Publications

A fully up-to-date list of the group’s publications can be found on Nacho’s Google Scholar profile.

2025

• Safe and sustainable by design of next generation chemicals and materials: SSbD4CheM project innovations in the textiles, cosmetic and automotive sectors, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2025), 29, 60 – 71.
• Recent Advances and Applications of Flexible Phase Change Composites, EcoMat (2025), 7, 4.
• Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: sources, transport, fate, mitigation, and remediation strategies, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (2025).

2024

• Tunable Assembly of Photocatalytic Colloidal Coatings for Antibacterial Applications, ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2024), 6, 17, 10298 – 10310.
• Understanding associative polymer self-assembly with shrinking gate fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Nanoscale (2024), 16, 26, 12660 – 12669.  

2023

• One Step Closer to Coatings Applications Utilizing Self-Stratification: Effect of Rheology Modifiers, ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2023), 5, 8, 6672 – 6684.  
• Temperature-Responsive Lactic Acid-Based Nanoparticles by RAFT-Mediated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly in Water, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (2023), 11, 27, 9979 – 9988.  

2022

• Horizons Community Board collection: antimicrobial materials and surfaces, Materials Horizons (2022), 9, 6, 1564 – 1565.
• Effect of Particle Interactions on the Assembly of Drying Colloidal Mixtures, Langmuir (2022), 38, 18, 5361 – 5371.

2021

• Influence of reprocessing cycles on mechanical and antibacterial performances of hygienic in situ compatibilized PBS/PLA blends doped with HPQM, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (2021), 23, 5, 1893 – 1904.  
• Improvement of mechanical-antibacterial performances of AR/PMMA with TiO2 and HPQM treated by N-2(aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyl trimethoxysilane, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites (2021), 40, 13-14, 477 – 489.  
• Evaporation-driven self-assembly of binary and ternary colloidal polymer nanocomposites for abrasion resistant applications, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2021), 581, 729 – 740.  
• Gold/ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene nanocomposites for electrical energy storage: Enhanced recovery efficiency upon uniaxial deformation, Journal of Applied Polymer Science (2021), 138, 42.  
• Dynamical Density Functional Theory for the Drying and Stratification of Binary Colloidal Dispersions, Langmuir (2021), 37, 4, 1399 – 1409.
• Chain Dynamics of Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene Composites with Graphene Oxide Nanosheets, ACS Macro Letters (2021), 10, 4, 460 – 465.  

2020

• Zinc Oxide Superstructures in Colloidal Polymer Nanocomposite Films: Enhanced Antibacterial Activity through Slow Drying, ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2020), 2, 2, 626 – 635.  
• Nanocomposites of Au/disentangled UHMWPE: A combined optical and structural study, Molecules (2020), 25, 14.
• Colloidal assembly of polydisperse particle blends during drying, Soft Matter (2020), 16, 36, 8453 – 8461.

2019

• In Situ Monitoring of Latex Film Formation by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering: Evolving Distributions of Hydrophilic Stabilizers in Drying Colloidal Films, Langmuir (2019), 35, 10, 3822 – 3831.  
• Ballistic thermal phonons traversing nanocrystalline domains in oriented polyethylene, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2019), 116, 35, 17163 – 17168.  
• Competition between Crystallization and Coalescence during the Film Formation of Poly(Chloroprene) Latex and Effects on Mechanical Properties, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (2019), 58, 46, 21031 – 21043.  

2018

• Design of Waterborne Nanoceria/Polymer Nanocomposite UV-Absorbing Coatings: Pickering versus Blended Particles, ACS Applied Nano Materials (2018), 1, 8, 3956 – 3968.  
• Enhanced Water Barrier Properties of Surfactant-Free Polymer Films Obtained by MacroRAFT-Mediated Emulsion Polymerization, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2018), 10, 13, 11221 – 11232.  
• Entanglement dynamics in ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene as revealed by dielectric spectroscopy, Polymer (2018), 150, 35 – 43.  

2017

• High-performance water-based barrier coatings for the corrosion protection of structural steel, Steel Construction (2017), 10, 3, 254 – 259.
• Hydrophilic MacroRAFT-Mediated Emulsion Polymerization: Synthesis of Latexes for Cross-Linked and Surfactant-Free Films, Macromolecules (2017), 50, 23, 9315 – 9328.  

2016

• Dynamic Stratification in Drying Films of Colloidal Mixtures, Physical Review Letters (2016), 116, 11.
• PH-Switchable Stratification of Colloidal Coatings: Surfaces “on Demand”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2016), 8, 50, 34755 – 34761.
• Erratum: Dynamic Stratification in Drying Films of Colloidal Mixtures (Physical Review Letters (2016) 116 (118301) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.118301), Physical Review Letters (2016), 116, 22.
• Erratum: Dynamic Stratification in Drying Films of Colloidal Mixtures (Physical Review Letters (2016) 116 (118301)), Physical Review Letters (2016), 116, 22.

2015

• Mapping the structural order of laser-induced periodic surface structures in thin polymer films by microfocus beam grazing incidence small-angle x-ray scattering, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2015), 7, 5, 3162 – 3169.  
• In situ monitoring of laser-induced periodic surface structures formation on polymer films by grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering, Langmuir (2015), 31, 13, 3973 – 3981.  

2014

• On the assessment by grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering of replica quality in polymer gratings fabricated by nanoimprint lithography, Journal of Applied Crystallography (2014), 47, 2, 613 – 618.  
• Micro- and submicrostructuring thin polymer films with two and three-beam single pulse laser interference lithography, Langmuir (2014), 30, 29, 8973 – 8979.  
• Relaxation dynamics and cold crystallization of poly(pentamethylene terephthalate) as revealed by dielectric spectroscopy, Polymer (2014), 55, 6, 1552 – 1559.  

2013

• Crystallization under one-dimensional confinement in alumina nanopores of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) and its composites with single wall carbon nanotubes, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2013), 5, 11, 5324 – 5329.  
• Nanostructuring thin polymer films with optical near fields, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2013), 5, 21, 11402 – 11408.
• Dielectric relaxation of poly (trimethylene terephthalate) in a broad range of crystallinity, Polymer (2013), 54, 21, 5892 – 5898.
• Assessment of femtosecond laser induced periodic surface structures on polymer films, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2013), 15, 27, 11287 – 11298.  
• Understanding crystallization features of P(VDF-TrFE) copolymers under confinement to optimize ferroelectricity in nanostructures, Nanoscale (2013), 5, 13, 6006 – 6012.  

2012

• Magnetic nanocomposites based on hydrogenated epoxy resin, Materials Chemistry and Physics (2012), 132, 2-3, 618 – 624.
• Laser-induced periodic surface structures nanofabricated on poly(trimethylene terephthalate) spin-coated films, Langmuir (2012), 28, 20, 7938 – 7945.  
• Gold coatings on polymer laser induced periodic surface structures: Assessment as substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2012), 14, 45, 15699 – 15705.  
• Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering of soft and hard nanofabricated gratings, Journal of Applied Crystallography (2012), 45, 5, 1038 – 1045.  

2011

• Assessment and formation mechanism of laser-induced periodic surface structures on polymer spin-coated films in real and reciprocal space, Langmuir (2011), 27, 9, 5596 – 5606.