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Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics Carlos Alberto Cárdenas Valencia Assistant Professor. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile Las Palmeras 3425, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile Postal Code: Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile cacarden@gmail.com cardena@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl http://tayrona.ciencias.uchile.cl I am a leader of the group of Theoretical Chemical Physics at the University of Chile. What it is done in my group quite summarizes my expertise, interests and achievements. Therefore, as a introduction of myself I prefer to give a short overview of my group, which I lead with Prof. Patricio Fuentealba. The goals of our group are mainly the development and application of theoretical methods to study the electronic structure and dynamics of atoms, molecules, clusters and materials. We are interested in the application of electronic-structure/quantum-chemistry, in especial density functional theory (DFT), to understand and quantify phenomena that happen at the atomistic level. Among my research interests are: i) To give a rational framework with sound physical and mathematical basis to empirical concepts in chemistry such as electronegativity, hardness, chemical bond, reactivity, etc. ii) to use ab initio, and lately classical, molecular dynamics to understand complex phenomena in small to medium systems such a dynamics of chemical reactions and surfaces, clusters collision and Coulomb explosion of highly charged clusters and molecules. Lately I have dedicated an important effort to the development of first principle methods and tools for smart molecular/materials design. Smart molecular design aims for the inverse development (reverse engineering) of molecules/materials with optimized properties needed for a given application. For instance, optimizing the fundamental gap of molecules of semiconductor to achieve a specific application as an optic material or solar cell, optimize catalytic properties and energy storage capacity. Our group is highly collaborative and focuses not only on formal aspects but we are always looking for putting hands on applied problems that ranges from solid state materials, exotic liquids, molecules, clusters and systems of biological relevance. The group hosts undergrad and grad students as well as postdoctoral associates which I(had) supervise(d). I am researcher open to collaborations, most of which I lead, as it can be seen from the fact that my publications involve more 50 coauthors from every continent and all levels of seniority. Training and outreach are also priority areas for me. I lecture undergraduate and graduated courses in physics, chemistry and material sciences. I am currently in charge of coordinating the renovation and implementation of new laboratories for education in classical and modern physics of my Department. At the graduate level, every year I lecture courses on Atomic and molecular physics, Density Functional Theory and atomistic simulations in several scales.
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics Besides my own research group I am also member of two outstanding multidisciplinary Institutes of research. One of them is the Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CEDENNA . http://cedenna.cl), and the other one is Centro Interdiciplinario de Líquidos Iónicos (CILIS. http://www.cilis.cl). In those groups I contribute with my expertise in simulations of the matter in the atomistic scale. In CEDDENA I am a member of the division of physics of clusters and nanostructures and in CILIS I contribute to develop theoretical strategies to understand the physical chemistry of ionic liquids and its potential use as nanolubricants. Every year I organize in Chile “DFT-Days”, an international workshop on electronic structure. In 2014 it was the fourth edition, which brought together over 20 well known researchers of the area. I also have good skill “writing” grants which has allowed me to be granted with about 500000 USD from CONICYT in the last five years. Background: Name: Carlos Alberto Cárdenas Valencia (35) ID document. Colombia: 71315464. Chile: 21525466-6 Date and place of birth: 5 January of 1980 Apartadó, Colombia. Nationality: Colombian Current Position: • Assistant Professor. Department of Physics, Science Faculty, University of Chile (2010-present) Educational Background: • Postdoctoral Associated. Supervisor: Paul Ayers. McMaster University, Canada. 2008-2012. • Doctor in Molecular Physical Chemistry. Supervisor: Patricio Fuentealba (primary) and Eduardo Chamorro. Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. 2004-2007. • Mechanical Engineer. Supervisor: César Chaves Roldán. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia. 1997-2003 Publications: • Bultinck, P., Jayatilaka, D., & Cárdenas, C. A problematic issue for atoms in molecules: Impact of (quasi-)degenerate states on Quantum Theory Atoms in Molecules and Hirshfeld-I properties. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2015, 1053, 106–111. doi:10.1016/j.comptc.2014.06.017
