University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Email: miguel_castro99@hotmail.com
Interests: Synthesis and characterization of electronic materials; application of heterogeneous catalysis to drug synthesis; time-resolved mass and infrared spectroscopy; time-of-flight measurements of oriented molecules.
Publications
Ion mobility spectrometry determination of smokeless powders on surfaces. Colon, Yleana; Ramos, Carmen M.; Rosario, Santa V.; Castro, Miguel E.; Hernandez, Samuel P.; Mina, Nairmen. Center for Chemical Sensor Development for Detection of Explosives, Department of Chemistry, The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, USA. International Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry (2002), 5(3), 127-131.
The chemistry of methanol on the TiO2(110) surface: the influence of vacancies and coadsorbed species. Henderson, Michael A.; Otero-Tapia, Sary; Castro, Miguel E.. Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA. Faraday Discussions (1999), 114(Surface Science of Metal Oxides), 313-329.
Direct Abstraction of Surface-Bound Hydrogen on Ni(111) by Free Methyl Radicals. Castro, Miguel E.; Hall, Richard B.; Mims, Charles A. Corporate Research Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ, USA. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (1997), 101(41), 8048-8051.
Reactions of “Hot” Methyl Groups with Surface Hydrogen during CH3-I Bond Scission on Ni(111). Castro, Miguel E.; Chen, Jingguang G.; Hall, Richard B.; Mims, Charles A. Corporate Research Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ, USA. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (1997), 101(20), 4060-4070.