Canales C., Galarce C., Rubio F., Pineda F., Anguita J., Barros R., Parragué M., Daille L., Aguirre J., Armijo F., Pizarro G., Walczak M., De la Iglesia R., Navarrete S., Vargas I. (2021). Testing the Test: A Comparative Study of Marine Microbial Corrosion under Laboratory and Field Conditions. ACS OMEGA
Simone Baldanzi, Ignacio T. Vargas, Francisco Armijo, Miriam Fernández and Sergio A. Navarrete. Experimental Assessment of a Conducting Polymer (PEDOT) and Microbial Biofilms as Deterrents and Facilitators of Macro-Biofouling: Larval Settlement of the Barnacle Notobalanus flosculus (Darwin, 1854) from Central Chile. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(1), 82; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010082
Daille L.K., Aguirre J., Fischer D., Galarce C., Armijo F., Pizarro G.E., Walczak M., de la Iglesia R., Vargas I.T. (2020) Effect of Tidal Cycles on Bacterial Biofilm Formation and Biocorrosion of Stainless Steel AISI 316L. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8 2 124
De la Fuente M.J., Daille L.K., de la Iglesia R., Walczak M., Armijo F., Pizarro G.E., Vargas I.T. (2020). Electrochemical Bacterial Enrichment from Natural Seawater and Its Implications in Biocorrosion of Stainless-Steel Electrodes. Materials 13 10 2327
D.A. Fischer, I.T. Vargas, G.E. Pizarro, F. Armijo, M. Walczak, (2019). 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. Electrochimica Acta
Aguirre J., Daille L., Fischer D.A., Galarce C., Pizarro G., Vargas I., Walczak M., de la Iglesia R. and Armijo F. (2017) Study of poly(3,4-ethylendioxythiphene) as a coating for mitigation of biocorrosion of AISI 304 stainless steel in natural seawater. Progress in Organic Coatings, 113, 175-184. DOI: 10.1016/j.porgcoat.2017.09.009
Diego A. Fischer, Leslie Daille, Javiera Aguirre, Carlos Galarce, Francisco Armijo, Rodrigo De la Iglesia, Gonzalo Pizarro, Ignacio Vargas, Magdalena Walczak. (2016) Corrosion of Stainless Steel in Simulated Tide of Fresh Natural Seawater of South East Pacific. Int. J. Electrochem. Sci., 11 6873-6885. DOI: 10.20964/2016.08.50
Corrosión y biocorrosión de tuberías:
Galarce C., Fischer D., Diez B., Vargas I.T., Pizarro G.E. (2020) Dynamics of Biocorrosion in Copper Pipes under Actual Drinking Water Conditions. Water 12 4 1036
Caro-Lara L., Ramos-Moore E., Vargas I.T., Walczak M., Fuentes C., Gómez A.V., Barrera N.P., Castillo J., Pizarro G. (2021). Initial adhesion suppression of biofilm-forming and copper-tolerant bacterium Variovorax sp. on laser microtextured copper surfaces. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 202 111656
Vargas I. T., Anguita J. M., Pastén P.A., Pizarro G.E. (2019). Chlorine Reduction Kinetics and its Mass Balance in Copper Premise Plumbing Systems During Corrosion Events. Materials 12 22 3676
Galarce C., Pineda F., Fischer D.A., Flores M., Vargas I., Sancy M., Pizarro G.E. (2019) Effect of Hazardous Bacteria Isolated from Copper Plumbing System on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Copper. International Journal of Electrochemical Science 14 2305 2320
Vargas I.T., Fischer D., Alsina M.A., Pavissich J.P., Pastén P.A. and Pizarro G.E. (2017). Copper Corrosion and Biocorrosion Events in Premise Plumbing. Materials 10 9 30pp
Tratamiento biológico de aguas y tecnologías de monitoreo:
De La Fuente M.J., De la Iglesia R., Farias L., Daims H., Lukumbuzya M., Vargas I. (2021) Electrochemical enrichment of marine denitrifying bacteria to enhance nitrate metabolization in seawater. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
Leiva-Aravena E., Leiva E., Zamorano V., Rojas C., Regan J.M., Vargas I.T. (2019). Organotrophic acid-tolerant microorganisms enriched from an acid mine drainage affected environment as inoculum for microbial fuel cells. Science of the Total Environment
Tapia N.F., Rojas C., Bonilla C.A. and Vargas I.T. (2018). A New Method for Sensing Soil Water Content in Green Roofs Using Plant Microbial Fuel Cells. Sensors 18 1 9pp
Araneda I., Tapia N.F., Lizama Allende K. and Vargas I.T. (2018). Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Greywater Treatment. Water 10 7 9pp
Anguita J.M., Rojas C., Pastén P.A. and Vargas I.T. (2018) A new aerobic chemolithoautotrophic arsenic oxidizing microorganism isolated from a high Andean watershed. Biodegradation 29 1 59-69
Leiva E., Leiva-Aravena E., Rodríguez C., Serrano J. and Vargas I. (2018). Arsenic removal mediated by acidic pH neutralization and iron precipitation in microbial fuel cells. Science of the Total Environment 645 15 471-481
Vega M., Nerenberg R. and Vargas I.T. (2018). Perchlorate contamination in Chile: Legacy, challenges, and potential solutions Environmental. Research 164 316-326
Anguita J.M., Vera M.A. and Vargas I.T. (2018). The Electrochemically Active Arsenic Oxidising Bacterium Ancylobacter sp. TS‐1. ChemElectroChem 5 23 3633-3638
Rojas C., Bruns M.A., Vargas I. and Regan J. Electrochemically Active Microorganisms from an Acid Mine Drainage-Affected Site Promote Cathode Oxidation in Microbial Fuel Cells. Bioelectrochemistry 2017, (118) 139-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2017.07.013
Leiva E., Leiva-Aravena E., Vargas I. Acid Water Neutralization Using Microbial Fuel Cell: An Alternative for Acid Mine Drainage Treatment. Water 2016, 8(11), 536; doi:10.3390/w8110536
