Mauricio Terrones

George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Head of the Department of Physics, Evan Pugh University Professor, Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering
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Mauricio
Terrones
George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Head of the Department of Physics, Evan Pugh University Professor, Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering
Department Affiliations
Interests
Condensed matter, Experiment
Address
Phone
(814) 863-1162
Website
The Terrones Research Group

Mailing Address:

104 Davey Lab, Box #196, University Park, Pa 16802

Education

Iberian-American University (B.S. Engineering Physics, Summa Cum Laude), 1992
University of Sussex (Ph.D., Chemical Physics), 1997

Websites

The Terrones Research Group
Publication List - Google Scholar
Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials
Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC)

Honors and Awards

  • Highly Cited Researcher since 2017. Among the top 1% most cited works according to the Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics
  • Charles E. Pettinos Award by the American Carbon Society, 2023
  • Evan Pugh University Professor. The Pennsylvania State University, 2022
  • ACS Nano Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society, 2021
  • Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2019
  • Haydn Williams Fellowship, Curtin University (Australia), 2018
  • Graffin Lecturer awarded by the American Carbon Society, 2018
  • Distinguished University Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, 2018
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2017
  • Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 2016
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2015
  • Jubilee Professorship, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), 2015
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012
  • Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (UK), 2012
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Exotic Nanocarbon Research Center, Shinshu University (Japan), 2010
  • Somiya Award for International Collaboration for work on Carbon Nanostructure Materials, 2009
  • Japan Carbon Award for Innovative Research in Doped Nanotube Synthesis and Applications, 2008
  • Scopus Prize for an outstanding performance in publishing a great number of papers in prestigious international journals and a high number of independent citations as a scientist, 2007
  • Fernando Alba Medal awarded for outstanding contributions in experimental Physics, 2007
  • TWAS Prize in Engineering Science for outstanding scientific contributions in the synthesis and characterization of doped nanotube structures, 2005
  • UNESCO-Javed Huasain Prize for Young Scientists, 2001
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1999

