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Dr. Gloria Cárdenas

E-mail: 
gloria.cardenas@usach.cl

 

 

Molecular junction system composed of Au(111)-Dyad 6-Au(111). Both electrodes (yellow balls) extend to infinity in the transport direction z. Electronic absorption spectra of the D1-D6 dyads calculated at the 6-311G(d,p) level of theory in the solution phase (CH2Cl2).

Biography: 

Teacher of Chemistry from the UMCE, Master in Chemical Sciences and PhD. in Sciences Mention in Chemistry, both from the Universidad de Chile, and Post-Doctoral in Theoretical Chemistry from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Projects: 
  • 2021 Project DICYT Postdoctorate USACH-CHILE, Theoretical characterization of advanced oxidation processes. oxidation mechanism of textile dyes and properties of modified catalysts based on titanium dioxide. Position: Responsible Researcher, PostDoc Researcher: Dr. Ricardo Pino-Rios.

  • 2021-2023 Project FONDECYT Postdoctorate ANID-CHILE, Theoretical-computational design of molecular spintronic devices, based on metalated porphyrins and phthalocyanines. Responsible Researcher: Dr. Nicolas Montenegro Pohlhammer. Position: Sponsoring Researcher.

  • 2020-2023 Project ECOS/ANID 2019 C19E03, Development of Near-Infrared Light Collectors based on Phthalocyanine for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Solar Driven Hydrogen Production. Chilean Responsible Researcher: Dr. Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, French Responsible Researcher: Dr. Fabrice Odobel.

  • 2020 Project DICYT Postdoctorate N° 022041CJ, USACH-CHILE, Design of Dyes based in Expanded Porphyrins with Potential Applications in Solar Cells DSSC. Position: Responsible Researcher, PostDoc Researcher: Dr. Merlys Borges Martinez.

  • 2019-2021 Project FONDECYT Regular N° 1191561, CONICYT-CHILE, Hydrogenolysis and Catalytic Oxidation of Organosolv Lignin in Acidic Ionic Liquids: Selective Production of Aromatic Chemicals of Industrial Interest. Responsible Researcher: Dr. Mauricio Yañez. Co-Responsible Researcher: Dr. Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón.

  • 2019 Project USA1799 VRIDEI 021941GC_GO Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Theoretical Study of the Electron Transfer Process in Assemblies of Porphyrin-Chromophore-TiO2 as Potential System for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC). Position: Responsible Researcher, PostDoc Researcher: Dr. Merlys Borges Martinez.

  • 2019 Project DICYT Postdoctorate N° 021941CJ, USACH-CHILE, Quantum Chemical Study of Spintronics and Molecular Electronics Applied to Expanded Porphyrins and Metalled Phthalocyanines. Position: Responsible Researcher, PostDoc Researcher: Dr. Nicolás Montenegro Pohlhammer.

  • 2019 Project DICYT Postdoctorate N° 021941CJ, USACH-CHILE, Theoretical Study of the Perovskite-TiO2 Junction Stability in APbX3 Perovskite Crystals with MA+, FA+ and AVA+ (A) Anions and Cl-, Br- and I- (X) Halides. Position: Responsible Researcher, PostDoc Researcher: Dr. Rodrigo Urzúa Leiva.

  • 2018 Project  Fortalecimiento  N° USA1799_CG241216, USACH-CHILE, Theoretical Modelling of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells based in Porphyrin/Expanded Porphyrin and Titanium Dioxide. Position: Responsible Researcher, Research Assistant : Dr. Rodrigo Urzúa Leiva

  • 2018 Project DICYT Postdoctorate N° 021841CJ, USACH-CHILE, Theoretical Study of the Magnetic and Electron Transport Properties in Porphyrins and Metal Phthalocyanines with Potential Applications in Spintronics and Molecular Electronics. Position: Responsible Researcher, PostDoc Researcher: Dr. Nicolás Montenegro Pohlhammer.

