Maria Madalena A. C. S. Dionísio Andrade

Assistant Professor

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Departamento de Química - Lab. 122
2825-516, Caparica, Portugal

Tel:  +351 212 949 659
Fax: +351 212 948 550
Email: madalena.dionisio@fct.unl.pt

Education

PhD in Physical Chemistry, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal, 1993

Former Positions

  • Professor assistant in FCT-UNL

Research Interests

Glass transition and dynamical behaviour in low-molecular weight glass formers and polymers. Nanoconfinement. Physical ageing.
Materials: monomers, liquid crystals, ionic liquids, amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers, soft and hard membranes, pharmaceutical drugs.
Main technique: Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscop.

Recent Publications

  1. T. Carvalho, V. Augusto, A. R. Brás, N. M. T. Lourenço, C. A. M. Afonso, S. Barreiros, N. T Correia, P. Vidinha, E. J. Cabrita, C. J. Dias, M. Dionísio, B. Roling, Understanding the Ion Jelly Conductivity Mechanism, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116 pp. 2664-2676 (2012) [doi: 10.1021/jp2108768]
  2. E. G. Merino, C. Rodrigues, M. T. Viciosa, C. Melo, J. Sotomayor, M. Dionísio,N. T Correia, Phase Transformations Undergone by Triton X-100 Probed by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115 pp. 12336-12347 (2011) [doi: 10.1021/jp2028033]
  3. E. G. Merino, S. Atlas, M. Raihane, A. Belfkira, M. Lahcini, A. Hult, M. Dionísio, N. T Correia, Molecular dynamics of poly(ATRIF) homopolymer and poly(AN-co-ATRIF) copolymer investigated by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy, European Polymer Journal 47 pp. 1429 (2011) [doi: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2011.04.006]
  4. A. R. Brás, J. P. Noronha, A. M. M. Antunes, M. M. Cardoso, A. Schönhals,F. Affouard, M. Dionísio, N. T Correia, Molecular motions in Amorphous Ibuprofen as Studied by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112 pp. 11087-11099 (2008) [doi: 10.1021/jp8040428]