Publications
Conference Papers:
• Super-hydrophilicty of titanium dioxide thin films. Presented on 1st Iran & Russia joint seminar and workshop on nanotechnology, May 2005.
• Super-hydrophilic property of titanium dioxide thin films. Presented on annual physics conference, Iran, August 2005.
• Synthesis of tungsten trioxide nanoparticles by electrical arc discharge method in DI water. Presented on annual physics conference, Iran, August 2007.
• Fabrication of tungsten oxide nanoparticles by arc discharge method in liquid. Presented on 2nd conference on nanostructures (NS2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 2008.
• Synthesis of WO3 nanoparticles by plasma arc discharge method in DI water. Accepted for poster presentation on EMRS conference, Strasbourg, France, spring meeting 2008.
• Stability of silver nanoparticles fabricated by electrical arc discharge method in water. Presented on annual physics conference, Iran, August 2008.
• Stability, size and optical properties of colloidal silver nanoparticles prepared by arc discharge in water, presented on colloidal conference from synthesis to biological applications, Marburg, Germany, September 2008.
• Photocatalytic activity of metal oxide nanostructures prepared by electrical arc discharge method in water, Presented on International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications, Ottawa, Canada, 2010.
• Synthesi, chractrization and photocatalytic properties of TiO2 nanoparticles by the novel arc discharge technique in liquid, Seyed Mahyad Aghigh, Mona Kavianipour, Seyedeh Arezoo Ahmadi Afshar and Ali Akbar Ashkarran, presented on International Congress in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 9-11 November 2010, shiraz, Iran.
• Employment of the Electrical Arc Discharge Method to Prepare Titania
Nanoparticles in Oxygen Bubbled Water: Synthesis, Characterization and
Photocatalytic Activity, Seyed Mahyad Aghigh, Mona Kavianipour, Seyedeh Arezoo Ahmadi Afshar and Ali Akbar Ashkarran, presented on 2010 International Conference on Enabling Science and Nanotechnology, 1-3 December, 2010, KLCC, MALAYSIA.
• A novel approach for synthesis of visible light active nanocrystalline TiO2 photocatalys, Accepted for presentation in International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications, Ottawa, Canada, 2011.
Journal Papers:
• Photo induced Super-hydrophilicity of TiO2 thin film using the Sol-Gel method withTicl4 as a precursor, A.A. Ashkarran, M.R. MohammadizadehMaterials research and bulletin, 43(3) (2007) 522.
• The effect of heat treatment on Super-Hydrophilicity of TiO2 thin films, A.A. Ashkarran, M.R. MohammadizadehEuropean physical Journal: applied physics, 40(2) (2008) 155.
• Synthesis and photocatalytic activity of WO3 nanoparticles prepared by arc discharge method in deionized water, A. A. Ashkarran, A. Iraji zad, M. M. Ahadian and S. A. Mahdavi Ardakani, Nanotechnology, 19 (2008) 195709.
• Stability, size and optical properties of colloidal silver nanoparticles prepared by arc discharge in water, A. A. Ashkarran, A. Iraji zad, M. M. Ahadian, M. R. Hormozi nezhad, European Physical Journal: Applied Physics, 48 (2009) 10601.
• Rapid and efficient synthesis of colloidal gold nanoparticles by arc discharge method, A. A. Ashkarran, A. Iraji zad, S. M. Mahdavi, M. M. Ahadian, M. R. Hormozi nezhad, Applied Physics A, 96 (2009) 423.
• ZnO nanoparticles prepared by electrical arc discharge method in water, A. A. Ashkarran, A. Iraji zad, S. M. Mahdavi, M. M. Ahadian, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 118 (2009) 6.
• Photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanoparticles prepared via submerged arc discharge method, A. A. Ashkarran, A. Iraji zad, S. M. Mahdavi, M. M. Ahadian, Aplied physics A, 100 (2010) 1097.
• A novel method for synthesis of colloidal silver nanoparticles by arc discharge in liquid, A. A. Ashkarran, Current Applied Physics, 10 (2010) 1442.
• Synthesis and characterization of ZrO2 nanoparticles by arc discharge method in water, A. A. Ashkarran, S. M. Aghigh, S. A. Ahmadi Afshar, M. kavianipour, journal of Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 41 (2011) 425.
• Photocatalytic activity of ZrO2 nanoparticles prepared by electrical arc discharge method in water, A. A. Ashkarran, S. A. Ahmadi Afshar, S. M. Aghigh, M. kavianipour, Polyhedron, 29 (2010) 1370.
• Photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanofibers prepared by liquid phase deposition, A. A. Ashkarran, E. Mahmoudi, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics, 3-4 (2010) 19.
• On the Formation of TiO2 Nanoparticles via Submerged Arc Discharge Technique: Synthesis, Characterization and Photocatalytic Properties
A. A. Ashkarran, M. Kavianipour, S. M. Aghigh, S. A. Ahmadi Afshar, S. Saviz, A. Iraji Zad, Journal of Cluster science, 21 (2010) 753.
• TiO2 nanofibers assisted photodecomposition of Rhodamine B from aqueous solution, A. A. Ashkarran, E. Mahmoudi, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, 2010, accepted.
• A Novel Approach for Synthesis of Visible-Light-Active Nanocrystalline Ag-TiO2 Photocatalyst, A. A. Ashkarran, Materials and Manufacturing Process, 2011, under review.
• Visible light photo-and bioactivity of Ag-doped TiO2 nanoparticles with various silver contents, A. A. Ashkarran, S. M. Aghigh, M. kavianipour, N. J. Farahani, Current Applied Physics, 11 (2011) 1048
• Seed mediated growth of gold nanoparticles based on liquid arc discharge, A. A. Ashkarran, Plasma Science and Technology, 2011, submitted
Review Papers:
• Metal and metal oxide nanostructures prepared by electrical arc discharge method in liquids, A. A. Ashkarran Journal of Cluster science, (2011) in press.
Books:
• Nanostructured materials by arc discharge in liquids, A. A. Ashkarran, 2010, LAMPBERT ACADEMIC PULISHING (LAP), ISBN 978-3-8433-8195-6.
