Biography
Dr. Salehiyan is a lecturer in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment. His research and teaching areas are in polymer and plastic processing, manufacturing and analysis.
He completed his Ph.D. in chemical engineering in early 2016 from Pusan National University, South Korea. His Ph.D. was sponsored by the BK21-Plus program in South Korea. His research thesis was focused on fundamental understanding of morphology development in nanoparticles-filled immiscible polymer blends using non-linear rheology. He exclusively employed the Fourier Transform (FT-rheology) technique to analyze the morphological evolution of the compatibilized and un-compatibilized blends. Later, in June 2016 he joined Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa as a postdoctoral fellow. He extensively worked on the structure-properties relationships of polymer blends and their composites. In addition to investigations as an independent researcher, he also studied the effect of nanoparticles on electrical conductivity, rheological and morphological properties of polymer composites as a member of research team. In the frame of these researches some critical aspects in formulations and product developments such as particles size and geometry, processing conditions and polymers compatibility were considered.
Further, in 2021 he joined the International Institute for for Nanocomposites Manufacturing (IINM) at the University of Warwick as a research fellow. During the fellowship he was involved in projects for development of composites of polyolefine(s) with graphene. Moreover, on a different project, studied the recyclability/re-processability of polyolefine-based compounds as well.
In a nutshell, his research interests includes but not limited to the polymer nanocomposites, blends, sustainable polymers and plastics, recycled polymers and polymer processing.