Luis Negrón, PhD
Título/Appointment: Assistant Professor
Departamento/Department: Chemistry Department
Institución/Institution: UPR-Cayey
E-mail: luis.negron11@upr.edu
Teléfono/Phone: (787) 738-2161
Reseña/Biosketch:
Luis Negrón is from Corozal, Puerto Rico. Chemistry was my passion during my undergraduate years. My area of expertise is organic chemistry in the areas of supramolecular chemistry and materials sciences.
Preparación Académica/Education:
Ph. D. in Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras campus, 2014
Bachelor of Science (Natural Sciences), University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras campus, 2008
Áreas de Investigación/Research Interests:
- My area of research if organic chemistry of nanomaterials such as Lipid Dendrimers and Polymers for the self-assembly study of Nanoparticles for biomedical applications.
Publicaciones/Publications:
- López-Colón, A.; Santiago-Mercado, M. E.; Aguirre-Santiago, J. I.; Jesús-Hernández, A. de; Negrón- Hernández, J.; Negrón, Luis M.; Méndez-Hernández, Dalvin D. Benchmarking Computational Methods to Calculate the Octanol/Water Partition Coefficients of a Diverse Set of Organic Molecules. 2021.
- Negrón, Luis M.; Diaz Tanya, L.; Madera, Bismark; Rivera, José M. Organic nanoflowers from a wide variety of molecules templated by a hierarchical supramolecular scaffold. Langmuir 2016, 32(10), 2283–2990.
- Negrón, Luis M.; Meléndez-Contés, Yazmary; Rivera, José M. Patchy supramolecules as versatile tools to probe hydrophobicity in nanoglobular systems. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135(10), 3815–3817.