DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

Visiting Faculty

DR. CARLOS E. H. TAMARGO

Biography

After finishing his B. Sc and M. Sc studies at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana, Cuba, Dr Hernandez-Tamargo started his PhD studies at the Chemistry Department of the University College London, UK, obtaining his degree in 2017. Afterwards, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Chemistry of Cardiff University, from 2017 to 2019. Starting the year 2020, Dr Hernandez-Tamargo joined the Chemistry Department of IITM under the YIF program as a visiting faculty.

Education

  • 2014 – 2017 Ph. D - Department of Chemistry, University College London, United Kingdom.
  • 2011 – 2013 M. Sc – Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana, Cuba.
  • 2006 – 2011 B. Sc – Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana, Cuba.

Research Interests

  • Computational modelling of the catalytic properties of porous materials for the chemical transformation of small organic molecules.
  • Analysis of the diffusion properties of organic compounds inside microporous materials, employing interatomic potential calculations and quasi-elastic neutron scattering experiments.
  • Computational simulation of doped carbons acting as electro-catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction.
  • Computational simulation of doped carbons acting as catalysts for borrowing hydrogen reactions.
  • Computational study of reduced titanium oxide as an efficient photo-catalyst for water splitting.

Representative Publications

DFT Modeling of the Adsorption of Trimethylphosphine Oxide at the Internal and External Surfaces of Zeolite MFI; C.E. Hernandez-Tamargo, A. Roldan, N.H. de Leeuw; J. Phys. Chem. C. 120 (2016) 19097.

Density functional theory study of the zeolite-mediated tautomerization of phenol and catechol; C.E. Hernandez-Tamargo, A. Roldan, N.H. de Leeuw; Mol. Catal. 433 (2017) 334.

Detection of Posner’s clusters during calcium phosphate nucleation: a molecular dynamics study; G. Mancardi, C.E. Hernandez Tamargo, D. Di Tommaso, N.H. de Leeuw; J. Mater. Chem. B. 5 (2017) 7274.

 Molecular behaviour of phenol in zeolite Beta catalysts as a function of acid site presence: a quasielastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulation study; C.E. Hernandez-Tamargo, Alexander O’Malley, Ian P. Silverwood, Nora H. de Leeuw; Catal. Sci. Technol. 9 (2019) 6700.

DR. CARLOS E. H. TAMARGO

Visiting Faculty
  • carlos.tamargo@iitm.ac.uk
  • +91 044 2257 4237
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