Germán Salazar Alvarez

Our group investigates the connection between functional properties and detailed characteristics of nanomaterials (composition and compositional distribution, particle size and size distribution, shape and shape distribution. More information in our group website.

I graduated in Chemistry from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM), followed by Lic and PhD in Materials Chemistry from the Royal Institute of Technology ( KTH) and postdoc in Materials Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( UAB), the Institut Catalá de Nanotecnologia ( ICN, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain) and KTH. I became a researcher and group leader in Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University working mainly on the self-assembly and functional properties of nanoparticles, including nanocellulose. In 2019 I was appointed Senior Lecturer in Solid State Physics at UU.

Summary

The emphasis of my research is devoted to the multimodal multiple length scale characterisation of sustainable nanomaterials such as nanocellulose or iron oxides and their connection to functional properties. For this, we employ the simultaneous acquisition of small-angle scattering and diffraction of neutrons or X-rays typically under operando/in-situ conditions.

Current research projects:

SSF project "Electrolysis for hydrogen as energy carrier"

• Ann Cornell, KTH (PI)
• Lars Pettersson, SU
• Mats Johnsson, SU
• Gunnar Henriksson, KTH

RÅC project "nPDFSAS: Simultaneous polarized SANS and NPDF methods to novel electrode nanomaterials"

• Sabrina Disch (Co-PI), Uni Duisburg-Essen
• Earl Babcock, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
• Mikhail Feygenson, FZJ and ESS
• Tomás Plivelic, MAX IV
• Peter Svedlindh, UU
• Mario Valvo, UU

SwednESS project "Magnetically tunable assembly of nanoparticles into ordered arrays"

• Max Wolff, UU
• Alexei Vorobiev, UU-ILL
• Peter Svedlindh

PRISMAS project "Magnetically tunable assembly of nanoparticles into ordered arrays"

• Tomás Plivelic, MAX IV
• Tapati Sarkar, UU

Publications

A list of publications can be found at my Google scholar profile.

Current group members:

• Elizaveta Lazareva (PhD student UU)
• Athira Anil (PhD student UU)
• Seda Ulusoy (PhD members UU)
• Agnes Åhl (cosupervision at SU)
• Irina Terekhina (cosupervision at SU)

Former UU-group members:

• Priyanka Nehla (Postdoc UU 2021-2023) - currently on maternal leave.
• Olga A. Adanakova (PhD student UU 2021-2022 )
• Martin Kapuscinski (Postdoc UU 2021-2023) - currently at Coherent AB
• Hyeyun Kim (Postdoc UU 2022) - currently at KIST, South Korea

Former SU-group members:

• Under construction