email: joselyn.pilar@upr.edu office: Q-273 Lab: Q-112

Research Interest  Our research group aims to become architects of all things small! Professor Del Pilar’s research program focuses on to the design of synthetic strategies that allow for atomic and molecular control thereby unlocking the potential of current and new solid-state materials for energy and environmental applications. To do so, we employ a toolbox of inorganic synthetic methods and work with an array of chemical analysis techniques to elucidate composition and chemical properties. Graduates from our research group acquire skills in inorganic synthesis, solid-state characterization, and high energy X-ray source data analysis at nationwide highly ranked such as Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source facility. More recently, our group has taken an interest in self-assembly of nanocrystals to produce superlattices and study their emerging properties. This research endeavor aims to investigate fundamentally new strategies for controlled of self-assembly through physical and chemical interactions. Understanding and controlling the formation of these superstructures has implications in energy conversion and storage technologies as well as environmental remediation systems. Keywords: photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, nanocrystal synthesis, self-assembly, solid-state materials, metal oxides, mesoporous materials.   Recognitions PR Research Trust: 2022 Catalyzer Research Program Grantee Puerto Rico Science and Technology Trust, San Juan, PR, USA   NSF-PREM Postdoctoral Research Associate NSF-PREM: Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR, USA                                                          DOE- Visiting Faculty Program Grantee Ames National Lab, Ames, Iowa, USA     2015 Linton-Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute Fellow Washington, DC, USA   NSF-AGEP Postdoctoral Research Fellow Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA                                                  Education Ph.D in Chemistry The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA                                                                               Dissertation: Hydrothermal and Ambient Temperature Anchoring of Co(II) Oxygen Evolution Catalyst on Zeolitic Surfaces. Advisor: Prabir K. Dutta, Ph.D   M.Sc. in Chemistry The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA                                                                     Thesis Topic: Zeolite-supported Cobalt Catalysts for Water Oxidation in Artificial Photosynthetic Systems. Advisor: Prabir K. Dutta, Ph.D   B.Sc. in Chemistry University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico USA                                                                Research Experience: Design and Construction of Electrochemical Biosensor for the Detection of Salmonella. Advisor: Ana R. Guadalupe, Ph.D Select Publication Del Pilar Albadalejo, J.; Alonso-Sevilla, S.; Cintrón, N. I.; Feng, X.; García, Á. D.; Martínez-Torres, D. D.; Rodríguez, A. M.; Román-Montalvo, N. I.; Torres, J. I.; Yang, Y.; Peña-Duarte, A.; Singhal, R.; Debefve, L. M.; Pollock, C. J.; Cabrera, C. R.; Abruña, H. D.; Santiago-Berríos, M. B. Ex Situ and In Situ Analyses of the Mechanism of Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production by CoxZn1–XO (0 < x < 0.018) Materials in Alkaline Media. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022.   Pena-Duarte, Armando; Vijapur, Santosh; Hall, Timothy; Hayes, Kathleen; Larios, Eduardo; Del Pilar Albaladejo, Joselyn; Santiago, Mitk’El; Snyder, Stephen; Taylor, Jennings; Cabrera, Carlos. Iron Quantum Dots Electro-Assembling on Vulcan XC-72R: Hydrogen Peroxide Generation for Space Applications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Submitted. Manuscript ID am-2020-212969.   Morales Cruz, A.L., Del Pilar Albaladejo, J., Díaz Vázquez, L.M, Rivera González, U., López-Mejías, V. Remote Pandemic Teaching in Quantitative and Instrumental Chemical Analysis Courses at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 2021.   Del Pilar Albaladejo, Joselyn; Santiago, Mitk’El B.; Cabrera, Carlos R. Non-Precious Metal-Based Electrocatalytic Cathode Materials for Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells (AMFC). ECS Transactions, Volume 92, 2019.   Del Pilar-Albaladejo, J., Wang, B., Dutta, P. K. Anchoring of Cobalt Hydroxide Catalyst on Nanozeolite Crystals for Photocatalytic Water Oxidation. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2015, pp. 125-132.   Del Pilar-Albaladejo, J., Dutta, P. K.  Topotactic Transformation of Zeolite Sup- ported Cobalt (II) Hydroxide to Oxide and Comparison of Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. ACS Catalysis, 2013 4(1), pp. 9-15.