4 (2009), 425-432   5. Multiple attractors in Koper-Gaspard model of electrochemical periodic and chaotic oscillations A. Massoudi, M.G Mahjani and M. Jafarian Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol 647, Issue 1, 15 August 2010, Pages 74-86   [ Top ] Submitted papers ... [ Top ] Complexity Conferences 1. The complex mindset     Ghassem Mahjani, Abouzar Massoudi, Behrang Mahjani     Presented in session Poster Session 2     European conference on complex systems     Germany Deresden 2007     ( Link )   2. Power-law spectra in time series generated by simple rule in scale-free networks     Abouzar Massoudi, Mohammad Ghasem Mahjani, Zohreh Jabbari     Presented in Posters Session 2     European conference on complex systems     Germany Deresden 2007     ( Link )    3. Anticipation     Mohammad Ghassem Mahjani, Behrang Mahjani     Presented in Posters Track B     European conference on complex systems     England Warwick, 19 September, 2009     ( Link )     4. Mystery of Eternity  of KHAYAM (Persian poet 1048 AD—1131 AD)     In the paradigm of complex systems     Unpublished   5. A research work on:     Parameters of job creation in complex world [ Top ]      Complexity research works at present   1. Consideration and challenge on  “ a history of world in 100 objects by British  Museum “ in the paradigm of  complex systems and dynamic of object emergence 2. A challenge on anticipation based  on works of Robert Rosen. 3. Co adviser of postgraduate students, cooperation with colleagues in other disciplines:         Architectural design of physics building         Complexity theory approach         M.Moemeni, University of Tehran, Architect department   4.  Electrical Network control of a complex case:         Emergent approach, complexity state variables         M.Mardanlo,  Electrical Engineering Department, KNT University of Technology   [ Top ] Publications 1: Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of the poly-o-aminophenol film M.G.Mahjani, F.Gobal, M.Jafarian Indian. Journal of Chemistry  Vol.36A, March  pp177-183 (1997)   2: Electrochemical study of the slowly adsorbed H+/H species on Platinum electrode M. Jafrian, M.G. Mahjani and F. Gobal Indian Journal of Chemistry Vol. 36A, October pp877-881 (1998)                  3: A study of the fractal dimensions of the electrodeposited poly -ortho-aminophenol films in presence of different anions F. Gobal, K. Malek, M. G. Mahjani, M. Jafarian, V. Safarnavadeh Synthetic Metals 108 pp 15-19(2000)   4: Hydrogen adsorption and absorption on the platinum electrode M. Jafrian, M. G. Mahjani, M. Hoseni and F. Gobal Indian Journal of Chemistry Vol. 40A, November pp1149-1155 (2001)   5: Investigation of the pyridium ion transfer across the water/nitrobenzene interface by means of cyclic voltammetry and ac-impedance techniques H. Hlie, M. G. Mahjani, M. Jafarian, F. Gobal, M. F. Mousavie and M. Shamsipur Electrochimica Acta, 47, pp 2209-2214 (2002)   6: A study of the under potential deposited hydrogen on the nickel electrode in alkaline media M. Jafrian, M. G. Mahjani, M. Hoseni and F. Gobal Indian Journal of Chemistry  Vol. 41A, May pp 1208-1211 (2002)   7: Electro catalytic oxidation of methane at nickel hydroxide modified nickel electrode in alkaline solution M. Jafarian, M.G. Mahjani, H. Hlie, F. Gobal, M. Heydarpoor Electrochemistry Communications 5 pp.184-188 (2003)   8: A study of the electrochemical absorption and diffusion of hydrogen into mercuryin acidic solution M. Jafrian, M.G. Mahjani, O. Azizi and F. Gobal Indian Journal of Chemistry Vol. 42A, February pp 295-299 (2003)   9: Adsorption and absorption of hydrogen species on silver electrode in alkaline solution M.Jafrian, M.G.Mahjani, O.Azizi and F.Gobal Indian Journal of Chemistry Vol. 42A, March pp 516-519 (2003)   10: A study of the electro-catalytic oxidation of methanol on a cobalt hydroxidemodified glassy carbon electrode. M. Jafarian, M.G. Mahjani, H. Heli, F. Gobal, H. Khajehsharifi and M. H. Hamedi Electrochimica Acta, vol. 48, pp3423-3429 (2003)   11:  Electro-oxidation of methanol on copper in alkaline solution H. Heli, M. Jafarian, M. G. Mahjani, F. Gobal Electrochimica Acta , vol. 49 , pp 4999-5006 (2004)   12: The effect of cathodic pretreatment of hydrogen evolution reaction and Electrocatalytic behavior of copper electrode in acidic media M. Jafrian, M. G. Mahjani, O. Azizi  Kharazmi journal of chemistry vol.1, pp1-16 (2005)   13: Study of Electrochemical Properties of Platinum - Loaded Poly-ortho-aminopheol film N. Bahrami, M. Mahjani, M. Jafarian, F. Gobal Indian Journal of Chemistry Vol. 44A Oct 2005    14-Lecture Notes in Computer Science Calculation of the Critical Point for Two-Layer Ising and Potts Models Using Cellular Automata 2004 Y. Asgari, M. Ghaemi, M. Mahjani    15-A study of carbon steel AP1 5L (X 60)in NaOH /NaCl Solution by Electrochemical Noise J.Neshati , H .Masiha , M.G.Mahjani , M .Jafarian        Corrosion Engineering Science and Engineering Vol 2 , 2006   16-Evaluation of corrosion behavior of organic coatings with electrochemical