XIII CONGRESO NACIONAL DE MICROSCOPÍA

Mauricio Terrones, obtained his B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics with first class honors at Universidad Iberoamericana, and was distinguished as the Best Student of Mexico in Engineering Physics in 1992. 

Department of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University

Conferencia : Controlling Functionality of 1D and 2D materials: From virus enrichment to ferromagnetism and optoelectronics.

26 de septiembre, de 9:00 a 10:00 hrs.

In 1994 he started his doctorate degree with Sir Prof. Harold W. Kroto (Nobel Laureate, FRS), and received his D.Phil. degree from University of Sussex in 1998. He has co-authored more than 650 publications in international journals and counts with more than 85,000 citations to his work (His H index is 125; Google Scholar H=143). He has published in Nature, Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nano Lett., Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nature Chemistry, ACS Nano, PNAS, Science Advances, etc. Some of his accomplishments include: 1) Fellow of APS, AAAS, TWAS and RSC; 2) Highly Cited Researcher (WoS; 2017-present); 3) The Jubilee Professorship at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden; 2016), 4) Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (UK; 2012), 5) “The Somiya Award for International Collaboration” (IUMRS; 2009), 6) “The Japan Carbon Award for Innovative Research” (Japan Carbon Society; 2008), 7) “TWAS Prize in Engineering Science,” Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, 8) UNESCO-Javed Huasain Prize for Young Scientists and Albert Einstein Medal (France, 2001), 9) Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung (Stuttgart, Germany), 10) The Best Student of Mexico Award (Mexico, 1992). He is Evan Pugh University Professor and the George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Department Head (Department of Physics, Penn State). He is also Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering at Penn State. He is also the Founder Director of the Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials at Penn State, and the NSF-IUCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Carbon (IF=10.9).

Research: Mauricio Terrones works on low dimensional materials that mainly involve 1- and 2-Dimensions, ranging from carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons to graphene, boron nitride and chalcogenide monolayers (e.g. WS2, MoS2, NbS2 , etc.). His group concentrates on challenging synthesis of novel nanoscale materials (1D and 2D) with unprecedented physico-chemical properties. Within his group and with close collaborators, he performs theoretical first-principles calculations that predict electronic, chemical, optical and magnetic properties. He also focuses on performing state of-the-art characterization of the produced materials using electronic transport, photo-transport, Raman spectroscopy, aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy, photoluminescence, electron energy loss spectroscopy, etc.