Salas, J.I., Abir, S.S.H., de Leon, D. et al. Energy harvesting with thermoplastic polyurethane nanofiber mat integrated with functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Journal of Materials Research (2024). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-024-01368-8

 Chen Lin, Brishty Deb Choudhury, Rigobert Ybarra, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, Haimanti Majumder, Javier Soliz-Martinez, Nicolas Dimakis, Karen Lozano, and Mohammed Jasim Uddin, “Tailoring the Structure–Property Relationships of Innovative Flowerlike TiO2 Structures in a Fiber-Shaped Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell” ACS Applied Energy Materials, https://DOI:10.1021/acsaem.3c03091 (2024)

 Delgado, C.A., Chapa, A., Lozano, K. et al. In-Situ Surface Depositing of Nano–Micro-particles on Electrospun Fibers. Fibers Polym 25, 407–413 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-023-00443-x

Alanis E, Aguilar F, Banaei N, Dean FB, Villarreal A, Alanis M, Lozano K, Bullard JM, Zhang Y. 0. A rationally designed antimicrobial peptide from structural and functional insights of Clostridioides difficile translation initiation factor 1. Microbiol Spectr 0:e02773-23. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02773-23

 G. Morales, L. Astrid Yáñez-Hernández, K. Lozano, V. M. Padilla-Gainza, S. Alejandro Lozano-Morales; “Photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue using PMMA/TiO2 nanoparticles composites fibers obtained through centrifugal spinning” International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-023-05197-w

 Ribeiro, H.; Taha-Tijerina, J.J.; Gomez, O.; Acosta, E.; Pinto, G.M.; Moraes, L.R.C.; Fechine, G.J.M.; Andrade, R.J.E.; Reinoza, J.; Padilla, V.; et al. Thermal Transport and Rheological Properties of Hybrid Nanofluids Based on Vegetable Lubricants. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 2739. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13202739

Salas, J.I.; de Leon, D.; Abir, S.S.H.; Uddin, M.J.; Lozano, K. Functionalized Thermoplastic Polyurethane Nanofibers: An Innovative Triboelectric Energy Generator. Electron. Mater. 2023, 4, 158-167. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronicmat4040014

Eman Ibrahim, Keith Taylor, Salahuddin Ahmed, Ahmed Mahmoud, Karen Lozano;

“Centrifugally spun poly(D,L-lactic acid)-alginate composite microbeads for drug delivery and tissue engineering”, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023, 123743, ISSN 0141-8130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.123743.

 S. Ahmed, M Keniry, N Anaya Barbosa, V Padilla, Md N Javed, R Gilkerson, A Narula, K Lozano; “Oxymatrine Loaded Cross-Linked PVA Nanofibrous Scaffold: Design and Characterization and Anticancer Properties” (2023) International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 250, 126187, doi.org/10.1002/mabi.202300098

Marjuban, Shaik Merkatur Hakim, Musfira Rahman, Syeda Sharmin Duza, Mohammad Boshir Ahmed, Dinesh K. Patel, Md Saifur Rahman, and Karen Lozano. 2023. "Recent Advances in Centrifugal Spinning and Their Applications in Tissue Engineering" Polymers 15, no. 5: 1253. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15051253

Vahid Reisi-Vanani, Samanesadat Hosseini, Ebrahim Soleiman-dehkordi, Sahand Noaien, B. Mahour Farzan, Valentina Virginia, Ebani Mazaher, Gholipourmalekabadi, Karen Lozano, and Zahra Lorigooini; “Engineering of a core-shell polyvinyl alcohol/gelatin fibrous scaffold for dual delivery of Thymus daenensis essential oil and Glycyrrhiza glabra L. extract as an

antibacterial and functional wound dressing” 2023, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology 81, 104282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2023.104282.

Cristobal Rodriguez, Victoria Padilla, Karen Lozano, Alexa Villarreal, Luis Materon, Robert Gilkerson; “Development and characterization of Forcespinning® mesquite gum nanofibers,” Materials Today Communications, 33, 2022, 104599, 2352-4928, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.104599.

