Patents and Record of Inventions

1) Campbell, P. G.; Cerón, M. R.; Sneha, A.; Feaster, J. “Combined Separation and Conversion of Diluted Carbon Dioxide to Syngas using Porous Ceramic/Sorbent Solution in a Thermo-Electrochemical Reactor” ROI IL-13553

2) Campbell, P. G.; Cerón, M. R.; Hawks, S.; Loeb, C.; Pham, T. A.; Stadermann, M. “Selective removal of scale-forming ions (i.e., divalent cations Mg, Ca) for water softening using flow through electrode capacitive deionization with carbon aerogel electrodes with optimal pore size distribution” Provisional Patent IL-13462

3) Campbell, P. G.; Cerón, M. R.; Hawks, S.; Loeb, C.; Pham, T. A.; Stadermann, M. “Using Ultramicroporous Carbon for the Selective Removal of Nitrate with Capacitive Deionization” Provisional Patent IL-13394

4) Nguyen, D. T.; Aines, R. D.; Baker, S. E.; Cerón, M. R.; Murialdo, M.; Knipe, J. M.; Bourcier, William L.; Duoss, E. B.; Oakdale, J. S.; Smith, M. M.; Smith, W. L.; Stolaroff, J. K.; Ye, C. “Composite 3D-Printed Reactors for Gas Absorption, Purification, and Reaction” Filed 3/24/2017. US 20180272268 A1; 9/27/2018.

5) Campbell, P. G.; Cerón, M. R.; Vedharathinam, V. “Molten Hydroxide Dual-Phase Membranes for Intermediate Temperature Fuel Cells” Provisional Patent IL-13316.

6) Campbell, P. G.; Baker, S.; Cerón, M. R.; Knipe, J. M.; Stolaroff, J. K.. “Porous Ceramic Structure and Sorbent Solution for Carbon Dioxide Capture” Provisional Patent IL-13168.

7) Cerón, M. R.; Campbell, P. G.; Worsley, M. A. “Porous Ceramic Structure for Carbon Dioxide Capture” Provisional Patent IL-13124.

8) Campbell, P.; Baumann, T. F.; Biener, J.; Merrill, M.; Montalvo, E.; Worsley, M. A.; Biener, M. M.; Cerón, M. R. “Graphene Macro-Assembly-Fullerene Composite for Electrical Energy Storage” Filed 9/8/2016. US 20180118574 A1; 5/3/2018.

PhD, chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, 2011-2015

BS, chemistry, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 2005-2010

1) Dudukovic, N. A.; Fong, E. J.; Gemeda, H. B.; DeOtte, J. R.; Cerón, M. R.; Moran, B. D.; Davis, J. T. Baker, S. E.; Duoss, E. B., “Cellular Fluidics” Nature 2020, under revision.

2) Aydin, F.; Cerón, M. R.; Hawks, S. A.; Oyarzun, D. I.; Zhan, C.; Pham, T. A.; Stadermann, M.; Campbell, P. G., “Selectivity of Nitrate and Chloride Ions in Microporous Carbons: The Role of Anisotropic Hydration and Applied Potentials” Nanoscale 2020, under revision.

3) Troksa, A. L.; Eshelman, H. V.; Chandrasekaran, S.; Rodriguez, N.; Ruelas, S.; Duoss, E. B.; Kelly, J. P.; Cerón, M. R.; Campbell, P. G., “Additive Manufacturing of Nano-Porous Ceramic Materials: Feedstock Development for Direct Ink Writing and Projection Microstereolithography” Appl. Mater. Today 2020, under revision.

4) Cerón, M. R.; Aydin, F.; Hawks, S. A.; Oyarzun, D. I.; Loeb, C. K.; Deinhart, A.; Zhan, C.; Pham, T. A.; Stadermann, M.; Campbell, P. G., “Cation Selectivity in Capacitive Deionization: Elucidating the Role of Pore Size, Electrode Potential and Ion Dehydration.” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, under revision.

5) Murialdo, M.; Goldstein, H.; Stolaroff, J.; Nguyen, D.; McCoy, S.; Bourcier, W.; Cerón, M. R.; Knipe, J.; Worthington, M.; Smith, M.; Aines, R.; Baker, S., “3D Printable Sodium Carbonate Composite Sorbents for Efficient Biogas Upgrading.” Environ. Sci. Technol. 2020, 54, 6900-6907.

6) Fuertes-Espinosa, C.; Murillo, J.; Soto, M. E.; Cerón, M. R.; Morales-Martinez, R.; Rodriguez-Fortea, A.; Poblet, J. M.; Echegoyen, L.; Ribas, X., “Highly Selective Encapsulation and Purification of U-based C78-EMFs within a Supramolecular Nanocapsule.” Nanoscale 2019, 10, 23035-23041.