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics • Zadeh, F. H.; Fuentealba, P.; Cardenas, C. A.; Ayers, P., An Information-Theoretic Resolution of the Ambiguity in the Local Hardness. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 6019-6026. • Echegaray, E.; Rabi, S.; Cárdenas, C.; Zadeh, F. H.; Rabi, N.; Lee, S.; Anderson, J. S. M.; Toro-Labbe, A.; Ayers, P. W., In pursuit of negative Fukui functions: molecules with very small band gaps. J Mol Model 2014, 20 (3), 2162. • Donoso, R.; Cárdenas, C.; Fuentealba, P., Ab InitioMolecular Dynamics Study of Small Alkali Metal Clusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2014, 118 (6), 1077-1083. • Cerda-Monje, A.; Ormazabal-Toledo, R.; Cárdenas, C.; Fuentealba, P.; Contreras, R., Regional Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Fukui Functions Efficiently Highlight the Lewis Acidic/Basic Regions in Ionic Liquids. The journal of physical chemistry B 2014, 118 (13), 3696-3701. • Bultinck, P.; Cárdenas, C.; Fuentealba, P.; Johnson, P. A.; Ayers, P. W., How to Compute the Fukui Matrix and Function for Systems with (Quasi- )Degenerate States. J Chem Theory Comput 2014, 10 (1), 202-210. • Aliaga, C.; Fuentealba, P.; Rezende, M. C.; Cárdenas, C., Mechanism of fluorophore quenching in a pre-fluorescent nitroxide probe: A theoretical illustration. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2014, 593 (C), 89-92. • Muñoz, M.; Varas, A.; Cárdenas, C.; Rogan, J.; Fuentealba, P., Performance of modified Lennard–Jones potential to seed ab initio calculations of small Cadmium clusters. COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY 2013, 1021 (C), 249-255. • Bultinck, P., Cárdenas, C., Fuentealba, P., Johnson, P. A., & Ayers, P. W. (2013). Atomic Charges and the Electrostatic Potential Are Ill-Defined in Degenerate Ground States. Journal Of Chemical Theory And Computation, In press, DOI 10.1021–ct4005454. doi:10.1021/ct4005454 • Ayers, P. W., & Cárdenas, C. (2013). Communication: A case where the hard⁄soft acid⁄base principle holds regardless of acid⁄base strength. THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 138(18), 181106. doi:10.1063/1.4805083 • Echegaray, E., Cárdenas, C., Rabi, S., Rabi, N., Lee, S., Zadeh, F. H., et al. (2012). In pursuit of negative Fukui functions: examples where the highest occupied molecular orbital fails to dominate the chemical reactivity. Journal of Molecular Modeling, 19(7), 2779–2783. doi:10.1007/s00894-012-1637-3
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics • Cárdenas, C., & Ayers, P. W. (2013). How reliable is the hard–soft acid–base principle? An assessment from numerical simulations of electron transfer energies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. doi:10.1039/c3cp51134k • Rogelio Cuevas-Saavedra, Debajit Chakraborty, Sandra Rabi, Carlos Cárdenas, and Paul W. Ayers. Symmetric Nonlocal Weighted Density Approximations from the Exchange-Correlation Hole of the Uniform Electron Gas. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation , 8 (11): 4081-4093, 2012. DOI: 10.1021/ct300325t. • Muñoz, F., Cárdenas, C., Rogan, J., Valdivia, J. A., Fuentealba, P., & Kiwi, M. (2013). Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ti2 on C20 Collisions and C20Ti 2 Configurations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(8), 4287–4291. doi:10.1021/jp3120786 • Fuentealba, P., & Cárdenas, C. (2013). On the exponential model for energy with respect to number of electrons. Journal of Molecular Modeling, 19(7), 2849–2853. doi:10.1007/s00894-012-1708-5 • Chakraborty, D., C. Cárdenas, et al. (2012). "Understanding chemical binding using the Berlin function and the reaction force." Chemical Physics Letters 539–540(0): 168-171. • Edison Osorio, Marta B. Ferraro, Ofelia B. Oña, Carlos Cardenas, Patricio Fuentealba§, and William Tiznado, Assembling small silicon clusters using criteria of maximum mismatch of the Fukui functions. J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2011, 7 (12), pp 3995–4001 • C. Cardenas, W. Tiznado, P. W. Ayers and P. Fuentealba. "The Fukui Potential and the Capacity of Charge and the Global Hardness of Atoms." The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115(11): 2325-2331.(2011) • C. Cardenas, P. W. Ayers and A. Cedillo. "Reactivity indicators for degenerate states in the density-functional theoretic chemical reactivity theory." The Journal of Chemical Physics 134(17): 174103-174113.(2011) • C. Cardenas, P. Ayers, F. De Proft, D. Tozer and P. Geerlings. "Should negative electron affinities be used for evaluating the chemical hardness?" Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13(6): 2285-2293.(2011) • C. Cardenas. "The Fukui Potential is a Measure of the Chemical Hardness." Chemical Physics Letters 513: 127-129.(2011) • C. Cardenas, N. Rabi, P. W. Ayers, C. Morell, P. Jaramillo and P. Fuentealba. "Chemical Reactivity Descriptors for Ambiphilic Reagents: Dual
