Research

My interests are in the area of computational material physics. I study the electronic, magnetic, and transport behaviors of different structures for photovoltaic, rechargeable ion batteries, and organic/inorganic semiconductors applications.

 

 

 

 

 

List of Publications (peer-reviewed journals)

Submitted 

  1. Mahmoud Hammouri, Maxim Arsentev, and Olga Golubeva. The possibility of montmorillonite sheets scrolling: An ab initio study” under review Solid State Communication.

Published 

2022

  1. Existence of two-dimensional hole gas at the interface of Bi(Zn,Ti)O3/SrTiO3 heterostructures: An ab-initio study. Radi A. Jishi,  Mahmoud Hammouri, and Robert J. Appleton. Computational Materials Science, 205, 4 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.111124

2019

  1. Mahmoud Hammouri, Maxim Arsentev, and Andrey Petrov, “Ab initio studies of Ti2S3 as a new cathode material for magnesium secondary batteries” Materials Today Communications 20 (2019): 100598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2019.100598.
  2. Maxim Arsentev, Mahmoud Hammouri, Alexander Missyul, and Andrey Petrov, “Complex interaction of hydrogen with the monolayer TiS2 decorated with Li and Li2O clusters: an ab initio random structure searching approach”. The International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 44 (39), 21988-21998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.06.092.
  3. Binod Paudel, Igor Vasiliev, Mahmoud Hammouri, Dmitry Karpov, Aiping Chen, Valeria Lautere, Edwin Fohtung, “Strain vs. charge mediated magnetoelectric coupling across the magnetic oxide/ferroelectric interfaces” RSC Adv. (2019) 9, 13033-13041. https://doi.org//10.1039/C9RA01503E.

2018

  1. Maxim Arsentev, Andrey V. Petrov, Alexander Missyul, and Mahmoud Hammouri “Exfoliation, point defects and hydrogen storage properties of monolayer TiS3: an ab initio study”, RSC Adv. 2018, 8, 26169-26179. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA04417A.
  2. Mahmoud Hammouri, Taylor Garcia, Cameron Cook, Stephen Monaco, and Bohdan Schatschneider, “Pressure Dependent High-throughput DFT Investigation of Herringbone Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (HB-PAHs): Part 1. Pressure Dependent Structure Trends” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122 (42), pp 23815–23827. https://doi.org//10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07209.
  3. Mahmoud Hammouri, Taylor Garcia, Cameron Cook, Stephen Monaco, Noa Marom, and Bohdan Schatschneider, “Pressure Dependent High-throughput DFT Investigation of Herringbone Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (HB-PAHs): Part 2. Pressure Dependent Electronic Properties” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122 (42), pp 23828–23844. https://doi.org//10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07307.
  4. Marc Ong, Mahmoud Hammouri, and Radi Jishi, “Ab-initio study of optoelectronic and magnetic properites of chromium chalcogenide perovskites”, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2018, Article ID 3762451. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3762451.

2017

  1. Maxim Arsentev, Mahmoud Hammouri, Nadezhda Kovalko, Marina Kalinina, and Andrey Petrov, “First Principles Study of the Electrochemical Properties of Mg- Substituted Li2MnSiO4”, Comput. Mater. Sci., 2017, 140, 181–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.08.045.
  2. Maxim Arsentev, Alexander Missyul, Andrey V. Petrov and Mahmoud Hammouri, “TiS3 Magnesium Battery Material: Atomic-Scale Study of Maximum Capacity and Structural Behavior”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121 (29), pp 15509–15515.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01575.
  3. Mahmoud Hammouri and Igor Vasiliev, “Ab initio study of the electronic and transport properties of waved graphene nanoribbons”, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures,89, 170–176 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2017.02.019.

2016

  1. Mahmoud Hammouri, Edwin Fohtung, and Igor Vasiliev, “Ab initio study of magnetoelectric coupling in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 multiferroic heterostructures”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 28 (39), 396004-396012 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1088/0953- 8984/28/39/396004.

2015

  1. Mahmoud Hammouri, Sanjiv K. Jha, and Igor Vasiliev, “First Principles Study of Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with Benzyne”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119 (32), pp 18719–18728. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04065.