  • 2018-2020 Project FONDECYT Postdoctorate N° 3180119, CONICYT-CHILE, Computational Rational Design of Expanded Porphyrins as Potential Light Collectors for Application in Dyes Sensitized Solar Cells Supported on Titanium Oxide (TiO2). Responsible Researcher: Dr. Ricardo Pino Ríos. Position: Sponsoring Researcher

  • 2017-2020 Project FONDECYT Regular N° 1171719, CONICYT-CHILE, Visible Light Photosensitizers based in Porphyrins and Expanded Derivatives for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Consisting of Titanium Dioxide, Graphene and Fullerene as Semiconductors. Position: Responsible Researcher

  • 2016-2018  Project of Insertion of Advanced Human Capital in the Academy Nº 79150043, CONICYT-CHILE, Surface Chemistry based in Titanium Dioxide and Metal Carbides with Applications in Solar Cells and Heterogeneous Catalysis. Position: Responsible Researcher. Insertion Researcher: Dr. Raúl Mera Adasme 

  • 2013-2016 Project FONDECYT Regular N° 1131002, CONICYT-CHILE, Theoretical Assessment of the Photosensitization of Porphyrins Anchored on Titanium Dioxide and Organic Supports. Position: Responsible Researcher

  • 2011-2013  Project of Insertion of Advanced Human Capital in the Academy Nº 79100010, CONICYT-CHILE, Strengthening the areas of organic chemistry and polymers in teaching and research. Position: Responsible Researcher. Insertion Researchers: Dra. Paula Zapata Ramirez, Dr. Mauricio Yañez Sánchez

  • 2009-2012 Project FONDECYT Regular Nº 1090700 CONICYT-CHILE, Theoretical Study of the Porphyrin Binding Nature in Supramolecular Assemblies.Position: Responsible Researcher

Latest Publications: 

97.- "A Photo-Induced Spin Crossover based Molecular Switch and Spin Filter Operating at Room Temperature", Nicolas Montenegro-Pohlhammer, Rocio Sanchez-de-Armas, Carmen J. Calzado, Merlys Borges-Martinez, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Dalton Transactions, (2021), accepted. DOI: 10.1039/D1DT00078K

96.- "The Bimetallic and the Anchoring Group Effects on both the Optical and Charge Transport Properties of Hexaphyrin Amethyrin", Merlys Borges-Martinez, Nicolas Montenegro-Pohlhammer, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, New Journal of Chemistry, 45 (2021), 6521-6534. DOI: 10.1039/D1NJ00091H

95.- "Assessment of New Expanded Phorpholactones as UV/VIS/NIR chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells applications", Ricardo Pino-Rios, Nicolas Montenegro-Pohlhammer, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Journal  of Physical Chemistry A, 125 (2021), 2267-2275. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c11188

94.- "Insight into effects of the anchoring groups on the photovoltaic performance of unsymmetrical phthalocyanine based dye-sensitized solar cells", Gülenay Tunç, Michael Zambrano-Angulo, Barış Seçkin Arslan, Emre Güzel, Mehmet Nebioğlu, Vefa Ahsen, İlkay Şişman, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Ayşe Gül Gürek, Dalton Transactions, 50 (2021) 2981-2996. DOI:10.1039/D0DT03696J

93.- “Local and Macrocyclic (Anti)Aromaticity of Porphyrinoids Revealed by the Topology of the Induced Magnetic Field",  Ricardo Pino-Rios, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, William Tiznado, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22 (2020) 21267-21274. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP03272G.

92.- “Effects of the methylammonium ion substitutions by 5-ammoniumvaleric acid in lead trihalide perovskite solar cell: A combined experimental and theoretical investigation", Rodrigo Urzúa-Leiva, Amir Narymany Shandy, Haibing Xie, Mónica Lira-Cantú, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, New Journal of Chemistry  44 (2020) 14642-14649. DOI: 10.1039/D0NJ02748K.

