Current Lab Projects
Due to the problems that exist regarding climate change and how it affects the environment, we as citizens have the obligation to do something about it. In the last decades, we have had a problem with the electrical energy system on our island of Puerto Rico and it is for this reason that we have the responsibility to create alternatives to obtain renewable energy in an economic way to avoid fossil fuels. My research focuses on generating an electrocatalyst that is efficient, economic, and eco-friendly. The goal of the investigation is modifying onion-like carbon nanoparticles using nitrogen-containing molecules to encapsulate non-precious metals as electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Then, we are working together with CHESS to study them using synchrotron x-ray techniques.
Brenda Vargas, M.S. Student Fabiola Sánchez, Chemistry Student; Kattia González, Chemistry Student; Daneisha Bonilla, Chemistry Student |