Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering. Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. 1980.
• M.S. Chemical Engineering. University of Southern California. 1984.
• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering. University of Texas at Austin. 1993.
• Post-Doctorate. Membranes Group. University of Texas at Austin. 2018.

Current research

• Materials for Specialized Applications

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Membranes for improved waste Water streams treatment (CONAHCYT)
• Membranes for improved waste Water streams treatment (CONAHCYT)
• ionic membranes for energy and water treatment Applications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Jesús Ortiz-Espinoza, Enoc Cetina-Mancilla, Mikhail G Zolotukhin, F Alberto Ruiz-Treviño, José Martín Baas-López, Rita Sulub-Sulub, María Isabel Loría-Bastarrachea, Manuel J Aguilar-Vega, Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes from Poly (oxo-biphenylene-isatin) with Increasingly Bulky Fluorine Substitution: Characterization and Gas Transport Properties, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.4c03209
• R Castellanos Espinoza, MJ Huhn Ibarra, AJ Montes Luna, Manuel Aguilar‐Vega, MM Hernández Orozco, Gabriel Luna Bárcenas, LA Baldenegro Pérez, Minerva Guerra Balcázar, Beatriz Liliana España Sánchez, Combined antibacterial and antifouling properties of p olyethersulfone mixed matrix membranes with zwitterionic graphene oxide nanostructures, Polym. Eng. Sci., 2024, 64 (8), 3971-3981. https://doi.org/10.1002/pen.26825
• Horacio Lopez-Marques, Kristofer L Gleason, Manuel Aguilar-Vega, Rita Sulub-Sulub, J Ehren Eichler, Hyeonji Oh, C Buddie Mullins, Benny D Freeman, Manish Kumar, Water vapor sorption and transport in carbon molecular sieve membranes, J. Memb. Sci., 2024, 691, 122170
• Jesús Ortiz-Espinoza, María Isabel Loría-Bastarrachea, Olivia Hernández-Cruz, Carla Aguilar-Lugo, Ángel de Jesus Montes-Luna, Mikhail Zolotukhin, Francisco Alberto Ruiz-Treviño, and Manuel Aguilar-Vega, Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes from Multiring Highly Aromatic Functional Copolymers, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2024 6 (2), 1325-1335, DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.3c02344
• Luis Chel-Guerrero, David Betancur-Ancona, Manuel Aguilar-Vega, Wilbert Rodríguez-Canto, Films properties of QPM corn starch with Delonix regia seed galactomannan as an edible coating material, Int. J. Biolog. Macromol., 2024, 255, 128408, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.128408

PATENTS OR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Aguilar-Vega Manuel, Santiago-García José Luis, Loría-Bastarrachea Maria I., Alejandra Aimeé Gutiérrez-Mejía, (CICY), Yibran Argenis Perera-Mercado, Luis Alfonso Garcia-Cerda, Griselda Castruita de León, Luis Alberto Villarreal-Cárdenas, María Guadalupe Neira-Velázquez (CIQA) Joel Osvaldo Pacheco-Sotelo, Mariqueidia Joseline Pacheco-Pacheco, Ricardo Valdivia-Barrientos, José Fidel Ramos-Flores, Miguel Angel Durán-García, and Miguel Angel Hidalgo-Pérez (ININ). Method and System for Obtaining Sweet Gas, Synthetic Gas and Sulphur from Natural Gas. 9533260B2. United States. (2017).
• M.J. Aguilar-Vega, M.O. González-Díaz, M.I. Loria-Bastarrachea, M.G. Aca-Aca, E. Gómez Trejo López. Membrana Catalítica Compuesta para Producción de Biodiesel. MX/a/2019/004068. México. (2019).

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2000-2005. Academic grant. Research Professor. Centro de Investigación en Polímeros, S.A. de C.V.

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