NameLópez Santos, Carmen
DepartmentFísica Aplicada I
Knowledge areaFísica Aplicada
Professional categoryProfesora Titular de Universidad
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Long-lasting low fluorinated stainless steel hierarchical surfaces for omniphobic, anti-fouling and anti-icing applications

Montes, Laura; Rico, Víctor; Núñez-Gálvez, Fernando; Arenas, María Ángeles; Conde del Campo, Ana; López Flores, Víctor; Espinós, Juan P.; Borrás, Ana; González-Elipe, Agustín R.; López Santos, Carmen (Elsevier, 2024)
Stainless steel (SS) alloys are prevalent in many industries, household appliances or other commodities, where a strict ...
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Enhancing Essential Oil Extraction from Lavandin Grosso Flowers via Plasma Treatment

Molina, Ricardo; López Santos, Carmen; Balestrasse, Karina; Gómez Ramírez, Ana María; Sauló, Jordi (MDPI, 2024)
This study explores the impact of plasma treatment on Lavandin Grosso flowers and its influence on the extraction of ...
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Exalted dual-scale surface roughening in laser ablated aluminum capped with a transparent thin film: Wetting and anti-icing behavior

Ghemras, Ismail; Montes Montañez, Laura; López Santos, Carmen; González-Elipe, Agustín R.; Rico, Víctor (Elsevier, 2023)
Near infrared laser ablation of metals, specifically aluminum, has been systematically applied to generate surface roughness. ...
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Ti6Al4V coatings on titanium samples by sputtering techniques: Microstructural and mechanical characterization

Sánchez López, Juan Carlos; Rodríguez-Albelo, Luisa Marleny; Sánchez-Pérez, Miriam; Fortio Godinho, Vanda Cristina; López Santos, Carmen; Torres Hernández, Yadir (Elsevier, 2023)
Although titanium is widely used as biomaterial, the control of the interface properties between its surface and the ...
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Setting a comprehensive strategy to face the runback icing phenomena

Mora, Julio; García, Paloma; Carreño, Francisco; González, Miguel; Gutiérrez, Marcos; Montes, Laura; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; López Santos, Carmen; Vicente, Adrián; Rivero, Pedro; Rodríguez, Rafael; Larumbe, Silvia; Acosta, Carolina; Ibáñez-Ibáñez, Pablo; Corozzi, Alessandro; Raimondo, Mariarosa; Kozera, Rafal; Przybyszewski, Bartlomiej; González-Elipe, Agustín R.; Borrás, Ana; Redondo, Francisco; Agüero, Alina (Elsevier, 2023)
The development of anti-icing robust surfaces is a hot topic nowadays and particularly crucial in the aeronautics or wind ...
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A Holistic Solution to Icing by Acoustic Waves: De-Icing, Active Anti-Icing, Sensing with Piezoelectric Crystals, and Synergy with Thin Film Passive Anti-Icing Solutions

del Moral, Jaime; Montes, Laura; Rico Gavira, Victor Joaquin; López Santos, Carmen; Jacob, Stefan; Oliva Ramirez, Manuel; Gil Rostra, Jorge; Fakhfouri, Armaghan; Pandey, Shilpi; Gonzalez del Val, Miguel; González Elipe, Agustín Rodríguez (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
Icing has become a hot topic both in academia and in the industry given its implications in transport, wind turbines, ...
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Germination and First Stages of Growth in Drought, Salinity, and Cold Stress Conditions of Plasma-Treated Barley Seeds

Perea Brenes, Álvaro; Garcia, J.L.; Cantos, M.; Cotrino Bautista, José; González Elipe, Agustín Rodríguez; Gómez Ramírez, Ana María; López Santos, Carmen (American Chemical Society, 2023)
Numerous works have demonstrated that cold plasma treatments constitute an effective procedure to accelerate seed germination ...
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Electron beam evaporated vs. magnetron sputtered nanocolumnar porous stainless steel: Corrosion resistance, wetting behavior and anti-bacterial activity

