Reza Jafari

I am a doctoral researcher in Materials Science and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences. I am passionate about materials development and application for demanding environments. Currently, I am working on durable icephobic cold-sprayed coatings in both the coatings development stage and comprehensive microstructural characterization at the Tampere Microscopy Center, as well as the Icing Research group. 

• Materials Characterization
• Coating Development
• Surface Engineering
• Corrosion Evaluation 

• Icephobicity 
• Materials Characterization
• Thermal and Cold Spray

Materials Science and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

• Jafari, R., Kiilakoski, J., Honkanen, M., Vippola, M., & Koivuluoto, H. (2023). Wetting Behavior and Functionality Restoration of Cold-Sprayed Aluminum-Quasicrystalline Composite Coatings. Journal of Thermal Spray Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-022-01522-w
• Jafari, R., Kiilakoski, J., Honkanen, M., Vippola, M., & Koivuluoto, H. (2022). A microstructure-based approach towards cold sprayed composite coating quality assessment. 45-46. Abstract from Scandem 2022, Finland.
• Alebrahim, M., Pakseresht, A., Jafari, R., Galusek, D., & Sharifian Jazi, F. (2022). The Effect of Additional Ceramic Fiber on Wear and Mechanical Properties of Thermal Barrier Coatings (pp. 1–19). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9683-8.ch001
• Cinca, N., Lavigne, O., Peres, R. N., Conze, S., Hoehn, S., Dosta, S., Koivuluoto, H., Kim, C., da Silva, F. S., Matikainen, V., Jafari, R., Tarrés, E., & Benedetti, A. V. (2022). Electrochemical Corrosion Characterization of Submicron WC-12Co Coatings Produced by CGS and HVAF Compared with Sintered Bulks. Coatings, 12(5), 620. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12050620
• Alehojat, M., Jafari, R., Karimi, P., Sadeghi, E., (2020) Electron beam-powder bed fusion of Alloy 718: effect of thermal spraying and hot isostatic pressing on microstructural characteristics and oxidation performance, Surf. Coat. Technol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2020.126626
• Sadeghi, E., Pant, B., Jafari, R., Peng, R., Karimi, P., (2020) Subsurface grain refinement of EBPBF built Alloy 718: surface characteristics and oxidation performance, Mater. Charact.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110567
• Jafari, R., & Sadeghi, E. (2019). High-temperature corrosion performance of HVAF-sprayed NiCr, NiAl, and NiCrAlY coatings with alkali sulfate/chloride exposed to ambient air. Corrosion Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2019.06.021
• Jafari, R., Sadeghimeresht, E., Farahani, T. S., Huhtakangas, M., Markocsan, N., and Joshi, S.,(2018), “KCl-Induced High-Temperature Corrosion Behavior of HVAF-Sprayed Ni-Based Coatings in Ambient Air,” J. Therm. Spray Technol., 27(3), pp. 500–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-017-0684-9