FACULTY PROFILES

Luis A. Echegoyen

Director
PREM

Professor Emeritus
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Office Building: Chemistry and Computer Science Building
Office Room: 2.0304
Phone: (915) 747-7573
Email: echegoyen@utep.edu

Expertise: See Research Profile in Expertise Connector

Bio

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Education

Ph D in Chemistry, University Puerto Rico (1974)

Publications

Synthesis and Characterization of U≡C Triple Bonds in Fullerene Compounds Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 46 (2023), Yang-Rong Yao, Jing Zhao, Qingyu Meng, Han-Shi Hu, Min Guo, Yingjing Yan, Jiaxin Zhuang, Shangfeng Yang, Skye Fortier, Luis A. Echegoyen, W. H. Schwarz, Jun Li, Ning Chen.
Cylindrical C-96 Fullertubes: A Highly Active Metal-Free O-2-Reduction Electrocatalyst ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 61 21 (2022), Mohamed F. Sanad, Hannah M. Franklin, Basant A. Ali, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Aruna N. Nair, Venkata S. Chava, Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Nageh K. Allam, Steven Stevenson, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Luis A. Echegoyen.
Diazonium functionalized fullerenes: a new class of efficient molecular catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction Nanoscale 14 10 (2022), Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Alain R. Puente Santiago, Jolaine Galindo Betancourth, Mohamed F. Sanad, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Luis A. Echegoyen.
MXene-Based Tailoring of Carrier Dynamics, Defect Passivation, and Interfacial Band Alignment for Efficient Planar p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells ACS Applied Energy Materials 4 11 (2021), Venkata S. Chava, P. S. Chandrasekhar, Ashley Gomez, Luis A. Echegoyen, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan.
A New Class of Molecular Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution: Catalytic Activity of M3N@C2n (2n = 68, 78, and 80) Fullerenes Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 16 (2021), Alain R. Puente Santiago, Mohamed F. Sanad, Antonio Moreno-Vicente, Md A. Ahsan, Maira R. Cerón, Yang-Rong Yao, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Antonio Rodriguez-Fortea, Josep M. Poblet, Luis A. Echegoyen.
Co–Cu Bimetallic Metal Organic Framework Catalyst Outperforms the Pt/C Benchmark for Oxygen Reduction Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 10 (2021), Mohamed F. Sanad, Alain R. Puente Santiago, Sarah A. Tolba, Md A. Ahsan, Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Mina Shawky Adly, Elhussein M. Hashem, Mohamed Mahrous Abodouh, M. S. El-Shall, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Nageh K. Allam, Luis A. Echegoyen.
Tuning the Intermolecular Electron Transfer of Low-Dimensional and Metal-Free BCN/C60 Electrocatalysts via Interfacial Defects for Efficient Hydrogen and Oxygen Electrochemistry J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143 2 (2021), Md Ariful Ahsan, Tianwei He, Kamel Eid, Aboubakr M. Abdullah, Michael L. Curry, Aijun Du, Alain Puente Santiago, Luis A. Echegoyen, Juan C. Noveron.
Glucose oxidation reaction at palladium-carbon nano-onions in alkaline media JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE ELECTROCHEMISTRY 25 1 (2021), Carlos A. Velez, Joesene J. Soto-Perez, Juan Corchado-Garcia, Eduardo Larios, Pasquale F. Fulvio, Luis A. Echegoyen, Carlos R. Cabrera.
Multicolor Fluorescent Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots for Sensing Cancer Cell Biomarkers ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS 4 1 (2021), Lisandro Cunci, Viviana Gonzalez-Colon, Brenda L. Vargas-Perez, Joed Ortiz-Santiago, Miraida Pagan, Paola Carrion, Jomari Cruz, Agustin Molina-Ontoria, Namyr Martinez, Walter Silva, Luis A. Echegoyen, Carlos R. Cabrera.
Synthesis, characterization, and applications of graphene quantum dots Elsevier (2021), Ashley Gomez, Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, Luis Echegoyen, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan.
Tuning the Intermolecular Electron Transfer of Low-Dimensional and Metal-Free BCN/C-60 Electrocatalysts via Interfacial Defects for Efficient Hydrogen and Oxygen Electrochemistry JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 143 2 (2021), Md A. Ahsan, Tianwei He, Kamel Eid, Aboubakr M. Abdullah, Michael L. Curry, Aijun Du, Alain R. Santiago, Luis A. Echegoyen, Juan C. Noveron.