Bobaru, Stefania; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; García-Valenzuela, Aurelio; López Santos, Carmen; González-Elipe, Agustín R. (Elsevier, 2022)
Stainless steel (SS), widely used because of its outstanding corrosion protection properties, does not possess any particular ...
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Highly Anisotropic Organometal Halide Perovskite Nanowalls Grown by Glancing-Angle Deposition

Castillo Seoane, Javier; Contreras-Bernal, Lidia; Obrero Pérez, José M.; García Casas, Xabier; Lorenzo-Lázaro, Francisco; Aparicio Rebollo, Francisco Javier; López Santos, Carmen; Rojas Ruiz, Teresa Cristina; Anta Montalvo, Juan Antonio; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón (Wiley, 2022)
Polarizers are ubiquitous components in current optoelectronic devices as displays or photographic cameras. Yet, control ...
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Influence of Femtosecond Laser Modification on Biomechanical and Biofunctional Behavior of Porous Titanium Substrates

Beltrán, Ana M.; Giner García, Mercedes; Rodríguez Carballo, Ángel; Trueba Muñoz, Paloma; Rodríguez-Albelo, Luisa Marleny; Vázquez Gámez, María de los Ángeles; Fortio Godinho, Vanda Cristina; Alcudia Cruz, Ana; Amado Paz, José Manuel; López Santos, Carmen (MDPI, 2022)
Bone resorption and inadequate osseointegration are considered the main problems of titanium implants. In this investigation, ...
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Experimento docente sobre Dinámica I (Leyes de Newton): una propuesta de innovación teórico-práctica

López Santos, Carmen (Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
Se describe aquí una propuesta de ciclo de mejora en el aula para la asignatura de Física I de primer curso del Grado en ...
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Comparative analysis of the germination of barley seeds subjected to drying, hydrogen peroxide, or oxidative air plasma treatments

Perea Brenes, Álvaro; Gómez Ramírez, Ana María; López Santos, Carmen; Oliva Ramirez, Manuel; Molina, Ricardo; Cotrino Bautista, José; García, José L.; Cantos, Manuel; González-Elipe, Agustín R. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022)
Acceleration in germination time by 12–24 h for barley seeds treated with atmospheric air plasmas may have a significant ...
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Plasma engineering of microstructured piezo – Triboelectric hybrid nanogenerators for wide bandwidth vibration energy harvesting

García Casas, Xabier; Ghaffarinejad, Ali; Aparicio Rebollo, Francisco Javier; Castillo Seoane, Javier; López Santos, Carmen; Espinós Manzorro, Juan Pedro; Cotrino Bautista, José; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel (Elsevier, 2022)
We introduce herein the advanced application of low-pressure plasma procedures for the development of piezo and triboelectric ...
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Anisotropic Resistivity Surfaces Produced in ITO Films by Laser-Induced Nanoscale Self-organization

López Santos, Carmen; Puerto, Daniel; Siegel, Jan; Macías Montero, Manuel; Florián, Camilo; Gil Rostra, Jorge; López Flores, Víctor; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel; González-Elipe, Agustín R.; Solís, Javier (Wiley, 2021)
Highly anisotropic resistivity surfaces are produced in indium tin oxide (ITO) films by nanoscale self-organization upon ...
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Plasma-Assisted Deposition of TiO2 3D Nanomembranes: Selective Wetting, Superomniphobicity, and Self-Cleaning

Montes, Laura; Román, José M.; García Casas, Xabier; Castillo Seoane, Javier; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Barranco Quero, Ángel; López Santos, Carmen; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)
Fabrication of tunable wetting surfaces is sought for the last years given its importance on energy, biomaterials and ...
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Mechanically switchable wetting petal effect in self‐patterned nanocolumnar films on poly(Dimethylsiloxane)

Parra Barranco, Julián; López Santos, Carmen; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín; Barranco Quero, Ángel (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021)
Switchable mechanically induced changes in the wetting behavior of surfaces are of para-mount importance for advanced ...
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Enhanced Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Incorporating Dopant-Free Crystalline Spiro-OMeTAD Layers by Vacuum Sublimation