VM. Serrato, V Padilla, D Jones, S Herrera, L Campos, I Serrato III, H Foltz, K Lozano; “Electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness of compression molded carbon nanofiber-reinforced polyvinylidene difluoride film” Polymer Composites, 44 #1 (2023) 592-608

BOOK CHAPTER: Graciela Morales, Heriberto Rodríguez-Tobías, Victoria Padilla-Gainza, Karen Lozano, Daniel Grande. Harnessing the Potential of Fibrous Polyester Composites Meant for Bioactive Medical Devices. Felipe Avalos Belmontes; Francisco J. González; Miguel Ángel López-Manchado. Green-Based Nanocomposite Materials and Applications, Springer International Publishing, pp.365-389, 2023, Engineering Materials, 978-3-031-18427-7. ff10.1007/978-3-031-18428-4_18ff. ffhal-03927673f

Salahuddin Ahmed, Victoria M. Padilla-Gainza, Robert Gilkerson, Acharan Narula & Karen Lozano; Processing-structure–property relationships of oleanolic acid loaded PLGA fiber membranes” Journal of Materials Science (2023) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-08246-4

Saptasree Bose, Victoria Padilla, Alexandra Salinas, Fariha Ahmad, Timothy P. Lodge, Christopher J. Ellison & Karen Lozano (2022) Hierarchical Design Strategies to Produce Internally Structured Nanofibers, Polymer Reviews, 63 (3), 679-714 DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2022.2132509

Eman Ibrahim, Salahuddin Ahmed, Sk Shamim Hasan Abir, Keith Taylor, Victoria M. Padilla-Gainza, and Karen Lozano; “Centrifugally spun alginate-poly(lactic acid) microbeads: A promising carrier for drug delivery and tissue engineering” International Journal of Biological Macromolecules V220, 2022, Pages 671-682

Md Ashiqur Rahman, Fariha Rubaiya, Nazmul Islam, Karen Lozano, and Ali Ashraf “Graphene-Coated PVDF/PAni Fiber Mats and Their Applications in Sensing and Nanogeneration” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022 14 (33), 38162-38171 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c09045 161.- DM Chipara, A Trevino, K Lozano, B Hoke, KS Martirosyan, M Chipara; “PVDF-Fe3O4 nanocomposites: spectroscopic investigations” Journal of Polymer Research 29 (5), 1-18 2022

SSH Abir, JE Trevino, BB Srivastava, MUK Sadaf, JI Salas, K Lozano, and M Uddin; “Synthesis of Color Tunable Piezoelectric Nanogenerators using CsPbX3 Perovskite Nanocrystals Embedded in Poly (D, L-lactide) Membranes” Nano Energy, 102, 2022, pages 107674

S Bose, JR Summers, BB Srivastava, V Padilla-Gainza, M Peredo, CM Trevino de Leo, Bryan Hoke, Santosh Gupta and Karen Lozano; “Efficient near infrared to visible light upconversion from Er/Yb codoped PVDF fibrous mats synthesized using a direct polymer doping technique”; Optical Materials 123, 111866 (2022)

Alexa Villarreal, Raul Barbosa, Saptasree Bose, Bhupendra B Srivastava, Victoria Padilla-Gainza, Karen Lozano; “Color tunable aerogels/sponge-like structures developed from fine fiber membranes”; DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00946J Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 2716-2725

Villarreal, Andrew McDonald, Luis Materon, Robert Gilkerson; "Cell proliferative properties of Forcespinning® nopal composite nanofibers" Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers 37 (1), 28-37 (2022)

Oriretan Omosola, Dorina Magdalena Chipara, Mohammad Uddin, Karen Lozano, Mataz Alcoutlabi, Victoria Padilla, Mircea Chipara; “On the thermogravimetric analysis of polymers: Polyethylene oxide powder and nanofibers” Journal of Applied Polymer Science 52055 (2022)

J Schmidt, S Shenvi Usgaonkar, S Kumar, K Lozano, CJ Ellison; “Advances in Melt Blowing Process Simulations”; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (2021)

V Padilla-Gainza, H Rodríguez-Tobías, G Morales, A Ledezma-Pérez, ... “Development of zinc oxide/hydroxyapatite/poly (D, L-lactic acid) fibrous scaffold for tissue engineering applications”;

Materials Science and Engineering: C, 112594 (2021)

SSH Abir, MUK Sadaf, SK Saha, A Touhami, K Lozano, MJ Uddin; “Nanofiber-Based Substrate for a Triboelectric Nanogenerator: High-Performance Flexible Energy Fiber Mats” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces(2021)