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics Descriptor, Local Hypersoftness, and Electrostatic Potential." Journal of Physical Chemistry A 113(30): 8660-8667.(2009) • C. Cardenas, E. Echegaray, D. Chakraborty, J. S. M. Anderson and P. W. Ayers. "Relationships between the third-order reactivity indicators in chemical density-functional theory." Journal of Chemical Physics 130(24): 244105.(2009) • C. Cardenas, F. De Proft, E. Chamorro, P. Fuentealba and P. Geerlings. "Theoretical study of the surface reactivity of alkaline earth oxides: Local density of states evaluation of the local softness." Journal of Chemical Physics 128(3): 034708.(2008) • P. Fuentealba, E. Chamorro and C. Cardenas. "Further exploration of the Fukui function, hardness, and other reactivity indices and its relationships within the Kohn-Sham scheme." International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 107: 37-45.(2007) • C. Cardenas, E. Chamorro, M. Galvan and P. Fuentealba. "Nuclear fukui functions from nonintegral electron number calculations." International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 107: 807-815.(2007) • C. Cardenas, A. M. Lamsabhi and P. Fuentealba. "Nuclear reactivity indices in the context of spin polarized density functional theory." Chemical Physics 322: 303-310.(2006) • E. Chamorro, M. Duque, C. Cardenas, C. Santos, W. Tiznado and P. Fuentealba. "Condensation of the highest occupied molecular orbital within the electron localization function domains." Journal of Chemical Sciences 117: 419- 424.(2005) • C. Cardenas, E. Chamorro and R. Notario. "Nature of bonding in the cyclization reactions of (2-ethynylphenyl)triazene and 2-ethynylstyrene." Journal of Physical Chemistry A 109(19): 4352-4358.(2005) • Paul W. Ayers, Carlos Cárdenas, Allison E. A. Chapman, Shubin Liu, and Christophe Morell. Molecular Interactions from the Density Functional Theory for Chemical Reactivity: The Interaction Energy Between Two-Reagents. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012. In Press. Book Chapters: • P. Fuentalba and C. Cardenas. ”Density functional theory of chemical reactivity” in Chemical Modelling: Volume 11, The Royal Society of Chemistry: 2015; Vol. 11, pp 151-174
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics • Cardenas, C.; Fuentealba, P. “Isomorphic Local Hardness and Possible Local Version of Hard–Soft Acids–Bases Principle” in Concepts and Methods in Modern Theoretical Chemistry, Volume 1: Electronic Structure and Reactivity 2013, 65. Ghosh, Swapan Kumar, and Pratim Kumar Chattaraj Editors. CRC Press. • P. Fuentealba, C. Cárdenas, and W. Tiznado. “Topological Analysis of the Fukui Function” in Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics: Applications of Topological Methods in Molecular Chemistry. 2015, Bernard Silvi et al. Editors, Springer. Current Grants: • Fondecyt Grant 1140313: “Navigating the Chemical Space: A Perturbative Approach”. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. (2014- 2018) . 250.000 USD • Fondecyt Grant 11090013: “Describing the Reactivity of Complex Molecular Systems”. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. (2009- 2013) 250.000 USD • Associated Researcher: “Theoretical Modeling of Ionic Liquids”. “Interdisciplinary Center for Ionic Liquids (http://www.cilis.cl)”. (2014-2017), (2011-2014) • Associated Researcher: “Quantum Chemistry Simulation of Clusteres”. Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (http://cedenna.cl/en). (2015- 2019),(2010-2014): • Coreseracher. Fondecyt Grant 1130202. Exploring the Dynamics and Reactivity of Atomic and Molecular Clusters. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. (2013-2016). 200.000 USD Participation in International Meetings (Since 2009). As an speaker or invited speaker: • XL Congress of Theoretical Chemists of the Latin Expression QUITEL 2014. Galápagos, Ecuador. Nov. 23-30, 2014. How reliable is the hard–soft acid–base principle? • DFT-Days IV: New Approaches in Theoretical Chemistry. Santiago, Chile, Oct. 3- 4. DFT-Response Functions to Navigate the Chemical Space.
