Estudio de cristales liquidos, transiciones de fases, formación de mesofases y defectos solución de la ec. de Landau-Ginzburg.

Separación quiral.

Formación de cápsides virales. Para lo cual se han usado modelos de grano grueso construidos ad-hoc.

Herramientas: Monte Carlo y dinámica molecular y solución de la ec. de Landau-Ginzburg.

Han impartido más de 50 cursos en la Fciencias, PCQ, PCF y PCeIM.

Dirección de  cerca de 20 tesis de licenciatura, 6 de maestría y 7 de doctorado.

Tutora del PCQ y PCF.

Proyectos patrocinados por CONACYT.

Proyectos patrocinados por DGAPA, UNAM.

Evaluadora de proyectos de CONAHCYT, DGAPA.

Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI II, PRIDE C).

Miembro de la AMC.

A. Martnez-Gonzalez, S. Varga, P. Gurin andJ. Quintana-H.* Spontaneously bended nematic and antiferroelectric smectic structures of banana-shaped hard pa ticles in two dimensions EPL, 926004(2012). 

J.A. Martinez-Gonzalez, Varga, P. Gurin, J. Quintana-H*. Structural properties of hockey stick-shaped particles in two dimensions. Journal of Molecular Liquids 185 2631 (2013).

Julio C. Armas-Perez, Jacqueline Quintana-H, and Gustavo A. Chapela*. Liquid-vapor equilibrium and surface properties of short rigid chains with one long range attracti potential. JCP 139, 02450 (2013).

Julio C. Arma Perez, Jacqueline Quintana-H, and Gustavo A. Chapela*. Liquid-vapor equilibrium and interfacial properties of square wells in two dimensions. JCP 138, 044508 (2013).

Gustavo A. Chapela*, Enrique Diaz-Herrera, Julio Armas-Perez, and Jacqueline Quintana-H. Effect of flexibility on liquid-vapor coexistence and surface properties of tangent linear vibratin square well chains in two and three dimensions. JCP, 138, 224509 (2013).

J.A. Martinez-Gonzalez, J. Armas-Perez, J. Quintana-H*. Phase Behavior of Bow-Shaped Hard Particles in Two Dimensions. J Stat Phys 150, 559571 (2013).

Fidelmar Lechuga-Sanabria, Gustavo A. Chapela, Jacqueline Quintana-H. Liquid crystalline and solid phases for a system of hard zigzag particles with Lennard-Jones sites two-dimensions. Physica, 392 47604771 (2013).

Julio C. Armas-Perez, Jacqueline Quintan H*, Gustavo A. Chapela, Enrique Velasco, and Guillermo Navascues. Phase diagram of a square-well model in two dimensions. JCP 140, 064503 (2014).

Gustavo A. Chapela*, Orlando Guzman, Jose Adrian Martnez-Gonzalez, Ped Daz-Leyva and Jacqueline Quintana-H. Self-assembly of kagome lattices, entangled webs and linear fibers with vibrating patchy particl in two dimensions. Soft Matter, 10, 9167 (2014).

A. Martnez-Gonzalez, Pablo-Pedro, J. C. Armas-Perez, G. A. Chapela andJ. Quintana-H*. Chiral segregation of hockey-stick shaped particles in two dimensions. RSC Adv., 4, 20489 (2014).

A. Martinez- Gonzales G. A. Chapela, and J. Quintana-H*. Spontaneous chiral resolution in two-dimensional systems of patchy particles. JCP140, 194505 (2014).

R. Prez-Lemus, J.C. Armas-Prez, G.A. Chapela, andJ. Quintana H. Numerical evidence of liquid crystalline mesophases of a lollipop shaped model in two dimensions.  AIP Advances7, 125202 (2017).

Gustavo R. Prez-Lemus, Julio C. Armas-Prez, Jacqueline Quintana-H, and Abelardo Ramírez-Hernández  J. Hierarchical Complex Self-Assembly in Binary Nanoparticle Mixtures.  Phys.: Condens. Matter 31 475102 (2019).

Dynamics. Denisse Reyes-Arango, Jacqueline Quintana-H., Julio C. Armas-Prez, Humberto Hjar. Defects around nanocolloids in nematic solvents simulated by Multi-particle Collision. Physica A 547 123862 (2020).

Anthony B. Gutiérrez, Brian Ignacio Machorro-Martínez, Jaqueline Quintana, Julio C. Armas-Pérez, Paola Mendoza, Juan Marcos Esparza Lucero & Gustavo A. Chapela (2022) HIV-1 immature virion and other networks formation with simple patchy disks, Molecular Physics, 120:22, e2129759, DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2129759

Brian Ignacio Machorro-Martínez, Anthony B. Gutiérrez, Jacqueline Quintana, Julio C. Armas-Pérez, Paola Mendoza-Espinosa & Gustavo A. Chapela (2023) HIV-1 immature virion network and icosahedral capsids self-assembly with patchy spheres, Molecular Physics, 121:19-20, e2228422, DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2023.2228422

Machorro-Martínez, BI; Armas-Perez, JC; Chapela, GA*; Quintana-H, J.* Self-assembly of single species polygons with patchy models in 2D. Mol. Phys. 2024, 122 (19-20), e2398129. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2024.2398129.

Mendoza-Espinosa, P.; Quintana-H, J.*; Armas-Perez, J.C.; Guzmán, O.; Chapela, G.A. Interaction of HIV-1 Gag matrix domain with plasma membrane from coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Mol. Phys. 2024, 22 (19-20), e2366006. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2024.2366006.