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First demonstration of photoelectrochemical water splitting by commercial W–Cu powder metallurgy parts converted to highly porous 3D WO3/W skeletons
, Article International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ; Volume 45, Issue 11 , 28 February , 2020 , Pages 6369-6379 ; Simchi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2020
Abstract
Hydrogen evolution through photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting by tungsten oxide-based photoanodes, as a stable and environmental-friendly material with moderate band gap, has attracted significant interest in recent years. The performance of WO3 photoanode could be hindered by its poor oxygen evolution reaction kinetics and high charge carrier recombination rate. Additionally, scalable and cost-effective commercial procedure to prepare nanostructured electrodes is still challenging. We present, for the first time, a novel and scalable method to fabricate highly efficient self-supported WO3/W nanostructured photoanodes from commercial W–Cu powder metallurgy (P/M) parts for water...
Robust water splitting on staggered gap heterojunctions based on WO3∖WS2–MoS2 nanostructures
, Article Renewable Energy ; Volume 162 , December , 2020 , Pages 504-512 ; Simchi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2020
Abstract
The high charge carrier recombination rate and weak oxygen evolution kinetics have impeded the efficiency of WO3 photoelectrodes for water splitting. We present a novel type II heterojunction semiconductor based on mixed WS2 and MoS2 nanosheets on WO3 nanoflakes hydrothermally grown on highly porous W skeletons. The chemically exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) sheets with submicrometric lateral sizes were deposited on the surface of WO3 nanoflakes by the electrophoretic technique to fabricate a staggered gap heterojunction. The photoanode exhibited an impressive current density of 14.9 mA cm−2 at 1.23 VRHE which comprised ∼1.7 mA cm−2 photocurrent under 100 mW cm−2 simulated...
Investigation of Photoelectrochemical Properties of Porous W\WO3 Nanoplates Sensitized with Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Nanolayers for Water Splitting
, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Simchi, Abdolreza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Nowadays, storing solar renewable energy in hydrogen (as a clean fuel) is an attractive method for substitution of environmentally pollutant energy resources (fossil fuels) which is applicable through water splitting with the use of semiconductors. Among metal oxide photoanodes, WO3 as a moderate band gap semiconductor with high photo-stability, environmental compatibility, and low cost has attracted significant attention. However, photoelectron conversion efficiency of WO3 is still limited due to poor oxygen evolution reaction kinetics and charge carrier recombination. Herein, two strategies of nanostructuring and compositing with cocatalysts were applied to envisage with these limitations....
Improved efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells based on a single layer deposition of skein-like TiO 2 nanotubes
, Article Journal of the American Ceramic Society ; Vol. 97, issue. 9 , 2014 , pp. 2873-2879 ; ISSN: 00027820 ; Mohammadi, M. R ; Madaah Hosseini, H. R ; Sharif University of Technology
2014
Abstract
We present a new TiO2 morphology, featuring high surface area and open structure, synthesized by a two-step chemical route for the manufacture of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). This construct is sets of intertwined one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures (i.e., nanotubes), so-called skein-like nanotubes (NTs). Such morphology is produced by a combination of TiC oxidation and hydrothermal processes. The mesoporous TiO2 nanoparticles, as the product of TiC oxidation operation, is used as the precursor of hydrothermal process to grow the skein-like NTs. The effect of processing parameters of TiC oxidation and hydrothermal processes is studied. The skein-like morphology enables to eliminate the...
In situ synthesis of quasi-needle-like bimetallic organic frameworks on highly porous graphene scaffolds for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation
, Article Chemical Communications ; Volume 56, Issue 21 , 2020 , Pages 3135-3138 ; Hasanzadeh, M ; Mojaddami, M ; Shahriyar Far, H ; Simchi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
Royal Society of Chemistry
2020
Abstract
We present enhanced electrocatalytic activity of three-dimensional graphene scaffolds by decoration with one-dimensional CoxNi1-x MOF nanostructures (0 ≤ x ≤ 1). The decreased overpotential and fast kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction as compared with the existing materials are shown. The developed bimetallic MOF/3DG composites have great potential to be used in electrocatalytic water oxidation. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry
3D self-supporting mixed transition metal oxysulfide nanowires on porous graphene networks for oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline solution
, Article Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry ; Volume 893 , 2021 ; 15726657 (ISSN) ; Mohammadi, R ; Mojaddami, M ; Mohandes, F ; Simchi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2021
Abstract
Precious metal-free electrocatalysts based on two-dimensional nanomaterials have efficiently been used for oxygen evolution reaction; however, the low activity and stability of these materials as compared with noble metals are still distractive. We present a novel and high-performance electrocatalyst based on nanowires of mixed transition metal oxysulfide supported by three-dimensional highly porous graphene networks. Electrochemical studies indicated that the high electron transport medium of nanowires and bilayer graphene nanosheets as well as their high active surface area promote the kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER). A quite small overpotential of 260 mV at the current density...
