Dr Irene Suarez-Martinez

Fields of Interest

Atomistic modelling of carbon nanoforms, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, using ab-initio and semi-empirical methods.

Biography

• May 2007-October 2009: Postdoctoral position in the EU-funded STREP-project “nano2hybrids” under Dr. Chris Ewels supervision (Institute of Materials Jean-Rouxel, Nantes, France)
• October 2003-April 2007: DPhil in Theoretical Chemistry – Computational Materials under the supervision of Prof. Malcolm Heggie. “Theory of diffusion and plasticity in layered carbon materials” (University of Sussex, UK)
• June 2005: Studentship from the Institute of Physics to the Nobel Laureate Meeting at Lindau (Germany)
• October 2002-June 2003: Erasmus studentship at University of Sussex (UK)
• October 1999-June 2003: Licenciatura en CC. Quimicas at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)

Selected Publications

Selected Peer-reviewed

• I. Suarez-Martinez, C. Bittencourt, X. Ke, A. Felten, J.J. Pireaux, J. Ghijsen, W. Drube, G. Van Tendeloo, C.P. Ewels. Probing the interaction between gold nanoparticles and oxygen functionalized carbon nanotubes Carbon 47 (6) 1549-1554 (2009)
• V. Guiot, I. Suarez Martinez ,P. Wagner , J. Goss , P. Briddon, A. W. Allaf , C. P. Ewels. Structure and vibrational properties of oxyhalogenides of vanadium. Inorg. Chem. 48 (8), 3660-3666 (2009)
• A. Felten, , I. Suarez-Martinez, X. Ke , G. Van Tendeloo, J.Ghijsen, J.J. Pireaux, W. Drube, C. Bittencourt, C. P. Ewels. The interface between titanium and carbon nanotubes. ChemPhysChem. 20, 11, 1799-1804 (2009)
• I. Suarez-Martinez, M. Monthioux, and C. P. Ewels. Fullerene Interaction with Carbon Nanohorns. J.Nanosci.Nanotechnol, 9 (10) 6144-6148 (2009)
• C. Ewels, H. El Cheikh, I. Suarez-Martinez and G. Van Lier. Oxidation and reactivity of nitrogen and phosphorus doped heterofullerenes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. vol.10, 2145 (2008)
• I. Suarez-Martinez, A. A. El-Barbary, G. Savini, M.I. Heggie. First-Principles Simulations of Boron Diffusion in Graphite. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015501 (2007)
• I. Suarez-Martinez, A. Zobelli, G. Savini, M. I. Heggie. Dislocations in Carbon Nanotube Walls. J.Nanosci.Nanotechnol. 7, 3417-3420 (2007)
• J. M. Campanera, G. Savini, I. Suarez-Martinez, M. I. Heggie. Density functional calculations on the intricacies of the Moiré patterns. Phys. Rev. B 75, 235449 (2007)
• I. Suarez-Martinez, G. Savini, G. Haffenden, J.-M. Campanera and M.I. Heggie, Dislocations of Burgers vector c/2 in Graphite. Phys. Stat. Sol. (C) 4, no.8, 2958-2962 (2007)

Other selected written work

• “El matrimonion químico, ese gran desconocido” by I. Suarez-Martinez. Book “Un breve viaje por la ciencia. Ensaya’08. IV Certamen Teresa Pinillos de ensayos de divulgación científica y humanística.”. Universidad de La Rioja, Servicio de Publicaciones (2009) ISBN: 978-84-96487-46-8
• “Portrait of a Young researchers: Irene Suarez-Martinez” by I. Suarez-Martinez. Research EU Magazine n^o 60, June 2009
• “Review of NanoteC08. Happy 10th Birthday NanoteC08 “ by I. Suarez-Martinez. British Carbon Group Newsletter. Number 36. November 2008

Science videos for the public understanding

• Vlog [http://www.nano2hybrids.net] since February 2007
• Video “Small can be big – a French cheesy perspective” [http://tinyurl.com/nanocheese] by I. Suarez-Martinez and C. Ewels (produced in January 2009)
• Series of 5 short videos introducing carbon nanotubes: “Nanoseries” sponsored by WomenInNano, Vega Science Trust and nano2hybrids (produced between November 2008 and April 2009), available in English [http://tinyurl.com/nanofilms], in French [http://tinyurl.com/nanoserie-fr] and Spanish [ http://tinyurl.com/nanoserie-es]