Manuel Herrera Zaldívar

2003-present Associate Professor, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ensenada- Baja California, Mexico.


2014-2015 Visiting Scholar. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. University of California- San Diego, USA.

2012-2013  Sabbatical Research Stay. Complutense Univesity of Madrid, Spain.

2001-2002 Postdoctoral Research Stay. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

1996-2000 Ph.D. thesis. Graduated with honors. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

1986-1991 B. Eng., graduated with honors in Chemical Engineering, Autonomous University of Puebla,Mexico


Memberships in Honorary Societies 

2004-present   Member of Materials Research Society (MRS)

2005-present   Member of American Physical Society (APS)


2008-present  PRIDE-UNAM (Level C), Mexico.

2001-present   Member of the National System of Researchers (Level II), Mexico.

1996-99             Ph.D  student fellowship, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

RESEARCH INTEREST:

THESIS SUPERVISION in progress:

David Montalvo 

Ph.D. Thesis

Aarón Mendoza

Ph.D. Thesis

Previous Graduates:



Ph. D. THESIS:

Carolina Bohorquez Martínez (2023). CICESE.

Cindy Johana Valencia Caicedo (2023). CICESE.

Verónica Huerta Guerra (2023). CICESE.

Gabriela Guzmán Navarro (2016). CICESE.

Alfredo González Carrazco (2010). CICESE.


MASTER THESIS:

Karime Carrera Gutierrez (2019). UNAM. Graduated with Honors.

Aarón Mendoza Rodarte (2019). UNAM. Graduated with Honors.

Emmanuel de la Cruz Piña (2018). UNAM.

Juan Araiza Liera (2018). CICESE.

Verónica Huerta Guerra (2018). CICESE.

Carolina Bohorquez Martínez (2018). CICESE.

David Montalvo Ballesteros (2016). UNAM.

Luz A. Zavala Sánchez (2015). UNAM. Graduated with Honors.

Marco A Gonzalez Angulo (2015). CICESE.

Aldo Alan Guerrero Salmerón (2013). UNAM.

Gabriela Guzmán Navarro (2011). UNAM. Graduated with Honors.

Arturo Susarrey Arce (2008). UNAM. Graduated with Honors.


UNDERGRADUATE THESIS:

Patsy Arely Miranda Cortez (2022). UNAM. Graduated with Honors.

Maria Teresa Valenzuela López (2018). UNAM.

Karime Carrera Gutierrez (2018). UTChSur.

Aarón Mendoza Rodarte (2018). UTChSur.

Susana Flores Cabrera (2018). UTChSur.

Aldo Alan Guerrero Salmerón (2011). UABC


Outstanding Graduates


Arturo Susarrey Arce. University of Twente, Netherlands.

Luz A. Zavala Sánchez. The Catalysis and Spectrochemistry Laboratory, Caen, France.

Marco A Gonzalez Angulo. Mads Clausen Institute, Denmark

Gabriela Guzmán Navarro. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Aarón Mendoza Rodarte. PH Thesis in University of Groningen. Groningen, Netherlands.

Karime Carrera Gutierrez. 

Verónica Huerta Guerra. 

Patsy Arely Miranda Cortez.



Looking for Students (graduates and undergraduates):

Physical chemistry properties of hydroxyapatite for bone regeneration.

Principal Investigator (PI): Dr. Manuel Herrera Zaldívar

Collaboration: Dra. Olivia Graeve (University of California San Diego), Dra. Paloma Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Contact: zaldivar@ens.cnyn.unam.mx


Point defects in dilute magnetic semiconductors for spintronics applications

Principal Investigator (PI): Dr. Manuel Herrera Zaldívar

Collaboration: Dra. Ana Cremades y Dr. David Maestre (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Contact: zaldivar@ens.cnyn.unam.mx

Recent publications of Prof M. Herrera's group:

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7179-654X


White emission in 3D-printed phosphor microstructures.  

