The University of British Columbia

Alloy 625’s surface after transpassive polarization in ammoniacal sulphate solution

Microstructure of electrodeposited pure cobalt

Zinc deposit produced by electrowinning

Research Interests

• Corrosion
• Electrometallurgy
• Electrochemical Processes in Materials
• Fuel Cells

Links: Hydrometallurgy Group, Corrosion Group

Journal

1. A. Ghahremaninezhad, W. Wang,  E. Asselin, J. Budac and A. M. Alfantazi,” Corrosion of Alloys 316 and 317 in Chloridized Ammonium Sulfate Solutions,” Canadian metallurgical Quarterly, accepted subject to revisions, Dec. 2011.
2. F. Mohammadi, F. Eliyan and A.M. Alfantazi,” CO2 Corrosion of API-X100 Pipeline Steel up to 100C and 50 psi Pressure “,Corrosion, accepted subject to revisions, January 2012.
3. F. Eliyan and A.M. Alfantazi,” Electrochemical evaluation of API-X100 pipeline steel in mildly alkaline, low oil bicarbonate emulsions”, Corrosion, accepted subject to revisions, Feb. 2012.
4. E. M. Zahrani and A.M. Alfantazi,” Corrosion Behavior of Alloy 625 in PbSO4-Pb3O4-PbCl2- ZnO- CdO Molten Salt Medium,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions: A, in print, (2012).
5. Nik Rozlin N.M. and A.M. Alfantazi, “Nanocrystalline Cobalt-Iron Alloy: Synthesis and Characterization,” Materials Science and Engineering A, in print (2012).
6. V.W. Lam, D C Kannangara, A. M. Alfantazi, and E. Gyenge, “Electrodeposited Osmium Three-Dimensional Anodes for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells, Journal of Power Sources, in print (2012).
7. S. Karimi, T. Nickchi and A.M. Alfantazi, “Long-term Corrosion Behaviour of AISI 316L, Co 28Cr-6Mo, and Ti-6Al-4V Alloys in Phosphate Buffered Saline Solutions,” Applied Surface Science, in print (2012).
8. F. Eliyan, E. Mehdi, and A.M. Alfantazi,” Electrochemical Evaluation of the Corrosion Behaviour of API-X100 Pipeline Steel in Aerated Bicarbonate Solutions,” Corrosion Science,  58, 181-191, (2012).
9. Victor Padilla and A.M. Alfantazi, “Effects of Oxygen Concentration on the Corrosion Behavior of Zinc in Na2SO4 and NaCl Solutions,” Corrosion, 68, 035005, (2012).
10. W. Wang, F. Mohammadi, A. M. Alfantazi, “Corrosion Behavior of Niobium in Phosphate Buffered Saline with Different Concentrations of Bovine Serum Albumin,” Corrosion Science, 57, 11–21, (2012).
11. F. Eliyan and A.M. Alfantazi, ”Electrochemical investigation on the corrosion behavior and co-inhibition of API-X100 pipeline steel in acetic acid-and-chloride containing CO2-saturated media,”  Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 42, 233–248, (2012).
12. M. Tunnicliffe, F. Mohammadi, and A.M. Alfantazi, “Polarization Behavior of Lead-Silver Anodes in Zinc Electrowinning Electrolytes,” Journal of Electrochemical Society, 159 (4) C170-C180 (2012).
13. T. Nickchi and A.M. Alfantazi ,”Effect of Buffer Capacity on Electrochemical Corrosion Behavior of Alloy 800 in Sulfate Solutions,’ Corrosion, 68, 015003, (2012).
14. D. Dhak, M. Mahon, E. Asselin, and A.M. Alfantazi, “Characterizing Industrially Electrowon Sticky Zinc Deposits”, Hydrometallurgy, 111-112, 136-140, (2012).
15. T. Nickchi and A.M. Alfantazi,” Kinetics of Passive Film Growth on Alloy 800 in the Presence of Hydrogen Peroxide,” Electrochemica Acta,58, 743-749, (2011).
16. A. Shafiei, T. Nickchi, C. Oprea, A.M. Alfantazi, T. Troczynski, „”Investigation of the Hydrogen Effect on the Properties of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 in the Tetragonal Phase Using Water  Electrolysis Technique,” Journal of Applied Physics Letters, 99, 212903 (2011).
17. F. Mohammadi, M. Tunnicliffe, and A.M. Alfantazi, “Corrosion Assessment of Lead Anodes in nickel Electrowinning,” Journal of Electrochemical Society, 158, 12, C450-C460 (2011).
18. F. Mohammadi, T. Nickchi, M.M. Attar and A.M. Alfantazi,” An EIS Study of Potentiostatically Formed Passive Film on 304 Stainless Steel,” Electrochimica Acta, Volume 56, Issue 24, 8727-8733, (2011).
19. A. Shafiei, C. Oprea, A.M. Alfantazi, T. Troczynski, “In-Situ Monitoring of the Effects of Hydrogen on Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) Structure,” Journal of Applied Physics, 109, 114108 (2011).
20. S. Karimi, T. Nickchi and A.M. Alfantazi, “Effects of Bovine Serum Albumin on the Corrosion Behaviour of AISI 316L, Co 28Cr-6Mo, and Ti-6Al-4V Alloys in Phosphate Buffered Saline Solutions,” Corrosion Science, 53, 3262-3272, (2011).
21. E. M. Zahrani, M. Fathi, and A. M. Alfantazi, “Sol-Gel Derived Nanocrystalline Fluoridated Hydroxyapatite Powders and Nanostructured Coatings for Tissue Engineering Applications ,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions: A, Vol. 42A, 3291-3309, November (2011).
22. D. Dhak, M. Mahon, E. Asselin, and A.M. Alfantazi,” The Effects of Mixtures of Acid Mist Suppression Reagents on Zinc Electrowinning from Spent Electrolyte Solutions,” Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 108, 1-2, June 2011, 1-10 (2011).
23. V.W.S. Lam, D. Kannangara, A. Alfantazi and E.L. Gyenge, “A Quartz Crystal Microbalance and Voltammetry Study of Borohydride Oxidation on Pt: The Effect of Borohydride Concentration and Adsorption of Thiourea”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C,115, 2727–2737 (2011).
24. T. Nickchi, M. Ghorbani, A.M. Alfantazi and Z. Farhat,” Fabrication of low friction bronze-graphite nano-composite coatings,” Materials and Design, 32, 6, 3548-3553 (2011).

