Ricardo Sanchez

The design of advanced microporous materials is critical to many biomedical and energy-related technologies that require the efficient storage or transport of small molecules, including drug delivery, bioimaging, and gas separations…

Amphiphilic polymers are regularly used to adsorb to solid nanoparticles and stabilize colloidal dispersions in non-solvents…

Water possesses numerous properties (including high biocompatibility, ionic solubility, and availability) that make it attractive and indispensable for many biological and industrial applications…

Water possesses numerous properties (including high biocompatibility, ionic solubility, and availability) that make it attractive and indispensable for many biological and industrial applications…

Transport and storage of gas in water is central to many biological processes and in sustainable energy generation such as fuel cells and acid gas separation. However, there exist inherent limitations in utilizing aqueous media in biomedical and energy applications due to its low gas solubility…

The high gas capacities of microporous solids have been extended to the liquid phase through the development of permanently porous liquids that rely on steric exclusion of bulky solvent molecules from pore openings to maintain gas-accessible porosity…