RESEARCH PROJECTS AND COLLABORATORS

Research projects 2000-2018

• 18) (2018) SENER- CONACYT- Energy Sustainability Project-2018-02 "Strategic alliances for energy sustainability". Bilateral Project Mexico-England B-S-69369. Title: "Innovation and development of photovoltaic cells and sub-modules with DSSC, OPVs and perovskites technologies". Participants from Mexico: Drs. Antonio-Esteban Jiménez-González (IER-UNAM), Hailin Zhao-Hu (IER-UNAM), Gerko Oskam (CINVESTAV-Mérida), José-Luis Maldonado (GPOM-CIO), Ricardo Rodríguez-Carbajal (U. de Gto) and the company SUNBIONICS . Participants from England: Drs. Piers Barnes and Jenny Nelson (Imperial College of London). Responsible Investigator (Mexico): Dr. Antonio Esteban Jiménez González. Approved total amount: ~ $ 625 000 USD
  GPOM-CIO Amount: ~ $ 75 000 USD.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado
• 17) (2018) Research Strengthening Project for the Development of Education and Society (PROFIDES) REF (511-6 / 18-11856), "Generation of Alternative Renewable Energy Sources and Obtaining Advanced Materials for the Application of Research and its Insertion in Education and Society", Participating Institutions: Optical Communication Research Institute (IICO) UASLP, BUAP.
  Amount: $ 10 000 USD
  Person in charge: Oracio Barbosa-Garcia
• 16) (2016) CONACyT (270878), 2017 (281164) and 2018 (293371): "National Laboratory of Graphene Materials (LNMG)": Amount GPOM-CIO: $ 80 000 USD, $ 45 000 USD and $ 14,000 USD, respectively.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado.
• 15) (2015) CONACyT: Strengthening and Development of Scientific and Technological Infrastructure 255855 "Renewal of a laser equipment and purchase of peripheral equipment from the spectroscopy laboratory of the Group of Optical Properties of Matter (GPOM)".
  Amount: $ 200 000 USD
  Responsible: Oracio Barbosa-García.
• 14) (2015) CONACYT; "MEXICAN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS MEETING-2015, MOPM-2015". Call U0003-2015-3 project 259862.
  Amount: $ 17 000 USD
  Responsible: Oracio Barbosa García-Garcia
• 13) (2015) CONACyT-SENER (245754) "Prediction, synthesis, elaboration and calibration of photovoltaic cells and flow batteries" through the "Energy Sustainability 2014-02" Fund. Participating institutions: FQ-UNAM, IQ-UNAM, IER-UNAM, UAM Ixtapalapa, CINVESTAV-IPN, Harvard University and CIO (through the GPOM);
  Total amount: $ 2 000 000 USD; assigned to GPOM-CIO: $ 125 000 USD.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado.
• 12) (2014) Mexican Center for Innovation in Solar Energy, CeMIE-Sol, (CONACyT-SENER) and co-responsible for the Proy. 27 "Development and manufacture of TiO2 solar cells modules sensitized with dye (DSC) and quantum dots (QDs), and organic photovoltaic (PVO)".
  GPOM-CIO Amount: $ 175 000 USD.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado.
• 11) (2011) National Project CONACyT-SENER ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY (Ref. 153094): "Design and development of efficient organic solar cells (OPVs) for the generation of clean electric power"; participating institutions: CIO, UNAM, CINVESTAV and UAM (Spain).
  Amount: $ 420 000 USD.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado.
• 10) (2009) CONACyT Infrastructure Project (Ref: 124267): "Strengthening and updating equipment of the CIO's Optical Properties Group for multidisciplinary research lines of optics with other areas such as chemistry, physics , material sciences, archeometry and linkage with means of production ".
  Amount: $ 65 000 USD.
  Responsible: Oracio Barbosa García.
• 9) (2009) Project of the "European Union-Mexico International Science and Technology Cooperation Fund" (FONCICyT: Ref. ALA-127249, Request 96190): "Creation of a new network of excellence Mexico-European Union in materials with applications industrial ".
  Amount: $ 70 000 USD.
• 8) (2007) CONACyT Project (Ref: F1 55250): "Opto-electronics of plastics: optical properties of organic materials with applications in OLEDs, photovoltaic cells, dynamic holography and optical communications"
  Amount: $ 80 000 USD.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado.
• 7) (2006) CONCyTEG Project (Ref: 06-04-k117-106): "Optical characterization of tequila and other alcoholic beverages".
  Amount: $ 15 000 USD.
  Responsible: Oracio Barbosa-García.
• 6) (2006) CONCyTEG Group Project (Ref. No .: 06-04-k117-88): "Luminescent and non-linear properties of BaTiO3".
  Amount: $ 25 000 USD.
  Responsible: Oracio Barbosa-García.
• 5) (2005) CONACyT Project (Ref: 47805-F): "Study of the stabilization of sol-gel nanoparticles for obtaining thin films and waveguide structures".
  Amount: $ 32 000 USD.
  Responsible: Marco Antonio-Meneses.
• 4) (2004-2005-2006) CONCyTEG Project (Nos. Of ref .: 04-04-K117-011-07, 05-04-K117-026-07 and 06-04-K117-149): "Transportation of charge in organic and photorefractivity ".
  Total amount: $ 14 000 USD.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado.
• 3) (2003) CONACyT Project (Ref: J40775-F): "Mobility of charge carriers in organic materials and their application to photorefractive polymers".
  Amount: $ 36 000 USD.
  Responsible: José-Luis Maldonado.
• 2) (2001) CONACyT Project (Ref No. 39039U): "Fabrication of a broadband LIDAR-DIAL system".
  Amount: $ 90 000 USD.
  Responsible: Efraín Regalado and José-Luis Maldonado.
• 1) (2000) CONACyT Group Project (Ref. No. G34629-E): "Study of microscopic processes that affect the performance of laser and non-linear materials, their optical characterization and synthesis".
  Amount: $ 190 000 USD.
  Responsible: Oracio Barbosa-García.

Additionally, GPOM group has received several economical supports from CIO for equipment and infrastructure.
Approximated total amount of projects: more than $ 2 M USD

Domestic and overseas collaborators

The researchers and institutions with whom GPOM has academic-scientific collaboration: