{"id":121,"date":"2025-06-17T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=121"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:29:09","slug":"sigifredo-luna-jr","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/profile\/sigifredo-luna-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigifredo Luna Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigifredo (Freddy) Luna is a Ph.D. candidate in Masha Kamenetska\u2019s Single Molecule spectroscopy Lab here at Boston University. Luna received his bachelor&#8217;s degree in Chemistry from Utah Tech University. Within the Kamenetska group, he work in a subgroup that studies nanotechnology from a molecular device perspective by measuring the conductance of single molecules in metal-molecule-metal junctions using break junction techniques. He has also been trained to perform Density functional non-equilibrium Green\u2019s function (DFT-NEGF) calculations to model these nano-junctions and simulate their electrical charge transport properties. In his research, he integrates measurements of single-molecule conductances using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope Break Junction (STMBJ) technique and perform DFT calculations to obtain predicted transport properties, aiming to uncover the charge transport mechanisms in a diverse set of chemical systems at the single-molecule level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24824,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/energize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}