Gabriel Luna-Bárcenas

Dr. Gabriel Luna-Bárcenas was a senior researcher and professor at CINVESTAV (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute) in Queretaro, Mexico. He was also a senior researcher at the CID-DESC, an industrial R&D center. He has taught graduate-level courses in areas such as kinetics of materials, polymer science, biomaterials, chemistry of materials, advanced mathematics, and advanced thermodynamics.

As a chemical/materials science engineer, his work has focused on biotechnology and the study and development of nanomaterials for industrial and medical applications, such as biopolymers and biomaterials.

Since 2008, Gabriel Luna-Bárcenas has been delegate of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), in the Polymer Division, for the Mexico and Latin America region, and since 2015, he has been president of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Network of the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías or CONAHCYT in Spanish) in Mexico.

His research interests include the synthesis and characterization of biopolymers; nanocomposites for biomedical and environmental applications; spectroscopic characterization of materials; green solvent technologies based on deep eutectic solvents (DESs); relaxation phenomena in bionanocomposites; and R&D for industry-related projects. He has supervised more than 24 Ph.D. theses and has published more than 250 scientific papers and 2 books.

Gabriel Luna-Bárcenas joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Smart Biomaterials for the Institute of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Manufacturing and the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Materials Institute (PMI), Princeton University
• Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
• M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya
• Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya

• Luna-Barcenas, Gabriel. (2023). Electrostrictive and piezoelectrical properties of chitosan-poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) blend films. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 126251. 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126251.

• Prokhorov, E. & Luna-Barcenas, Gabriel & Yañez Limon, Jose & Muñoz-Saldaña, J.. (2023). Flexoelectricity and piezoelectric effects in poly (vinyl alcohol)-SrTiO3 nanocomposites. Materials Research Bulletin. 166. 112361. 10.1016/j.materresbull.2023.112361. 

• Cervantes Chávez, José & García-Bouchot, Gastón & García-Gutiérrez, Nataly & Castañeda, Haydé & Nava, Rufino & Luna-Barcenas, Gabriel & Elizalde, Eduardo & Esquivel-Naranjo, Edgardo & Landeros, Fidel & Rojas, Norma & Pool, Hector. (2023). Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles and Stressors Generate Synergistic Growth Inhibition in Candida Species through Cell Wall Damage, Osmotic Stress, and Oxidative Stress. Current pharmaceutical biotechnology. 24. 10.2174/1389201024666230303145653. 

• Bravo-Alfaro, Diego & Prokhorov, E. & Luna-Barcenas, Gabriel & Garcia, Hugo. (2023). Unveiling the dielectric properties of self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery systems (SNEDDS). Journal of Molecular Liquids. 374. 121304. 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121304. 

• Luna-Barcenas, Gabriel. (2011). Chitosan-Based Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications.

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