Design synthesis and applications of:

1 - Porous inorganic  materials, metal-organic frameworks-MOFs, Zeolites, mesoporous silica SBA15 and SBA16, for gas storage/separation, heterogeneous catalyzes, electrocatalysis and sensors. 

2 - Hybrid hydrogels composed by natural polymers and inorganic materials for drug delivery and water remediation.

3 - Conjugated polymers (polyaniline, polythiophene, polypyrrole) reinforced with inorganic materials for electrochemical devices such as batteries, supercapacitors and sensors.

Skills:

Synthesis: Metal-organic frameworks, zeolites, mesoporous silica, gold and silver nanoparticles, hydrogels, conjugated polymers.   

Characterizations: Volumetric gas adsorption systems (low pressure instruments from Micromeritics), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Spectroscopy (FT-IR, NMR, UV-Vis), Morphology (SEM, TEM and AFM), Elemental analysis (ICP), Thermal analysis (TGA), Gas Chromatography Flame-Ionization Detection (GC-FID) and Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS).

Software: OriginPro, MestReNova, ChemDrawUltra, Microactive (Micromeritics), ACD Labs, Mathematica and CorelDraw, Python.