7) Zhan, C.; Cerón, M. R.; Hawks, S. A.; Otani, M.; Wood, B. C.; Pham, T. A.; Stadermann, M.; Campbell, P. G., “Specific Ion Effects at Graphitic Interfaces.” Nat. Commun. 2019, 10 (1), 1-8.

8) Hawks, S. A.; Cerón, M. R.; Oyarzun, D. I.; Pham, T. A.; Zhan, C.; Loeb, C. K.; Mew, D.; Deinhart, A.; Wood, B. C.; Santiago, J. G.; Stadermann, M.; Campbell, P. G., “Using Ultramicroporous Carbon for the Selective Removal of Nitrate with Capacitive Deionization.” Environ. Sci. Technol. 2019, 53 (18), 10863-10870.

9) Cerón, M. R.; Zhan, C.; Campbell, P. G.; Freyman, M.; Santoyo, C. A.; Echegoyen, L.; Wood, B. C.; Biener, J.; Pham, T. A.; Biener, M. M., “Integration of Fullerenes as Electron Acceptors in 3D Graphene Networks: Enhances Charge Transfer and Stability through Molecular Design.” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11 (32), 28818-28822.

10) Castro, E.; Cerón, M. R.; Hernandez-Garcia, A.; Kim, Q.; Etcheveryy-Berríos, A.; Morel, M.; Díaz-Torres, R.; Qian, W.; Martinez, Z.; Mendez, L.; Perez, F.; Santoyo, C. A.; Gimeno-Muñoz, R.; Esper, R.; Gutierrez, D. A.; Varela-Ramirez, A.; Aguilera, R. J.; Llano, M.; Soler, M.; Aliaga-Alcalde, N.; Echegoyen, L., “A New Family of Fullerene Derivatives: Fullerene-Curcumin Conjugates for Biological and Photovoltaic Applications.”  RSC Adv. 2018, 8 (73), 41692-41698.

11) Cerón, M. R.; Lai, L. S.; Amiri, A.; Monte, M.; Katta, S.; Kelly, J. C.; Worsley, M. A.; Merrill, M. D.; Kim, S.; Campbell, P. G., “Surpassing the Conventional Limitations of CO2 Separation Membranes with Hydroxide/Ceramic Dual-Phase Membranes.” J. Memb. Sci. 2018, 567, 191-198.

12) Zhan, C.; Pham, T. A.; Cerón, M. R.; Campbell, P. G.; Vedharathinam, V.; Otani, M.; Jiang, D.; Biener, J.; Wood, B.; Biener M. M., “Origins and Implications of Interfacial Capacitance Enhancements in C60-Modified Graphene Supercapacitors.” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10 (43), 36860-36865.

13) Mulet-Gas, M.; Abella, L.; Cerón, M. R.; Castro, E.; Marshall, A. G.; Rodríguez-Fortea, A.; Echegoyen, L.; Poblet, J. M.; Dunk, P. W., “Transformation of Graphite into Cluster-Encapsulated Cages.”  Nat. Commun. 2017, 8 (1), 1-9.

14) Cerón, M. R.; Maffeis, V.; Stevenson, S.; Echegoyen, L., “Endohedral Fullerenes: Synthesis, Isolation, Mono- and Bis-Functionalization.”  Inorg. Chim. Acta. 2017, 468, 16-27.

15) Cerón, M. R.; Castro, E.; Neti, V. S. P. K.; Dunk, P. W.; Echegoyen, L. A., “Regiochemically Controlled Synthesis of a β-4-β [70]Fullerene Bis-adduct.” J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82 (2), 893-897.

16) Chen, C.-H.; Abella, L.; Cerón, M. R.; Guerrero-Ayala, M.; Rodríguez-Fortea, A.; Olmstead, M. M.; Powers, X. B.; Balch, A. L.; Poblet, J. M.; Echegoyen, L., “A Zigzag Sc2C2 Carbide Cluster Inside a [88]Fullerene Cade with One Heptagon, Sc2C2@Cs(hept)-C88: A Kinetically Trapped Fullerene Formed by C2 Insertion.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (39), 13030-37.

17) Martinez, Z. S.; Castro, E.; Seong, C. S.; Cerón, M. R.; Echegoyen, L.; Llano, M., “Fullerene Derivatives Strongly Inhibit HIV-1 Replication by Affecting Virus Maturation without Impairing Protease Activity.” Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2016, 60 (10), 5731-41.

