Projects per year
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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Hacia una Economía Circular: Gestión sostenible de envases vacíos de plaguicidas de los agricultores del Cantón de Oreamuno, Cartago
Abarca Guerrero, L. (Institutional academic coordinator), Villagra Mendoza, K. (Institutional academic collaborator) & Picado Valverde, S. (Institutional academic collaborator)
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Internally funded extension projects › Participatory and collaborative action
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Implementación de la Resonancia Magnética Nuclear para el monitoreo de los procesos de transformación de los residuos agroindustriales
Villalta Romero, F. (Coordinating Researcher (may be from TEC or another entity)), Céspedes Camacho, I. (Institutional academic collaborator), Murillo Vega, F. (Institutional academic collaborator), Orozco Gutiérrez, F. (External collaborating researcher ) & Butenschön, E. (External collaborating researcher )
National Center of High Technology (CeNAT-CONARE), Universität Leipzig
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research Projects Internally funded › Basic and applied research
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Valorización de biomasas de cadenas agroindustriales bajo un modelo de bioeconomía circular en la producción de bioadsorbentes como medio de descontaminación ambiental (EcoValor)
Ariza Castro, N. (Institutional academic coordinator), Rodríguez Zúñiga, A. L. (Institutional academic coordinator), Hernández Chaverri, R. A. (External collaborating researcher ), Rojas Sánchez, C. (External collaborating researcher ), Bastante Menezes, D. (External collaborating researcher ) & Jiménez Silva, A. (External collaborating researcher )
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research Projects With national external funds › Basic and applied research
Research output
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¿Apuestas al rendimiento?: una experiencia de aprendizaje gamificada sobre los factores que influyen en el equilibrio químico en un aula universitaria
Herrera-Núñez, J., 31 Jan 2026, In: Educación Química. 37, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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6 H Hydrothermal Synthesis of W-Doped VO2(M) for Smart Windows in Tropical Climates
Murillo-Quirós, N., Alvarado-Hidalgo, F., Starbird-Perez, R., Castellón, E., Hernández-Montero, N., Ramírez, H. B., Sáenz-Arce, G., Dittel-Meza, F. A. & Avendaño Soto, E., Jan 2026, In: Materials. 19, 2, 345.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
A Greener Solid-State Route to Thermochromic VO2(M1) Powders: Low-Vacuum Synthesis with Minimal Waste and Tungsten Doping
Murillo-Quirós, N., Starbird-Perez, R., Lobo-Sánchez, G. & Avendaño-Soto, E., 11 May 2026, In: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. 14, 18, p. 8587-8596 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations
Press/Media
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Turbine Blades Have Piled Up in Landfills. A Solution May Be Coming.
31/08/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
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NREL: La resina hecha de biomasa permite el reciclaje de palas de aerogeneradores
23/08/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media
Datasets
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Boron diffusion coefficients in five tropical wood
Berrocal Jiménez, A. (Creator), Moya Roque, R. A. (Creator), Gaitán Álvarez, J. (Creator) & Starbird Pérez, R. (Creator), Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, 17 Jan 2026
https://dataverse.tec.ac.cr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.18845/RDA/FUURHC
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