91.- “Influence of cyano substituents on the electron density and catalytic activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction for iron phthalocyanine. The case for Fe(II) 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octa(cyano)phthalocyanine”, Joseph Govan, Gabriel Abarca, Carolina Aliaga, Byran Sanhueza, Walter Orellana, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, José H. Zagal, Federico Tasca, Electrochemistry Communications 118 (2020), 106784. DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2020.106784.

90.- "Zn(II)-Porphyrin-Squaraine Dyads as Potential Components for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Quantum Chemical Study of Optical and Charge Transport Properties", Merlys Borges-Martinez,  Nicolas Montenegro-Pohlhammer,  Yoh Yamamoto, Tunna Baruah,  Gloria Cárdenas-Jiron,  Journal of Physical Chemistry C  124 (2020), 12968-12981.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02865.

89.- "The Boron Nitride (B116N124) Fullerene: Stability and Electronic Properties from DFT Simulations", Alejandro Rodriguez Juarez, Filiberto Ortiz Chi, Ricardo Pino Rios, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Martin Salazar Villanueva, Ernesto Chigo Anota,  Chemical Physics Letters 741 (2020), 137097-137104. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2020.137097.

88.- "B12N12 Cluster as a Collector of Noble Gases: A Quantum Chemical Study", Ricardo Pino-Rios, Ernesto Chigo-Anota, Ehsan Shakerzadeh, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 115 (2020) 113697 (1-6). DOI: 10.1016/physe.2019.113697

87.- "Orbital Weighted Dual Descriptor for the Study of Local Reactivity of Systems with Quasi-Degenerate States", Ricardo Pino-Rios, Diego Inostroza,  Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón,  William Tiznado, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 123 (2019) 10556-10562. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b07516

86.- "Elucidating the Electronic Structure and Magnetic and Conducting Properties of μ-oxo Mn-phthalocyanine [MnPc(CN)]2O Complex", Nicolas Montenegro-Pohlhammer,  Rocío Sánchez-de-Armas,  Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón,  Carmen J Calzado, Journal of Physical Chemistry C , 123 (2019) 28359-28369. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08046

85.-"Effect of the Meso/Beta Halogenation in the Photoelectronic Properties and Aromaticity of Expanded Porphyrins", Ricardo Pino-Rios, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 385 (2019) 112052-112057. DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.112052

84.- "Effect of New Asymmetrical Zn(II) Phthalocyanines on the Photovoltaic Performances of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell", Gülenay Tunç,  Emre Güzel,  İlkay Şişman,  Vefa Ahsen, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Ayse Gul Gurek, New Journal of Chemistry, 43 (2019) 14390-14401. DOI: 10.1039/c9nj02585e.

83.- "Assessment of BODIPY-Oxasmaragdyrin Dyads for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Aromaticity, Photosensitization Capability and Charge Transport", Merlys Borges-Martínez, Daniel Alvarez, Nicolas Montenegro-Pohlhammer, María Isabel Menéndez, Ramón López, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123 (2019) 19362-19375. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b05136.

82.- "Spin-Filter Transport and Magnetics Properties in Binuclear Cu(II) Expanded Porphyrin Based Molecular Junction", Nicolas Montenegro-Pohlhammer, Rodrigo Urzúa-Leiva, Dayán Páez-Hernández, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Dalton Transactions, 48 (2019) 8418-8426. DOI: 10.1039/C9DT01312A

81.- "Stability, Electronic and Optical Properties of the Boron Nitride Cage (B47N53) from Quantum Mechanical Calculations", A. Rodriguez Juarez, F. Ortiz-Chi, M. Borges-Martinez, G. Cárdenas-Jirón, M. Salazar Villanueva, E. Chigo Anota, Physica E: Low-dimensional  Systems and Nanostructures, 111 (2019) 118-126.

80.- "Interpreting Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity through Bifurcation Analysis of the Induced Magnetic Field", Ricardo Pino-Rios, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Lina Ruiz, William Tiznado, Chemistry Open, 8 (2019) 321-326.

