Pooria Karami

(Co-supervised by Prof. Mohtada Sadrzadeh)

PhD Project: Developing advanced thermally stable thin film composite (TFC) membranes for high-temperature SAGD produced water treatment

Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Master of Engineering (Chemical Engineering - Polymer engineering) Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Research interests:

• Membrane separation

• Water treatment

• Polymer nanocomposites synthesis and characterization

Awards:

Alberta Innovates Graduate Student (AIGS) Scholarship 2019/2020

LinkdIn Email: pkarami@ualberta.ca

Publications: 

P. Karami, A. Shojaei, Morphological and Mechanical Investigation of Polyamide 6/Nanodaimond
Composites Prepared by Melt Mixing – Effect of Surface Functionality of Nanodiamond, Polymer
International, Vol. 66, 557-565 (2016)

P. Karami, A. Shojaei, Improvement of Dry Sliding Tribological Properties of Polyamide 6 using
Diamond Nanoparticles, Tribology International, Vol. 115, 370-377, (2017)

P. Karami, A. Shojaei, Effect of type of diamine modifires of nanodiamond on tribo-mechanical properties of
polyamoide 6 composites, 21st International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM 21), 20-25 August
2017, Xi'an, China