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Carlos R. Cabrera is affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Materials Science, Energy, and Engineering, with significant focus on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electrochemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate involvement in topics centered around electrocatalysts and energy conversion, electrochemical analysis, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, radioactive element chemistry and processing, gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, and advanced battery technologies research.

  • Boosting the efficiency of urea synthesis via cooperative electroreduction of N2 and CO2 on MoP (2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry A)
  • Enhancing ORR Performance of Bimetallic PdAg Electrocatalysts by Designing Interactions between Pd and Ag (2020, ACS Applied Energy Materials)
  • [2,1,3]-Benzothiadiazole-Spaced Co-Porphyrin-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for O2 Reduction (2023, ACS Nano)
  • Mo2P Monolayer as a Superior Electrocatalyst for Urea Synthesis from Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide Fixation: A Computational Study (2022, Energy & environment materials)
  • Multicolor Fluorescent Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots for Sensing Cancer Cell Biomarkers (2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials)

The frequent collaborators with whom Carlos R. Cabrera has co-authored publications include Armando Peña-Duarte, Zhongfang Chen, Pedro Trinidad, Joesene Soto-Pérez, and Alexis J. Acevedo-González.

The scientist's contributions have been published chiefly in venues such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Omega, ACS Applied Energy Materials, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • ACS Omega
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

The research subjects covered by Cabrera are broad but focus especially on:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Best Publications

  • Metallic VS2 Monolayer: A Promising 2D Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Yu Jing;Yu Jing;Zhen Zhou;Carlos R. Cabrera;Zhongfang Chen

  • In Search of the Active Site in Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Chitturi Venkateswara Rao;Carlos R. Cabrera;Yasuyuki Ishikawa

  • Enhanced Li Adsorption and Diffusion on MoS2 Zigzag Nanoribbons by Edge Effects: A Computational Study.

    Yafei Li;Yafei Li;Dihua Wu;Zhen Zhou;Carlos R. Cabrera

  • Computational Screening of Efficient Single‐Atom Catalysts Based on Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g‐C3N4) for Nitrogen Electroreduction

    Zhe Chen;Jingxiang Zhao;Carlos R. Cabrera;Zhongfang Chen

  • Oxidation of methanol on platinum, ruthenium and mixed Pt–M metals (M=Ru, Sn): a theoretical study

    Yasuyuki Ishikawa;Meng-Sheng Liao;Carlos R. Cabrera

  • Graphene, inorganic graphene analogs and their composites for lithium ion batteries

    Yu Jing;Yu Jing;Zhen Zhou;Carlos R. Cabrera;Zhongfang Chen

  • Graphene-Supported Pt–Au Alloy Nanoparticles: A Highly Efficient Anode for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells

    Chitturi Venkateswara Rao;Carlos R. Cabrera;Yasuyuki Ishikawa

  • Electrocatalysis of CO2 reduction at surface modified metallic and semiconducting electrodes

    Carlos R. Cabrera;Héctor D. Abruña

  • Preparation and methanol oxidation catalysis of Pt-CeO2 electrode

    Christian L. Campos;Christian Roldán;María Aponte;Yasuyuki Ishikawa

  • Electrochemically Codeposited Platinum/Molybdenum Oxide Electrode for Catalytic Oxidation of Methanol in Acid Solution

    Hongqiang Zhang;Ying Wang;Estevão Rosim Fachini;Carlos R. Cabrera

  • Synthesis of Pt Nanoparticles in Water-in-Oil Microemulsion: Effect of HCl on Their Surface Structure.

    Roberto A Martínez-Rodríguez;Francisco J Vidal-Iglesias;José Solla-Gullón;Carlos R Cabrera

  • A Co–N4 moiety embedded into graphene as an efficient single-atom-catalyst for NO electrochemical reduction: a computational study

    Zhongxu Wang;Jingxiang Zhao;Jingyang Wang;Carlos R. Cabrera

  • Layer-by-Layer Hybrids of MoS2 and Reduced Graphene Oxide for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Yu Jing;Yu Jing;Edwin O. Ortiz-Quiles;Carlos R. Cabrera;Zhongfang Chen

  • A theoretical study of CO adsorption on Pt, Ru and Pt–M (M=Ru, Sn, Ge) clusters

    Meng-Sheng Liao;Carlos R. Cabrera;Yasuyuki Ishikawa

  • Effect of Surface Composition of Electrochemically Codeposited Platinum/Molybdenum Oxide on Methanol Oxidation

    Ying Wang;Estevão Rosim Fachini;Gabriel Cruz;Yimin Zhu

  • Energetics of H2O dissociation and COads+OHads reaction on a series of Pt–M mixed metal clusters: a relativistic density-functional study

    Yasuyuki Ishikawa;Meng-Sheng Liao;Carlos R. Cabrera

  • Syngas production from CO2 reforming of methane using Ce-doped Ni-catalysts obtained from hydrotalcites by reconstruction method

    C.E. Daza;C.R. Cabrera;S. Moreno;R. Molina

  • 3-Mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane as a Cu corrosion inhibitor in KCl solution

    R. Tremont;H. De Jesús-Cardona;J. García-Orozco;R.J. Castro

  • Direct molecular dynamics and density-functional theoretical study of the electrochemical hydrogen oxidation reaction and underpotential deposition of H on Pt(111)

    Yasuyuki Ishikawa;Juan J. Mateo;Donald A. Tryk;Carlos R. Cabrera

  • Surface composition of ordered intermetallic compounds PtBi and PtPb

    D.R. Blasini;D. Rochefort;E. Fachini;L.R. Alden

  • Sea surface temperature anomalies in the Gulf of California

    M. F. Lavín;E. Palacios Hernández;C. Cabrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongfang Chen
Zhongfang Chen University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Donald A. Tryk
Donald A. Tryk University of Yamanashi
Kai Griebenow
Kai Griebenow University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Miguel Jose-Yacaman
Miguel Jose-Yacaman The University of Texas at San Antonio
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña Cornell University
Felix A. Miranda
Felix A. Miranda Glenn Research Center
Zhen Zhou
Zhen Zhou Zhengzhou University
Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso
Sanjaya D. Senanayake
Sanjaya D. Senanayake Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kotaro Sasaki
Kotaro Sasaki Brookhaven National Laboratory

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