18) Cerón, M. R.; Izquierdo, M.; Aghabali, A.; Vogel, S. P.; Olmstead, M. M.; Balch, A. L.; Echegoyen, L., “Tethered Bis-Pyrrolidine Additions to C70: Some Unexpected and New Regioisomers” Carbon 2016, 105, 394-400.

19) Cerón, M. R.; Echegoyen, L.; “Recent Progress in the Synthesis of Regio-isomerically Pure Bis-adducts of Empty and Endohedral Fullerenes.” J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2016, 29, 613-619.

20) Garcia-Borràs, M.; Cerón, M. R.; Osuna, S.; Izquierdo, M.; Luis, J. M.; Echegoyen, L.; Solà, M., “The Regioselectivity of Bingel-Hirsch Cycloadditions on IPR Endohedral Metallofullerenes.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55 (7), 2374-77. 

21) Cerón, M. R.; Izquierdo, M.; Alegret, N.; Valdez, J. A.; Rodriguez-Fortea, A.; Olmstead, M. M.; Balch, A. L.; Poblet, J. M.; Echegoyen, L., “Reactivity Differences of Sc3N@C2n (2n = 68 and 80). Synthesis of the First Methanofullerene Derivatives of Sc3N@D5h-C80” Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 64-67.

22) Cerón, M. R.; Izquierdo, M.; Garcia-Borràs, M.; Lee, S. S.; Osuna, S.; Echegoyen, L., “Bis-1,3-dipolar Cycloadditions on Endohedral Fullerenes M3N@Ih-C80 (M = Sc, Lu): Remarkable Endohedral-Cluster Regiochemical Control.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (36), 11775-82.

23) Chen, C.-H.; Ghiassi, K. B.; Cerón, M. R.; Guerrero-Ayala, M.; Echegoyen, L.; Olmstead, M. M.; Balch, A. L., “Beyond the Butterfly: Sc2C2@C2v(9)-C86, an Endohedral Fullerene Containing a Planar, Twisted Sc2C2 Unit with Remarkable Crystalline Order in an Unprecedented Carbon Cage.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (32), 10116-19.

24) Cerón, M. R.; Izquierdo, M.; Aghabali, A.; Valdez, J. A.; Ghiassi, K. B.; Olmstead, M. M.; Balch, A. L.; Wudl, F.; Echegoyen, L., “Tethered Bisadducts of C60 and C70 with Addends on a Common Hexagonal Face and a 12-Membered Hole in the Fullerene Cage.”J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (23), 7502-08.

25) Cerón, M. R.; Izquierdo, M.; Pi, Y.; Atehortúa, S. L.; Echegoyen, L., “Tether-Directed Bisfunctionalization Reactions of C60 and C70.” Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21 (21), 7881-85.

26) Neti, V. S.; Cerón, M. R.; Duarte-Ruiz, A.; Olmstead, M. M.; Balch, A. L.; Echegoyen, L., “High-yield, regiospecific bis-functionalization of C70 using a Diels-Alder reaction in molten anthracene.” Chem. Commun. 2014, 50 (73), 10584-87.

27) Cerón, M. R.; Li, F.-F.; Echegoyen, L. A., “Endohedral fullerenes: the importance of electronic, size and shape complementarity between the carbon cages and the corresponding encapsulated clusters.” J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2014, 27 (4), 258-64.

28) Izquierdo, M.; Cerón, M. R.; Alegret, N.; Metta-Magana, A. J.; Rodriguez-Fortea, A.; Poblet, J. M.; Echegoyen, L., “Unexpected Isomerism in cis-2 Bis(pyrrolidino)[60]fullerene Diastereomers.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52 (49), 12928-31.

29) Izquierdo, M.; Cerón, M. R.; Olmstead, M. M.; Balch, A. L.; Echegoyen, L., “[5,6]-Open methanofullerene derivatives of Ih-C80.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52 (45), 11826-30.

30) Cerón, M. R.; Li, F.-F.; Echegoyen, L., “An Efficient Method to Separate Sc3N@C80 Ih and D5h Isomers and Sc3N@C78 by Selective Oxidation with Acetylferrocenium [Fe(COCH3C5H4)Cp]+.” Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19 (23), 7410-15.

• Outstanding Mentorship Efforts, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, 2019
• Best Physical and Life Sciences Postdoctoral Poster Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, 2017
• Best Dissertation in the College of Science, University of Texas at El Paso, USA, 2015
• Nominated for the Diana Natalicio Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Best student in the chemistry doctoral program, University of Texas at El Paso, USA, 2015
• Fifth among 785 chemistry students, best female chemistry student in Colombia, Colombian State Test for Superior Education Quality, Colombia, 2009