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Solid-state Materials Laboratory for Sustainability
Welcome
Welcome
Research Program
Research Program
Enhance understanding of functional materials structure-property relationships for energy and environmental applications and apply this knowledge to design synthetic methods that customize material functionality.
Meet the PI
Joselyn Del Pilar Albaladejo, PhD
Joselyn Del Pilar Albaladejo, PhD
Joselyn Del Pilar Albaladejo is a Puerto Rican scientist that focus design, fabrication and understanding of solid state functional materials for energy and environmental applications.
Del Pilar completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) and moved to Columbus, OH to complete a masters and doctorate degree in chemistry. Her graduate work focused on the synthesis of cobalt oxyhydroxides photocatalysts supported on zeolite surfaces for artificial photosynthetic systems. She later completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Iowa State University where she studied inorganic nanocrystal synthesis, surface modification and single-source precursors focusing primarily on copper chalcogenide.
After a time a year as an Assistant Professor in Texas A&M University-San Antonio, she returned to her native Puerto Rico. In 2019 she returned to UPR-RP where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials (CIE2M). This experience allowed her to become a PREM-CIE2M Co-PI and research thrust leader.
Del Pilar joined the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez as an assistant professor of materials chemistry in Fall 2021. Her research group aims to contribute to the understanding of nanoscale material structure-property relationships for energy and environmental applications and apply this knowledge to nano-synthetic methods for material functionality modulation.
In her off time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and two puppies. She strongly believes education is critical to society and advocates for an accessible and high-quality public education system. Del Pilar is a special education advocate passionate about helping neurodivergent students get the right education.
Meet our Graduate Students
Huber Y. Avila Ríos
Oscar Escorcia Omar
Yashira Rolón Ocasio
Hernán D. Alvarez Florez
Meet our Undegraduate Students
Sonia W. Rodriguez Guzmán
Paola Cancel
Lorena Pérez Rovira
Adriana López
Yleiram M. Carrión
Arianna Hernandez
2025-26 Group Picture
2025-26 Group Picture
and Meet the Puppies
and Meet the Puppies
Arya Camille is a maltipoo born in Iowa. Loves to be spoiled, is a diva and a 100% a daddy's girl.
Juliette Curie is a puertorrican mix (sato) born adopted in Coamo. She is a firecraker, wild child filled with energy and has quite the appetite.
Research Projects
Designing metal oxynitride for water recycling systems in space missions
Designing metal oxynitride for water recycling systems in space missions
Defect engineering of metal oxides for energy applications
Defect engineering of metal oxides for energy applications
Designing metal oxynitride for water recycling systems in space missions
Designing metal oxynitride for water recycling systems in space missions
Selected Publications
Del Pilar Albadalejo, J.; Alonso-Sevilla, S.; Cintrón, N. I.; Feng, X.; García, Á. D.; Martínez-Torres, D. D.; Rodríguez, A. M.; Román-Montalvo, N. I.; Torres, J. I.; Yang, Y.; Peña-Duarte, A.; Singhal, R.; Debefve, L. M.; Pollock, C. J.; Cabrera, C. R.; Abruña, H. D.; Santiago-Berríos, M. B. Ex Situ and In Situ Analyses of the Mechanism of Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production by CoxZn1–XO (0 < x < 0.018) Materials in Alkaline Media. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5 (6), 6597–6605.
Morales-Cruz, Á. L.; Ortiz-Andrade, B. M.; Del Pilar-Albaladejo, J.; Díaz-Vázquez, L. M.; Rivera-González, U.; López-Mejías, V. Remote Pandemic Teaching in Quantitative and Instrumental Chemical Analysis Courses at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2021, 413 (11), 2845–2853.
Peña-Duarte, A.; Vijapur, S. H.; Hall, T. D.; Hayes, K. L.; Larios-Rodríguez, E.; Pilar-Albaladejo, J. D.; Santiago, M. B.; Snyder, S.; Taylor, J.; Cabrera, C. R. Iron Quantum Dots Electro-Assembling on Vulcan XC-72R: Hydrogen Peroxide Generation for Space Applications. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13 (25), 29585–29601.
Del-Pilar, J.; Santiago, M.; Cabrera, C. R. Non-Precious Metal-Based Electrocatalytic Cathode Materials for Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells (AMFC). ECS Trans. 2019, 92 (8), 661.
Del Pilar Albaladejo, J.; Broadway, S.; Mamiya, B.; Petros, A.; Powell, C. B.; Shelton, G. R.; Walker, D. R.; Weber, R.; Williamson, V. M.; Mason, D. ConfChem Conference on Mathematics in Undergraduate Chemistry Instruction: MUST-Know Pilot Study—Math Preparation Study from Texas. J. Chem. Educ. 2018, 95 (8), 1428–1429.
Research Funding
We are grateful for their support
We are grateful for their support
Collaborators
You help us reach our goals, thank you!
You help us reach our goals, thank you!
Useful Links
Useful Links
UPRM Department of Chemistry
https://www.uprm.edu/chemistry/
Center for the Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials-You Tube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@prem-cie2m266
Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
About the UPRM Graduate Program
About the UPRM Graduate Program
The Ph.D. Program in Applied Chemistry started at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez Campus in January 2004. The Program was approved by the Puerto Rico Council on Higher Education on December 18, 2003 through certification #2003-191. The Program currently has about 55 students progressing towards the Ph.D.
Our Program supports the mission of the University of Puerto Rico by developing graduate students with knowledge and skills in areas of importance to Puerto Rico’s economic development. The emphasis of our research is in Biophysical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, and Chemistry of Materials. Our Program graduates will have strong communication skills to allow them to participate in the search for solutions to the problems that our society faces, and to promote the development and transfer of technology needed for economic development.
Graduate students typically receive financial aid throughout their graduate study in the form of teaching assistantships, graduate fellowships and research appointments. Graduate fellowships and research appointments allow students to dedicate full time to their Ph.D. studies.
Our Ph.D. Program is unique in various aspects. The Program requires a Practicum in a research laboratory outside of our University. The Practicum increases the student’s knowledge and skills in the chosen area of specialty and develops their communication and work skills through exposure to multiple research groups. The Program has unique courses such as QUIM 6705 Supervised Teaching of Chemistry and QUIM 8008 – Scientific Communication in Chemistry that helps to improve the students’ communication skills. The Program is also unique in emphasizing entrepreneurism through a graduate level in the School of Business Administration.
For more information visit https://www.uprm.edu/chemistry/graduate-program/ or email graduatechem@uprm.edu
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Contact Dr. Del Pilar at joselyn.pilar@upr.edu to get more information about joining
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