Biospectroscopy and Interfaces Research Group

1. A. Aguiar-Ricardo, V.D.B. Bonifácio, T. Casimiro, V.G. Correia, Supercritical carbon dioxide design strategies: From drug carriers to soft killers, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2015, 373, 20150009.
2. A. Cunha, O.F. Zouani, L. Plawinski, A. M. Botelho do Rego, A. Almeida, R. Vilar, M.-C. Durrieu, Human mesenchymal stem cells behavior onto femtosecond laser textured Ti-6Al-4V surfaces,
Nanomedicine, 2015, 10(5), 725-39.
3. A. Soares, M.F. Júlio, I. Flores-Colen, L. Ilharco, J. de Brito, J.M.G. Martinho, Water-Resistance of Mortars with Lightweight Aggregates,
Key Engineering Materials 2015, 634, 46-53.
4. A.A. Duarte, A.M. Botelho do Rego, M. Salerno, P.A. Ribeiro, N. El Bari, B. Bouchikhi, M. Raposo, DPPG liposomes adsorbed on polymer cushions: Effect of roughness on amount, surface composition and topography,
J. Phys. Chem. B 2015, 119, 8544–8552.
5. A.P. Carapeto, A.M. Ferraria, S. Boufi, M. Rei Vilar, A.M. Botelho do Rego, Ion reduction in metallic nanoparticles nucleation and growth on cellulose films: Does substrate play a role?
Cellulose 2015, 22 (1), 173–186.
6. A.R. Garcia, L.M. F. Lopes, R. Brito de Barros, L.M. Ilharco, The Problem of 2,4,6-Trichloroanisole in cork planks studied by attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy: A proof of concept,
J. Agric. Food Chem. 2015.
7. B. Nunes, N. Franco, A.M. Botelho do Rego, E. Alves, R. Colaço, Structural characterization of dual ion implantation in silicon,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2015, 365A, 39-43 .
8. D.P. Ferreira, D.S. Conceição, Y. Prostota, P.F. Santos, L.F.V. Ferreira, Fluorescent “rhodamine-like” hemicyanines derived from the 6-(N,N-diethylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroxanthylium system,
Dyes and Pigments 2015, 112, 73-80.
9. D.S. Conceição, D.P. Ferreira, V.C. Graça, C.R. Silva, P.F. Santos, L.F. Vieira Ferreira, Photochemical studies of new benzothiazole- and benzoselenazole-derived aminosquarylium dyes,
Tetrahedron 2015, 71, 967-976.
10. E.N. Bodunov, M.N. Berberan-Santos, Stretched exponential kinetics of the luminescence concentration depolarization and penetration depth of molecules in a medium,
Optics and Spectroscopy 2015, 119, 22-28.
11. E. Torres, M.N. Berberan-Santos, M.J. Brites, Synthesis, photophysical and electrochemical properties of perylene dyes,
Dyes and Pigments 2015, 112, 298-304.
12. E.M. Saggioro, A.S. Oliveira, D.F. Buss. D.P. Magalhães, T. Pavesi, M. Jimenez, M.I. Maldonado, L.F. Vieira Ferreira, J.C. Moreira, Photo-decolorization and ecotoxicological effects of solar compound parabolic collector pilot plant and artificial light photocatalysis of indigo carmine dye,
Dyes and Pigments 2015, 115, 571-580.
13. F. Fernandes, A. Coutinho, M. Prieto, L.M.S. Loura, Electrostatically driven lipid-protein interaction: Answers from FRET,
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 2015, 1848 (9), 1837-1848.
14. G. Marcelo, S. Pinto, T. Cañeque, A. Cuadro, J. Vaquero, J. Martinho, E. Maçôas, Nonlinear emission of quinolizinium based dyes with application in fluorescence lifetime imaging,
J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119, 2351-2362.
