MembersParivash Moradifar
Parivash Moradifar
Postdoctoral Fellow
Principal Research Staff Scientist
PhD of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, 2020
MSc of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2016
BSc of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2013
Recipient of 2021 NIH T32 SMIS Fellowship, Stanford University, July 2021
Recipient of 2020 The Alumni Association Dissertation award, Penn State University, February 2020
Recipient of 2019 M&M Student Scholar Award, Microscopy and Microanalysis Society of United States, August 2019
Recipient of 2019 Robert-Newnham Research Excellence Award, Penn State University, April 2019
Second Place in MVC10 competition, Materials Visualization- Scientific Section, Penn State University, April 2018
Principal Research Staff Scientist
PhD of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, 2020
MSc of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2016
BSc of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2013
Recipient of 2021 NIH T32 SMIS Fellowship, Stanford University, July 2021
Recipient of 2020 The Alumni Association Dissertation award, Penn State University, February 2020
Recipient of 2019 M&M Student Scholar Award, Microscopy and Microanalysis Society of United States, August 2019
Recipient of 2019 Robert-Newnham Research Excellence Award, Penn State University, April 2019
Second Place in MVC10 competition, Materials Visualization- Scientific Section, Penn State University, April 2018
Research Interests
Parivash received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) with a focus on modulation, characterization, and nanoscale visualization of plasmonic responses in 3D metalattices and 2D topological insulator nanostructures. She used a range of in-situ electron microscopy techniques combined with low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and atomic resolution scanning/transmission electron microscopy (HRSTEM) to identify the impact of physical and chemical modifications. During her current postdoc at Stanford, Parivash is working on expanding her skillset and applying her materials science background to the field of precision health and early cancer detection. Her research targets both cancer diagnostic imaging and sensing. For the diagnostic cancer imaging side, she is working with Prof. Jen Dionne and Prof. Craig Levin on developing ultrafast metamaterial nanoscintillators for positron emission tomography (PET) detectors. On the cancer sensing side, she is working with Prof. Jen Dionne on adopting high-Q metasurfaces for enhanced micro-RNA detection as a liquid biopsy marker for early breast and pancreatic cancer detection, opening a new avenue in diagnostic oncology.
Publications
P. Moradifar, A.G. Nixon, T. Sharifi, T. B. van Driel, P. Ajayan, D. J. Masiello, N. Alem, “Nanoscale Mapping and Defect‐Assisted Manipulation of Surface Plasmon Resonances in 2D Bi2Te3/Sb2Te3 In‐Plane Heterostructures”, Advanced Optical Materials, 2022, 10, 2101968.
L. T. Alameda, P. Moradifar, Z. P. Metzger, N. Alem, R. E. Schaak,“Topochemical Deintercalation of Al from MoAlB: Stepwise Etching Pathway, Layered Intergrowth Structures, and Two-Dimensional MBene”, JACS, 2018, 140 (28), 8833–8840 (Co-First Author)
L. Miao, K. Hasin, P. Moradifar, D. Mukherjee, K. Wang, S.W.Cheong, E. A. Nowadnick, N. Alem, “Double-Bilayer Polar Nanoregions and Mn Antisites in (Ca,Sr)3Mn2O7”, Nature Communications, 2022, Accepted.
A. Chmielewski, Z. Deng, P. Moradifar, L. Miao, Y. Zhang, A. Mauze, K. A Lopez, W. Windl, N. Alem, “Spatially Resolved Investigation of the Bandgap Variation across a β-(AlxGa1–x)2O3/β-Ga2O3 Interface by STEM–VEELS”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2022, 4(2), 585-591.
P. Mahale, P. Moradifar, H.Y. Cheng, N.N Nova, A. J. Grede, B. Lee, L. Jesús, M Wetherington, N.C. Giebink, J. V Badding, N. Alem, T. E. Mallouk, “Oxide-Free Three-Dimensional Germanium/Silicon Core–Shell Metalattice Made by High-Pressure Confined Chemical Vapor Deposition” ACS Nano, 2020, 14(10), 12810-12818.
Lucas T Alameda, Robert W Lord, Jordan A Barr, Parivash Moradifar, Zachary P Metzger, Benjamin C Steimle, Cameron F Holder, Nasim Alem, Susan B Sinnott, Raymond E Schaak, “Multi-Step Topochemical Pathway to Metastable Mo2AlB2 and Related Two-Dimensional Nanosheet Heterostructures”, JACS, 141(27),10852-10861.
J.S. Zuback, P. Moradifar, Z. Khayat, N. Alem, T.A. Palmer, “Impact of Chemical Composition on Precipitate Morphology in an Additively Manufactured Nickel Base Superalloy”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2019, 798, 446-457.
F. Zhang, Y.i Wang, C. Erb, P. Moradifar, K. Wang, V. Crespi, N. Alem, “Effect of substrate defects on the van der waals epitaxy of MoS2/hBN heterostructures”, Physical Review B, 2019, 99, 155430-155438.
Y. Liu, S. Kempinger, S.Y. Yu, P. Moradifar, Jennifer Russell, Vincent Torres, Thomas Mallouk, Nasim Alem, Suzanne Mohney, Nitin Samarth, Venkatraman Gopalan, and John Badding, “Confined Chemical Fluid Deposition of Ferromagnetic Metalattices”, Nanoletters, Nano Lett., 2018, 18 (1), 546–552.
