Center: ETS of Telecommunications Engineering
Department: Applied Physics and Naval Technology
Area: Applied Physics
Research group: Advanced Materials for the Production and Storage of Energy
Email: jose.abad@upct.es
Graduated in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1999. I completed my doctoral thesis “Study of the crystalline and electronic structure of the SiOx-TiO2 (110) system and its reactivity with nitric oxide” at the CSIC’s Institute of Materials Science in Madrid (2005).
During my predoctoral period I gained a lot of experience in different analysis techniques in surface science and great skill in ultra high vacuum techniques, participating in the design and construction of different experimental systems.
I have made several stays in internationally renowned research centers, such as the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin (Germany), the CEMES-CNRS Center for Materials Development and Structural Studies in Toulouse (France) and the ELETTRA Synchrotron (Trieste, Italy).
One of the main lines of research of my doctoral thesis was the growth of metals, oxides and semiconductors and how the structure of the interfaces can determine the electronic properties in the contacts between semiconductors, metals and metal oxides. In addition, I gained experience working in large facilities, such as synchrotrons.
In my post-doctorate at the University of Murcia (2006), I gained extensive experience in atomic force microscopy and related techniques, as well as in the design and construction of this type of microscope.
In particular, I have combined these microscopy techniques with ultra-high vacuum systems. The main line of research developed by me in this period was the study of optoelectronic devices based on organic materials, such as organic photovoltaic cells.
One of the main challenges presented by these devices is to understand how the nanostructure of the different layers of the devices affects the macroscopic electronic properties, investigating the correlation between the nanoscale properties and the final performance of the (macroscopic) devices.
Since November 2010 I am a researcher in the Department of Applied Physics of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), during this period I have continued with research in the field of organic electronics, the stability of devices and the application of advanced characterization tools within the research group “Advanced Materials for the Production and Storage of Energy” of the UPCT.
From 2017 to 2019 I was a member of the executive council of the Spanish Vacuum Society (ASEVA), and since July 2020 I am a member of the scientific committee of the Spanish line of synchrotron radiation SpLine at the European synchrotron radiation source (ESRF).
2019
- Transparent Conductive Polymers 193
Transparent Conductive Materials: Materials, Synthesis, Characterization, Applications (WILEY), pp. 193-244
2013
- Electrochemically generated Pt-Pt nanostructures
Program & abstracts book: VI workshop on analytical nanoscience and nanotechnology, VINyNa 2013
- Grafting dyes on graphene/gold electrodes
Program & abstracts book: VI workshop on analytical nanoscience and nanotechnology, VINyNa 2013
- pH-dependent optical properties of dye-gold nanoparticle hybrid system
Program & abstracts book: VI workshop on analytical nanoscience and nanotechnology, VINyNa 2013
current projects
- Large-scale spray-coated solar cells with nanocrystalline perovskite inks
Francisco Palazón Huet, José Abad López
- Impacts and recycling of devices for energy conversion and storage: sustainability of industrial production
Antonio Urbina Yeregui, Antonio Jesus Fernandez Romero
completed projects
2022
- Synthesis of New Electrodes based on inks of carbon nanostructures through automated printing. Application as catalyst electrodes for the reduction and/or evolution of oxygen in metal/air batteries
Antonio Jesus Fernandez Romero
- Equipment for photoelectron spectroscopy produced by X-rays and Ultraviolet (XPS-UPS) at variable temperature (4 K-800 K)
Antonio Jesus Fernandez Romero
2020
- Nano-GraPerOs_From the Laboratory to the factory. Life cycle analysis.
Antonio Urbina Yeregui, Antonio Jesus Fernandez Romero
2019
- Portable electrochromic devices for automotive sunlight attenuation
Javier Padilla Martinez
2016
- Solution Processable Nanostructured Solar Cells: Towards Improved Efficiency, Stability and Size-Life Cycle Analysis
Antonio Urbina Yeregui, Antonio Jesus Fernandez Romero
- Printed electronics production line, including recovery and recycling of gases and materials (Printronics-RR)
Antonio Urbina Yeregui
Thesis committees (5)
Court member
Nanosensors and intelligent controlled release systems based on porous nanomaterials 2021Complutense University of Madrid
Sandra Jimenez Falcao
Court member
Nanomaterials based electrochemical biosensors for food analysis 2020Complutense University of Madrid
Boryanka Petrova Borisova
Secretary of the court
Synthesis of new heteroacenic systems and study of their properties as organic semiconductors for their application in molecular electronics 2015University of Murcia
Miriam More Montoya
Court member
Advances in the properties of biocatalysts: design and production of ordered mesoporous materials as supports for the non-covalent immobilization of enzymes 2014Autonomous University of Madrid
Victoria Gascon Perez
Secretary of the court
Conductivity and relaxation in Coulomb glasses. 2010University of Murcia