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Nanomaterials Laboratory

Head of the laboratory: Dr. Vladimir A. Basiuk (Bassiouk Evdokimenko)
basiuk@nucleares.unam.mx

Members:

Researchers: Dr. Vladimir A. Basiuk
Technicians: Dr. Victor Hugo Meza Laguna

Contact:

Dr. Vladimir A. Basiuk
basiuk@nucleares.unam.mx
Phone: +(52) (55) 5622 4660
+(52) (55) 5623 3370
Ext: 2214

Laboratory Description

Research Lines

  • Chemical functionalization of carbon nanomaterials (C6O fullerene, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and graphene oxide) with different kinds of inorganic (gold and silver nanoparticles, etc.), organic (amines, macrocyclic ligands and their complexes), and bioorganic compounds (peptides, proteins, nucleic acid components, antibiotics, etc.).
  • Development of environmentally friendly functionalization techniques.
  • Characterization of nanohybrids obtained through different microscopy, spectroscopy, and thermal analysis techniques.
  • Use of computational techniques (molecular mechanics and density functional theory) for the interpretation and prediction of experimental results.
  • Phytotoxicity studies of the carbon nanomaterials in cactus plants.

Laboratory Infrastructure

Major equipment

  • JEOL JSM-6510LV scanning electron microscope coupled with an X-ray-energy dispersion device (EDS).
  • JEOL JSM-5200 scanning probe microscope (AFM/STM).

JOINT PROJECTS

  • Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3)
  • Marcos Moshinsky Foundation
  • PAUTA

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