Perla Balbuena

Professor
Holder of the GPSA Professorship

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Telephone: (979) 845-3375
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: balbuena@tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
240 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building
3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1996
M.S.E., University of Pennsylvania, 1983
B.S., Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina, 1973

Awards & Honors

NSF/POWRE award, 1997
NSF/CAREER award, 1999
GPSA Professorship, 2005

Research Interests

Dr. Balbuena’s research focuses on the prediction of physical and chemical properties of materials using atomic-level simulations. She has contributed to an improved design of power sources such as lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells, and to the development of new materials for catalytic processes.

Selected Publications

130. Diego A. Gómez-Gualdrón and Perla B. Balbuena, “Growth of chiral single-walled carbon nanotubes in the presence of a cobalt cluster,” Nanotechnology, 20, 215601, (2009), http://stacks.iop.org/0957-4484/20/215601

129. Gustavo Ramirez-Caballero and Perla B. Balbuena, “Effect of confinement on oxygen adsorbed between Pt(111) surfaces,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 7851-7856, (2009) http://pubs.acs.org/articlesonrequest/AOR-nvAjyNFRQWMEYrQFbbKS

128. L. G. Scanlon, W. A. Feld, P. B. Balbuena, G. Sandi, X. Duan, K. A. Underwood, N. Hunter, J. Mack, M. A. Rottmayer, and M. Tsao, “Hydrogen storage based on physisorption,” J. Phys. Chem. B.,113, 4708-4717, (2009).

127. Pussana Hirunsit and Perla B. Balbuena, “Surface atomic distribution and water adsorption on PtCo alloys,” Surf. Sci., 603, 911-919, (2009).

126. Yuguang Ma and Perla B. Balbuena, “Surface segregation in bimetallic Pt3M (M=Fe, Co, Ni) alloys with adsorbed oxygen,” Surf. Sci., 603, 349-353, (2009).



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