Mr. Ismael Romero Ocaña

Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Trieste
via L. Giorgieri 1
34127 Trieste (ITALY)

tel. +39 040 5583939
fax. +39 040 5583903
e-mail: ismael.romeroocana@phd.units.it

Curriculum Vitae
Ismael R. Ocaña was born in 1986. He obtained bachelor honours degree in Chemistry in 2011 at University of Cadiz (Spain). After that he moves to University of Barcelona (Spain) and he obtained the EU Official MSc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology with the MSc thesis: "Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for environmental applications". He is a PhD student at the Graduate School of Nanotechnology with the project "Solar Fuels".

Scientific Interests
- Development of new advanced functional nanomaterial to face environmental and energy problems
- Synthesis of metal-doped TiO2 nanostructured materials
- Photo-activated processes for the production of Solar Fuels, such as photoreforming for H2 production or CO2 photoreduction
- Characterization of the synthesized nanomaterials by advanced Trasmission Electron Microscopy techiniques

Publications

Amade, R.; Hussain, S.; Ocaña, I.R. and Bertran, E. "Growth and functionalization of carbon nanotubes on quartz filter for environmental applications",J. Environ. Eng. Ecol. Sci. 2014, 3, 2,doi:10.7243/2050-1323-3-2.

Romero Ocaña, I.; Beltram, A.;Delgado Jaén, J.J.; Adami, G.; Montini, T.; Fornasiero, P. "Photocatalytic H2 production by ethanol photodehydrogenation: effect of anatase/brookite nanocomposites composition.", Inorg. Chim. Acta accepted for publication.