Hybrid Systems and Nanospectroscopy

Roberto Ysacc Sato-Berrú

Micro and Nanotechnologies

Academic Groups

Dr. Roberto Ysacc Sato Berrú
Member of the academic staff

Dr. Roberto Sato studied Physics at the University of Trujillo in Peru, and obtained his degree in 1996; the M.Sc. degree in Science in 1999, from the same University; and a Ph.D. degree in Optics Science from CIO – University of Guanajuato in Mexico, in 2003.

He has published 41 papers in indexed journals with work in the areas of raman spectroscopy, synthesis of silver nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, graphene and nanostructured materials, surface enhanced raman spectroscopy, principal component analysis. His work has been cited more than 500 times by other authors.

He has directed the thesis work of a doctoral student, one master’s student and 6 undergraduate students; he is currently working with another 3 doctoral students.

Articles in indexed journals: 41
Articles in non-indexed journals: 07
Congresses and symposia: 58
Presentations: 38

  • Nanostructured materials

  • Raman spectroscopy

  • Surface enhanced raman spectroscopy

  • Tip enhanced raman spectroscopy

  • PAPIME-PE107521: “Instrumentation and design of scientific experiments”. Validity: 2021-2022.
  • Self-assembly of metallic nanoparticles
  • Low-cost scientific instrumentation
  • Teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.
  • Direction of thesis, social service, and academic practices of national and foreign students.

Graduate:

  • Alicia Reyes-Gaspar, Facultad of Chemistry-UNAM, 22 Jan 2019.
  • Itzel Castillo-Hernández, Faculty of Chemistry-UNAM, 04 Oct 2018.
  • Dafné Ayala-López, Faculty of Chemistry-UNAM, 01 Oct 2018.
  • Enrique Ledesma-Quintana, Faculty of Sciences-UNAM, 06 Jun 2018.

Doctoral:

  • Roberto Hinojosa-Nava (in process)
  • Álvaro Manuel López-Rodríguez (in process)
  • Aransselly Jesús Quiroz-Chang (in process)
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  • R. Hinojosa-Nava, E.V. Mejía-Uriarte, R.Y. Sato-Berrú, “Ammonia borane structural study by temperature through High-Resolution Raman spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis”, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 241 (2020).

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2020.118661.

  • M. Navarrete, R. Mayen-Mondragon, R. Sato, E.V. Mejía, D. Aguirre-Aguirre, J. Genesca, “Stability Analysis of Silver Nanoparticle Suspensions by Cyclic Voltammetry”, Applied Optics, 59 (2020) D104 – D110.

    https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.383571.

  • Aransselly Quiroz Chang, Roberto Sato Berrú, Eduardo Massoni Kamimoto, Eder Sánchez Alcántara, José Bañuelos Muñetón, Norma Sánchez Flores, María Mata Zamora, “Step by step synthesis of silver films by electroless technique and their SERS application of sodium arsenate”, Materials Research Express, 6, 116439, (2019).

    https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab4c74.

  • R.Y. Sato-Berrú, A.R. Vázquez-Olmos, E.V. Mejía-Uriarte, M.E. Mata-Zamora, A. Solís-Gómez, F. Paraguay-Delgado, J.M. Saniger, “Synthesis of silver colloids with a homemade light source”, Journal of Cluster Science, (J. Clust. Sci.) 29 (4) (2018) pp 719–724.

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-018-1392-4.

  • Organization of academic events:

    School of Nano-Spectroscopy – ENE2019, C.U., UNAM, CDMX, México, 25 – 28 Nov 2019.

  • Design and organization of the Workshops:

    Raman spectroscopy.
    Optics experiment for teachers of CCHs.

  • OTHER PUBLICATIONS      

    R.Y. Sato-Berrú, E.A. Araiza-Reyna, A.R. Vazquéz-Olmos, “Moles quantification in liquid samples by Raman spectroscopy”, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 158 (2016) pp. 56-59.

    Roberto Sato-Berrú, Rocío Redón, América Vázquez-Olmos and José M. Saniger, “Silver nanoparticles synthesized by direct photoreduction of metal salts. Application in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy”, J. Raman Spectrosc. 40(4) (2009) 376-380. citations: 76.

    R.Y. Sato-Berrú, A. Vázquez-Olmos, A.L. Fernández-Osorio and S. Sotres-Martínez, “Micro-Raman investigation of transition metal-doped ZnO nanoparticles”, J. Raman Spectrosc. 38(9) (2007) 1073-1076. citations: 71.

    R.Y. Sato-Berrú, E.V. Mejía-Uriarte, C. Frausto-Reyes, M. Villagrán-Muniz, H. Murrieta-Sanchez, J.M. Saniger, “Application of principal component analysis and Raman spectroscopy in the analysis of polycrystalline BaTiO3 at high pressure”, Spectrochim. Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 66(3) (2007) 557–560.

    R.Y. Sato-Berrú, E.V. Basiuk (Golovataya Dzhymbeeva), J.M. Saniger, “Application of principal component analysis to discriminate the Raman spectra of functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes”, J. Raman Spectrosc. 37(11) (2006) 1302-1306. citations: 35.

    R.Y. Sato-Berrú, J. Medina-Valtierra, C. Medina-Gutiérrez, C. Frausto-Reyes, “Quantitative NIR-Raman analysis in liquid mixtures”, Spectrochim. Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 60(10) (2004) 2225-2229.

Postdoctoral fellows

  • Dr. José Fabian Villa-Manríquez