Conference

1. T. Nickchi and A.M. Alfantazi, “Calculations of thermal junction potential and calibration of an External Pressure-balanced Reference Electrode”, The 3rd China-Canada Joint Conference on Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactors (CCSC-2012), April 18-20, (2012).
2. F. Mohammadi, M. Tunnicliffe, P. Nesbitt and A. Alfantazi” Lead Anodes Performance in Nickel Electrowinning, Electrometallurgy Symposium. TMS 2012 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 11 – 16, (2012). TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society), Electrometallurgy 2012 Proceedings, Editors M. Free et al,  pp. 77 – 85 (2012).
3. J. Liu, A. Alfantazi, and E. Asselin,”Uniform Corrosion of titanium under medium temperature chalcopyrite concentrate leaching conditions,” COM 2012, Niagara Falls, ON.
4. M. Mahon, S. Peng, L. Wasik, A.M. Alfantazi, “Development of a Fully Dynamic Simulation of the Zinc Electrowinning Process. Electrometallurgy Symposium. TMS 2012 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 11 – 16, (2012). TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society), Electrometallurgy 2012 Proceedings, Editors M. free eta al., pp. 55-65, (2012).
5. V. Lam, D. Kannangara, A. M.  Alfantazi, E. Gyenge,” Development of Electrodeposited Osmium Anodes for the Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell, 220th ECS Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Oct. 9-14, (2011), Boston, MA.
6. J. Skrovan, A.M. Alfantazi, A., and T. Troczynski.” Hydrogen generation by accelerating aluminum corrosion in water with alumina “Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 79, pp. 325-330, (2011).
7. F. Mohammadi, T. Nickchi, M. Attar, A. Alfantazi, "Effect of oxygen concentration, temperature and applied potential on the kinetics of passive film formation on 304 stainless steel", 10th International Symposium on the Passivation of Metals and  Semi-Conductors and the Properties of Thin Oxide Layers, April 10-14, (2011), Florianopolis, Brazil.
8. A. Shafiei, C. Oprea, A. Alfantazi, T. Troczynski, “Effects of Hydrogen on the Degradation of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) Structure,” the 12th Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS XII), June 19-23, (2011), Stockholm, Sweden.
9. T. Nickchi, and A.M. Alfantazi,”Kinetics of Passive Film Growth on Alloy 800 in Solutions Containing Hydrogen Peroxide and Ferrous Ions", the 32nd CNS Annual Conference, June 5-8, (2011), Niagara Falls, ON.
10. K. Karakama, S. Rogak, and A.M. Alfantazi, “Investigation of Magnetite Deposition onto Austenitic Alloys in Supercritical Water,” the 32nd CNS Annual Conference, June 5-8, (2011), Niagara Falls, ON.
11. F. Eliyan, and A.M. Alfantazi, “Aerated Carbon Dioxide Corrosion Behavior of API-X100 Pipeline Steel at High Temperatures,” Rio Pipeline Conference 2011, September 20-22, (2011), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
12. F. Mohammadi, F. Eliyan, Z. Zhu, P. J. Teevens and A.M. Alfantazi,” Internal Corrosion of Stabilized Crude Oil API-X100 Steel Pipelines,” Rio Pipeline Conference 2011, paper # IBP1131_11, September 20-22, (2011), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
13. T. Nickchi and A.M. Alfantazi, “Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide on Polarization Behavior of Incoloy 800 in Sulfate Solutions,” CORROSION 2011, NACE's annual conference, Houston, Texas, March 13-17, (2011).
14. M. Alotaibi and A.M. Alfantazi, “Failure of Magnesium Anodes used in Cathodic Protection of  a Steel Storage Tank Containing Alkaline Solutions,” the Cathodic Protection Research and Application - STG 30 symposia at CORROSION 2011, NACE's annual conference, Houston, Texas, March 13-17,(2011).
15. V. Padilla and A.M. Alfantazi, “Effects of Differential Oxygen Access on the Corrosion Behavior of Zinc Relevant to MSE Walls"  the Structural Materials Division symposium, TMS 2011 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, February 27 - March 3, (2011). Supplemental Proceedings: Volume 3: General Paper Selections, TMS, 2011, pp. 395-404
16. E. M. Zahrani, and  A. M. Alfantazi, “The Effect of Temperature on the Corrosion Behavior of 625 Supperalloy in PbSO4-PbO-PbCl-ZnO-Fe2O3-CdO Molten Salt Systems,” the symposium Fatigue and Corrosion Damage in Metallic Materials: Fundamentals, Modeling and Prevention, TMS 2011 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, February 27 - March 3, (2011). Supplemental Proceedings: Volume 2: Materials Fabrication, Properties, Characterization, and Modeling, TMS, 2011, pp.725-735.