J Kharade, H Vasquez, K Lozano; “Enhanced piezoelectric performance of aligned PVDF electrospun fiber mats”; Emergent Materials, 1-7 (2021)

M Chipara, O Oriretan, M Uddin, K Lozano, D Chipara, C Delgado, ... “Spectroscopic Investigations on Polyethylene Oxide Based Nanofibers”; Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2021)

Dorina Magdalena Chipara, Mihail Secu, Karen Lozano, Corina Secu, Mircea Chipara,“Raman Investigations of the Radiation-Induced Modifications in iPP-VGCNF nanocomposites: The Nanofillers’ Tale, Carbon Trends, 2021, 100119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cartre.2021.100119.

Fariha Rubaiya, Swati Mohan, Bhupendra Srivastava and Karen Lozano, “Piezoelectric properties of PVDF-ZN2GeO4 finer fiber mats” Energies 14 (18), 5936, 2021

D. Caruntu, S. Padron, and K. Lozano; Two-Dimensional Modeling of Nonlinear Dynamics of Forcespinning Jet Formation; Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics; V 16, 81006 (1-15) 2021

Santosh K. Gupta, Swati Mohan, Marisol Valdez, Karen Lozano, Yuanbing Mao,Enhanced sensitivity of caterpillar-like ZnO nanostructure towards amine vapor sensing,Materials Research Bulletin, 2021, 111419, ISSN 0025-5408, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2021.111419.

Bhupendra B. Srivastava, Santosh K. Gupta, Raul Barbosa, Alexa Villarreal, Karen Lozano and Yuanbing Mao, Rare Earth Free Bright and Persistent White Light Emitting Zinc Gallo-Germanate Nanosheets: Technological Advancement to Fibers with Enhanced Quantum Efficiency, Materials Advances, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00301A.

Abu Musa Abdullah, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, Farzana Tasnim, Horacio Vasquez, Karen Lozano, M. Jasim Uddin, KNN based Piezo-Triboelectric Lead-Free Hybrid Energy Films, Nano Energy, 2021, Volume 86, August 2021, 106133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106133

Diana Lopez, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Abu Musa Abdullah, ,Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, Isaac Martinez, Brishty Deb Choudhury, Serena Danti, Christopher J. Ellison, Karen Lozano, M. Jasim Uddin; Polymer Based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Cost‐Effective Green Energy Generation and Implementation of Surface‐Charge Engineering; Energy Technology; https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202001088  2021

Carlos Hernandez; Santosh K Gupta; Jose P Zuniga; Jorge Vidal; Rene Galvan; Hector Guzman; Lilian Chavez; Yuanbing Mao; Karen Lozano; “High pressure responsive luminescence of Eu3+ doped flexible PVDF fibrous mats: A comparative study with Eu3+ sources of Eu(NO3)·5H2O and Eu2(SO4)3” Journal of Materials Science and Technology 2021, Volume 66, 10 March 2021, Pages 103-111

Jazael Gómez, Arturo Estrada, Argelia Balbuena Ortega, Oscar Arredondo, Rocío Nava, Raul Barbosa, Dulce Capitanachi, Karen Lozano; “Thermal conductivity of hybrid multilayer graphene-fiber carbon membranes” Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry; Pages 1-9, 2021

Filipe V Ferreira, Caio G Otoni, João H Lopes, Lucas P de Souza, Lucia HI Mei, Liliane MF Lona, Karen Lozano, Anderson O Lobo, Luiz HC Mattoso; “Ultrathin polymer fibers hybridized with bioactive ceramics: A review on fundamental pathways of electrospinning towards bone regeneration” Materials Science and Engineering: C Pages 111853 2021

Raul Barbosa, Alexa Villarreal, Cristobal Rodriguez, Robert Gilkerson and Karen Lozano; “Aloe Vera Extract-Based Composite Nanofibers For Wound Dressing Applications” Materials Science and Engineering Part C V 124 May 2021, 112061

Julio Trevino, Swati Mohan, Alexandra E. Salinas, Emilia Cueva and Karen Lozano; Piezoelectric properties of PVDF-conjugated polymer nanofibers; Journal of Applied polymer Science; https://doi.org/10.1002/app.50665 2021

Sk Shamim Hasan Abir, Santosh K. Gupta, A. Ibrahim, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, and Karen Lozano “Tunable CsPb(Br/Cl)3 perovskite nanocrystals and further advancement in designing light emitting fiber membranes”, Materials Advances 2021, 2, 2700-2710, DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00183C. 

