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Dr Shayan Seyedin

Senior Lecturer

  • Email: shayan.seyedin@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Bedson Building
    School of Engineering
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
    United Kingdom
Background

BACKGROUND

Dr Shayan Seyedin is currently a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University. His multidisciplinary research aims to generate fundamental insights into the nanoscale properties of emerging functional materials such as two-dimensional (2D) materials and to develop novel processing and fabrication methods to transform those materials into multi-functional structures and devices for flexible and wearable energy storage and sensing systems. Prior to his role at Newcastle, Dr Seyedin worked at the Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, as a Research Associate. He was awarded a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Wollongong (Australia) in 2014. His PhD research led to the discovery of a new generation of electrically conducting and stretchable fibres that could be comfortably worn to track movements of human body. Following the completion of his PhD, he joined the Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University (Australia), as an Associate Research Fellow. In 2017, he was awarded the Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which supported his research for two years. He then received the Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australian Government) and moved to the USA in 2018 to work at the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University for six months. His research made pioneering advances in processing a new family of 2D materials called MXenes into neat, hybrid, and composite macroscopic structures such as films, fibres, yarns, and textiles that could store energy or sense strain, pressure, or touch. He is a member of Royal Society of Chemistry and serves as editorial board member of two MDPI journals (C – Journal of Carbon Research and Textiles).

 

Research Group Website: https://www.digim2.com

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=t9EXBssAAAAJ

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shayan_Seyedin

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7322-0387

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57210888457

Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1180924/shayan-seyedin

Twitter: https://twitter.com/intim8m8

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/shayanseyedin

Research

RESEARCH FOCUS

Dr Seyedin’s research is focused on the discovery of novel functional materials and designing advanced manufacturing processes to enable their processing into the next-generation macroscopic structures for emerging applications such as flexible and wearable electronics. He has made pioneering advances in processing of a wide range of novel materials (e.g., graphene, 2D materials, carbon nanotubes, and conducting polymers) into flexible and wearable films, micropatterns, fibres, yarns, and textiles that could store energy or sense strain, pressure, or touch.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Synthesis and processing of novel functional materials such as 2D materials (graphene and MXenes)
  • Energy storage and conversion including batteries, supercapacitors, triboelectric nanogenerators, and solar cells
  • Wearable electronics and e-textiles
  • Advanced fibre fabrication processes
  • Structure-property relationships of materials

 

RESEARCH FUNDING

2022          Standard Grant, EPSRC, ~£500k, Co-I.

2022          Research Grant, Royal Society, ~£20k, PI.

2022          ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, UKRI, ~£10k, PI.

2022          CCF Feasibility and Proof of Concept Fund, Northern Accelerator, ~£50k, Co-I.

2020          NU Covid-19 Research Fund, Newcastle University, ~£15k, Co-I.

2019          Small/Wide Angle X-ray Scattering Beamtime, Australian Synchrotron, ~£18k, PI.

2018          IFM Impact Grant, Institute for Frontier Materials, ~£11k, PI.

2018          Small/Wide Angle X-ray Scattering Beamtime, Australian Synchrotron, ~£18k, Co-I.

2018          Research Excellence Grants Scheme, Deakin University, ~£7k, Co-I.

2018          Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government Department of Education and Training, ~£14k, PI.

2017-2018  Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Deakin University, ~£108k, PI.

2017          Industry Grant, Imagine Intelligent Materials, ~£21k, Co-I.

2017          Central Research Grants Scheme, Deakin University, ~£4k, PI.

2017          Travel Award, CASS Foundation, ~£2k, PI.

2016          IFM Impact Grant, Institute for Frontier Materials, ~£11k, PI.

2016          Travel Award, The Ian Potter Foundation, ~£2k, PI.

 

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2016          Young Scientist Medal, International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden.

2015          Poster Award, 10th International Electromaterials Science Symposium, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2015.

2010-2014  University Postgraduate Award (UPA), University of Wollongong, Australia.

2010-2014  International Postgraduate Tuition Award (IPTA), University of Wollongong, Australia.

 

FEATURED PRESENTATIONS

  1. “From 2D Materials to Fibres”. University of Manchester, Manchester, 28 Jul 2021. Invited talk
  2. “Can Your Clothes Charge Your Mobile Phone?” (Oral). University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 12 Nov 2019. Invited lecture
  3. “Wearable MXene Energy Storing Fibres and Yarns” (Oral). NanoteC19, ICB-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, 27-30 Aug 2019. Invited talk
  4. “MXene-based Fibres for Wearable Applications” (Oral). ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, 09 Aug 2019. Invited talk
  5. “MXene for Wearable Energy Storage” (Oral). 4th International Conference On 2D Materials and Technologies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 10-13 Dec 2018. Invited talk
  6. “MXene Enables Wearable Energy Storage” (Poster). 2018 MRS Fall Meetings & Exhibit, Boston, USA, 25-30 Nov 2018. Nominated for best poster presentation
  7. “Can Your Clothes Charge Your Mobile Phone?” (Oral). University of the Third Age, Geelong, Australia, 27 Apr 2018. Invited lecture
  8. “Knitted Textiles of Dry-jet Wet-spun Graphene Oxide Fibres” (Oral). European Advanced Materials Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 23-25 Aug 2016. Young Scientist Medal
  9. “Knitted Strain Sensor Textiles of Highly Stretchable Conductive Fibres” (Poster). 10th Annual International Electromaterials Science Symposium, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, 11-13 Feb 2015. Poster award

 

MEDIA APPEARANCES


Teaching

Dr Seyedin is currently teaching the following modules:

 

  • CME1023 – Transfer Processes (Stage 1)
  • CME8061 – Advanced Materials for Energy Applications (MSc)
  • CME3040 – Chemical Engineering Laboratory II (Stage 1)
  • CME3039 – CME3039 Plant Design (Stage 3)
  • CME8128 – MEng Research Project (Stage 4)

 

He has previously taught the following modules:

 

  • Engineering Materials (Stage 1)
  • Polymeric Materials (Stage 3)
  • Engineering Design and Innovation (Stage 1)
  • Introductory Chemistry for Engineers (Stage 1)
  • Advanced Mathematics (MSc)
  • Introductory Mathematics (Stage 1)
  • Physical Chemistry (Stage 2)
Publications