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Overview

Saman Alavi is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and focuses research within Environmental Science and Engineering disciplines. The scientist's work primarily addresses Environmental Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry as subfields.

Their main research topics include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Saman Alavi are:

  • Ryo Ohmura
  • John A. Ripmeester
  • Satoshi Takeya
  • Hitoshi Kiyokawa
  • Parisa Naeiji

Key recent publications include:

  • Improvement of continuous hydrate-based CO2 separation by forming structure II hydrate in the system of H2 + CO2 + H2O + Tetrahydropyran (THP), 2020, Fuel
  • Molecular dynamics simulations of interfacial properties of the CO2-water and CO2-CH4-water systems, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Continuous hydrate-based CO2 separation from H2 + CO2 gas mixture using cyclopentane as co-guest, 2023, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
  • Thermophysical Property Measurements of Tetrabutylphosphonium Oxalate (TBPOx) Ionic Semiclathrate Hydrate as a Media for the Thermal Energy Storage System, 2020, Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Structural CO2 capture preference of semiclathrate hydrate formed with tetra-n-butylammonium chloride, 2022, CrystEngComm

The scientist has contributed most frequently to the following publication venues:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Energy & Fuels
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Fuel
  • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Direct Observation and Quantification of CO2 Binding Within an Amine-Functionalized Nanoporous Solid

    Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan;Simon S. Iremonger;George K. H. Shimizu;Peter G. Boyd

  • Water proton configurations in structures I, II, and H clathrate hydrate unit cells.

    Fumihito Takeuchi;Masaki Hiratsuka;Ryo Ohmura;Saman Alavi

  • Molecular-dynamics study of structure II hydrogen clathrates.

    Saman Alavi;J. A. Ripmeester;D. D. Klug

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of the melting of aluminum nanoparticles.

    Saman Alavi;Donald L. Thompson

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of imidazolium-based ionic liquids. I. Dynamics and diffusion coefficient

    M. H. Kowsari;Saman Alavi;Mahmud Ashrafizaadeh;Bijan Najafi

  • Linking microscopic guest properties to macroscopic observables in clathrate hydrates: Guest-host hydrogen bonding

    Saman Alavi;Robin Susilo;John A. Ripmeester

  • Some current challenges in clathrate hydrate science: Nucleation, decomposition and the memory effect

    John A. Ripmeester;Saman Alavi;Saman Alavi

  • Formation of methane nano-bubbles during hydrate decomposition and their effect on hydrate growth

    S. Alireza Bagherzadeh;Saman Alavi;John Ripmeester;Peter Englezos

  • Hydrogen-bonding alcohol-water interactions in binary ethanol, 1-propanol, and 2-propanol+methane structure II clathrate hydrates.

    Saman Alavi;Satoshi Takeya;Ryo Ohmura;Tom K. Woo

  • Competition and Cooperativity in Carbon Dioxide Sorption by Amine‐Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan;Simon S. Iremonger;George K. H. Shimizu;Peter G. Boyd

  • Effect of guest-host hydrogen bonding on the structures and properties of clathrate hydrates

    Saman Alavi;Konstantin Udachin;John A. Ripmeester

  • Molecular-dynamics simulations of binary structure II hydrogen and tetrahydrofurane clathrates

    Saman Alavi;J. A. Ripmeester;D. D. Klug

  • Hydrogen‐Gas Migration through Clathrate Hydrate Cages

    Saman Alavi;John A. Ripmeester

  • Inducing desorption of organic molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope: theory and experiments.

    Saman Alavi;Roger Rousseau;S. N. Patitsas;Gregory P. Lopinski

  • Methanol incorporation in clathrate hydrates and the implications for oil and gas pipeline flow assurance and icy planetary bodies

    Kyuchul Shin;Konstantin A. Udachin;Igor L. Moudrakovski;Donald M. Leek

  • Molecular dynamics studies of melting and some liquid-state properties of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate [emim][PF6]

    Saman Alavi;Donald L. Thompson

  • Nonequilibrium adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations of methane clathrate hydrate decomposition

    Saman Alavi;J. A. Ripmeester

  • Simulations of structural and dynamic anisotropy in nano-confined water between parallel graphite plates

    Hamid Mosaddeghi;Saman Alavi;M. H. Kowsari;Bijan Najafi

  • Ammonia clathrate hydrates as new solid phases for Titan, Enceladus, and other planetary systems

    Kyuchul Shin;Rajnish Kumar;Konstantin A. Udachin;Saman Alavi

  • Molecular modeling of the dissociation of methane hydrate in contact with a silica surface.

    S. Alireza Bagherzadeh;Peter Englezos;Saman Alavi;John A. Ripmeester

  • Tuning methane content in gas hydrates via thermodynamic modeling and molecular dynamics simulation

    Robin Susilo;Robin Susilo;Saman Alavi;John Ripmeester;Peter Englezos

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Ripmeester
John A. Ripmeester National Research Council Canada
Ryo Ohmura
Ryo Ohmura Keio University
Tom K. Woo
Tom K. Woo University of Ottawa
Satoshi Takeya
Satoshi Takeya National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Donald L. Thompson
Donald L. Thompson University of Missouri
Peter Englezos
Peter Englezos University of British Columbia
Igor L. Moudrakovski
Igor L. Moudrakovski Max Planck Society
Christopher I. Ratcliffe
Christopher I. Ratcliffe National Research Council Canada
Tamar Seideman
Tamar Seideman Northwestern University
Amadeu K. Sum
Amadeu K. Sum Colorado School of Mines

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