Mahdi Zarif

Assistant Professor

Update: 2025-05-08

Mahdi Zarif

Faculty of Chemistry and Petroleum Sciences /

Journal Paper

  1. "Dimerization effects on the electronic properties of candidate OLED materials for optimized performance: a quantum DFT study"
    Ramtin Khoshdel rad, Mohammad Hossein Hoorzad, Mahdi Zarif
    PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, Vol. 27, pp.8771-8782, 2025
  2. "Exploring lithium salt solution in sulfone and ethyl acetate-based electrolytes for Li-ion battery applications: a molecular dynamics simulation study"
    Sahar Alamdar, Mahdi Zarif
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 12, pp.17471-17482, 2024
  3. "Machine learning assisted sorting of active microswimmers"
    Abdolhalim Torrik, Mahdi Zarif
    JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, Vol. 161, 2024
  4. "Molecular dynamics insight of interaction between the functionalized-carbon nanotube and cancerous cell membrane in doxorubicin delivery"
    Azadeh Kordzadeh, Mahdi Zarif, Sepideh Amjad-Iranagh
    COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE, Vol. 230, 2023
  5. "Is there a granular potential?"
    Josh M. Gramlich, Mahdi Zarif, Richard K. Bowles
    Soft Matter, Vol. 19, pp.1373-1383, 2023
  6. "Effect of temperature, pH, and terminal groups on structural properties of carbon nanotube-dendrimer composites: A coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation study"
    Sajjad Kavyani, Sepideh Amjad-Iranagh, Mahdi Zarif
    JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS, Vol. 363, 2022
  7. "Doxorubicin and Imatinib co-drug delivery using non-covalently functionalized carbon nanotube: Molecular dynamics study"
    Abdolhalim Torrik, Shamim Zaerin, Mahdi Zarif
    JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS, Vol. 362, 2022
  8. "Dimeric colloidal inclusion in a chiral active bath: Effective interactions and chirality-induced torque"
    Abdolhalim Torrik, Ali Naji, Mahdi Zarif
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E, Vol. 104, 2021
  9. "Inherent structure landscape of hard spheres confined to narrow cylindrical channels"
    Mahdi Zarif, Raymond J. Spiteri, Richard K. Bowles
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E, Vol. 104, 2021
  10. "Confinement-induced alternating interactions between inclusions in an active fluid"
    Mahdi Zarif, Ali Naji
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E, Vol. 102, 2020
  11. "TiO2 nano-particle effect on the chemical and physical properties of Ni-P-TiO2 nanocomposite electroless coatings"
    Sepideh Amjad-iranagh, Mahdi Zarif
    Journal of Nanostructures, Vol. 10, pp.415-423, 2020
  12. "Effect of side branch on gas separation performance of triptycene based PIM membrane: A molecular simulation study"
    Ehsan Ghasemnejad-Afshar, Sepideh Amjad-Iranagh, Mahdi Zarif, Hamid Modarress
    POLYMER TESTING, Vol. 83, 2020
  13. "Mapping diffusivity of narrow channels into one dimension"
    Mahdi Zarif, Richard K. Bowles
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E, Vol. 101, 2020
  14. "Adsorption and encapsulation of the drug doxorubicin on covalent functionalized carbon nanotubes: A scrutinized study by using molecular dynamics simulation and quantum mechanics calculation"
    Azadeh Kordzadeh, Sepideh Amjad-Iranagh, Mahdi Zarif, Hamid Modarress
    JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS and MODELLING, Vol. 88, pp.11-22, 2019
  15. "Molecular dynamic simulation of Ca2+ ATPase interacting with lipid bilayer membrane"
    Samaneh Davoudi, Sepideh Amjad-Iranagh, Mahdi Zarif
    IET Nanobiotechnology, Vol. 9, pp.85-94, 2015
  16. "Helical Defect Packings in a Quasi-One-Dimensional System of Cylindrically Confined Hard Spheres"
    Mahdi Zarif, Richard K. Bowles
    PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol. 115, 2015
  17. "Inherent structures, fragility, and jamming: Insights from quasi-one-dimensional hard disks"
    Mahdi Zarif, S. S. Ashwin, Richard K. Bowles
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E, Vol. 91, 2015
  18. "Inherent Structure Landscape Connection between Liquids, Granular Materials, and the Jamming Phase Diagram"
    S. S. Ashwin, Mahdi Zarif, Richard K. Bowles
    PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol. 110, 2013
  19. "Fragile-Strong Fluid Crossover and Universal Relaxation Times in a Confined Hard-Disk Fluid"
    Mahdi Zarif, S. S. Ashwin, Richard K. Bowles
    PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol. 109, 2012
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    Mohsen Mohammadzadeh zare, Pantea Azizi, Mahdi Zarif
    Vol. 6, pp.73-80, 2023

Conference Paper

  1. "Is there a Granular Potential"
    Josh Gramlich, Mahdi Zarif, Richard Bowles
    Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition 2022, 2022
  2. "The role of topological defects in the properties of a quasi-one-dimensional confined hard sphere fluid"
    Mahdi Zarif, Richard K. Bowles
    27 th International Conference on Statistical Physics (StatPhys27), No 27 , 2019
  3. "The inherent structure landscape of a quasi-one-dimensional confined hard sphere fluid."
    Richard bowles, Mahdi Zarif
    102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, 2019
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    Mehrzad Molavi, Mohammad Hossein Hoorzad, Mahdi Zarif
    The 24th Iranian Physical Chemistry Conference, No 24 , pp.367-369, 2024
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    Kobra Farahani, Pantea Azizi, Mahdi Zarif
    The 24th Iranian Physical Chemistry Conference, No 24 , pp.363-366, 2024
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    Mahdi Zarif
    The 24th Iranian Physical Chemistry Conference, No 24 , pp.50-53, 2024
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    Mohammad Hossein Hoorzad, Poorya Farajian, Mahdi Zarif
    The 24th Iranian Physical Chemistry Conference, No 24 , pp.361-362, 2024
  8. "Investigating the effect of Polyamidoamine dendrimer on the Boron Nitride Nanotube performance as a drug carrier"
    Mohammad Nabikhan, Mahdi Zarif
    17th National and 2nd International Conference of Iranian Biophysical Chemistry 6-7 Sep, 2022 University of Guilan, No 17 , pp.219-219, 2022
  9. "Investigating the effect of Poly(amidoamine) dendrimer on the Boron Nitride Nanotube performance as a drug carrier"
    Mohammad Nabikhan, Mahdi Zarif
    17th National and 2nd International Conference of Iranian Biophysical Chemistry 6-7 Sep, 2022 University of Guilan, pp.1-1, 2022
  10. "Effective interactions between colloidal inclusions in an active fluid inside a confined system"
    Abdolhalim Torrik, Mahdi Zarif
    , pp.1-4, 2021
  11. "Mapping diffusivity of narrow channels into one-dimension"
    Mahdi Zarif
    8th theoretical and computational chemistry workshop, No 8 , pp.6-7, 2019
  12. "jammed structures for confined hard spheres"
    Mahdi Zarif
    the 16th Iranian national congress of chemical engineering, pp.1-4, 2019