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics • Congreso Peruano de Química. Arequipa, Perú. Oct. 17-19. Chemical reactivity descriptors applied to the problem of finding optimal doping positions of small metal clusters. • Kathmandu 2012 Workshop on Theoretical Chemistry. Atoms, molecules and solids: models and concepts. Kathmandu, Nepal. Apr. 30 - May 4, 2012. Navigating the Hard-Soft Acids-Bases Principle. • XXXVII Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expresión. México. Dec. 4-9, 2011. Describing the Reactivity of Complex Molecular Systems: The Balance Between Electron Transfer and Electrostatic Effects. • Third International Symposium on Molecular Dynamics and Reactivity. McMaster University. Canada Jun 24, 2011. A new Strategy to Describe Chemical Reactivity of Complex Systems • Navigating Chemical Compound Space for Materials and Bio Design.Workshop IV: Physical Frameworks for Sampling Chemical Compound Space. IPAM, University of California Los Angeles. May 16 - 20, 2011. Chemical reactivity descriptors applied to the problem of finding optimal doping positions of small metal clusters.. • DFT Days: Talks on Density Functional Theory and Electronic Structure. March 31, 2011 A new Strategy to Describe Chemical Reactivity with DFT • The Seventh Canadian Computational Chemistry Conference (CCCC7) July 20 to 24, 2009. Dalhousie in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fukui Function and MEP on Degenerate States • 92nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition. May 30 – June 3, 2009, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. • Chemistry Department. Duke University. Durham, USA. Jul. 30. Navigating the Hard-Soft Acids-Bases Principle. As participant and posters. • 9th Workshop of Computational Chemistry and Molecular Spectroscopy. Oct. 13- 16, 2014, Punta de Tralca, Chile. Roberto Donso, Carlos Cárdenas, and Patricio Fuentealba. Coulomb Fission of Na8+q Multicharged Cluster. • 10th Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2014). Oct. 5-10, 2014. Santiago, Chile. Numerical Exploration On The Lieb-Thirring Bound. • 10th Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2014). Oct. 5-10, 2014. Santiago, Chile. How Reliable Is The Hard-Soft Acid-Base Principle.
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics • March Meeting. American Physical Society. March 3-7. 2014. Denver. USA. • 5th International Conference on Density Functional Theory and its Applications. September, 9-11. 2013. Durham, UK. • 44th World Chemistry Congress. 11th to 16 th August 2013. Istanbul, Turkey. • XXXVII Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expresión. Dec. 2-7, 2012. Natal, Brazil. • XXXVII Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expresión. México. Dec. 4-9, 2011. P. Fuentealba, C. Cárdenas and R. Donoso. The richness of the dynamic of clusters. • IV Reunión Nacional Sólidos 2011. Tucuman, Argentina. Nov 8-11, 2011. Carlos Cárdenas, Fannsisco Muñoz, Alejandro Bernardin y Patricio Fuentealba. Hallazgo Afortunado de un Nuevo Isómero de C20 y una Propuesta para una Macrobucky ball C240. • IX Girona Seminar on Electron Density, Density Matrices, and Density Functional Theory, Girona, Spain. July 5-8. 2010. • 13th edition of the International Conference on the Applications of Density Functional Theory in Chemistry and Physics, Lyon 2009 - DFT 2009. C Cardenas and P. Ayers. Response Function on Degenerate States. • The Seventh Canadian Computational Chemistry Conference (CCCC7) July 20 to 24, 2009. Dalhousie in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fukui Function and MEP on Degenerate States • 92nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition. May 30 – June 3, 2009, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. • 12th International Conference on the applications of Density Functional Theory in Physics and Chemistry. Ámsterdam August 26-30. 2007. N. Sablon, T. Fievez, C. Cárdenas, F. De Prof., P.W. Ayers and P. Geerlings.Calculation of Functional Derivatives with Respect to the External Potential. • Apropos of Lemaître...Present and future of high-performance computing. Leuven, Belgium. Wednesday November 15. 2006. C Cárdenas, P. Mignon, N. Sablon, F. de Prof. And P. Geerlings. Calculation of DFT–Based Reactivity Indexes in Alkaline Earth Oxide Surfaces. • Eighth J. J. Giambagi Winter School Part A: Cluster, Molecules Biomolecules and Materials. July 24-28 de 2006. Buenos Aires