Barranco Quero, Ángel; López Santos, Carmen; Idígoras León, Jesús; Aparicio Rebollo, Francisco Javier; Obrero Pérez, José M.; López Flores, Víctor; Contreras-Bernal, Lidia; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; Ferrer Fernández, Francisco Javier; Espinós, Juan P.; Borrás Martos, Ana; Anta Montalvo, Juan Antonio; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
The main handicap still hindering the eventual exploitation of organometal halide perovskite-based solar cells is their ...
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Plasma-Enabled Amorphous TiO2Nanotubes as Hydrophobic Support for Molecular Sensing by SERS

Filippin, Nicolas; Castillo Seoane, Javier; López Santos, Carmen; Rojas, Cristina T.; Ostrikov, Kostya; Barranco, Ángel; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Borrás, Ana (American Chemical Society, 2020)
We devise a unique heteronanostructure array to overcome a persistent issue of simultaneously utilizing the surface-enhanced ...
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Optofluidic liquid sensing on electromicrofluidic devices

Oliva Ramirez, Manuel; Wang, Siang-Lin; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; López Santos, Carmen; Fan, Shih-Kang; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín (IOP Publishing, 2020)
Electromicrofluidic (EMF) devices are used to handle and move tiny amounts of liquids by electrical actuation, including ...
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Influence of Titanium Oxide Pillar Array Nanometric Structures and Ultraviolet Irradiation on the Properties of the Surface of Dental Implants: A Pilot Study

León Ramos, Juan Rey; Diosdado Cano, José María; López Santos, Carmen; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Torres-Lagares, Daniel; Serrera Figallo, María de los Ángeles (MDPI, 2019)
Aim: Titanium implants are commonly used as replacement therapy for lost teeth and much current research is focusing on ...
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Plasma Enabled Conformal and Damage Free Encapsulation of Fragile Molecular Matter: from Surface-Supported to On-Device Nanostructures

Alcaire Martín, María; Aparicio Rebollo, Francisco Javier; Obrero Pérez, José M.; López Santos, Carmen; García-García, Francisco J.; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Frutos Rayego, Fabián; Ostrikov, Kostya; Borras Martos, Ana; Barranco Quero, Ángel (Wiley, 2019)
Damage-free encapsulation of molecular structures with functional nanolayers is crucial to protect nanodevices from ...
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2D compositional self-patterning in magnetron sputtered thin films

García Valenzuela, Aurelio; Álvarez Molina, Rafael; Rico, Víctor; Espinos, Juan P.; López Santos, Carmen; Solís, Javier; Siegel, Jan; del Campo, Adolfo; Palmero Acebedo, Alberto; González Elipe, Agustín Rodríguez (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
Unlike topography patterning, widely used for numerous applications and produced by means of different technologies, there ...
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Influence of irrigation conditions in the germination of plasma treated Nasturtium seeds

Molina, Ricardo; López Santos, Carmen; Gómez Ramírez, Ana María; Vilches, Alberto; Espinós Manzorro, Juan Pedro; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín (Natural Research, 2018)
Plasma treatments had emerged as a useful technique to improve seed germination. In this work we investigate the influence ...
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In Vitro Comparative Study of Oxygen Plasma Treated Poly(Lactic–Co–Glycolic) (PLGA) Membranes and Supported Nanostructured Oxides for Guided Bone Regeneration Processes

Torres-Lagares, Daniel; Castellanos Cosano, Lizett; Serrera Figallo, María de los Ángeles; López Santos, Carmen; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín; Gutiérrez Pérez, José Luis (MDPI, 2018)
Background: The use of physical barriers to prevent the invasion of gingival and connective tissue cells into bone cavities ...
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Structural control in porous/compact multilayer systems grown by magnetron sputtering

García Valenzuela, Aurelio; López Santos, Carmen; Álvarez Molina, Rafael; Rico, Víctor; Cotrino Bautista, José; González Elipe, Agustín Rodríguez; Palmero Acebedo, Alberto (Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPSCIENCE), 2017)
In this work we analyze a phenomenon that takes place when growing magnetron sputtered porous/compact multilayer systems ...
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Low-Temperature Plasma Processing of Platinum Porphyrins for the Development of Metal Nanostructured Layers

