Location :

Texas A&M University

Education :

• B.S. Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2011
• M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2013
• Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2020

Projects :

Processing of novel materials using metal dealloying techniques

Awards :

• Best Paper Award, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2019-2020
• Academic Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2017-2020
• Enhanced Graduate Teaching Assistantship (EGTA) recipient, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2016-2020
• Bob & Ann Utley Graduate Fellowship recipient, UT Arlington, 2015-2016
• Best Student Award, School of Metallurgy & Materials Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2010

Selected publications: :

Hooman Rahmani, Efstathios I. Meletis, “Temporal Aspects of Corrosion Inhibition on Copper, Silver, and Copper-Silver Alloy Surfaces: An Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Study”, under review, 2020.

Yao Ren, Hooman Rahmani, Efstathios I. Meletis, Qiming Zhang, Ye Cao, “A first-principles study of thiadiazole and dimercapto-thiadiazole adsorption on copper and silver surfaces”, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 273, 2021, 125057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2021.125057

Hooman Rahmani, Efstathios I. Meletis, “Corrosion inhibition of brazing Cu-Ag alloy with 1,2,3-benzotriazole and 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole”, Corrosion, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5006/3642

Hooman Rahmani, Efstathios I. Meletis, “Corrosion study of brazing Cu-Ag alloy in the presence of benzotriazole inhibitor”, Applied Surface Science 497, 2019, 143759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.143759

Hooman Rahmani, Ignacio Lopez Cabanas, “Development of alloy coatings by electron beam physical vapour deposition method”, Surface Engineering, 2019, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02670844.2019.1597427

Keshavarzi, H. Rahmani, A. Nemati, M. Hashemi, “Conventional and Two-Step Sintering of PZT-PCN Ceramics”, Applied Physics A, 124, 2018, 145 (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-018-1571-z

Rahmani, S. Rastegari, S. Mirdamadi, “Effective parameters on microstructure & properties of EB-PVD NiCrAlY coating”, Surface Engineering, 31, 2, 2015, 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1179/1743294414Y.0000000371

Shamsolhodaei, H. Rahmani, S. Rastegari, “Effects of electrodeposition parameters on morphology and properties of Zn-TiO2 composite coating”, Surface Engineering, 29, 9, 2013, 695-699. https://doi.org/10.1179/1743294413Y.0000000197

H. Rahmani, A. Shamsolhodaei, S. Rastegari, “Study of the effect of electrodeposition parameters on morphology, mechanical and tribological properties of Zn–nanoTiO2 composite coating” The 1st international and the 6th joint conference of Iranian Metallurgical Engineering Society and Iranian Foundry Men’s Society, University of Tehran, Nov 2012, 1315, 79. (in Persian)