ROMERO-MUÑIZ , Carlos

The metal-organic framework MOF-808 contains Zr₆O₈ nodes with a high density of vacancy sites, which can incorporate carboxylate-containing functional groups to tune chemical reactivity. Although the postsynthetic methods to modify the chemistry of the Zr₆O₈ nodes in MOFs are well known, tackling these alterations from a structural perspective...

Magnetocaloric materials with coexisting magnetic phases appear either due to the phase coexistence in first order phase transitions, or due to the development of composites, which are known to enhance the refrigerant capacity and produce table-like magnetocaloric effect. However, interactions between phases are rarely considered. We have...

In recent years, universal scaling has gained renewed attention in the study of magnetocaloric materials. It has been applied to a wide variety of pure elements and compounds, ranging from rare earth-based materials to transition metal alloys, from bulk crystalline samples to nanoparticles. It is therefore necessary to quantify the limits...

We studied the coherent electron transport through metal–protein–metal junctions based on a blue copper azurin, in which the copper ion was replaced by three different metal ions (Co, Ni and Zn). Our results show that neither the protein structure nor the transmission at the Fermi level change significantly upon metal replacement. The...

In recent years, the magnetocaloric effect is studied not only for the search of potential magnetic refrigerant materials but also for the analysis of critical phenomena. In both cases, the demagnetizing field might have a notable influence on the results. In this work, we carry out a systematic study, based on theoretical simulations, of the...