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Dr. Hadis Zarrin
Associate Professor
BSc, MSc, PhD
DepartmentChemical Engineering
Areas of ExpertiseMultifunctional nanoengineered materials; Nano-hybrid composite membranes; Clean energy storage and conversion; Batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, electrolysers; Wearable electronics and sensors; Environmental remediation; Smart coatings and textiles
Areas of Academic Interest
Multifunctional nanoengineered materials
Nano-hybrid composite membranes
Clean energy storage and conversion
Batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, electrolysers
Wearable electronics and sensors
Environmental remediation
Smart coatings and textiles
Education
| Year | University | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | University of Waterloo | PhD |
| 2008 | Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) |
MSc |
| 2004 | Azad University (Science and Research Campus) | BSc |
Spotlight
For Hadis Zarrin, life as an engineer is an adventure. “There are always problems to solve, and many possible routes to get to the solution,” she says. “You have to take risks and get creative.”
It’s a sensibility she brings to her classroom, which Zarrin keeps exciting with hands-on demonstrations that engage and challenge her students. A natural mentor, she’s always encouraging them to be undeterred by the prospect of failure, and to branch out and explore new things. “It’s the only way to grow and develop, as an engineer and as a person.”
While creativity and a sense of adventure are crucial to innovation, Zarrin is quick to remind her students of the importance of mastering the foundations. “Before you can invent and redesign, you need a solid knowledge of materials,” she says. “Once you have that, you can get as creative as you want—improving technology and really making an impact.”
- Dean's SRC Activity Award in 2022 and 2025
- Voices of the Future of Canadian Chemical Engineering in 2022
- Honorable Mention recipient of the 2014 Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Award for Fuel Cell Research, Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition.
- NSERC’s Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - CGS ($70,000), 2012-2014.
- Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship ($20,000), University of Waterloo, 2012-2014.
- Waterloo President Graduate Scholarship ($20,000), University of Waterloo, 2012-2014.
- Pritish Kumar Behura, Kane Ho, Jasneet Kaur*, and Hadis Zarrin* (2026).
Ion-Conductive 2D Materials Beyond Graphene for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems. (external link)
Energy Storage Materials. 86: 105016. - João V. M. Lima, João V. Paulin, Pegah E. Moghaddam, Hadis Zarrin* Carlos F. O. Graeff* (2026).
Enhancing Charge Storage in Melanin via Sulfur Functionalization for Supercapacitors Applications. (external link)
Journal of Energy Storage. 149: 120268. - Reza Eslami, Adel Malekkhouyan, Prrunthaa Santhirakumaran, Mehrab Mehrvar, Hadis Zarrin*. (2025).
Sulfonated White-Graphene for High-Performance Gel Polymer Electrolytes: The Interplay Between Ion Conductivity and 3D Network Rheology. (external link)
Small. 21(7): 2410817. - Nahid Azizi, Reza Eslami, Pegah Emami Moghaddam, Ilya Kaprov, Connor Johnson, Hadis Zarrin*. (2025).
Revealing Nature's Beauty through Crafting Structural Color-Coated Fabrics with Bioinspired Modification of MXene. (external link)
Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. 679(Part A): 1253-1265. - Adel Malekkhouyan, Reza Eslami, Prrunthaa Santhirakumaran, Pegah Emami, Jasneet Kaur, Mehrab Mehrvar, Hadis Zarrin*. (2025).
Wearable flexible solid-state supercapacitors: Interface engineering using functionalized hexagonal boron nitride. (external link)
Nano Energy. 136: 110745. - Jasneet Kaur, Matthew Schweinbenz, Kane Ho, Adel Malekkhouyan, Kamal Ghotia, Franz Egert, Fatemeh Razmjooei, Syed Asif Ansar and Hadis Zarrin. (2025).
Hydroxyl-Conductive 2D Hexagonal Boron Nitrides for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis and Sustainable Hydrogen Production. (external link)
Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 9(5): 1196-1206. - Yifan Liu, Amir Kouhpour, Dae Kun Hwang*, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
Anisotropic, Free-standing Anodic Films With Aligned Anatase-bronze TiO2-integrated Graphene for High-capacity Lithium-ion Batteries. (external link)
Electrochimica Acta. 500: 144750. - Reza Eslami, Nahid Azizi, Prrunthaa Santhirakumaran, Mehrab Mehrvar, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
3D Dual Network Effect of Alkalinized MXene and hBN in PVA for Wearable Strain/Pressure Sensor Applications. (external link)
Chemical Engineering Journal. 480: 148063. - Nahid Azizi, Reza Eslami, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, Youn Hee Cho, Joseph McPhee, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
Bioinspired Protective Clothing Modified by Polydopamine-coated Curcumin with Ultraviolet Protection, Antioxidant, Antiviral, and Antibacterial Properties. (external link)
Cellulose. 31: 3185-3204. - Amir Kouhpour, Pegah Emami Moghadam, Ilya Karpov, Ehsan Behzadfar, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
Semi-Intrinsic Self-healing Epoxy Coating Using Ionic liquid and Super Absorbent Polymer. (external link)
Progress in Organic Coatings. 199: 108951. - Kane Ho, Yifan Liu, Dae Kun Hwang, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
Boron Nitride Gel Polymer Electrolytes for High-Performing and Stable Lithium Metal Batteries. (external link)
ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(9): 10829-10839. - Nahid Azizi, Reza Eslami, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
Harnessing synergy: Polydopamine-hBN integration in electrospun nanofibers for Co (II) ion, methylene blue and crystal violet dyes adsorption. (external link)
Chemosphere. 363: 142842. - Amirhossein Kouhpour, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
Micro-nano-engineered slippery liquid-infused porous surface coating with highly sustainable superhydrophobicity and omniphobicity. (external link)
Progress in Organic Coatings. 187: 108182. - Reza Eslami, Adel Malekkhouyan, Prrunthaa Santhirakumaran, Mehrab Mehrvar, Hadis Zarrin*. (2023).
