Ignacio Tomas Vargas
email itvargas@uc.cl
Research Lines:
Bio-energy Environmental Microbiology Biological Waste Water and Liquid Industrial Waste Treatment Systems Bio-corrosion of Potable Water Systems and Bio-geo-chemistryKeywords from publications:
Microbial Fuel Cell Oxyanions Biocathode Microbial Electrochemical Technologies Greywater Granular Activated Carbon Ver más...Profile
Ignacio Vargas es Ingeniero Civil Ambiental de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Se licenció el año 2004 y recibió el grado de Doctor en Ciencias de la Ingeniería de la misma institución el año 2009. Durante los años 2010 y 2011 realizó un Postdoctorado en The Pennsylvania State Unversity (USA) desarrollando sistemas bioelectroquímicos o microbial fuel cells (MFCs) para producir energía a partir del metabolismo microbiano. Actualmente se desempeña como académico de jornada completa en el Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile donde realiza docencia e investigación en el área de Ingeniería Ambiental. Sus temas de interés se vinculan con la bioenergía, microbiología ambiental, sistemas de tratamiento biológico de aguas residuales y RILes, biocorrosión y biogeoquímica.
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| Soil microbial community responses to labile organic carbon fractions in relation to soil type and land use along a climate gradient | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107692 |
| A New Method for Sensing Soil Water Content in Green Roofs Using Plant Microbial Fuel Cells | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3390/s18010071 |
| Evaluation of Sedum as driver for plant microbial fuel cells in a semi-arid green roof ecosystem | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.08.017 |
| Chlorine Reduction Kinetics and its Mass Balance in Copper Premise Plumbing Systems During Corrosion Events | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12223676 |
| Effect of Tidal Cycles on Bacterial Biofilm Formation and Biocorrosion of Stainless Steel AISI 316L | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8020124 |
| The effect of scan rate on the precision of determining corrosion current by Tafel extrapolation: A numerical study on the example of pure Cu in chloride containing medium | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2019.04.064 |
| Effect of Hazardous Bacteria Isolated From Copper Plumbing System on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Copper | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.20964/2019.03.09 |
| Copper Corrosion and Biocorrosion Events in Premise Plumbing | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10091036 |
| Study of poly(3,4-ethylendioxythiphene) as a coating for mitigation of biocorrosion of AISI 304 stainless steel in natural seawater | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2017.09.009 |
| A new aerobic chemolithoautotrophic arsenic oxidizing microorganism isolated from a high Andean watershed | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-017-9813-x |
| Organotrophic acid-tolerant microorganisms enriched from an acid mine drainage affected environment as inoculum for microbial fuel cells | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.003 |
| The Electrochemically Active Arsenic Oxidising Bacterium Ancylobacter sp TS-1 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201800943 |
| Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Greywater Treatment | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3390/w10070940 |
| Arsenic removal mediated by acidic pH neutralization and iron precipitation in microbial fuel cells | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.378 |
| Perchlorate contamination in Chile: Legacy, challenges, and potential solutions | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.02.034 |
| Electrochemically active microorganisms from an acid mine drainage-affected site promote cathode oxidation in microbial fuel cells | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2017.07.013 |
| When material science meets microbial ecology: Bacterial community selection on stainless steels in natural seawater | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112955 |
| Perchlorate and chlorate assessment in drinking water in northern Chilean cities | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116450 |
| Electrotrophic perchlorate reduction by a psychrotolerant acidophile isolated from an acid rock drainage in Antarctica | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2023.108458 |
| Toward sustainability and resilience in Chilean cities: Lessons and recommendations for air, water, and soil issues | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18191 |
| Synergistic effect of electrotrophic perchlorate reducing microorganisms and chemically modified electrodes for enhancing bioelectrochemical perchlorate removal | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116442 |
| Microbial electrochemistry and technology capacity building challenges-focus on Latin America & Caribbean and Africa | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-023-05761-x |
| Seasonal variation in the biological succession of marine diatoms over 316L stainless steel in a coastal environment of Chile | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2023.2300150 |
| Enhancing the contact-killing effect of copper by surface laser texturing | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2022.108497 |
| Mathematical modelling of microbial corrosion in carbon steel due to early-biofilm formation of sulfate-reducing bacteria via extracellular electron transfer | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2022.108058 |
| Testing the Test: A Comparative Study of Marine Microbial Corrosion under Laboratory and Field Conditions | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c01762 |
| Initial adhesion suppression of biofilm-forming and copper-tolerant bacterium Variovorax sp. on laser microtextured copper surfaces | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.111656 |
| Winogradsky Bioelectrochemical System as a Novel Strategy to Enrich Electrochemically Active Microorganisms from Arsenic-Rich Sediments | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13111953 |
| Bioprospecting for electrochemically active perchlorate-reducing microorganisms | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2022.108171 |
| Enhanced nitrogen and carbon removal in natural seawater by electrochemical enrichment in a bioelectrochemical reactor | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116294 |
| Biofilm formation of <i>Ancylobacter</i> sp. TS-1 on different granular materials and its ability for chemolithoautotrophic As(III)-oxidation at high concentrations | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126733 |
| Chlorate addition enhances perchlorate reduction in denitrifying membrane-biofilm reactors | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-022-11976-1 |
| Mining for Perchlorate Resistance Genes in Microorganisms From Sediments of a Hypersaline Pond in Atacama Desert, Chile | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.723874 |
| Bioelectrochemical chlorate reduction by <i>Dechloromonas agitata</i> CKB | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123818 |
| Electrochemical enrichment of marine denitrifying bacteria to enhance nitrate metabolization in seawater | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.105604 |
| Experimental Assessment of a Conducting Polymer (PEDOT) and Microbial Biofilms as Deterrents and Facilitators of Macro-Biofouling: Larval Settlement of the Barnacle <i>Notobalanus flosculus</i> (Darwin, 1854) from Central Chile | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010082 |
| Long-term evaluation of soil-based bioelectrochemical green roof systems for greywater treatment | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122643 |
| Energy and copper recovery from acid mine drainage by microbial fuel cells. Effect of the hydrochar doping on carbon felt anodes | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2024.129095 |
| Synthetic greywater treatment using a scalable granular activated carbon bioelectrochemical reactor | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2024.108741 |
| Marine biocorrosion inhibition of Pseudomonas sp. biofilms on 304 stainless steel coated with poly-6-aminoindole produced by two different electrochemical methods | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2024.108605 |
| Granular activated carbon tubular microbial fuel cell for decentralized greywater treatment | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2025.237121 |
| Enrichment of electrochemically active microorganisms in a chlorate-pressured environment | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2025.116696 |
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Pedro Hernandez1 publication
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Ester Lopez1 publication
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Janice Limson1 publication
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Javiera Castillo1 publication
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