Efficient dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO2 nanoparticles and skein-like nanotubes: effect of arrangement modes of the layers and TiCl4 treatment
, Article Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers ; Volume 61 , 2016 , Pages 138-146 ; 18761070 (ISSN) ; Andaji Garmaroudi, Z ; Mohammadi, M. R ; Madaah Hosseini, H. R ; Sharif University of Technology
2016
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Herein, we report a double-layer photoanode electrode composed of TiO2 nanoparticles active layer and a mixture of nanoparticles and newly proposed skein-like nanotubes (NTs) top layer. Such structure performs well in solar light harvesting due to first, the top layer exhibits superior light scattering and second, the active layer with high dye-loading can make better use of the back-scattered light. The results reveal that 30-40 nm nanoparticles have anatase structure, whereas 5-7 μm skein-like NTs show a mixture of anatase and rutile phases. Photovoltaic measurements demonstrate that by tuning mass ratio between nanoparticles and skein-like NTs, the cells based on single-layer photoanode...
Efficient electrocatalytic oxidation of water and glucose on dendritic-shaped multicomponent transition metals/spongy graphene composites
, Article Electrochimica Acta ; Volume 386 , 2021 ; 00134686 (ISSN) ; Mohammadi, R ; Mojaddami, M ; Rahmati, R ; Hemmati, A ; Simchi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2021
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To improve the efficiency of electrochemical processes for environmental remediation, we present a new type of hybrid nanomaterials based on leaf-like copper-based quaternary transition metals and spongy monolayer graphene. To demonstrate the functionality of the hybrid electrocatalyst, fast and competent electrooxidation of water and glucose is shown. The mechanism of improved catalysis is ascribed to the synergetic catalytic effect of quaternary Cu-Ni-Fe-Co alloy with dendritic morphology along with the highly conductive and spongy structure of the graphene monolayer. It is shown that water oxidation can be performed at a low overpotential of 315 mV to reach a current denisty of 100 mA...
Synthesizing One-Dimensional TiO2 Nanostructure for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Application
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Madaah Hosseini, Hamid Reza (Supervisor) ; Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Over the past several years, TiO2 has become a focus of considerable researches as it possesses unique optical, catalytic and electrical properties in different applications such as sensors, water purification and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The goal of this research was synthesis of 1-Dimentional TiO2 nanostructure with suitable properties for DSSC applications. Two different TiO2 powders including micron-size anatase and mesoporous powders (produced from reaction of TiC and HNO3) along with KOH or NaOH were employed in hydrothermal process. The process was performed in two different containers including autoclave and balloon-shaped flask. The products were characterized by X-Ray...
Probability of missed detection as a criterion for receiver placement in MIMO PCL
, Article IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings, 7 May 2012 through 11 May 2012, Atlanta, GA ; 2012 , Pages 0924-0927 ; 10975659 (ISSN) ; 9781467306584 (ISBN) ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Radmard, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
IEEE
2012
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Using multiple antennas at the transmit and receive sides of a passive radar brings both the benefits of MIMO radar and passive radar. However one of the obstacles arisen in such configuration is the receive antennas placement in proper positions so that the radar performance is improved. Here we just consider the case of positioning one receiver among multiple illuminators of opportunity. Indeed it is a start for the solution of optimizing the geometry of the multiple receivers in a passive radar
An efficient method for the ring opening of epoxides with aromatic amines by Sb(III) chloride under microwave irradiation
, Article Journal of Chemical Research ; Issue 4 , 2008 , Pages 220-221 ; 03082342 (ISSN) ; Hashemi, M. M ; Mottaghi, M. M ; Foroughi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
2008
Abstract
SbCl3 supported on montmorillonite K-10 is an efficient catalyst for the ring opening of epoxides with aromatic amines under solvent-free conditions and microwave irradiation to give the corresponding b-amino alcohols in high yields with high regioselectivity
Resource allocation for uav-enabled integrated sensing and communication (isac) via multi-objective optimization
, Article ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings ; Volume 2023-June , 2023 ; 15206149 (ISSN); 978-172816327-7 (ISBN) ; Naghsh, M. M ; Karbasi, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc
2023
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In this paper, we consider an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with wireless power transfer (WPT) where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based radar serves a group of energy-limited communication users in addition to its sensing functionality. In this architecture, the radar senses the environment in phase 1 (namely sensing phase) and mean-while, the communications users (nodes) harvest and store the energy from the radar transmit signal. The stored energy is then used for information transmission from the nodes to UAV in phase 2, i.e., uplink phase. Performance of the radar system depends on the transmit signal as well as the receive filter; the energy of the transmit...
MIMO radar signal design to improve the MIMO ambiguity function via maximizing its peak
, Article Signal Processing ; Volume 118 , 2016 , Pages 139-152 ; 01651684 (ISSN) ; Radmard, M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Karbasi, S. M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier
2016
Abstract
One of the important obstacles in MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) radars is the issue of designing proper transmit signals. Indeed, the capability of signal design is a significant advantage in MIMO radars, through which, the system can achieve much better performance. Many different aspects of this performance improvement have been considered yet, and the transmit signals have been designed to attain such goal, e.g., getting higher SNR or better detector's performance at the receiver. However, an important tool for evaluating the radar's performance is its ambiguity function. In this paper, we consider the problem of transmit signal design, in order to optimize the ambiguity function...
