U.S. Fulbright Student Program – Singapore October 2018 – August 2019
NSF INTERN PhD Fellowship @BNL (Funded by BNL & NSF LSAMP) Fall 2018-Spring 2019
U.S. Fulbright Student Program - Singapore (USF nominee) Fall 2017/Fall 2018
Alfred P. Sloan UCEM USF Scholar Fall 2017 - present OSA Student Travel Award, Siegman International School on Lasers Summer 2017
NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellow - Singapore (NUS) Summer 2017
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) – Honorable Mention Spring 2017
USRA Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Scholar – declined Summer 2017
USRA Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Scholar Summer 2016
NSF FGLSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellow 2015-2017
National Institute of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Summer 2014
NSF PR-LSAMP Scholar 2015-2016
NSF-PREM Undergraduate Research Scholar 2011-2015
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2. Serrano-Garcia, W. Bonadies, I., Thomas, S., & *Guarino, V. (2020). “P3HT loaded piezoelectric electrospun fibers for tunable molecular adsorption”. Materials Letters, 127458.
3. Serrano-Garcia, W., Jayathilaka, W. A. D. M., Chinnappan, A., Tran, T. Q., Baskar, C., Thomas, S. W., & *Ramakrishna, S. (2019). “Nanocomposites for electronic applications that can be embedded for textiles and wearables”. Science China Technological Sciences, 1-8.
4. Jayathilaka, W. A. D. M., Qi, K., Qin, Y., Chinnappan, A., Serrano‐García, W., Baskar, C., Wang, H., He, J. Cui, S., Thomas, S. W., *Ramakrishna, S. (2018). “Significance of Nanomaterials in Wearables: A Review on Wearable Actuators and Sensors”. Advanced Materials, 1805921. Impact Factor: 25.809
5. Hamilton, J. A., Ozarowski, A., Archibong, E., Thomas, S., Serrano-Garcia, W., Stoian, S., Weidera, C., *Mateeva, N. (2019). “Synthesis and characterization of novel polyethylene oxide–dinuclear Cu (II) complex electrospun nanofibers”. Materials Letters, 238, 58-61.
6. Serrano-Garcia, W., & *Thomas, S. (2018). “Coaxial semiconductive organic nanofibers and electrospinning fabrication thereof”. U.S. Patent Application No. 15/891,178.
7. Routaboul, L., Tanabe, I., Colon Santana, J., Yuan, M., Ghisolfi, A., Serrano, W., *Dowben P.A., Doudin and Braunstein, P. (2017). “Changes in molecular film metallicity with minor modifications of the constitutive quinonoid zwitterions”. RSC Advances, 7(35), 21906-21917.
8. Serrano, W., Meléndez, A., Ramos, I. and *Pinto, N. J. (2016), “Poly(lactic acid)/poly(3-hexylthiophene) composite nanofiber fabrication for electronic applications”. Polym. Int., 65: 503–507. doi: 10.1002/pi.5081.
9. Serrano, W., *Pinto, N.J., Naylor, C., Kybert N., Johnson Jr, A.T. (2015). “Facile fabrication of a ultraviolet tunable MoS2 / p- Si junction diode”, Applied Physics Letters 106, 193504.
10. Serrano, W., Meléndez, A., Ramos I. and *Pinto N.J. (2014). “Electrospun composite poly(lactic acid)/polyaniline nanofibers from low concentrations in CHCl3: Making a biocompatible polyester electro-active” Polymer 55, 5727-5733.
11. *Pinto, N.J., Serrano, W., (2012). “Composite Nanofibers Of Electroactive Polymers Prepared Via Electrospinning. 15th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM15)”, Venice, Italy, 24 – 28 June 2012.
12. Serrano, W., *Pinto, N.J. (2012). “Electrospun fibers of poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)/Poly (3 – hexylthiophene) blends from tetrahydrofuran”.Taylor & Francis (Taylor & Francis Group) Ferroelectrics,432:41 – 48.
1. Electrospinning Technique for Fabrication of Flexible Electronic Devices (Poster), OSA Siegman International School on Lasers., Leon, MX, August 6-11, 2017.
2. Electrospinning Technique for Organic Semiconductive Polymers Composites Coaxial Nanofibers for Electronic Devices
(Oral), E-MRS 2017 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 22-26, 2017.
3. Electrospinning Technique for Organic Semiconductive Polymers Composites Coaxial Nanofibers for Electronic Devices (Poster), APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 13-17, 2017.
4. Electrospun Composite Nanofibers of Semiconductive Polymers for Coaxial P-N Junctions (Poster), APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD. March 14-18, 2016.
5. Electrospun composite poly(lactic acid)/polyaniline nanofibers from low concentrations in CHCl3 (Poster), IEEE 9th Ibero- American Congress on Sensors (IBERSENSOR), Bogotá, Colombia. October 16, 2014.
6. Electrospun poly(lactic acid)/polyaniline nanofibers from low polymer concentrations in CHCl3 (Poster), 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, California. August 12, 2014.
7. Electrical Characterization of CVD grown MoS2 (Poster), 10th PREM Annual Meeting, Wyndham Garden Hotel, Palmas del Mar – Humacao, P.R. Nov 22, 2013.
8. Electrospun fibers of PLA/P3HT blends for device and sensor applications (Oral), APS March Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. March 18, 2013.
9. Electrospun fibers of PLA/P3HT blends for device and sensor applications (Oral), 33rd Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting / 48th junior Technical Meeting (JTM/PRISM 2013) Universidad del Turabo, Caguas P.R. March 9, 2013.
10. Electrospun fibers of PLA/P3HT blends for device and sensor applications (Poster), 9th PREM Annual Meeting, November 16, 2012. Embassy Suites Hotel – Isla Verde, P.R.