Filippin, A. Nicolas; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Idígoras León, Jesús; Macías Montero, Manuel Jesús; Alcaire Martín, María; Aparicio Rebollo, Francisco Javier; Espinós Manzorro, Juan Pedro; López Santos, Carmen; Frutos Rayego, Fabián; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Anta Montalvo, Juan Antonio; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel (Wiley-VCH, 2017)
This article establishes the bases for a vacuum and plasma supported methodology for the fabrication at mild temperatures ...
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‘Reliability of new poly (Lactic-co-glycolic acid) membranes treated with oxygen plasma plus silicon dioxide layers for pre-prosthetic guided bone regeneration processes’

Castillo Dalí, Gabriel; Castillo Oyagüe, Raquel; Batista Cruzado, Antonio; López Santos, Carmen; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín; Saffar, Jean-Louis; Lynch, Christopher, D.; Gutiérrez Pérez, José Luis; Torres-Lagares, Daniel (Medicina Oral, 2017)
Background: The use of cold plasmas may improve the surface roughness of poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) membranes, ...
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In Vitro and in Vivo Study of Poly(Lactic–co–Glycolic) (PLGA) Membranes Treated with Oxygen Plasma and Coated with Nanostructured Hydroxyapatite Ultrathin Films for Guided Bone Regeneration Processes

Torres-Lagares, Daniel; Castellanos Cosano, Lizett; Serrera Figallo, María de los Ángeles; García García, Francisco Javier; López Santos, Carmen; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín; Rivera Jiménez, Cristóbal Miguel; Gutiérrez Pérez, José Luis (Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), 2017)
The novelty of this study is the addition of an ultrathin layer of nanostructured hydroxyapatite (HA) on oxygen plasma ...
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Cholesterol biosensing with a polydopamine-modified nanostructured platinum electrode prepared by oblique angle physical vacuum deposition

Martín, Mirian; Álvarez Molina, Rafael; Palmero Acebedo, Alberto; López Santos, Carmen; González Mora, José Luis; Salazar, Pedro; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín (Elsevier, 2017)
This paper reports a novel cholesterol biosensor based on nanostructured platinum (Pt) thin films prepared by Magnetron ...
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Low temperature plasma processing of platinum porphyrins for the development of metal nanostructured layers

Filippin, A. Nicolas; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Idígoras León, Jesús; Macías Montero, Manuel Jesús; Alcaire Martín, María; Aparicio Martínez, Javier; López Santos, Carmen; Frutos Rayego, Fabián; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Anta Montalvo, Juan Antonio; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel; Espinós Manzorro, Juan Pedro (Wiley, 2017)
This article establishes the bases for a vacuum and plasma supported methodology for the fabrication at mild temperatures ...
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Plasma Assisted Oblique Angle Deposition of Transparent and Conductive in-Plane Anisotropic ITO Thin Films

Parra Barranco, Julián; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; Aparicio Rebollo, Francisco Javier; Ferrer Fernández, Francisco Javier; García García, Francisco; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; López Santos, Carmen; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín; Barranco Quero, Ángel (Electrochemical Society, 2017)
Oblique angle deposition (OAD) is a powerful technique for the fabrication of porous nanostructured oxide thin films. OAD ...
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Surface chemistry and germination improvement of Quinoa seeds subjected to plasma activation

Gómez Ramírez, Ana María; Cantos, M.; García, J. L.; Cotrino Bautista, José; López Santos, Carmen; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
Plasma treatment is recognized as a suitable technology to improve germination efficiency of numerous seeds. In this work ...
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Plasma Assisted Oblique Angle Deposition of Transparent and Conductive in- Plane Anisotropic ITO Thin Films

