About Us

Welcome to the advanced materials growth and their applications for diverse areas (MAVER) research group. Our group was founded in 2009 by Dra. Marel Monroy Peláez and Dr. Guillermo Santana Rodríguez, in Materials Research Institute, National Autonomous University of México (UNAM).

Currently, our research interest is focused on the growth and development of different materials such as zinc oxide nanowires and thin films, molybdenum oxide 2-D flakes, silicon quantum dots embedded in an amorphous matrix (SiN), porous silicon, silicon nanowires and zirconium oxide, cerium oxide for the development of device applications such as third generation of solar cells, fuel cells, electroluminescence devices, sensors among others.

Specially, our current interest is to develop silicon based third generation of solar cells where we can develop entire device technology in our lab starting from the TCO layer (ZnO nanowires), absorbing layer (polymorphous silicon) and finally, the back surface field (Molybdenum thin film).

MAVER encourages the enrolment of students from different specializations such as chemistry, physics, biological and engineering background.