15. I.S. Ferreira, F. Fernandes, R. Pilkington, M. Callaghan, S. McClean, and L. Moreira, The tyrosine kinase BceF and the phosphotyrosine phosphatase BceD of Burkholderia contaminans are required for efficient invasion and epithelial disruption of a cystic fibrosis lung epithelial cell line,
Infection and Immunity 2015, 83, 812-821.
16. J.M. Campos, A.M. Ferraria, A.M. Botelho do Rego, M.R. Ribeiro, A. Barros-Timmons, Studies on PLA grafting onto graphene oxide and its effect on the ensuing composite films,
Materials Chemistry and Physics 2015, 166 122–132.
17. K. Navaneetha Pandiyaraj, A.M. Ferraria, A.M. Botelho do Rego, R.R. Deshmukh, P.-G. Su, Jr. Mercy Halleluyah, A.S. Bin Halim, Low-pressure plasma enhanced immobilisation of chitosan on low-density polyethylene for bio-medical applications,
Applied Surface Science 2015, 328 , 1–12.
18. L. Martelo, A. Fedorov, M.N. Berberan-Santos, Fluorescence phasor plots using time domain data: Effect of the instrument response function,
J. Phys. Chem. B 2015, 119, 10267-10274.
19. L. Martelo, A. Fedorov, M.N. Berberan-Santos, Phasor representation of monomer-excimer kinetics: General results and application to pyrene,
J. Phys. Chem. B 2015, 119, 15023-15029.
20. L.F. Vieira Ferreira, A. Gonzalez, M.F.C. Pereira, L.F. Santos, T.M. Casimiro, D.P. Ferreira, D.S. Conceição, I. Ferreira Machado, Spectroscopy of 16th century Portuguese tin-glazed earthenware produced in the region of Lisbon,
Ceram. Intern. 2015, 41, 13433–13446.
21. L.F. Vieira Ferreira, D.P. Ferreira, D.S. Conceição, L.F. Santos, M.F.C. Pereira, T. M. Casimiro, I. Ferreira Machado, Portuguese tin-glazed earthenware from the 17th century. Part 2: a spectroscopic characterisation of pigments, glazes and pastes of the three main production centres,
Spectrochimica Acta A 2015, 149, 285-294.
22. M.N. Berberan-Santos, Probabilistic view of the luminescence phasor plot and description of the universal semicircle as the sum of two spiraling curves,
J. Math. Chem. 2015, 53, 1207-1219.
23. M.N. Berberan-Santos, Phasor plots of luminescence decay functions,
Chemical Physics, 2015, 449, 23-33. [Cover].
24. M. Raposo, Q. Ferreira, A. R. Monteiro, P.A. Ribeiro, A. M. Botelho do Rego, Contribution of counterions and degree of ionisation for birefringence creation and relaxation kinetics parameters of PAH/PAZO films,
J. Appl. Phys.2015, 118, 114504.
25. M. Rei Vilar, A. M. Ferraria, A.M. Botelho do Rego, S. Boufi, Cellulose: De nouvelles perspectives pour un matériau millénaire (Cellulose: new insights for a millenary material),
Actualité Chimique Journal de la Société Chimique de France, 2015, 393-394, février-mars, 102-107.
26. P. Carapeto, A.M. Ferraria, P. Brogueira, S. Boufi, A.M. Botelho do Rego, Cellulose films: Designing template-free nanoporous cellulose films on semiconducting surfaces,
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2015, 21 (01), 102–107.
27. P.J. Gomes, A.M. Ferraria, A.M. Botelho do Rego, S.V. Hoffmann, P.A. Ribeiro, M. Raposo, Energy thresholds of DNA damage induced by UV radiation: An XPS study,
J. Phys. Chem. B 2015, 119 (17), 5404–5411.
28. P.S. Roseiro, P. Adão, A.M. Galvão, J.C. Pessoa, A.M. Botelho do Rego, M.F.N.N. Carvalho, Oxygen activation by copper camphor complexes,
Inorg. Chem. Frontiers, 2015, 2, 1019-1028.