Parra Barranco, Julián; Sánchez Valencia, Juan Ramón; García García, Francisco Javier; López Santos, Carmen; González-Elipe, Agustín R.; Aparicio Rebollo, Francisco Javier; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Ferrer Fernández, Francisco Javier; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel (Electrochemical Society, 2017)
Oblique angle deposition (OAD) is a powerful technique for the fabrication of porous nanostructured oxide thin films. OAD ...
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Vapor and liquid optical monitoring with sculptured Bragg microcavities

Oliva Ramírez, Manuel; Gil Rostra, Jorge; López Santos, Carmen; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín; Yubero Valencia, Francisco (SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2017)
Sculptured porous Bragg Microcavities (BMs) formed by the successive stacking of columnar SiO2 and TiO2 thin films with ...
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High-Rate Deposition of Stoichiometric Compounds by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering at Oblique Angles

Alvarez, Rafael; García Valenzuela, Aurelio; López Santos, Carmen; Ferrer, Francisco; Rico, Víctor; Guillén Guillén, Elena; Alcón Camas, M.; Escobar-Galindo, Ramón; González Elipe, Agustín Rodríguez; Palmero Acebedo, Alberto (Wiley, 2016)
Target poisoning in reactive magnetron sputtering deposition of thin films is an undesired phenomenon, well known for ...
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Stoichiometric Control of SiOx Thin Films Grown by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering at Oblique Angles

García Valenzuela, Aurelio; Álvarez, Rafael; López Santos, Carmen; Ferrer, Francisco; Rico, Victor; Guillén Guillén, Elena; Alcón Camas, M.; Escobar-Galindo, Ramón; González Elipe, Agustín Rodríguez; Palmero Acebedo, Alberto (Wiley, 2016)
The deposition of SiOx (x < 2) compound thin films by the reactive magnetron sputtering technique at oblique angles is ...
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Anisotropic in-plane conductivity and dichroic gold plasmon resonance in plasma assisted ITO thin films e-beam evaporated at oblique angles

Parra Barranco, Julián; García García, Francisco Javier; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel; López Santos, Carmen; Frutos Rayego, Fabián; Barranco Quero, Ángel; González-Elipe, Agustín R. (American Chemical Society, 2015)
ITO thin films have been prepared by electron beam evaporation at oblique angles (OA), directly and while assisting their ...
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Nanocolumnar growth of thin films deposited at oblique angles: Beyond the tangent rule

Álvarez Molina, Rafael; López Santos, Carmen; Parra Barranco, Julián; Rico-Gavira, Víctor Joaquín; Barranco Quero, Ángel; Cotrino Bautista, José; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín; Palmero Acebedo, Alberto (American Institute of Physics, 2014)
The growth of nanostructured physical vapor deposited thin films at oblique angles is becoming a hot topic for the development ...
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Enhancement of visible light-induced surface photo-activity of nanostructured N¿TiO2 thin films modified by ion implantation

Romero Gómez, Pablo; López Santos, Carmen; Borrás Martos, Ana Isabel; Espinós Manzorro, Juan Pedro; Palmero Acebedo, Alberto; Rodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín (Elsevier, 2013)
This work reports the morphological and chemical modifications induced in TiO2 thin films by bombardment with high energy ...
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Microstructural characterization of hydrophobic Ti1−xAlxN coatings with moth-eye-like surface morphology

Fortio Godinho, Vanda Cristina; López Santos, Carmen; Rojas Ruiz, Teresa Cristina; Philippon, D.; Jiménez de Haro, María del Carmen; Lucas, S.; Fernández Camacho, Asunción (Elsevier, 2012)
Ti1−xAlxN thin films with different Al content were deposited by magnetron sputtering. The combination of electron energy ...
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Improved wear performance of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene coated with hydrogenated diamond like carbon

Puértolas, J. A.; Martínez Nogués, V.; Martínez Morlanes, M. J.; Mariscal, M. D.; Medel, F. J.; López Santos, Carmen; Yubero Valencia, Francisco (Elsevier, 2010)
Hydrogenated diamond like carbon (DLCH) thin films were deposited on medical grade ultra high molecular weight polyethylene ...