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Established Researches and International Acknowledgment

Date: (27/11/2009)

Facultad de Ingeniería Civil

The creation of Department for Eco-materials and Energy has allowed Dra. Leticia Myriam Torres Guerra to expand and multiply her researches. Second of three parts.

Department of Eco-materials and Energy Research Team - UANL, Institute of Civil Engineering. (2008).

It comes from: Development of Nanomaterials for Purifying Water and Producing Hydrogen.

Since 2005 to nowadays, Dra. Leticia Myriam Torres Guerra is Department for Eco-materials and Energy Head, which was established by her in the UANL School of Civil Engineering Institute of Civil Engineering.

This department is focused on research and functional advanced materials development that can help to improve the environment by generating processes and clean technologies.

Her main study areas are synthesis and multifunctional materials characterization; the development of semiconductor materials for its use in environmental photocatalysis (water, ground and H2 generation’s remediation) and solids’ catalytic properties.

The department was created with the objective of looking for the necessities of enterprises located in North Mexico, mainly those which are focused on inorganic materials’ production –such as cement, ceramics, ovenproofs, glass, etc.- that are created under high temperatures. The objective is join forces through University-Enterprise synergy for solving problems of industrial processes related to environment.

Dra. Torres Guerra is leader and founder of ‘Development of Environmental Materials’ Group of Research Academicians in the UANL School of Civil Engineering, which has been recognized by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP, Spanish abbreviation) as ‘CA’ ‘Established.’

The objective is providing services and development of multidisciplinary technological and innovating projects which contribute to improve the environment and create processes and clean technologies, wealth, jobs and new knowledge for: remediating ground, water and air, contributing to new products development and transformation industry processes, mainly in materials area and creating renewable sources of clean energy.

Dra. Torres leads professors and researchers team of this department, which are composed by ‘Development of Environmental Materials’ group of research academicians -which is already established- and is composed by six doctors (who are guaranteed by the National System of Researchers) and a who got a Master of Sciences, they are specialists in the priority researching areas.

Among the Group of Research Academicians’ competitions are: the Synthesis and characterization of multifunctional materials, the development of high technology in functional materials such as catalytic converter and environmental photo catalytic converters and alternate clean energy generator.

Likewise, the use of new nanomaterials in water conversion reaction for creating hydrogen as an alternate source of energy and alternate raw materials in industrial processes of high temperature: cements, ceramics, glass, ovenproofs, etc.

It is necessary to carry out an optimum control of its microstructure and/or the combination of different ‘types’ of materials for developing new materials. These new materials require an intense development of analysis methods from atomic, nanometric and microscopic levels, which allow macroscopic properties to establish relations.

“Our Group of Research Academicians got this type of competitions and other ones. Taking these bases as a model, we have developed multiple scientific and technological projects funded by regional industries such as the National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT, Spanish abbreviation), UANL and the Ministry of Public Education (SEP, Spanish abbreviation) and other organizations.”

The third and last part of this article is described below: Contributions and Thematic Networks.