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Mauricio Terrones obtained his B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics with first class honours at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico). In 1997 he obtained his PhD. with Sir Prof. Harold W. Kroto (Nobel Laureate, FRS) from University of Sussex (UK). He has co-authored more than 280 publications in leading journals, and holds > 11,000 citations to his work (H-index=56). Aged 42, his research now concentrates on the theory, synthesis and characterization of novel nanocarbon materials, including graphene, nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons.

2011- Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State Univesity, USA.
2010- Distinguished Professor, Exotic Nanocarbon Research Center, Shinshu University, Japan.
2010 Professor with a “Chair of Excellence”, Department of Materials Science, Universidad Carlos III, Spain.
2001-2009 Full Professor, Department of Advanced Materials, IPICYT (Potosi Institute of Science and Technology, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.)
2004 Visiting Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve & Université de Namur, Belgium.
1999-2000 Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Electron Microscopy.
1999 Associate Research Fellow, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London.
1998-1999 Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.
1997-1998 Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.
2011- Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State Univesity, USA.
2010- Distinguished Professor, Exotic Nanocarbon Research Center, Shinshu University, Japan.
2010 Professor with a “Chair of Excellence”, Department of Materials Science, Universidad Carlos III, Spain.
2001-2009 Full Professor, Department of Advanced Materials, IPICYT (Potosi Institute of Science and Technology, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.)
2004 Visiting Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve & Université de Namur, Belgium.
1999-2000 Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Electron Microscopy.
1999 Associate Research Fellow, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London.
1998-1999 Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.
1997-1998 Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

The Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1999).
The Mexican National Prize for Chemistry (2000).
The Javed Husain Prize and the Albert Einstein medal from UNESCO (2001).
The TWAS Prize in Engineering Physics, the Carbon Prize by The Japanese Carbon Society (2006).
The Somiya Award by the International Union of Materials Research Societies, among others (2009).
Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, TWAS (2007)
The Carbon Science Prize for Innovative Research, Japanese Carbon Society (2008).
Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (2002)
Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, UK.

• Evaluating the characteristics of multiwall carbon nanotubes. Carbon 49, 2581-2602. 2011
• Hydroxyl-Functionalized and N-Doped Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with Silver Nanoparticles Preserve Cellular Function. ACS Nano 5, 2458-2466. 2011
• Bulk Synthesis of Narrow Diameter and Highly Crystalline Triple-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Coalescing Fullerene Peapods. Advanced Materials 23, 1761-1764. 2011
• Phosphorus and phosphorus-nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes for ultrasensitive and selective molecular detection. Nanoscale 3, 1008-1013. 2011
• Doping (10,0)-Semiconductor Nanotubes with Nitrogen and Vacancy Defects. Material Express 1, 127-135. 2011
• Millimeter-Long Carbon Nanotubes: Outstanding Electron-Emitting Sources. ACS Nano5, 5072-5077. 2011
• Transparent Foamlike 2D Networks of Nitrogen-Doped Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Obtained by Self-Assembly. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115. 11447-11452. 2011
• Unzipped Nanotubes. Nature 458, 845-846. 2009
• Controlled Formation of Sharp Zigzag and Armchair Edges in Graphitic Nanoribbons. Science 323, 1701-1705. 2009
• Heterojunctions between metals and carbon nanotubes as ultimate nanocontacts”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 106, 4591-4595. 2009
• Bulk Production of a New Form of sp2 Carbon: Crystalline Graphene Nanoribbons”. Nano Letters 8, 2773-2778. 2008
• Doped Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications”. In Carbon Nanotubes (eds: A. Jorio, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus, Springer), Topics of Applied Physics 111, 531–566. 2008
• Viability studies od Pure carbon- and Nitrogen-doped nanotubes with Entamoeba hystolytica: From Amoebicidal to Biocompatible Structures. Small, 3, 1723-1729. 2007
• In-situ nucleation of carbon nanotubes by the injection of carbon atoms into metal particles. Nature Nanotechnology 2, 307-311. 2007
• Pure and doped BN nanotubes. Materials Today 10, 30-38. 2007
• Buckypaper of Coaxial Nanotubes. Nature 433, 476. 2005
• New Directions of Nanotube Science: Properties, Characterization and Applications of B- and N-doped systems”. Materials Today Magazine 7, 30-45. 2004