Investigador: Wilfredo Resto Departamento: Química Descripción: The project objective is to mentor undergraduate students in the pursue of a graduate education and provide summer research experiences that will enhance transition to a graduate program in chemistry and to create a clear and direct pathway to admission of UPR-Cayey students to the chemistry graduate program at…
Investigador: Juan Santana Descripción: This research project is organized to accomplish three goals: Goal 1: Studying catalysis for the oxygen reduction reaction using non-platinum group metal and non-metal catalysts Goal 2: Studying catalysis and stability for the oxygen evolution reaction using non-platinum group metal and non-metal catalysts Goal 3: Training underrepresented students in the development of…
Investigadora: Joan Roque Departamento: Química Descripción: The objective of this project is to explore the relationship between the use of Spanish or English POGIL activities and student engagement as well as science identity development. POGIL is an acronym for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. It is a student-centered, group-learning instructional strategy and philosophy developed through…
Investigador: Enrique Rodríguez Departmento: Biología Project Description: Drug of abuse such as alcohol produces long lasting changes in the brain reward circuitry. Alcohol is one of the world most abused drugs with a major health impact but the mechanisms by which these changes are produced remains unclear. Several internal and external factors such as stress,…
Investigador: Enrique Rodríguez, PhD Departamento: Biología Descripción: Drug of abuse such as alcohol produces long lasting changes in the brain reward circuitry. Alcohol is one of the world most abused drugs with a major health impact but the mechanisms by which these changes are produced remains unclear. Several internal and external factors such as stress, genetics,…
Investigador: Juan M. López Encarnación Descripción: The electronic and molecular structures, energetics and thermal stability of embedded draw solutes into a polymer-based membrane play a central role in the overall performance of these novel materials for water reclamation. The computational aid design is an important tool to assist the experimental approach from the synthesis to the…
Investigador: Juan M. López Encarnación Descripción: The following work plan has been thought out with the objective of unambiguously demonstrate our hypothesis on stability of nanobubbles provided by a molecular Goldberg polyhedral configuration. Computational methods including Density Functional Theory (DFT) and interatomic potentials (force fields) will be used to conduct molecular structure stability calculations and predict spectroscopic…
Investigador: Juan M. López Encarnación Descripción: Scope of Work: The main goal of this project is to improve the carbon dioxide and water recovery SPS-FO system by means of selecting an optimal SPS tertiary amine as draw solute and studying functionalized thin film composite (TFC) membranes for promising FO performance. This project responds to…
Investigador: Juan Santana, PhD Departamento: Matemática-Física Descripción: We are proposing a two-year project to perform computational studies of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) with heterobimetallic centers to design high-performance bifunctional catalysts for oxygen reduction and evaluation reactions (ORR and OER). We will explore MOF based on CO-M (Cu and Fe) heterobiometallic centers and 1,2,4,5 benzene tetra amine (BTA) and benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic…
Investigador: Juan Santana, PhD Departamento: Matemática-Física Descripción: El objetivo del proyecto es realizar estudios computacionales de Estructuras Metal-Orgánicas (MOFs) con centros heterobimetálicos para diseñar catalizadores bifuncionales de alto rendimiento para las reacciones de reducción y evaluación de oxígeno (ORR y OER, por sus siglas en inglés). Exploraremos MOFs basados en centros heterobimetálicos de Co-M (Cu y Fe) y…
