• 2D copper-imidazolate framework without thermal treatment as an efficient ORR electrocatalyst for Zn–air batteries 

      Franco, Ana; Salatti Dorado, José Ángel; García-Caballero, Valentín; Lorca, Sebastián; Camacho, Luis; Cano, Manuel; Fernández Romero, A.J.; Delgado, Juan J.; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Carrillo-Carrión, C. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022)
      To face unmet energy demands, the search for more stable, low-cost, and scalable electrocatalyst materials is imperative. Within this context, single-atom catalysts (SACs) have drawn considerable attention due to their ...
    • 2D self-assembly of o-OPE foldamers for chiroptical barcoding 

      López-Sicilia, Irene; Ortuño, Ana M.; Reine, Pablo; Otero, David; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Luis; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Miguel, Delia; Cuerva, Juan M. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023)
      We report on the preparation and characterization of two dimensional (2D) films of (S,S,P)-1 and (R,R,M)-1ortho-oligophenylene ethylene (o-OPE) enantiomers presenting high values of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). ...
    • Amphiphilic Polymers for Aggregation-Induced Emission at Air/Liquid Interfaces 

      Argudo, Pablo G.; Zhang, Nian; Chen, Hui; Miguel, Gustavo de; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Li, Min-Hui; Giner-Casares, Juan J. (Elsevier, 2021)
      Polymersomes and related self-assembled nanostructures displaying Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) are highly relevant for plenty of applications in imaging, biology and functional devices. Experimentally simple, scalable ...
    • Benign-by-design solventless mechanochemical synthesis of 3-, 2- and 1-dimensional hybrid perovskites 

      Jodlowski, Alexander Davis; Yépez, Alfonso; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Pérez-Morales, M.; Luque, Rafael; Camacho, Luis; Miguel, Gustavo de (2016)
    • Citrate-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles as High-Performance Electrocatalysts: The Role of Size in the Electroreduction of Oxygen 

      Alba-Molina, David; Puente-Santiago, A.R.; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Luque, Rafael; Cano, Manuel (ACS, 2019)
      Fuel cells stand out as among the most promising alternatives for non-sustainable fossil fuel based economy. Efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are required for the mass application of fuel ...
    • Exploiting hydrogen bonding to direct supramolecular polymerization at the air/water interface 

      Argudo, Pablo G.; Coelho, João Paulo; López-Sicilia, Irene; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Fernández, G.; Giner-Casares, Juan J. (Wiley, 2023)
      Fluid interfaces provide an advanced platform for directed self-assembly of organic composites and formation of supramolecular polymers (SPs). Intermolecular interactions govern the supramolecular polymerization processes, ...
    • Exploiting hydrogen bonding to direct supramolecular polymerization at the air/water interface 

      Argudo, Pablo G.; Coelho, João Paulo; López-Sicilia, Irene; Guerrero-Martínez, A.; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Fernández, Gustavo; Giner-Casares, Juan J. (Wiley, 2022)
      Fluid interfaces provide an advanced platform for directed self-assembly of organic composites and formation of supramolecular polymers (SPs). Intermolecular interactions govern the supramolecular polymerization processes, ...
    • Fluorinated CdSe/ZnS quantum dots: Interactions with cell membrane 

      Martín-Romero, M.T.; Argudo, Pablo G.; Camacho, Luis; Carril, Mónica; Carrillo-Carrión, C.; Giner-Casares, Juan J. (Elsevier, 2019)
      Fluorescent inorganic quantum dots are highly promising for biomedical applications as sensing and imaging agents. However, the low internalization of the quantum dots, as well as for most of the nanoparticles, by living ...
    • Folding of cytosine-based nucleolipid monolayer by guanine recognition at the air-water interface 

      Argudo, Pablo G.; Muñoz, Eulogia; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Camacho, Luis; Martín-Romero, M.T. (Elsevier, 2019)
      Monolayers of a cytosine-based nucleolipid (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-(cytidine diphosphate) (ammonium salt), CDP-DG) at basic subphase have been prepared at the air-water interface both in absence and presence of ...
    • Insight into the role of copper in the promoted photocatalytic removal of NO using Zn2-xCuxCr-CO3 layered double hydroxide 