Presentations

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Grants

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Current/Future Courses

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Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section
Fall 2022	ESE 6399 - Dissertation	13224
Spring 2022	ESE 6398 - Dissertation	25871
Spring 2022	ESE 6399 - Dissertation	22518
Fall 2021	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	10701
Fall 2021	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	19272
Summer 2021	CHEM 6399 - Dissertation	36215
Spring 2021	CHEM 6399 - Dissertation	29154
Spring 2021	CHEM 5396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	29037
Spring 2021	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	29151
Spring 2021	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	29306
Spring 2021	CHEM 4376 - Introduction to Research	20560
Spring 2021	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	23691
Fall 2020	CHEM 6398 - Dissertation	11649
Fall 2020	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	11909
Fall 2020	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	12613
Fall 2020	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	12585
Fall 2020	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	13934
Spring 2020	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	22057
Spring 2020	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	22791
Spring 2020	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	21691
Spring 2020	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	22508
Spring 2020	CHEM 4176 - Introduction to Research	20692
Spring 2020	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	24188
Fall 2019	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	12035
Fall 2019	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	12792
Fall 2019	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	12763
Fall 2019	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	13024
Fall 2019	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	14231
Summer 2019	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	32969
Spring 2019	CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	22184
Spring 2019	CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry	21794
Spring 2019	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	24523

Course Evaluations

No info available.

Bio

Ph D in Chemistry, University Puerto Rico (1974)

Publications

Synthesis and Characterization of U≡C Triple Bonds in Fullerene Compounds Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 46 (2023), Yang-Rong Yao, Jing Zhao, Qingyu Meng, Han-Shi Hu, Min Guo, Yingjing Yan, Jiaxin Zhuang, Shangfeng Yang, Skye Fortier, Luis A. Echegoyen, W. H. Schwarz, Jun Li, Ning Chen.
Cylindrical C-96 Fullertubes: A Highly Active Metal-Free O-2-Reduction Electrocatalyst ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 61 21 (2022), Mohamed F. Sanad, Hannah M. Franklin, Basant A. Ali, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Aruna N. Nair, Venkata S. Chava, Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Nageh K. Allam, Steven Stevenson, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Luis A. Echegoyen.
Diazonium functionalized fullerenes: a new class of efficient molecular catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction Nanoscale 14 10 (2022), Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Alain R. Puente Santiago, Jolaine Galindo Betancourth, Mohamed F. Sanad, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Luis A. Echegoyen.
MXene-Based Tailoring of Carrier Dynamics, Defect Passivation, and Interfacial Band Alignment for Efficient Planar p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells ACS Applied Energy Materials 4 11 (2021), Venkata S. Chava, P. S. Chandrasekhar, Ashley Gomez, Luis A. Echegoyen, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan.
A New Class of Molecular Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution: Catalytic Activity of M3N@C2n (2n = 68, 78, and 80) Fullerenes Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 16 (2021), Alain R. Puente Santiago, Mohamed F. Sanad, Antonio Moreno-Vicente, Md A. Ahsan, Maira R. Cerón, Yang-Rong Yao, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Antonio Rodriguez-Fortea, Josep M. Poblet, Luis A. Echegoyen.

Presentations

No info available.

Current/Future Courses

No info available.

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term

Fall 2022

Course

ESE 6399 - Dissertation

Section

13224

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ESE 6398 - Dissertation

Section

25871

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

ESE 6399 - Dissertation

Section

22518

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research

Section

10701

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

19272

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2021

Course

CHEM 6399 - Dissertation

Section

36215

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CHEM 6399 - Dissertation

Section

29154

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CHEM 5396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

29037

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

29151

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

29306

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CHEM 4376 - Introduction to Research

Section

20560

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

23691

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

CHEM 6398 - Dissertation

Section

11649

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

11909

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

12613

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

12585

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

13934

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

22057

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

22791

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

21691

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

22508

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CHEM 4176 - Introduction to Research

Section

20692

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

24188

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

12035

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

12792

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

12763

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

13024

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

14231

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2019

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

32969

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

CHEM 6196 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

22184

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

CHEM 6396 - Graduate Research in Chemistry

Section

21794

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

24523

Syllabus

No info available.

Luis A. Echegoyen

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Education

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