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics Mentoring: • Macarena del Pilar Muñoz, 2011-2013, Estudio de nanoestructuras de Cd y Hg mediante métodos computacionales, Maestría en Ciencias con mención en Física, Universidad de Chile. • Roberto Simon Donoso, 2011-2015, Aplicación de dinámica molecular ab initio en clusters atómicos. Doctorado en Ciencias con mención en Física, Universidad de Chile. • Macarena del Pilar Muñoz, 2013-presente, Diseño molecular mediante derivadas alquímicas. Doctorado en Ciencias con mención en Física, Universidad de Chile. • Alejandro Bernardin, 2012. Diseño de pseudoátomos. Física, Universidad de Chile. • David Inostroza Rojas. Diseño Molecular: Efecto de la Polarizabilidad, 2012. Física, Universidad de Chile. Teaching: Undergraduate: • Introducción a la Mecánica. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2014. • Optica y electromagnetismo. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre I-2014. • Optica y electromagnetismo. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2013. • Electromagnetismo. Escuela Ciencias Exactas, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre I-2013. • Física de Ondas, Oscilaciones y Óptica. Escuela Ciencias Exactas, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2012. • Introducción a la Teoría del Funcional de la Densidad. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2012. • Electromagnetismo. (FE-303-1). Escuela Ciencias Exactas, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre I-2012. • Física de Ondas, Oscilaciones y Óptica.. Escuela Ciencias Exactas, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2011. • Física Contemporánea (C-29). Escuela Ciencias Exactas, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre I-2011.
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics • Estructura electrónica de la Materia. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre I-2011. • Física de Ondas, Oscilaciones y Óptica. Escuela Ciencias Exactas, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2010. • Química General. Escuela Ciencias Exactas, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile. Semestre I-2010. • Quantum Chemistry. Department of Chemsitry, Faculty of Science, McMaster University. Fall 2009. • Física de Ondas. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Andrés Bello. Semestre II-2007. • Ayudante de los cursos: Química General, Fisicoquímica y Química Ambiental. Facultad de Ecología y Recursos Naturales. Universidad Andrés Bello. 2004-2007 Graduate: • Teoría del Funcional de la Densidad. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2014. • Teoría del Funcional de la Densidad. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2013. • Introducción a la Física Atómica y Molecular. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2012. • Teoría del Funcional de la Densidad. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2012. • Teoría del Funcional de la Densidad. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2011. • Teoría del Funcional de la Densidad. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2010. • Estructura electrónica de la Materia. Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2010. • Fisicoquímica Avanzada. Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Chile. Semestre II-2010. Awards: • Sharcnet Reaserch Fellowship: Posdoctoral. McMaster University and Shared Hierarchical Academia Research Computing Network. Canada. Enero 2008 – Febrero 2010 • Ph. D. Fellowship. Universidad Andrés Bello. Chile. Abril 2004 – Noviembre 2007
Group of Theoretical Chemical Physics • Ph. D. Fellowship. CONICYT. Chile. 2005. • Ph. D. Thesis “Chemical Reactivity in the Framework of the Density Functional Theory”. Summa cum laude”. Universidad Andrés Bello. 2007. • Mejor Graduado en Ingeniaría Mecánica, cohorte 2003. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín. Otorgado por obtener el 4to mejor puntaje nacional en los “Exámenes de Calidad Para la Educación Superior (ECAES)”. Diciembre 2003 Leadership. I serve as a reviewer in the following journals: • Journal of Chemical Physics • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters • The Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation • New Journal of Chemistry • ChemComm • Journal of Molecular Modeling Carlos Cárdenas Valencia February 2015.
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