Winczewski, M. Herrera, H. Gardeniers, A. Susarrey.  

Chemical Communications 59 (2023) 3095

https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cc06953a

 

Enabling high-quality transparent conductive oxide on 3D printed ZrO2 architectures through atomic layer deposition. 

J. Arriaga, J. Winczewski, M. Herrera, E. Murillo, C. Rosero, N. Pineda, L. Cholula, I De León, H. Gardeniers, A. Susarrey, E. Martínez

Applied Surface Science 636 (2023) 157796

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.157796   

 

Influence of single-ionized oxygen vacancies on the generation of ferromagnetism in SnO2 and SnO2:Cr nanowires.

D. Montalvo, V. Gómez, W. de la Cruz, S. Camacho, I. Rivero, K. Carrera, V. Orozco, C. Santillán, J. Matutes, and M. Herrera

Applied Physics A 129 (2023) 537

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-023-06790-z


Additive Manufacturing of 3D Luminescent ZrO2:Eu3+ Architectures

J Winczewski, M Herrera, C Cabriel, I Izeddin, S Gabel, B Merle, A Susarrey, H Gardeniers

Adv. Optical Mater. (2022), 2102758

doi.org/10.1002/adom.202102758 


Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Study on Tuning the Electrical and Optical Properties of Zr-Doped ZnO Thin Films Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition

C. Bohorquez, H. Bakkali, J. J. Delgado, E. Blanco, M Herrera, M. Domínguez

ACS Applied Electronic Materials 4 (2022) 925

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.1c01026


Additive Effect of inert ambient annealing on structural and defect characteristics of coaxial N-CNTs@ZnO nanotubes coated by atomic layer deposition. 

H.A. Borbon, D. Domínguez , M. Herrera, J.M. Romo, R.C. Carrillo, F.F. Castillon, O.E. Contreras, G. Soto, H. Tiznado. 

Ceramics International 48 (2022) 29829 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.06.245


Morphology control of tantalum carbide nanoparticles through dopant addition

T. Ren, R. Tran, S. Lee, A. Bandera, M. Herrera, X. Li, S. Ping-Ong and O. Graeve.

Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125 (2021) 10665- 10675

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c01387


Effect of Oxygen Vacancies on the Mechanoluminescence Response of Magnesium Oxide.

E. Novitskaya, A. Manheim, M. Herrera, O. A. Graeve

Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121 (2021) 854 - 864

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07674


Photoluminescence up-conversion and cathodoluminescence in quaternary CdxZnyOγSδ nanoparticles embedded on zeolite

O. E. Jaime-Acuña, R. E San-Juan Farfán, H. Villavicencio, M. Herrera, O. Raymond-Herrera

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 159 (2021) 110004

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2021.110004


A combined optical and morphological study of 2,5-bis(dodecanoxy) phenyleneethynylene-butadiynes films for oLEDs

B Kinzeeva, G Turlakov, I Moggio, E Arias, G Rodríguez, M Herrera, T Cooper, M Ottonelli, R F Ziolo.

Materials Science and Engineering B 263 (2021) 114779

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2020.114779


Defect-related luminescence properties of hydroxyapatite nanobelts

V. Huerta, P. Fernández, V. Gómez, O. A. Graeve and M. Herrera

Applied Materials Today 21 (2020) 100822

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100822


Defect-related luminescence properties of hydroxyapatite nanobelts

V. Huerta, P. Fernández, V. Gómez, O. A. Graeve and M. Herrera

Applied Materials Today 21 (2020) 100822

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100822


Hole-mediated ferromagnetism in GaN doped with Cu and Mn.

G. Guzmán, D. Maestre and M. Herrera

Journal of Material Science: Materials in Electronics 31 (2020)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10854-020-04070-7


Conduction mechanisms in ZnO nanowires based Schottky diode grown under an electric field.

T Valenzuela and M Herrera

Journal of Applied Physics 126 (2019) 124501

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117171