Dr. Yunuen Montelongo

Personal info:

Dr Yunuen Montelongo studied the degree in Physical Engineering at the University of Guanajuato, with a specialization in optoelectronics at the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica. Later, he founded Innomof, a company dedicated to technological development. Through this company, he obtained three CONACYT projects focused on the development of laser systems for the regional industry. Subsequently, between 2008 and 2010 he studied the Master in Optical Systems in a consortium of universities (Cambridge, Oxford and Dundee) in the United Kingdom, the same period in which he worked as an engineer at Plastic Logic, a company dedicated to the development of organic semiconductors for flexible displays. In 2010 he started his PhD studies in photonics at the University of Cambridge and received the prestigious scholarships from Cambridge Trust and Fitzwilliam College. In 2014 he finished his PhD studies and began a post-doctoral position at Imperial Collage London where he continued studying photonic materials. Currently Dr. Montelongo is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica and is a member of the National System of Researchers.
Throughout his career, Dr Montelongo has managed to demonstrate important physical phenomena, including the first 180 degree holographic reconstruction, the first nanoconfigurable material with optical pressure, and the first electro-modulable metasurface. Dr Montelongo has more than thirty peer-reviewed international articles and has published as first author in the prestigious journals of Nature and PNAS. His works have reached a great impact, six of his articles are considered by Altmetrics in the top 5% of media attention. His works have appeared on journal covers and various international magazines and media outlets including Nature, Popular Science, Wired Magazine, The Telegraph, among others. In his short career he has reached over a thousand citations.

Research Interests:

• Metasurfaces and metamaterials
• Nanophotonics
• Photonic crystals
• Modern Holography

Selected Publications:

• Geng, W., Jiang, N., Qing, G.-Y., Liu, X., Wang, L., Busscher, H.J., Tian, G., Sun, T., Wang, L.-Y., Montelongo, Y., Janiak, C., Zhang, G., Yang, X.-Y., Su, B.-L.
  Click Reaction for Reversible Encapsulation of Single Yeast Cells
  (2019) ACS Nano, 13 (12), pp. 14459-14467.
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b08108
• Yetisen, A.K., Soylemezoglu, B., Dong, J., Montelongo, Y., Butt, H., Jakobi, M., Koch, A.
  Capillary flow in microchannel circuitry of scleral lenses
  (2019) RSC Advances, 9 (20), pp. 11186-11193.
  DOI: 10.1039/C9RA01094G
• Ma, Y., Zagar, C., Klemme, D.J., Sikdar, D., Velleman, L., Montelongo, Y., Oh, S.-H., Kucernak, A.R., Edel, J.B., Kornyshev, A.A.
  A Tunable Nanoplasmonic Mirror at an Electrochemical Interface
  (2018) ACS Photonics, 5 (11), pp. 4604-4616.
  DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01105
• Butler, T.P., Rashid, I., Montelongo, Y., Amaratunga, G.A.J., Butt, H.
  Optical bandgap modelling from the structural arrangement of carbon nanotu
  bes (2018) Nanoscale, 10 (22), pp. 10683-10690.
  DOI: 10.1039/c7nr09567h
• Jiang, N., Butt, H., Montelongo, Y., Liu, F., Afewerki, S., Ying, G.-L., Dai, Q., Yun, S.-H., Yetisen, A.K.
  Laser Interference Lithography for the Nanofabrication of Stimuli-Responsive Bragg Stacks
  (2018) Advanced Functional Materials, 28 (24), art. no. 1702715, .
  DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201702715
• Jiang, N., Montelongo, Y., Butt, H., Yetisen, A.K.
  Microfluidic Contact Lenses
  (2018) Small, 14 (15), art. no. 1704363, .
  DOI: 10.1002/smll.201704363
• Jiang, N., Ahmed, R., Rifat, A.A., Guo, J., Yin, Y., Montelongo, Y., Butt, H., Yetisen, A.K.
  Functionalized Flexible Soft Polymer Optical Fibers for Laser Photomedicine
  (2018) Advanced Optical Materials, 6 (3), art. no. 1701118, .
  DOI: 10.1002/adom.201701118
• Jiang, N., Ying, G.-L., Yetisen, A.K., Montelongo, Y., Shen, L., Xiao, Y.-X., Busscher, H.J., Yang, X.-Y., Su, B.-L.
  A bilayered nanoshell for durable protection of single yeast cells against multiple, simultaneous hostile stimuli
  (2018) Chemical Science, 9 (21), pp. 4730-4735.
  DOI: 10.1039/c8sc01130c
• Williams, C., Montelongo, Y., Wilkinson, T.D.
  Plasmonic Metalens for Narrowband Dual-Focus Imag
  ing (2017) Advanced Optical Materials, 5 (24), art. no. 1700811, .
  DOI: 10.1002/adom.201700811
• Alqurashi, T., Montelongo, Y., Penchev, P., Yetisen, A.K., Dimov, S., Butt, H.
  Femtosecond laser ablation of transparent microphotonic devices and computer-gener
  ated holograms (2017) Nanoscale, 9 (36), pp. 13808-13819.
  DOI: 10.1039/c7nr04377e
• Yetisen, A.K., Jiang, N., Fallahi, A., Montelongo, Y., Ruiz-Esparza, G.U., Tamayol, A., Zhang, Y.S., Mahmood, I., Yang, S.-A., Kim, K.S., Butt, H., Khademhosseini, A., Yun, S.-H.
  Glucose-Sensitive Hydrogel Optical Fibers Functionalized with Phenylboronic Acid
  (2017) Advanced Materials, 29 (15), art. no. 1606380, .
  DOI: 10.1002/adma.201606380
• Montelongo, Y., Sikdar, D., Ma, Y., McIntosh, A.J.S., Velleman, L., Kucernak, A.R., Edel, J.B., Kornyshev, A.A.
  Electrotunable nanoplasmonic liquid mirror
  (2017) Nature Materials, 16 (11), pp. 1127-1135.
  DOI: 10.1038/NMAT4969
• Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Mikulchyk, T., Ahmed, R., Montelongo, Y., Humar, M., Jiang, N., Martin, S., Naydenova, I., Yun, S.H.
  Color-Selective 2.5D Holograms on Large-Area Flexible Substrates for Sensing and Multilevel Security
  (2016) Advanced Optical Materials, 4 (10), pp. 1589-1600.
  DOI: 10.1002/adom.201600162
• Yetisen, A.K., Montelongo, Y., Butt, H.
  Rewritable three-dimensional holographic da
  ta storage via optical forces (2016) Applied Physics Letters, 109 (6), art. no. 061106, .
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4960710
• Montelongo, Y., Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., Yun, S.-H.
  Reconfigurable optical assembly of nanostructures
  (2016) Nature Communications, 7, art. no. 12002, .
  DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12002
• Yetisen, A.K., Montelongo, Y., Qasim, M.M., Butt, H., Wilkinson, T.D., Monteiro, M.J., Yun, S.H.
  Photonic nanosensor for colorimetric detection of metal ions
  (2015) Analytical Chemistry, 87 (10), pp. 5101-5108.
  DOI: 10.1021/ac504274q
• Kong, X.-T., Khan, A.A., Kidambi, P.R., Deng, S., Yetisen, A.K., Dlubak, B., Hiralal, P., Montelongo, Y., Bowen, J., Xavier, S., Jiang, K., Amaratunga, G.A.J., Hofmann, S., Wilkinson, T.D., Dai, Q., Butt, H.
