INICIO DEL CURSO MARTES 6 DE JULIO, 8 DE LA MAÑANA. AUDITORIO B-EDIFICIO 453 (AULAS DE INGENIERÍA). REVISAR EL CORREO DE CONTACTO PARA MÁS INFORMACIÓN

July 6 to 23

Course Description

Over the last 10 years, nanomaterials have been the focal point of an enormous research interest. These materials, remarkable for their extremely small feature size, have the potential for wide-ranging industrial, biomedical, and electronic applications; their variety of properties and possible applications appear to be enormous.

As a result of recent improvement in technologies to survey and manipulate matter at atomic and molecular level, the nanomaterials discipline has witness a huge increase in funding from private and government agencies.  It is not so amazing, then, that government bodies, companies, and university researchers are joining forces or competing to synthesize, investigate, produce, and apply these remarkable nanomaterials.

This International seminar will provide a description of the synthesis and characterization techniques involved in the research and development of nanomaterials. The participants will have the opportunity to discuss fundamental aspects with highly qualified lecturers.

Guest Speakers

CLAUDIA C. LUHRS, Ph.D.

Mechanical Engineering Department

University of New Mexico

Claudia C. Luhrs holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UNM since Aug 2008. Before that she had a Research Professor position in the same Department (since April 2007). Just before joining ME at UNM, she worked as a Staff Engineer for Intel Corporation (New Mexico site, F11X , 2005-2007). Prior to it C.C. Luhrs had a Visiting Research Professor position in the ChNE Department at UNM (2004-2005).

Her research interests focus on nanostructured materials; novel synthetic pathways for their preparation, characterization of their crystal structures, properties and reactivity. Her research has been centered mostly on ceramics but extended in recent years to the production of nanosized metal particles, and nano-scale ceramic/metal and metal/carbon composites. Application projects include the generation of thermally stable materials for catalysts, gas sensors, batteries, supercapacitors, structural and high energy density nano-scale materials.

JUAN PAULO HINESTROZA, Ph.D.

Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory

Cornell University

Juan P. Hinestroza is an Assistant Professor of Fiber Science and director of the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at the College of Human Ecology of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University and B.Sc in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander in his native Colombia. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, he worked as a process control engineer for The Dow Chemical Company.

He’s an active member of The American Chemical Society and he’s currently a member-at-large of the Division of Cellulose and Renewable Materials and he has been the organizer for the Cellulose-Based and Other Green Composites Symposium since 2006.

He’s also a member of The Materials Research Society MRS,  The American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE,  The Society of Rheology, The Fiber Society  and The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers SHPE.

JONATHAN PHILLIPS, Ph. D.

Los Alamos National Lab

Jonathan Phillips (Ph.D. U.Wisconsin, Madison 1981) was a full professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University before joining LANL as a staff member in 1999. He has published more than 130 reviewed journal articles covering many fields, particularly catalysis, carbon, chemistry and physics of nanoscale metals and ceramics, plasma physics, surface chemistry, calorimetry and Mossbauer spectroscopy. He holds eight issued patents, five now licensed, most of which involve novel materials or processes for making materials using a process he named Aerosol-through-Plasma (A-T-P).

Recognitions include a Fulbright Fellowship (Ben Gurion University, Israel) in 1997-1998, and awards for several inventions. He headed a team that was awarded an R&D 100 award in 2004 for the invention ‘Plasma Torch Production of Spherical Boron Nitride’ and headed another team that was awarded a Nano 50 award in 2005 for the invention ‘Graphitic Structures by Design’.  Presently at LANL he's developing an entirely new model of the corrosion of alkali metal and related materials.

ALVARO DUARTE R, Ph.D.

Chemistry Department