Brishty Deb Choudhury, Chen Lin, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, Javier Soliz-Martinez, Jose Gutierrez, Muhammad N. Huda, Federico Cesano, Karen Lozano, Jin Zhong Zhang, and M. Jasim Uddin, Carbon Fibers Coated with Ternary Ni–Co–Se Alloy Particles as a Low-Cost Counter Electrode for Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, Volume 4, PP 870-878, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2021

Sk Shamim Hasan Abir, Md Toukir Hasan, Mataz Alcoutlabi, and Karen Lozano, The Effect of Solvent and Molecular Weight on the Morphology of Centrifugally Spun Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) Nanofibers, Fibers and Polymers, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-021-1059-x

Cristobal Rodriguez, Victoria Padilla, Karen Lozano, Andrew McDonald, Luis Materon, Alejandra Chapa, Fariha Ahmad, Carlos Trevino De Leo and Robert Gilkerson; “Fabrication of Forcespinning® nanofibers incorporating nopal extract” Polymer International, DOI 10.1002/pi.6163, 2021

 Raul Barbosa, Santosh K.Gupta, Bhupendra B.Srivastava, Alexa Villarreal, Heriberto De Leon, Manuel Peredo, Saptasree Bose, Karen Lozano; 2021 “Bright and persistent green and red light-emitting fine fibers: A potential candidate for smart textiles”; Journal of Luminescence, V231, 117760

Victoria M. Padilla‐Gainza, Heriberto Rodríguez‐Tobías, Graciela Morales, Esmeralda Saucedo‐Salazar, Karen Lozano, Vanessa Montaño‐Machado, and Diego Mantovani; “Centrifugally spun mats based on biopolyesters/hydroxyapatite and their potential as bone scaffolds” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/app.50139

Gregory Potter, Raul Barbosa, Alexa Villarreal, Alexandra Salinas, Hector Guzman, Heriberto De Leon, Javier A Ortega, Karen Lozano; “Design and Validation of a Portable Handheld Device to Produce Fine Fibers Using Centrifugal Forces” (2020) Instruments Journal, 4 (3), 27

Elaijah Islam, Abu Musa Abdullah, Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Farzana Tasnim, Madelyne Martinez, Carolina Olivares, Karen Lozano, M. Jasim Uddin; Electromagnetic-triboelectric-hybrid energy tile for biomechanical green energy harvesting; Nanoenergy 77 2020, 105250

F. Cesano, MJ Uddin, K Lozano, M Zanetti, and D. Scarano; “All-carbon conductors for electronic and electrical wiring applications”; Frontiers in Materials 7, 219, 2020

Victoria Padilla‐Gainza, Heriberto Rodríguez‐Tobías, Graciela Morales, Antonio Ledezma‐Pérez, Carmen Alvarado‐Canché, Cristóbal Rodríguez, Robert Gilkerson, Karen Lozano; “Processing‐structure‐property relationships of biopolyester/zinc oxide fibrous scaffolds engineered by centrifugal spinning”; Polymers for Advanced Technologies 31, 11, 2020

Chipara, Dorina; Kuncser, Victor; Lozano, Karen; Alcoutlabi, Mataz; Ibrahim, Elamin; Chipara, Mircea; Spectroscopic investigations on PVDF-Fe2O3 nanocomposites; Journal if Applied Polymer Science, 137, 30, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/app.48907

Santosh K. Gupta, Carlos Hernandez, Jose P. Zuniga, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao; “Luminescent PVDF nanocomposite films and fibers encapsulated with La2Hf2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles” SN Appl. Sci. 2, 616 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-2412-1

AM Abdullah, AR Chowdhury, Y Yang, H Vasquez, HJ Moore, JG Parsons, K. Lozano, J. Gutierrez, K. Martirosyan and M. Uddin “Tailoring the viscosity of water and ethylene glycol based TiO2 nanofluids” Journal of Molecular Liquids, 297, 111982, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111982