  Graphene-based ultrathin flat lenses
  (2015) ACS Photonics, 2 (2), pp. 200-207.
  DOI: 10.1021/ph500197j
• Williams, C., Montelongo, Y., Tenorio-Pearl, J.O., Cabrero-Vilatela, A., Hofmann, S., Milne, W.I., Wilkinson, T.D.
  Engineered pixels using active plasmonic holograms with liquid crystals
  (2015) Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters, 9 (2), pp. 125-129.
  DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201409524
• Yetisen, A.K., Montelongo, Y., Farandos, N.M., Naydenova, I., Lowe, C.R., Yun, S.H.
  Mechanism of multiple grating formation in high-energy recording of holographic sensors
  (2014) Applied Physics Letters, 105 (26), art. no. 261106, .
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4905352
• Montelongo, Y., Tenorio-Pearl, J.O., Williams, C., Zhang, S., Milne, W.I., Wilkinson, T.D.
  Plasmonic nanoparticle scattering for color holograms
  (2014) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (35), pp. 12679-12683.
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405262111
• Kong, X.-T., Butt, H., Yetisen, A.K., Kangwanwatana, C., Montelongo, Y., Deng, S., Cruz Vasconcellos, F.D., Qasim, M.M., Wilkinson, T.D., Dai, Q.
  Enhanced reflection from inverse tapered nanocone arrays
  (2014) Applied Physics Letters, 105 (5), art. no. 053108, .
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4892580
• Vasconcellos, F.D.C., Yetisen, A.K., Montelongo, Y., Butt, H., Grigore, A., Davidson, C.A.B., Blyth, J., Monteiro, M.J., Wilkinson, T.D., Lowe, C.R.
  Printable Surface Holograms via Laser Ablation
  (2014) ACS Photonics, 1 (6), pp. 489-495.
  DOI: 10.1021/ph400149m
• Yetisen, A.K., Montelongo, Y., Da Cruz Vasconcellos, F., Martinez-Hurtado, J.L., Neupane, S., Butt, H., Qasim, M.M., Blyth, J., Burling, K., Carmody, J.B., Evans, M., Wilkinson, T.D., Kubota, L.T., Monteiro, M.J., Lowe, C.R.
  Reusable, robust, and accurate laser-generated photonic nanosensor
  (2014) Nano Letters, 14 (6), pp. 3587-3593.
  DOI: 10.1021/nl5012504
• Butt, H., Knowles, K.M., Montelongo, Y., Amaratunga, G.A.J., Wilkinson, T.D.
  Devitrite-based optical diffusers
  (2014) ACS Nano, 8 (3), pp. 2929-2935.
  DOI: 10.1021/nn500155e
• Yetisen, A.K., Butt, H., da Cruz Vasconcellos, F., Montelongo, Y., Davidson, C.A.B., Blyth, J., Chan, L., Carmody, J.B., Vignolini, S., Steiner, U., Baumberg, J.J., Wilkinson, T.D., Lowe, C.R.
  Light-directed writing of chemically tunable narrow-band holographic sensors
  (2014) Advanced Optical Materials, 2 (3), pp. 250-254.
  DOI: 10.1002/adom.201300375
• Tsangarides, C.P., Yetisen, A.K., Da Cruz Vasconcellos, F., Montelongo, Y., Qasim, M.M., Wilkinson, T.D., Lowe, C.R., Butt, H.
  Computational modelling and characterisation of nanoparticle-based tuneable photonic crystal sensors
  (2014) RSC Advances, 4 (21), pp. 10454-10461.
  DOI: 10.1039/c3ra47984f
• Montelongo, Y., Tenorio-Pearl, J.O., Milne, W.I., Wilkinson, T.D.
  Polarization switchable diffraction based on subwavelength plasmonic
  nanoantennas (2014) Nano Letters, 14 (1), pp. 294-298.
  DOI: 10.1021/nl4039967
• Butt, H., Kidambi, P.R., Dlubak, B., Montelongo, Y., Palani, A., Amaratunga, G.A.J., Hofmann, S., Wilkinson, T.D.
  Visible diffraction from graphene and its application in holograms
  (2013) Advanced Optical Materials, 1 (11), pp. 869-874.
  DOI: 10.1002/adom.201300320
• Montelongo, Y., Chen, B., Butt, H., Robertson, J., Wilkinson, T.D.
  High contrast holograms using nanotube forest
  (2013) Applied Physics Letters, 103 (11), art. no. 111104, .
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4819379
• Montelongo, Y., Butt, H., Butler, T., Wilkinson, T.D., Amaratunga, G.A.J.
  Computer generated holograms for carbon nanotube arrays
  (2013) Nanoscale, 5 (10), pp. 4217-4222.
  DOI: 10.1039/c3nr33987d
• Butt, H., Butler, T., Montelongo, Y., Rajesekharan, R., Wilkinson, T.D., Amaratunga, G.A.J.
  Continuous diffraction patterns from circular arrays of carbon nanotubes
  (2012) Applied Physics Letters, 101 (25), art. no. 251102, .
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4770503
• Butt, H., Montelongo, Y., Butler, T., Rajesekharan, R., Dai, Q., Shiva-Reddy, S.G., Wilkinson, T.D., Amaratunga, G.A.J.
  Carbon nanotube based high resolution holograms
  (2012) Advanced Materials, 24 (44), pp. OP331-OP336.
  DOI: 10.1002/adma.201202593