Detection-localization tradeoff in MIMO radars
, Article Radioengineering ; Volume 26, Issue 2 , 2017 , Pages 581-587 ; 12102512 (ISSN) ; Radmard, M ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Bastani, M. H ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
2017
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Two gains play key roles in recently developed MIMO wireless communication systems: "spatial diversity" gain and "spatial multiplexing" gain. The diversity gain refers to the capability to decrease the error rate of the MIMO channel, while the multiplexing gain implicitly refers to the amount of increase in the capacity of the MIMO channel. It has been shown that there is a fundamental tradeoff between these two types of gains, meaning interplay between increasing reliability (via an increase in the diversity gain) and increasing data rate (via an increase in the multiplexing gain). On the other hand, recently, MIMO radars have attracted much attention for their superior ability to enhance...
Antenna placement and power allocation optimization in MIMO detection
, Article IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; Vol. 50, Issue 2 , April , 2014 , pp. 1468-1478 ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Majd, M. N ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
2014
Abstract
It is a well known fact that using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides improves the detection performance. However, in such multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration, proper positioning of transmitters and receivers is a big challenge that can have significant influence on the performance of the overall system. In addition, determining the power of each transmitter under a total power constraint is a problem that should be solved in order to enhance the performance and coverage of such a system. In this paper, we design the Neyman-Pearson detector under the Rayleigh scatter model and use it to introduce a criterion for the antenna placement at both transmit and receive...
Ambiguity function of MIMO radar with widely separated antennas
, Article Proceedings International Radar Symposium ; 16 -18 June , 2014 ; ISSN: 21555753 ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
2014
Abstract
There has been much interest, recently, towards exploiting the Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique in radar. It is shown that using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides can improve the performance of the system. However, in order to analyze the system's performance, its ambiguity function, i.e. the ambiguity function of a MIMO radar, is needed to be defined. In this paper, beginning from the information theoretic definitions, we derive such function, specifically for a MIMO radar with widely separated antennas
Choosing the position of the receiver in a MISO passive radar system
, Article European Microwave Week 2012: "Space for Microwaves", EuMW 2012, Conference Proceedings - 9th European Radar Conference, EuRAD 2012 ; 2012 , Pages 318-321 ; 9782874870293 (ISBN) ; Majd, M. N ; Radmard, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
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By combining the two ideas of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) and PCL (Passive Coherent Location) in radar, one can achieve the advantages of both recently developed techniques simultaneously. While using multiple antennas at the receive side provides a spatial diversity of the object to be detected, using multiple illuminators of opportunity, most importantly, makes the radar covert to the interceptors. One obstacle in such MIMO configuration is choosing the positions of the receive antennas. In this paper, after analyzing the Neyman-Pearson detector for the DVB-T based PCL, we introduce the probability of missed detection as a criterion to place the receive antenna. Here, we only...
Adaptive filtering techniques in passive radar
, Article Proceedings International Radar Symposium, Dresden ; Volume 2 , June , 2013 , Pages 1067-1078 ; 21555753 (ISSN) ; 9783954042234 (ISBN) ; Radmard, M ; Majd, M. N ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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One of the most important obstacles in passive radar applications is removing the direct signal from the target channel. Otherwise, week echoes from the targets in the target channel would be ignored due to the limited dynamic range of the system. One of the most effective techniques in this field is using adaptive filters. In this paper various adaptive filters are introduced and their performances are shown and compared
Ambiguity function based receiver placement in multi-site radar
, Article 2016 CIE International Conference on Radar, RADAR 2016, 10 October 2016 through 13 October 2016 ; 2017 ; 9781509048281 (ISBN) ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
2017
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It has been shown that using multiple antennas in a radar system improves the performance considerably, since multiple target echoes are received from different aspect angles of the target. In this way, the target detection is improved. However, when using multiple antennas, some problems, such as designing the transmit signals, synchronization, etc. emerge that should be solved. One of such problems is the receiver placement. Receiver placement deals with choosing a proper position for the receive antenna in order to optimize the whole system's performance. In this paper, a receiver placement procedure based on improving the radar ambiguity function is proposed for the case of a multisite...
Improving MIMO radar's performance through receivers' positioning
, Article IET Signal Processing ; Volume 11, Issue 5 , 2017 , Pages 622-630 ; 17519675 (ISSN) ; Radmard, M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
Institution of Engineering and Technology
2017
Abstract
By employing the MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) technology in radar, some new problems emerged, that, in order to benefit the MIMO gains in radar, it was necessary to solve them suitably. One of such obstacles is determining the positions of receive antennas in a MIMO radar system with widely separated antennas (WS MIMO radar), since it is shown that the antennas' positions affect the whole system's performance considerably. In this study, a proper receivers' positioning procedure is proposed. To do this end, four criteria are developed based on the proposed MIMO detector and the MIMO ambiguity function. The simulations verify that the proposed positioning procedure improves the...