79.- "The Influence of Antenna and Anchoring Moieties on the Improvement of Photoelectronic Properties in Zn(II)-Porphyrin-TiO2 and Potential Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”, Rodrigo Urzúa-Leiva, Ricardo Pino-Rios, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón,  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21 (2019) 4339-4348.

78.- "Quantum Chemical Studies of Porphyrin- and Expanded Porphyrin-based Systems and Their Potential Applications on Nanoscience. Latin American Research Review”, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Merlys Borges-Martínez, Raúl Mera-Adasme, Ricardo Pino-Ríos,  International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 119 (2019) e25821-25835. DOI:10.1002/qua.25821.

77.- "Theoretical Rationalisation of the Photophysics of TICT Excited State of Cinnamoyl-Coumarin Derivatives in Homogeneous and Biological Membrane Models”, Daniel Zúñiga-Núñez, Ricardo A. Zamora, Pablo Barrías,  Cristian Andrés Tirapegui, Horacio Poblete,  Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Emilio Alarcón, Alexis Aspée,  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20 (2018) 27621-27629.

​76.- “Atypical antioxidant activity of non-phenolic amino-coumarins”, Daniel Zúñiga-Núñez, Pablo Barrías, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, M. Soledad Ureta-Zañartu, Camilo Lopez-Alarcón, F. Eduardo Morán Vieyra, Claudio D. Borsarelli, Emilio I. Alarcón, Alexis Aspée, RSC Advances, 8 (2018) 1927-1933.

75.- “Theoretical Assessment of TD-DFT Applied to Ferrocene-based Complex”, Mauricio Yáñez-S, Sergio A. Moya, Cesar Zúñiga, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1118 (2017) 65-74.

74.- “Covalent Functionalization of Octagraphene with Magnetic Octahedral B6 – and Non-planar C6−Clusters”, Ernesto Chigo-Anota, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, M. Salazar Villanueva, A. Bautista Hernández, M. Castro, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 94 (2017) 196-203.

73.- “Reaction Kinetics of Phenolic Antioxidants Towards Photo-Induced Pyranine Free Radicals in Biological Models”, Alexis Aspée, Christian Aliaga, Luca Maretti, Daniel Zúñiga, Jessica Godoy, Eduardo Pino, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Camilo Lopez-Alarcon, Juan C. Scaiano, Emilio Alarcon, Journal of Physical Chemistry B,  121 (2017) 6331-6340.

72.- “Insights on the Reactivity of Terminal Phosphanido Metal Complexes toward Activated Alkynes from Theoretical Computations”, Daniel Álvarez, Raúl Mera-Adasme, Lucía Riera, Gloria I. Cárdenas-Jirón, Julio Pérez, Jesús Díaz, María I. Menéndez, Ramón López, Inorganic Chemistry,  56 (2017) 6652-6661.

71.- “Excited States of Light-Harvesting Systems Based on Fullerene/Graphene Oxide and Porphyrin/Smaragdyrin”, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Merlys Borges-Martínez, Ember Sikorski, Tunna Baruah, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121 (2017) 4859-4872.

70.- “Mechanistic Study of a Ruthenium Hydride Complex of type [RuH(CO)(N-N)(PR3)2]+ as Catalyst Precursor for the Hydroformylation Reaction of 1-hexene”, Sergio A. Moya, Mauricio Yañez-S, Catalina Pérez, Rosa López, César Zuñiga, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Journal of Chilean Chemical Society, 61 (2016) 3014-3019.

69.- “Tautomerization Mechanism and Spectral Properties of  Porphyrin-Glucose Complexes as Models of Antibacterial Material”, M. Isabel Menéndez, Ramón López, Mauricio Yañez, Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 135 (2016) 1-15.

68.- "Doping Effects in the Charge Transport of Graphene-Porphyrins", Gloria I. Cárdenas-Jirón, Yanara Figueroa, Narendra Kumar, Jorge M. Seminario,  Journal of Physical Chemistry C , 120 (2016) 2013-2016.