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Afshin Maleki is affiliated with the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences in Iran and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Water Science and Technology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells, Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, Heavy metals in the environment, and Climate Change and Health Impacts.

Afshin Maleki has published papers in multiple scientific journals. Notable publications include:

  • "Evaluation of drinking water quality and non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risk assessment of heavy metals in rural areas of Kurdistan, Iran" (2021) in Environmental Technology & Innovation
  • "The nitrate content of fresh and cooked vegetables and their health-related risks" (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • "Effect of air pollution on disease burden, mortality, and life expectancy in North Africa and the Middle East: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (2023) in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Designing bi-functional silver delafossite bridged graphene oxide interfaces: Insights into synthesis, characterization, photocatalysis and bactericidal efficiency" (2021) in Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Removal of RhB from water by Fe-modified hydrochar and biochar - An experimental evaluation supported by genetic programming" (2022) in Journal of Molecular Liquids

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Behzad Shahmoradi
  • Reza Rezaee
  • Nader Amini
  • Harikaranahalli Puttaiah Shivaraju
  • Mahdi Safari

The most common publication venues for Afshin Maleki's research are:

  • Desalination and Water Treatment
  • New Microbes and New Infections
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Heliyon
  • Surfaces and Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Marissa B Reitsma;Parkes J Kendrick;Emad Ababneh;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Katherine R Paulson;Aruna M Kamath;Tahiya Alam;Kelly Bienhoff

  • Potential of Rice Husk and Rice Husk Ash for Phenol Removal in Aqueous Systems

    A. H. Mahvi;A. Maleki;A. Eslami

  • Adsorption of hexavalent chromium by metal organic frameworks from aqueous solution

    Afshin Maleki;Bagher Hayati;Maryam Naghizadeh;Sang W. Joo

  • Heavy metal adsorption using PAMAM/CNT nanocomposite from aqueous solution in batch and continuous fixed bed systems

    Bagher Hayati;Afshin Maleki;Farhood Najafi;Fardin Gharibi

  • Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017

    Roy Burstein;Nathaniel J. Henry;Michael L. Collison;Laurie B. Marczak

  • Heavy metals in selected edible vegetables and estimation of their daily intake in Sanandaj, Iran

    Afshin Maleki;Masoud Alasvand Zarasvand

  • Super high removal capacities of heavy metals (Pb2+ and Cu2+) using CNT dendrimer.

    Bagher Hayati;Afshin Maleki;Farhood Najafi;Hiua Daraei

  • Amine functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes: Single and binary systems for high capacity dye removal

    Afshin Maleki;Unes Hamesadeghi;Hiua Daraei;Bagher Hayati

  • Concentration, Source, and Potential Human Health Risk of Heavy Metals in the Commonly Consumed Medicinal Plants.

    Shadi Kohzadi;Behzad Shahmoradi;Ebrahim Ghaderi;Hozan Loqmani

  • Heavy metal adsorption from industrial wastewater by PAMAM/TiO2 nanohybrid: Preparation, characterization and adsorption studies

    Afshin Maleki;Bagher Hayati;Farhood Najafi;Fardin Gharibi

  • Ethyl acrylate grafted chitosan for heavy metal removal from wastewater: Equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies

    Afshin Maleki;Elmira Pajootan;Bagher Hayati

  • Dendrimer–titania nanocomposite: synthesis and dye-removal capacity

    Bagher Hayati;Niyaz Mohammad Mahmoodi;Afshin Maleki

  • Synthesis and characterization of PAMAM/CNT nanocomposite as a super-capacity adsorbent for heavy metal (Ni2 +, Zn2 +, As3 +, Co2 +) removal from wastewater

    Bagher Hayati;Afshin Maleki;Farhood Najafi;Hiua Daraei

  • Sonophotocatalytic degradation of diazinon in aqueous solution using iron-doped TiO2 nanoparticles

    Shima Tabasideh;Afshin Maleki;Behzad Shahmoradi;Esmail Ghahremani

  • Cobalt ferrite nanoparticles: Preparation, characterization and anionic dye removal capability

    Sara Yavari;Niyaz Mohammad Mahmodi;Pari Teymouri;Behzad Shahmoradi

  • REDUCTION OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES IN WATER BY APPLICATION OF ULTRASOUND WAVES AND ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION

    A. H. Mahvi;A. Maleki;R. Rezaee;M. Safari

  • Pectin/Chitosan/Tripolyphosphate Nanoparticles: Efficient Carriers for Reducing Soil Sorption, Cytotoxicity, and Mutagenicity of Paraquat and Enhancing Its Herbicide Activity.

    Marzieh Rashidipour;Afshin Maleki;Sajad Kordi;Mehdi Birjandi

  • Synthesis of cationic polymeric adsorbent and dye removal isotherm, kinetic and thermodynamic

    Niyaz Mohammad Mahmoodi;Unes Sadeghi;Afshin Maleki;Bagher Hayati

  • Elimination of arsenic contamination from water using chemically modified wheat straw

    Roya Ebrahimi;Afshin Maleki;Behzad Shahmoradi;Hiua Daraei

  • Photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes using WO3-doped ZnO nanoparticles fixed on a glass surface in aqueous solution

    Roya Ebrahimi;Afshin Maleki;Yahya Zandsalimi;Reza Ghanbari

  • Multi-trace elements level in drinking water and the prevalence of multi-chronic arsenical poisoning in residents in the west area of Iran.

    A.H. Barati;A. Maleki;M. Alasvand

  • Effects of doping zinc oxide nanoparticles with transition metals (Ag, Cu, Mn) on photocatalytic degradation of Direct Blue 15 dye under UV and visible light irradiation

    Roya Ebrahimi;Khosro Hossienzadeh;Afshin Maleki;Reza Ghanbari

Frequent Co-Authors

Reza Rezaee
Reza Rezaee Curtin University
Amir Hossein Mahvi
Amir Hossein Mahvi Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Gordon McKay
Gordon McKay Hamad bin Khalifa University
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Shafiu Mohammed
Shafiu Mohammed Ahmadu Bello University
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Ali H. Mokdad
Ali H. Mokdad University of Washington
Abdallah M. Samy
Abdallah M. Samy Ain Shams University
Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi
Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi University of Ibadan
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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