Research lines

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 techniques: Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry

PhD Thesis

Development of Ion Jelly thin films for electrochemical devices, Tânia Isabel Silva Carvalho, 2013.

Influence of constraining and confinement in the molecular mobility of low molecular weight materials, Ana Rita Elias Brás, 2009.

Molecular mobility of n-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate glass formers upon free radical polymerization, María Teresa Viciosa Plaza, 2007

Collaborations

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas Schönhals (Germany)

Prof. José luís Gómez Ribelles (Spain) 

Prof. Marc Descamps (France)

Prof. Frédéric Affouard (France)

Ass. Prof. Emeline Dudognon (France)

Prof. Norberta Pinho (Portugal)

Prof. João Filipe Mano (Portugal) 

Prof. Isabel Fonseca (Portugal) 

Dr. Luís Branco (Portugal)

and others…

Financed Projects

PTDC/CTM/098979/2008
Molecular mobility, phase transformations and stability of pharmaceutical materials under nanoconfinement

PTDC/CTM/64288/2006
Molecular mobility of low molecular weight materials in complex geometries: nanoporous and polymer matrices

POCTI/CTM/47363/2002
Produção e caracterização de um cristal líquido disperso numa matriz polimérica. Novas estratégias de polimerização e impregnação em scCO2