Complete Publication List - Google Scholar

Selected Publications

  1. Yeh, Y.-T.; Gulino, K.; Zhang, Y.; Sabestien, A.; Chou, T.-W.; Zhou, B.; Lin, Z.; Albert, I.; Lu, H.; Swaminathan, V.; Ghedin, E.; Terrones, M., A rapid and label-free platform for virus capture and identification from clinical samples. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020, 117 (2), 895-901.
  2. Y.-T. Yeh, Y. Tang, A. Sebastian, A. Dasgupta, N. Perea-Lopez, I. Albert, H. Lu, M. Terrones, S. Zheng. (2016) "Tunable and label-free virus enrichment for ultrasensitive virus detection using carbon nanotube arrays". Science Advances 2, e1601026.
  3. Y. Gong, J. Lin, X. Wang, G. Shi, S. D. Lei, Z. Lin, X. Zou, G. Ye, R. Vajtai, B. I. Yakobson, H. Terrones, M. Terrones, B. K. Tay, J. Lou, S. T. Pantelides, Z. Liu, W. Zhou, P. M. Ajayan. (2014). "Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS2/MoS2 monolayers". Nature Materials, 13 (12). 1135-1142.
  4. A. L. Elías, N. Perea-López, A. Castro-Beltrán, A. Berkdemir, R. Lv, S. Feng, A. Long, T. Hayashi, Y. A. Kim, M. Endo, H. R. Gutiérrez, N. R. Pradhan, L. Balicas, T. E. Mallouk, F. López-Urías, H. Terrones, M. Terrones (2013). “Controlled Synthesis and Transfer of Large Area WS2 Sheets: From Single-Layer to Few-Layers”. ACS Nano, 7, 5235-5242.
  5. H. R. Gutiérrez, N. Perea-López, A. L. Elías, A. Berkdemir, B. Wang, R. Lv, F. López-Urías, V. H. Crespi, H. Terrones, M. Terrones (2013). “Extraordinary Room-Temperature Photoluminescence in Triangular WS2 Monolayers”. Nano Letters 13, 3447-3454.
  6. A. Berkdemir, H. R. Gutiérrez, A. R. Botello-Méndez, N. Perea-López, A. L. Elías, C.-I. Chia, B. Wang, V. H. Crespi, F. López-Urías, J.-C. Charlier, H. Terrones, M. Terrones (2013). “Identification of individual and few layers of WS2 using Raman Spectroscopy”. Nature Scientific Reports 3, 1755.
  7. R. Lv, G. Chen, Q. Li, A. McCreary, A. Botello-Mendez, S. V. Morozov, L. Liang, X. Declerck, N. Perea-Lopez, D. A. Cullen, S. Feng, A. L. Elias, R. Cruz-Silva, K. Fujisawa, M. Endo, F. Kang, J. C. Charlier, V. Meunier, M. Pan, A. R. Harutyunyan, K. S. Novoselov, M. Terrones. (2015). "Ultrasensitive gas detection of large-area boron-doped graphene". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A (PNAS) 112, 14527-14532.
  8. Lv, R., Li, Q., Botello-Méndez, A.R., Hayashi, T., Wang, B., Berkdemir, A., Hao, Q., Elías, A.L., Cruz-Silva, R., Gutiérrez,H.R., Kim, Y.A., Muramatsu, H., Zhu, J., Endo, M., Terrones, H., Charlier, J.-C., Pan, M., Terrones, M. (2012). "Nitrogen-doped graphene: beyond single substitution and enhanced molecular sensing" Scientific Reports 2, 586.
  9. Lehman, J.H., Terrones, M., Mansfield, E., Hurst, K.E., Meunier, V. (2011). “Evaluating the characteristics of multiwall carbon nanotubes”. Carbon 49, 2581-2602.
  10. Endo, Y.A., Muramatsu, H., Kim, Y.A., Hayashi, T., Terrones, M., Dresselhaus, M. (2005) “’Buckypaper of Coaxial Nanotubes”. Nature 433, 476.
  11. Terrones, M. (2003) “Science and Technology of the XXI Century: Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes”. Annual Reviews of Materials Research 33, 419-501.
  12. Terrones, M., Banhart, H., Grobert, N., Charlier, J.C., Ajayan, P.M. (2002) “Molecular Junctions by joining Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes”. Physical Review Letters 89, 075505-1-075505-4.
  13. Seifert, G., Terrones, H., Terrones, M., Jungnickel, G., Frauenheim, T. (2000). “Structure and electronic properties of MoS2 nanotubes”, Physical Review Letters 85, 146.
  14. Terrones, M., Terrones, H., Charlier, J.C., Banhart, F., Ajayan, P.M. (2000). “Coalescence of Single walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Science 288, 1226-1229.
  15. Terrones, M., Grobert, N., Olivares, J., Zhang, J. P., Terrones, H., Kordatos, K., Hsu, W. K., Hare, J. P., Kroto, H. W., Prassides, K., Cheetham, A. K., Townsend, P. D., Walton, D. R. M. (1997): “Controlled Production of aligned-nanotube bundles“. Nature 388, 52-55.

Research Interests

  1. Synthesis and Theory of Carbon nanotube 3-Dimensional networks
  2. Synthesis and Theory of Graphene, Doped Graphene and 2D Materials
  3. Characterization and in-situ studies of Nanoscale Materials: 1D & 2D Materials
  4. Fabrication of Nanoscale Opto-electronic devices
  5. Defects Engineering of Nanoscale Materials: 1D & 2D Materials
  6. Bio-applications and Biocompatibility of Nanoscale Materials: 1D & 2D Materials
  7. Applications: Molecular Sensors, Photo-detectors, Multifunctional coatings, Virus detection/isolation, Batteries, etc.

Publication List