Dr. Alain Rafael Puente Santiago
Title: Post-Doctorate
B.S: Institute of Applied Science and Technology (Cuba)
M.S: Institute of Materials Science (Cuba)
M.S: University of Cordoba (Spain)
Ph.D: University of Cordoba (Spain)
Nationality: Cuban
Contact Info: arpuentesan@utep.edu
Project Title: Development of fullerenes-based nanohybrids for energy applications.
Project Description: In this project, a new kind of low dimensional nanohybrids that contain C60, C70 and endohedral fullerenes as building blocks, will be developed for perovskites solar cells and electrochemical applications.
Publications:
2. "Formation of 2-D Crystalline Intermixed Domains at the Molecular Level in Binary Self-Assembled Monolayers from a Lyotropic Mixture." Alain R. Puente Santiago, Teresa Pineda, Manuel Blázquez, Rafael Madueño, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 8595–8606.
5. "Mechanochemical design of hemoglobin-functionalised magnetic nanomaterials as energy storage devices." Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Alvaro Caballero, Almudena Benítez, Alina M. Balu, Antonio A. Romero, Rafael Luque, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017,5, 16404-16411.
6. "Synthesis of carbon-based fluorescent polymers driven by catalytically active magnetic bioconjugates." Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alexander D. Jodlowski, Gustavo de Miguel, Alain R. Puente-Santiago*, Alina M. Balu, Rafael Luque, Green Chem., 2018, 20, 225-229.
7. "Highly efficient direct electroreduction of oxygen by partially unfolded laccases immobilized on iron oxide nanoparticles." Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Alvaro Caballero, Alina M. Balua, Antonio A. Romero, Rafael Luque, Nanoscale, 2018,10, 3961-3968.
8. "Mechanochemistry: Toward Sustainable Design of Advanced Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Catalytic Applications" Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Daily Rodriguez-Padron, Alain R. Puente-Santiago and Rafael Luque, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6, 9530–9544.
9. "Encapsulated Laccases as Effective Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reactions." Ana Franco, Soledad Cebrián-García, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alain R. Puente-Santiago*, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Alvaro Caballero, Alina M. Balu, Antonio A. Romero and Rafael Luque, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6, 11058–11062.
10. "Environmental catalysis: present and future." Daily Rodríguez‐Padrón, Dr. Alain R. Puente‐Santiago, Dr. Alina M. Balu, Dr. Mario J. Muñoz‐Batista, Prof. Dr. Rafael Luque, ChemCatChem 2018, 10,1–2.
11. "Microwave-assisted preparation of Ag/Ag2S carbon hybrid structures from pig bristles as efficient HER electrocatalysts" Camilla Maria Cova, Alessio Zuliani, Alain R. Puente Santiago, Alvaro Caballero, Mario J. Muñoz-Batistaa and Rafael Luque, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 21516-21523.
12. "Non-porous carbonaceous materials derived from coffee waste grounds as highly sustainable anodes for lithium-ion batterie." Fernando Luna-Lama, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alain R .Puente-Santiago*, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Alvaro Caballero, Alina M. Balu, Antonio A.Romero, Rafael Luque, J. Clean. Prod., 6. 21516-21523.
13. "Benign-by-design Orange peel-templated nanocatalysts for continuous flow conversion of levulinic acid to N-heterocycles." Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Alina M. Balu, Antonio A. Romero, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, and Rafael Luque, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6,16637–16644.
14. "Sunlight‐driven production of H2 using an annular flow photoreactor and g‐C3N4‐based catalysts." Dr. Mario J. Muñoz‐Batista, Daily Rodríguez‐Padrón, Dr. Alain R. Puente‐Santiago, Dr. Anna Kubacka, Prof. Rafael Luque and Prof. Marcos Fernández‐García, ChemPhotoChem 2018, 2, 870–877.
15. "Efficient Mechanochemical Bifunctional Nanocatalysts for the Conversion of Isoeugenol to Vanillin." Somayeh Ostovar, Ana Franco, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, María Pinilla-de Dios, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Hamid R. Shaterian1 and Rafael Luque, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018, 6, 77.
16. "Copper tridentate schiff base complex supported on sba-15 as efficient nanocatalyst for three-component reactions under solventless conditions." Elham sadat Diarjani, Fatemeh Rajabi, Asieh Yahyazadeh, Alain R. Puente-Santiago and Rafael Luque Materials, 2018, 11, 2858.
17. "Mimicking the bioelectrocatalytic function of recombinant CotA laccase via electrostatically self-assembled nanobioconjugates." David Alba-Molina, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alain R. Puente-Santiago*, Juan J. Giner-Casares, María T. Martín-Romero,a Luis Camacho, Lígia O. Martins,c Alina M. Balu, Antonio A. Romero, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Manuel Cano* and Rafael Luque. Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 1549-155.
18. "Unprecedented Wiring Efficiency of Sulfonated Graphitic Carbon Nitride Materials: Toward High-Performance Amperometric Recombinant CotA Laccase Biosensors." Alain R. Puente-Santiago*, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón , Xuebo Quan, Mario J. Muñoz Batista, Lígia O. Martins, Sanny Verma∥, Rajender S. Varma, Jian Zhou and Rafael Luque, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7, 1474-1484.
19. "Continuous Flow Synthesis of High Valuable N-Heterocycles via Catalytic Conversion of Levulinic Acid." Daily Rodriguez-Padron, Alain Rafael Puente Santiago, Alina Mariana Balu, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Rafael Luque, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019, 7, 103.
20. "Benign-by-design nature-inspired nanosystems in biofuels production and catalytic applications." Mahmoud Nasrollahzadeh, Mohaddeseh Sajjadi,a Mehdi Maham, Alain R. Puente-Santiago and Rafael Luque, Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev, Just accepted
21. "Controllable design of polypyrrole-iron oxide nanocoral architectures for supercapacitors with ultrahigh cycling stability." Chunping Xu, Alain R. Puente-Santiago¥, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alvaro Caballero, Alina M. Balu, Antonio A. Romero, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Rafael Luque* ACS Appl.Energ.Mat., 2019, 2, 2161-2168.
22. "Nature-inspired hierarchical materials for sensing and energy storage applications." Chunping Xu, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Alain R. Puente-Santiago* and Rafael Luque, Chem. Soc. Rev, Synopsis accepted.
23. "Versatile Protein-Templated TiO 2 Nanocomposite for Energy Storage and Catalytic Applications." Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Alain R. Puente-Santiago¥, Fernando Luma-Lama, Alvaro Caballero, Mario J. Muñoz-Batista, Rafael Luque, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7, 5329-5337.
24. "Solvent-Free Synthesis of 1,8-Dioxo-octahydroxanthenes using Supported Iron Oxide Nanoparticles." Fatemeh Rajabi, Mohammad Abdollahi,, Elham Sadat Diarjani, Mikhail G. Osmolowsky, Olga M. Osmolovskaya,Paulette Gómez-López, Alain R. Puente-Santiago and Rafael Luque, Materials, 2019, 12, 2386.
25. "Boosting electrochemical oxygen reduction activity of hemoglobin onto fructose@graphene-oxide nanoplatforms
Ana Franco, Manuel Cano, Juan J. Giner-Casares, E. Rodríguez-Castellón, Rafael Luque and Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4671-4674.
26. "Citrate-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles as High-Performance Electrocatalyst: The Role of the Size on the Electroreduction of Oxygen." David Alba-Molina, Alain R. Puente Santiago*, Juan J. Giner-Casares, *María T. Martín-Romero, Luis Camacho, Rafael Luque and Manuel Cano, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 15, 9807-9812.