High-Performance Flexible Nanogenerators Based on Piezoelectric hBN-Induced Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Nanofibers (external link) .
Materials Today Chemistry. 30: 101609. - Nahid Azizi, Reza Eslami, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, Youn Hee Cho, Joseph McPhee, Hadis Zarrin*. (2024).
Bioinspired Protective Clothing Modified by Polydopamine-coated Curcumin with Ultraviolet Protection, Antioxidant, Antiviral, and Antibacterial Properties. (external link)
Cellulose. 31: 3185-3204. - Shaghayegh Goudarzi, Jasneet Kaur, Reza Eslami, Amirhossein Kouhpour, Mariya Kalinina, Nariman Yousefi, Hadis Zarrin*. (2022).
Laccase-Functionalized HBN-Coated Sponges for Removal and Degradation of Anthracene. (external link)
ACS Applied Nanomaterials. 5(38): 4493-4505. - Reza Eslami, Nahid Azizi, Seyed Reza Ghaffarian, Mehrab Mehrvar, and Hadis Zarrin*. (2022).
Highly Sensitive and Selective Non-Enzymatic Measurement of Glucose Using Arraying of Two Separate Sweat Sensors at Physiological pH. (external link)
Electrochimica Acta. 404: 139749. - Ahmad Nawaz; Shaghayegh Goudarzi; Hadis Zarrin; Saravanan Pichiah*. (2022).
S-Scheme/Type-1 Heterostructure Stimulated WO3/g-C3N4-WS2 Ternary Photocatalyst with Improved Charge Transfer Mechanism for Full Solar Spectrum Photocatalysis. (external link)
Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 903: 163951. - Yifan Liu, Kane Ho, Dae Kun Hwang*, Hadis Zarrin*. (2022).
Highly Aligned Graphene Oxide for Lithium Storage in Lithium-Ion Battery Through A Novel Microfluidic Process: The Pulse Freezing. (external link)
Advanced Materials Interfaces. 2201612. - Jasneet Kaur, Adel Malekkhouyan, Gurpreet S. Selopal, Zhiming M. Wang, Federico Rosei, and Hadis Zarrin*. (2021).
Bidirectional Superionic Conduction in Surface-Engineered 2D Hexagonal Boron Nitrides. (external link)
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 13(5): 6532-6544. - Ahmad Nawaz, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, M. Amin Asghari, Saravanan Pichiah, Gupreet Singh Selopal, Federico Rosei, Zhimming Wang, Hadis Zarrin*. (2021).
Review of 1D/2D Hybrid Photocatalysts for Light Harvesting Applications. (external link)
ACS Applied Nanomaterials. 404(11): 11323-11352. - Ahmad Nawaz, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, Pichiah Saravanan, Hadis Zarrin*. (2021).
Z-scheme Induced g-C3N4/WS2 Heterojunction Photocatalyst with Improved Electron Mobility for Enhanced Solar Photocatalysis. (external link)
Solar Energy. 228: 53-67. - Jasneet Kaur, Adel Malekkhouyan, Rajvi Taylor, Gupreet Singh Selopal, Federico Rosei, Hadis Zarrin*. (2021). Bidirectional Superionic Conduction in Surface-Engineered 2D Hexagonal Boron Nitrides. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 13(5): 6532-6544.
- Ahmad Nawaz, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, M. Amin Asghari, Saravanan Pichiah, Gupreet Singh Selopal, Federico Rosei, Zhimming Wang, Hadis Zarrin*. (2021). Review of 1D/2D Hybrid Photocatalysts for Light Harvesting Applications. ACS Applied Nanomaterials. Accepted.
- Ahmad Nawaz, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, Pichiah Saravanan, Hadis Zarrin*. (2021). Z-scheme Induced g-C3N4/WS2 Heterojunction Photocatalyst with Improved Electron Mobility for Enhanced Solar Photocatalysis. Solar Energy. 228: 53-67.
- Omar Abdelkarim, Jasneet Kaur, Jiabin Liu, Fabiola Navarro-Pardo, Hadis Zarrin, Aycan Yurtsever, Ghada Bassioni, Zhiming M. Wang, Gurpreet Singh Selopal and Federico Rosei*. (2020). Two-Dimensional Functionalized Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Quantum Dot Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(39): 20698-20713.
- Marziye Mirbagheri, Jasneet Kaur, Hoang Vu Pham, Vahid Adibnia, Hadis Zarrin, Xavier Banquy, and Dae Kun Hwang*. (2020). Plasmon-Free Polymeric Nanowrinkled Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Langmuir. 37(1): 322–329.
- Nano-Engineering Laboratory for Energy and Environmental Technologies
- Co-Chair, Nano Ontario 2021 Conference, November 2021
- Vice Chair of Energy Division of Chemical Institute of Canada