      Fragoso, J.; Oliva, M.A.; Camacho, Luis; Cruz-Yusta, M.; Miguel, Gustavo de; Martín, F.; Pastor, A.; Pavlovic, I.; Sánchez, Luis (Elsevier, 2021)
      In this work the ability of Zn2-xCuxCr-CO3 layered double hydroxides (LDHs) as highly efficient DeNOx photocatalysts was studied. LDHs with x = 0, 0.2 and 0.4 were prepared using a coprecipitation method. The samples were ...
    • Insight into the role of guanidinium and cesium in triple cation lead halide perovskites 

      Ramos-Terrón, Susana; Illanes, José Francisco; Bohoyo-Gil, Diego; Camacho, Luis; Miguel, Gustavo de (Wiley, 2021)
      The overall impact of the partial replacement (5–15%) of methylammonium (MA)in the MAPbI3perovskite by cesium or guanidinium (Gua) cations to fabricatethinfilms of triple cation CsxGuayMA1–x–yPbI3perovskites is studied.The ...
    • Ion-Mediated Aggregation of Gold Nanoparticles for Light-Induced Heating 

      Alba-Molina, David; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Giner-Casares, Juan J. (MDPI, 2017)
      Photothermal therapy is proposed as a straightforward manner of killing cancer cells, which a plasmon field of gold nanoparticles is activated by incoming light resonance leading to a local increase of temperature. This ...
    • Mimicking the bioelectrocatalytic function of recombinant CotA laccase through electrostatically self-assembled bioconjugates 

      Alba-Molina, David; Rodríguez-Padrón, Daily; Puente-Santiago, A.R.; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Martins, Lígia O.; Muñoz-Batista, Mario J.; Cano, Manuel; Luque, Rafael (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018)
      Unprecedented 3D nanobiosystems composed of recombinant CotA laccases and citrate-stabilised gold nanoparticles have been successfully achieved by an electrostatic self-assembly strategy. The bioelectrochemical reduction ...
    • Optimization of Amino Acid Sequence of Fmoc-Dipeptides for Interaction with Lipid Membranes 

      Argudo, Pablo G.; Contreras-Montoya, Rafael; Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Luis; Camacho, Luis; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Martín-Romero, M.T. (ACS Publications, 2019)
      Fmoc-dipeptides appear as highly relevant building blocks in smart hydrogels and nanovehicles for biological applications. The interactions of the Fmocdipeptides with the cell membrane determine the efficiency of the ...
    • Subtle chemical modification for enrichment of Fmoc-amino acid at a phospholipid interface 

      Argudo, Pablo G.; Contreras-Montoya, Rafael; Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Luis; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Giner-Casares, Juan J. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)
      Amino acids including the Fmoc group (9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl) are bioinspired molecules that display intriguing features in self-assembly and biological applications. The influence of a delicate chemical modification ...
    • Supramolecular Large Nanosheets Assembled at Air/Water Interfaces and in Solution from Amphiphilic Heptagon-Containing Nanographenes 

      Arthur H. G., David; Mañas-Torres, Mari C.; Codesal, Marcos D.; López-Sicilia, Irene; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Cuerva, Juan M.; Blanco, Víctor; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Luis; Campaña, Araceli G. (ACS, 2023)
      We report the synthesis of a new set of amphiphilic saddle-shaped heptagon-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) functionalized with tetraethylene glycol chains and their self-assembly into large two-dimensional ...
    • Tailoring the ORR and HER electrocatalytic performances of gold nanoparticles through metal–ligand interfaces 

      Alba-Molina, David; Puente-Santiago, A.R.; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Rodríguez-Castellón, Enrique; Martín-Romero, M.T.; Camacho, Luis; Luque, Rafael; Cano, Manuel (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)
      The oxygen reduction (ORR) and hydrogen evolution (HER) reactions are the most important cathodic processes involved in fuel cell and water splitting technologies, respectively. The development of bifunctional electrocatalyst ...
    • Unravelling the 2D self-assembly of Fmoc-dipeptides at fluid interfaces 

      Argudo, Pablo G.; Contreras-Montoya, Rafael; Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Luis; Cuerva, Juan M.; Cano, Manuel; Alba-Molina, David; Camacho, Luis; Giner-Casares, Juan J.; Martín-Romero, M.T. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018)
      Dipeptides self-assemble into supramolecular structures showing plenty of applications in the nanotechnology and biomedical fields. A set of Fmoc-dipeptides with different aminoacid sequences has been synthesized and their ...