Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences

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Research group

Spanish

Complex Systems and Silicon Chemistry

Academic Unit: Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences

Colombian Ministry of Science

Unrecognized

Call

894 GrupLAC

OECD

Area

Natural sciences

Subarea

Chemical sciences

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Strategic Focus

We seek to contribute to the development of silicon chemistry in each sector of society through generation and dissemination of new knowledge and establishment of industry partnerships. We also aim to study transport phenomena of environmental and industrial fluids in siliceous materials and other porous media using computational fluid dynamics.

Research Lines and/or Areas

Digitalization of Porous Media.
Silicon Chemistry.
Fluid Flow in Porous Media.
Synthesis of Porous Materials.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Group Coordinator

Alejandro Ramírez Vélez, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences.

Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia.

Coordinator's Email

alejandro.ramirez@udea.edu.co

Scientific Cooperation

Collaborative Relationships

Spin — Silicatos para la Industria S.A.

Highlighted Projects

Towards a generalized structure/permeability relationship (CODI project, code COL0137538, In progress).
New heterofunctional silanes as potential precursors of completely condensed polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (Colciencias project, Ended in 2017).

Key Research Findings

Numerical approximation to the scaling law describing the geometrical tortuosity in porous media (Recently submitted for publication).
Purification and synthesis conditions effect on the phenyl-amino-diethoxy-silanes stability (DOI: https://doi.org/10.24050/reia.v16i32.1262).
Anisotropic diffusion of hydrogen in nanoporous carbons (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-014-8415-9).
Optional course for the undergraduate chemistry program: “Introduction to silicon compounds”.

Services and/or Products Portfolio

Advisory on the use and development of silicon-based compounds, such as silicates and silanes.
Training courses on chemistry and applications of silicon-based compounds.