Título/Appointment: Associate Professor
Departamento/Department: Mathematics-Physics
Institución/Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
E-mail: juan.lopez15@upr.edu
Teléfono/Phone: (787) 738-2161, ext. 315

Reseña/Biosketch:

Dr. Juan M. López-Encarnación is an associate professor of physics at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. He completed his bachelor degree in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) in Dominican Republic and a PhD degree in Chemical Physics at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras campus working on computational studies of finite and extended atomic systems relevant to astrophysical and plasma experiments, chemical reactions, and organic multiferroic tunneling junctions. During his postdoctoral appointment at Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. López-Encarnación research was focus on the design of a new catalytic material based on a single atomic-metal embedded into a porous organic polymer.

Perfiles en línea/Online profiles:

  1. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dz2OWcYAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao
  2. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan-Lopez-Encarnacion
  3. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9587-3020
  4. https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-lopez-encarnacion-6a92901b/

Preparación Académica/Education:

Bachelor degree in Physics: Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2003)

PhD degree in Chemical Physics: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico, USA (2011)

Áreas de investigación/Research Interests:

Currently, the research group of Dr. López-Encarnación seeks to understand and contribute in the following areas:

  1. Water purification: Computational design of bioinspired polymeric membranes and responsive molecules for CO2removal and water reclamation.
  2. Batteries: Computational studies of relevant materials with the potential to be use on cathodes, anodes and solid electrolytes for lithium-ion and lithium-sulfur batteries.
  3. Catalysis: Modeling and computational studies that will aid in the design and synthesis of new catalytic materials for the efficient transformation of carbon and nitrogen sources (e.g., carbonyls and molecular nitrogen) into chemical feedstocks.

Publicaciones/Publications:

  1. Juan M. López-Encarnación, J.D. Burton, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, and Julian P. Velev, “Organic multiferroic tunnel junctions with ferroelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride) barriers”, Nano Letters, Vol. 11, 2011, Pages 599-603. DOI: 10.1021/nl103650b
  2. Julian Velev, Juan M. López-Encaranción, J.D. Burton, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, “Multiferroic tunnel junctions with poly(vinylidene fluoride)”, Physical Review B, Vol. 85, 2012, Pages 125103 1-6. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.125103; *selected as an Editors’ Suggestion
  3. Juan M. López-Encarnación, Kristine K. Tanabe, Marc J.A. Johnson, and Julius Jellinek, “Characterizing metal coordination environments in porous organic polymers: a joint density functional theory and experimental infrared spectroscopy study”, Eur. J., Vol. 19, 2013, Pages 13646-13651. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201302812; *highlighted as cover picture
  4. Jairo Herrera-Morales, Kathleen Morales, Damarys Ramos, Edwin Ortiz-Quiles, Juan M. López-Encarnación, Eduardo Nicolau, “Examining the use of Nanocellulose Composites for the Sorption of Contaminants of Emerging Concern: An Experimental and Computational Study”, ACS Omega, Vol. 2, Pages 7714-7722. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b01053
  5. Dong Liu, Zhiyuan Huang, Jeffrey Camacho-Bunquin, Guanghui Zhang, Dali Yang, Juan M. López-Encarnación, Julius Jellinek, Yunjie Xu, Magali S. Ferrandon, Aiwen Lei, Emilio E. Bunel, and Massimiliano Delferro, “Supported Single-Site Ti(IV) on a Metal–Organic Framework for the Hydroboration of Carbonyl Compounds”, Organometallic, 36, 2017, Pages 3921-3930. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00544

Complete List of Published Work

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dz2OWcYAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao