Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering. Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. 1986.
• M.S. Polymer Science and Technology. Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. 1989.
• Specialty. Maintenance of Industrial Facilities. Bremerhaven Hochschule (Germany). 1994.
• Ph.D. Chemical Sciences. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2002.

Current research

• Recycling and Processing of Materials: development of formulations and processes of plastic products; plastic product design; polymer processing and rheology; plastic recycling; and processing and designs of wood plastic composites (WPC) and natural fibers composites (NFC).

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Technological projects and services for entrepreneurs, industrialists and investors, in the area of recycling and processing of plastic materials.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Javier Guillén-Mallette*, Irma Flores-Cerón, Soledad Cecilia Pech-Cohuo, Edgar José López-Naranjo, Carlos Vidal Cupul-Manzano, Alex Valadez-González & Ricardo Herbé Cruz-Estrada; Effect of moisture absorption-desorption cycles, UV irradiation and coupling agent on the mechanical performance of pinewood waste/polyethylene composites. Clean Technologies and Recycling: 2023, 3(3) 193-220.
  http://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/ctr.2023013.
• Cruz-Estrada RH*, Guillén-Mallette J, López-Naranjo EJ, & Zacarías-Calderón E. Effect of teak wood on recycled HDPE/pine wood composites subjected to termite attack and accelerated weathering. Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials. Online July 19, 2023.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/08927057231190561.
• Koh-Dzul JF, Carrillo JG*, Guillen-Mallette J & Flores-Johnson E.A. Low velocity impact behaviour and mechanical properties of sandwich panels with cores made from Tetra Pak waste. Composite Structures: 2023, 304(1) 116380.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2022.116380.
• Guillén-Mallette J*, Valadez-González A, & Rosado-Sánchez SI; Recycled thermoplastic polyurethane as a coupling agent in automotive polypropylene compounds with coconut fibers; Journal of Thermoplastics Composite Materials: 2023, 36(6) 2674–2697.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/08927057221083489.
• Guillén-Mallette J*, Ríos-Soberanis CR, & Jazmín Enriquez-Reyes. Discoloration of green PET bottles recycled with chemical agents by reactive extrusion; Journal of Elastomers & Plastics: 2021, 53(8), 1090-1104.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/00952443211015358.

PATENTS AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Guillén-Mallette, J.; Rivero-Ayala, M. TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: Production of Wood Plastic with Coir Fiber for the Construction and Furniture Industry. Private and government funds. México. (2015).
• Guillén-Mallette, J.; Rivero-Ayala, M.; Arjona Arias Mónica Alejandra. TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: Innovative Process to Obtain Veneer from Pseudostems of Banana Plants. Private funds. México. (2015).
• Guillén-Mallette, J. Fuentes-Carrillo, P. PATENT: Tablero Aglomerado Aislante Termoacústico. MX 299,421. México. (2012).
• Robert-Díaz, M. L.; Guillén-Mallette, J.; Herrera-Herrera, J. L.; Mijangos-Cortés, J. O.; Herrera-Herrera, G. A.; Fuentes-Carrillo, P. y Gus-Peltinovich, L. PATENT: Sistema y método para el cultivo in vitro de plantas. MX 263,686. México. (2009).

RECOMMENDED SITES

• Material property database. HTML format.
• Materials & Suppliers. HTML format.

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. 1995.
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering. McGill University, Canada. 2003.
• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering. McGill University, Canada. 2008.
• Post-Doctorate. McGill University, Canada. 2010.

Current research

• Composites and Nanomaterials

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• CB Díaz-Arriaga, DE Pacheco-Catalán, J Uribe-Calderón. Enhanced electrochemical properties of polypyrrole upon addition of acid-treated palygorskite templates. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 266: 124551, (2021). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0254058421003345.
• Silvia Argelia Peraza-Ku, Beatriz Escobar-Morales, Nayeli Rodríguez-Fuentes, José Manuel Cervantes-Uc, Jorge Alonso Uribe-Calderón. Ceiba pentandra cellulose crosslinked with citric acid for drug release systems. Carbohydrate ResearchCarbohydrate Research, 504: 108334, (2021). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008621521001038.
• Martínez, P., Vilcarromero, D., Pozo, D., Peña, F., Manuel Cervantes-Uc, J., Uribe-Calderon, J. and Velezmoro, C. Characterization of starches obtained from several native potato varieties grown in Cusco (Peru). Journal of Food Science, 86: 907-914, (2021). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1111%2F1750-3841.15650.
• J.N. Saucedo-Zúñiga, S. Sánchez-Valdes, E. Ramírez-Vargas, L. Guillen, L.F. Ramos-deValle, A. Graciano-Verdugo, J.A. Uribe-Calderón, M. Valera-Zaragoza, T. Lozano-Ramírez, J.A. Rodríguez-González, J.J. Borjas-Ramos, J.D. Zuluaga-Parra. Controlled release of essential oils using laminar nanoclay and porous halloysite / essential oil composites in a multilayer film reservoir. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 316: 110882, (2021). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1387181121000093.
• Solís-Méndez, L.S., Baas-López, J.M., Pacheco-Catalán, D.E, Uribe-Calderon, J.A. Effect of polyaniline content on the electrochemical behavior of tin oxide/polyaniline composites by solution mixing. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron, 32: 299-312, (2021). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10854-020-04781-x#citeas.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2001. International Scholarship. CONACyT.
• 2012. Repatriation grant. CONACyT.

RECOMMENDED SITES

• Personal site. https://www.cicy.mx/sitios/investigador/dr-jorge-uribe-calderon.
• Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=sroRQAEAAAAJ&hl=es

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering. Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida. 1984.
• M.S. Chemical Engineering. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. 1988.
• Ph.D. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. 1999.

Current research

• Composites and Nanomaterials

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Luciano Miguel Galera Manzano, Miguel Ángel Ruz Cruz, Nora Magally Moo Tun, Alex Valadez González, José Herminsul Mina Hernandez. Effect of Cellulose and Cellulose Nanocrystal Contents on the Biodegradation, under Composting Conditions, of Hierarchical PLA Biocomposites. Polymers, 13,11: 1885, (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13111855.
• Juan Pablo Castañeda Niño, José Herminsul Mina Hernandez, Alex Valadez González. Potential Uses of Musaceae Wastes: Case of Application in the Development of Bio-Based Composites. Polymers, 13,11: 1844, (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13111844 .
• A Valadez-Gonzalez, R Rosales-Ibáñez, A Rodriguez-Navarrete, TE Villamar-Duque, J Cano-Brown, HJ Carrillo-Escalante, A Ortiz-Fernandez, F Hernandez-Sanchez. Tailoring surface properties of carbon nanofibers via oxidation and its influence on dental pulp stem cell viability of PCL/CNF composites. Polymer Bulletin, 78,2: 695-711, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-020-03127-1.
• N.M. Moo-Tun, G Iñiguez-Covarrubias, A. Valadez-Gonzalez. Assessing the effect of PLA, cellulose microfibers and CaCO3 on the properties of starch-based foams using a factorial design. Polymer Testing, 86: 106482, (2020). DOI:10.1016/j.polymertesting.2020.106482.
• Joaquín F Castillo-Lara, Emmanuel A Flores-Johnson, Alex Valadez-Gonzalez, Pedro J Herrera-Franco, Jose G Carrillo, PI Gonzalez-Chi, QM Li. Mechanical properties of natural fiber reinforced foamed concrete. Materials, 13,14: 3060, (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13143060.

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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