Prof. Dr. Diego Muraca |
Associate Professor at the “Gleb Wataghin” Institute of Physics (IFGW/UNICAMP), Quantum Electronic Department. Scientific productivity fellow by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil) since 2017. Correspondig Researcher (Conicet/Argentina) since 2023. Coordinator of Metal and Alloys laboratory at (DEQ/IFGW) since 2023. Leader of the Fundamental and Applied Magnetism Group (GMFA) certified by the CNPq and the Instrumentation Laboratory for Physical Education (LIEF) of the IFGW Experience in different experimental techniques such as SQUID magnetometry, VSM, synchrotron light techniques (SAXS, XAS, EXAFS, etc). Conventional materials characterization techniques DSC, TGA, XRD, DLS, ec. Experience in transmission electron microscopy, being an experienced user of electron microscopy techniques such as TEM, STEM, HAADF, EDS, ED, and Cryo-EM. More than 85 articles published in international journals (> 2000 cites, h26/Scholar). Articles published in Nature Communications (1), Nanoscale (1), NanoResearch (1), Scientific Reports (4), Nanoscale Advances (1), ACS Applied Nano Material (3), Applied Physcis Letters (1), Physical review Applied ( 2), Acta Biomaterialia (1), etc. Participation in more than 30 national and international congresses/conferences/worshops. Ad-hoc project evaluator for: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación de Uruguay (ANII), Uruguay, CNPq (Brazil), National Agency for Scientific and Technical Promotion (ANPCyT, Argentina). Member of the committee for the ad-hoc evaluation of projects in the SAXS-LNLS (2011,2012, 2017), LME/LNNano/CNPEM since 2019. Journal Reviewer: Chemistry of Materials, ACS Applied Nanoaterials, ACS Nano, M Journal of Magnetism
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Selected Publications
- Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in a Dynamic Flux: Implications for Magnetic Hyperthermia-Controlled Fluid Viscosity. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021.
- Sciatic nerve regeneration after traumatic injury using magnetic targeted adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Acta Biomaterialia, 2021. Featured article by Science journal.
- Engineering Shape Anisotropy of Fe3O4-γ-Fe2O3 Hollow Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermias. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021, 3, 4, 3148.
- Hybrid magneto-luminescent iron oxide nanocubes functionalized with europium complexes: synthesis, hemolytic properties and protein corona formation. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2021, 9, 428. Editor’s Choice: Hybrid Materials
- Highly fluorescent few atoms silver nanoclusters with strong photocatalytic activity synthesized by ultrashort light pulses. Scientific Reports. 10, 8217, 2020.
- Significant coercivity enhancement at low temperatures in magnetically oriented cobalt ferrite nanoparticles. Applied Physics Letters. 115, 263104, 2019.
- Control of Multiferroic properties in BiFeO3 nanoparticles. Scientific Reports. 9, 3182, 2019. Top 100 Scientific Reports physics papers in 2019
- Fe3O4@SiO2 Nanoparticles Concurrently Coated with Chitosan and GdOF:Ce3+,Tb3+ Luminophore for Bioimaging: Toxicity Evaluation in Zebrafish Model. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2019; 2, 6, 3414. Article selected to Journal Cover.
- In situ electron microscopy observation of the redox process in plasmonic heterogeneous-photo-sensitive nanoparticles. Nanoscale Advances. 1, 3909, 2019.
- Exploring the Synthesis condition to control the morphology of gold-iron heterostructures. NanoResearch. 12, 8, 1781, 2019. Article selected to “Introducing the new Nanoscale Advances “Photocatalysis and Photoelectrochemistry article collection” , RSC Nanoscale Advances.
- Nanoclusters of crystallographically aligned nanoparticles for magnetic thermotherapy: aqueous ferrofluid, agarose phantom and ex vivo melanoma tumour assessment. Nanoscale. 10/201, 21262, 2018.
- Different approaches to analyze the dipolar interaction effects on diluted and concentrated granular superparamagnetic systems. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials . 428:105, 2017.
- Edge phonons in black phosphorus. Nature Communications . 7, 2016.
- Effects of Nanostructure and Dipolar Interactions on Magnetohyperthermia in Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(23), 2016. Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC-2017). ACS Publications- Highlighting outstanding work from authors in Brazil in a portfolio-wide virtual issue. Area Phys-Chem, article year 2016.
- Compact Ag@Fe3O4 Core-shell Nanoparticles by Means of Single-step Thermal Decomposition Reaction. Scientific Reports . 4:6839, 2014.
- Stability and Relaxation Mechanisms of Citric Acid Coated Magnetite Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermia. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117, 10, 5436–5445, 2013.
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Professional & academic history.
- 2004 Graduate in Physics at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata · Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, · Mar del Plata, Argentina
- 2009 PhD. University of Buenos Aires,Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2009-2010 Research Assistant. National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina
- 2009-2015 Professor at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Physics Department, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
- 2011- 2014 PostDoc Position University of Campinas, Physis Institute “Gleb Wataghin” (IFGW), Campinas, Brazil.
- 2014 Research Assistant Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (BCMaterials). Spain · Bilbao, Basque Country.
- 2015-2016 PostDoc Position University of Campinas, Physis Institute “Gleb Wataghin” (IFGW), Campinas, Brazil.
- 2016-2017 Visiting Professor/Researcher Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Brazil
- 2016 Visiting Professor. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Departamento de Física, Argentina.
- 2017 Researcher Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM), Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano). Brazil