noise and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy . Mahjani, M.G , Neshati .J , Masiha.P , Jafarian .M Surface Engineering Volume 22 Number 4, August 2006   17-Electrochemical noise analysis for estimation of corrosion rate of carbon steel in crude oil M.G. Mahjani, J. Neshati  ,H .Masiha , M.jafarian Anti –Corrosion methods and Materials Vol 54, No.1,2007   Recent Conferences   1:The Paradigm of Complex System part A: Electrochemical Oscillation of Cu dissolution  M. G. Mahjani, M.Jafarian, J. Kondabey  and A. Massoudi 4th Iranian Seminar of Physical Chemistry Kish Iran 10-12 March (2001)   2: Study of hydrogen evolution and hydrogen absorption on silver electrode M. Jafarian and O. Azizi 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   3:  Anodic dissolution and corrosion study of Tin in chlorate medium by means of cyclic polarization and AC-impedance techniques M. Jafarian and H. Heli 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   4: Corrosion of Aluminum alloy Al-Mg in NaCl, acid and alkaline solutions M. Jafarian, M. G. Mahjani and E. Zeyaee 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   5: Cyclic voltammetry and chronoptentiometry study of permanganate ion transfer acoss the water/nitrobenzene interface M. F. Mousavi, M. Jafarian, M. G. Mahjani and H. Heli 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   6: Study of the current oscillation during the copper electrodissolution in chloride media M.Jafarian, J.Kondabey and H.Heli 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   7: Study of chloride and sulfate ions corrosion effects on carbon steel 1020 M. Jafarian and S. J. Mousavi 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   8: study of the potential distribution at the mild steel surface and the effect of the sulfate and tetra butyl ammonium ions on corrosion inhibition hydrochloric acid media by means of scanning reference electrode technique (S.R.E.T) M. Jafarian, H. Heli and J. Kondabey 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   9: The study of pure aluminum corrosion in sulfuric acid J. Zerati, M. Jafarian 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   10: The study of electrochemical behavior of selenium ions in molten Urea-NaCl M.Jafarian, and M. Kachoueian Javadi 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   11: Evolution of stainless steel 316L corrosion in salt media and the inhibition role of molybdate/phosphate/zinc ions mixture by ac impedance and polarization curves M. Jafarian and M. Soleimani 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   12: Study of electrochemical reduction of o-nitro styrene derivatives and determination of mechanism M. Jafarian, S. Balalaei and A. M.Ghasemi 4th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Tehran Iran 13-14 Jun (2001)   13: Investigation of the pyridinium ion transfer across the water/nitrobenzene interface by means of cyclic voltammetry and ac impedance techniques M. F. Mousavi, H. Heli, M. G. Mahjani, M. Jafarian and F. Gobal 51st International symposium on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Marilleva (Tn) Italy 17-22 jun (2001)         14: Pesocapacitanve arising from adsorption of H species at poly-o- aminophenol dispersed Pt film M. G. Mahjani, M. Jafarian, A. Esmaeil Dokht 6th Iranian Pchem Seminar 2002   15: Negative Impedance and periodic phenomena during methanol electro-oxidation M. Jafarian, M.G. Mahjani, H. Heli 6th Iranian Pchem Seminar 2002   16: AC Impedance and state of charge analysis of Zinc/manganese dioxide primary cells Abbasi moghadam, M. Jafarian and M. G. Mahjani  6th Iranian Pchem Seminar 2002   17: Application of quadratic logistic differential equation (QLDE) for the interpretation of methanol electro oxidation (MEO) dynamics M. Jafarian, M. G. Mahjani, and H. Heli 12th Iranian Seminar of Analytical Chemistry Mazandaran U. Iran 28-30 Jan (2003)   18: Electrocatalytic oxidation of methane at nickel hydroxide modified nickel electrode M.Jafarian, M.G.Mahjani, and H.Heli 12th Iranian Seminar of Analytical Chemistry Mazandaran U. Iran 28-30 Jan (2003)   19: Mechanistic aspects of methanol oxidation on platinum in phosphoric acidelectrolyte at 250C and direct methanol full cell development M. Jafarian, M. G. Mahjani, and J. Baghaie 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran  Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   20: The effect of cathodic pretreatment on copper electrode in acid solution M. Jafarian, M.G. Mahjani, and O. Azizi 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   21: Electrochemical corrosion studies on stainless steel (316) in electrolytes comprising, copper sulfate and sulfuric acid by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and exhibition of suitable inhibitors M.G. Mahjani, M. Jafarian, and E. Abedini 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Iran Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   22: Electro-oxidation of methanol on copper in alkaline solution H. Heli, M. Jafarian and M. G. Mahjani 