29. R. Ciriminna, A. Fidalgo, M. Pagliaro, L.M. Ilharco, Sol-gel microspheres doped with glycerol: A structural insight in light of forthcoming application,
Chemistry Open, 2015, 4, 120-126. [Cover].
30. R. Ciriminna, A. Fidalgo, V. Pandarus, F. Béland, L.M. Ilharco, M. Pagliaro, New catalyst series from the sol–gel-entrapment of gold nanoparticles in organically modified silica matrices: Proof of performance in a model oxidation reaction,
ChemCatChem 2015, 7, 254-260. [Back Cover].
31. R. Ciriminna, F. Meneguzzo, A. Fidalgo, L.M. Ilharco, M. Pagliaro, Extraction, benefits and valorization of olive polyphenols,
Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol. 2015, 117, 0000-0000.
32. R. Ciriminna, V. Pandarus, A. Fidalgo, L.M. Ilharco, F. Beland, M. Pagliaro, SiliaCat: A versatile catalyst series for synthetic organic chemistry,
Organic Process Research & Development 2015, 19, 755-768.
33. S. Nascimento, A. Fedorov, M.J. Brites, M.N. Berberan-Santos, New coumarin-[60]fullerene dyads connected by an alkynyl linkage: Synthesis and fluorescence studies. Evidence for efficient singlet-singlet energy transfer,
Dyes and Pigments 2015, 114, 158-165.
34. S. Realista, A.S. Viana, B.P. Cardoso, A.M. Botelho do Rego, P.D. Vaz, A.I. Melato, P.N. Martinho, M.J. Calhorda, Asymmetric binuclear Ni(II) and Cu(II) Schiff base metallopolymers”,
RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 39495-39504.
35. S. Salomé, M.C. Oliveira, A.M. Ferraria, A.M. Botelho do Rego, A. Querejeta, F. Alcaide, P.L. Cabot, R. Rego, Synthesis and testing of new carbon-supported PdP catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte fuel cells,
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 754 (2015) 8–21.
36. T. Palmeira, A. Fedorov, M.N. Berberan-Santos, Influence of excited-state absorption on time-resolved luminescence: General formalism and application to the phosphorescence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,
ChemPhysChem 2015, 16, 640-648. [Spotlight].
37. T. Palmeira, M.N. Berberan-Santos, Effect of triplet-triplet absorption on time-resolved phosphorescence,
J. Luminescence 2015, 158, 510-518.
38. T. Sousa, R.E. Castro, S.N. Pinto, A. Coutinho, S.D. Lucas, R. Moreira, C.M.P. Rodrigues, M. Prieto, F. Fernandes, Deoxycholic acid modulates cell death signaling through changes in mitochondrial membrane properties,
J. Lip. Res. 2015, 56(11), 2158-2171.
39. T.P. Dao, F. Fernandes, M. Er-Rafik, R. Salva, M. Schmutz, A. Brûlet, M. Prieto, O. Sandre, J.F. Le Meins, Phase separation and nanodomain formation in hybrid polymer/lipid vesicles,
ACS Macro Lett. 2015, 4, 182-186.
40. T. Braz, Q. Ferreira, A.L. Mendonça, A.M. Ferraria, A.M. B. Rego, J. Morgado, Morphology of ferroelectric/conjugated polymer phase-separated blends, used in non-volatile resistive memories. Direct evidence for a diffuse interface,
J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119 (3), 1391–1399.
41. V.G. Bessergenev, M.C. Mateus, A.M. Botelho do Rego, M. Hantusch, E. Burkel, An improvement of photocatalytic activity of TiO2 Degussa P25 powder,
Applied Catalysis A: General 2015, 500, 40-50.
42. V.G. Correia, A.M. Ferraria, M.G. Pinho, A. Aguiar-Ricardo, Antimicrobial contact-active oligo(2-oxazoline)s-grafted surfaces for fast water disinfection at the point-of-use,
Biomacromolecules 2015, 16 (12), 3904–3915.