Nicolás Otero

Dr. Nicolás Otero

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Academic Career Length

21Years (2006-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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29 April 2014 in Journal of the American Chemical Society
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PKPanaghiotis Karamanis
Panaghiotis Karamanis
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Nicolás Otero
CPClaude Pouchan
Claude Pouchan


7 July 2010 in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
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Laura Estévez GuianceLaura Estévez Guiance
Laura Estévez Guiance
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Nicolás Otero
Ricardo A. MosqueraRicardo A. Mosquera
Ricardo A. Mosquera


17 June 2017 in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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Nicolás Otero
Claude PouchanClaude Pouchan
Claude Pouchan
PKPanaghiotis Karamanis
Panaghiotis Karamanis
Borazino-doped nanographenes belong to a special class of flat heteroaromatic networks comprising one or more fully formed borazino (B3N3) units in their framework. These systems carry the same number of electrons and feature similar structural forms as pristine nanographenes; however, they are characterized by different optoelectronic properties. As their full carbon analogues, borazino-doped graphene molecules could serve as excellent candidate molecules for flexible organic electronic and optical devices. In this study, we provided the results of a systematic study dealing with the effect of borazino units on the quadratic microscopic nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of finite graphene sections. These symmetry-dependent quantities describe the nonlinear polarization (hyperpolarization) of the electron cloud of molecules in the presence of external electric fields and they are associated with fundamental processes of extreme technological interest in the realm of nonlinear optics. More precisely, we investigated the evolution of the first dipole hyperpolarizability in several, purposely chosen, borazino-doped graphene flakes and ribbons, relying on long-range corrected density functional methods. Our results indicate that the presence of inorganic benzene in the honeycomb structure of graphene finite sections gives rise to some impressive structure–property variations driven by local electron delocalization effects. The take home message of this study suggests that borazino doping can deliver a vast assortment of nanographene molecules bearing amplified octupolar and/or dipolar NLO responses that can be fine-tuned by applying minor modifications in the structure and morphology of their edges.

12 January 2016 in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
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Aggelos AvramopoulosAggelos Avramopoulos
Aggelos Avramopoulos
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Nicolás Otero
PKPanaghiotis Karamanis
Panaghiotis Karamanis
CPClaude Pouchan
Claude Pouchan
MPManthos G. Papadopoulos
Manthos G. Papadopoulos