Mohamed El-Maazawi Senior Lecturer of Chemistry
	B.S.:	University of Alexandria
	Ph.D.:	Pennsylvania State University
	Office:	383 Life Sciences Building
	Phone:	312.567.5882       Fax:  312.567.3494
	e-mail:	elmaazawi@iit.edu

Professional Interests

My research interests are in the following three areas: 1) Characterization of solid single crystal as well as metal oxide surfaces, homogeneous and heterogeneous environmental catalysis, and photocatalytic oxidation of organic pollutants. 2) Modeling of photobleaching profiles of photoinitiators in thick polymer samples. 3) Chemical education, educational outcome assessment, and curriculum development.

Representative Publications

• Spatial and temporal evolution of the photo initiation rate for thick polymer systems illuminated with Polychromatic Light", Stephenson N; Kriks D; El-Maazawi M; Scranton A; Polymer Intanational 55 (9): 994-1006, 2006. "Spatial and temporal evolution of the photo initiation rate for thick polymer systems illuminated on both sides", Stephenson N; Kriks D; El-Maazawi M; Scranton A; Polymer Intanational 54 (10): 1429-1439, 2005. “Spectroscopic Investigation of Three Component Initiator Systems”, Kathryn Sirovatka Padon, Dongkwan Kim, Mohamed El-Maazawi and Alec B. Scranton, American Chemical Society Series No. 847, Edited by K. Belfield and J.V. Crivello, March 2003.
  
  
• “Kinetics and Mechanism of Homogeneous Oxidation of Quinaldine Red by Hydrogen Peroxide”, I. Salem, and M. El-Maazawi, Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 215(5), 623-636, (2001).
  
  
• "Kinetics and Mechanism of Color Removal of Methylene Blue with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by some Supported Alumina Surfaces", I. Salem and M. El-Maazawi, Chemosphere, 41(8), 1173-1180, (2000).
  
  
• "Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide in the Presence of Metal Oxides", I.Salem, M. El-Maazawi, and M. Zaki, Int. J. Chem. Kin., 32, 643-666, (2000).
  
  
• "Adsorption and Photocatalytic Oxidation of Acetone on TiO2: an in-situ FTIR Study", M. El-Maazawi; A. Finken, A. Nair, and V. Grassian, J. Catalysis, 191, 138-146, (2000).
  
  

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