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   23: Prediction of stainless steel corrosion using artificial neural network A. Jaberi, M.G. Mahjani, S. Jalili and M. Jafarian 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Iran Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   24: Non-linear phenomena in electrochemical systems R. Mohammadi, M.G. Mahjani and M. Jafarian 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran  Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   25: Electrochemical insertion of sodiuom in graphite M. Jafarian, M.G. Mahjani and L. Karimi 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Iran Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   26: A study of the electro-catalytic oxidation of methanol on a cobalt hydroxidemodified glassy carbon electrode H.Heli, M.Jafarian and M.G.Mahjani 5th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Kerman 10-11 Sept (2003)   27: Correlation between surface geometry and certain electrochemical quantitiesin poly-ortho-aminophenol N.Bahrami Panah ,M.G.Mahjani, M.Jafarian and F.Gobal EUROCORR 2004, NICE 12-16 September (2004)   28: Prediction of Metals Corrosion Using Feed-Forward Neural Network M.G. Mahjani, S. Jalili, M. Jafarian, A. Jaberi 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran  Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   29: Electro oxidation of methanol on graphite surface in sulfuric acid media M. Jafarian, R. Beiramzadeh Moghaddam and M.G. Mahjani 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran  Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   30: Electrochemical behavior of steel rebars in concrete: Influence of environmental factors and cement chemistry M. Jafarian, S. Jamali and M.G. Mahjani 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   31: Impedance spectroscopy of growth mechanism for aluminum electro crystallization M. Jafarian, M.G. Mahjani and I. Danaee 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   32: Investigation of copolymerization of aniline and thiophene in aqueous medium A. Rahmanian, M. G. Mahjani and M. Jafarian 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   33: Investigation of HER of lead electrode in sulfuric acid solution M. Jafarian, A. Zargar and M. G. Mahjani 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   34: Investigation of her/har on mercury electrode by EIS and galvanostatic methods M. Jafarian, M.G. Mahjani and S. Shahabipoor 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   35: The determination of kinetics and mechanism of hydrogen evolution reaction on nanocrystalline CoNiFe alloy by ac impedance M.Jafarian, O.Azizi and M.G.Mahjani 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   36: Interpretation of impedance diagrams of an electrochemical reaction proceeds through Volmer-Heyrovsky/Tafel mechanism M. Jafarian, O. Azizi and M.G. Mahjani 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry Iran  Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   37: Electroactive polyaniline film for steel corrosion protection M.Alipour, M.G.Mahjani and M.Jafarian 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran  Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   38: Sodium diffusion into graphite electrodes M. Jafarian, L. Mahjouri and M. G. Mahjani 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   39: A study of the corrosion of carbon steel API5L(X60) in NaHCO3/ NaClsolution by electrochemical noise (EN) and impedance (EIS) measurements M. G. Mahjani, J. Neshati, H. P. Masiha, M. Jafarian, F. Gobal 6th Biennial Seminar of Electrochemistry  Iran Hamadan 7-9 Sept (2005)   [ Top ] Courses Taught 1. General Chemistry ( Undergraduate ) 2. Physical Chemistry ( Undergraduate ) 3. Inroduction to Complex Systems ( Undergraduate ) 4. Advance Physical Chemistry ( Graduate ) 5. Surface Chemistry ( Graduate ) 6. Nonlinearity and Chaos in Chemical Systems ( Graduate ) 7. Cosmochemistry (Unergraduate, 2010-2011), Homepage                                                     [ Top ] A few of my hobbies   1-Walking 2-Looking at flowers, leaves and stones with a lens. Beauty is in details. 3-Reading Iranian Classical Poems, exploring complexity and fuzziness in them.                  MOLAVI RUMI        http://www.rumionfire.com/                HAFEZ                      http://www.hafizonlove.com/                OMAR KHAYAM    http://www.okonlife.com/                                                         Butterfly  effect [ Top ]   1. Abouzar Massoudi, PhD student, Physical chemistry,  K. N. Toosi University of Technology     Email: massoudi.a 'at' gmail.com   2. Behrang Mahjani, MS student, Engineering Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology     Email: behrang.mahjani 'at' gmail.com     Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/behrangmahjani/   [ Top ] Mailing Addresss Department of Chemistry                                            Faculty of Science, K. N. T University of Technology         P. O. Box: 15875-4416, Tehran, Iran     [ >[ Top ]