Dr. Tayebeh Behzad tbehzad@iut.ac.ir Office Department of Chemical Engineering Phone (+98) 311 3915629 Fax (+98) 311 3912677 Positions Department of Chemical Engineering Research Interests Application of 3D printing for polymer composites Application of bio-nanocomposites in Tissue Engineering Preparation and characterization of bio nanocomposites Development of polymer composites by electrospinning Chitosan based composites Simulating mechanical behavior of composites for building construction and automotive applications. Developing new environmentally friendly composites such as bio-fiber thermoset/thermoplastic composites. Synthesizing bio-based polymers from natural resources. Extracting and isolating nano-fibers from natural resource. Manufacturing bio-nanocomposites. Developing bio-nanocomposite foams. Microbial fuel cells Starch based nanocellulose composites and foams Biobased composites Dr. Tayebeh Behzad type: Journal Title Date Renewable starch/polyvinyl alcohol nanocomposite foams reinforced by cellulose nanofibers isolated from carrot residues using a chemo-mechanical process 2024-02 Removal of chromium ions by a bionanocomposite hydrogel based on starch-g-poly(acrylic acid) reinforced by cellulose nanofibers through a fix-bed adsorption column 2023-10 Osteogenic potential of PHB-lignin/cellulose nanofiber electrospun scaffold as a novel bone regeneration construct 2023-10 Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Magnetic Nano-Biocomposite Hydrogels Based on Starch-<i>g</i>-poly(acrylic acid) Reinforced by Cellulose Nanofibers for Cu<sup>2+</sup> Ion Removal 2023-06 Theoretical and experimental investigation of solubility and Young's modulus models for polyhydroxybutyrate?based electrospun scaffolds 2023-01 Plasma surface modification of electrospun polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) nanofibers to investigate their performance in bone tissue engineering 2023-01 Optimization and characterization of polyhydroxybutyrate/lignin electro-spun scaffolds for tissue engineering applications 2022-10 Effect of cellulose nanofibers on polyhydroxybutyrate electrospun scaffold for bone tissue engineering applications 2022-09 Isolation and characterization of lignin-rich particles as byproducts of bioethanol production from wheat straw to reinforce starch composite films 2022-06 Development of a continuous fixed-bed column to eliminate cadmium(II) ions by starch-g-poly(acrylic acid)/cellulose nanofiber bio-nanocomposite hydrogel 2021-11