Professor José Luís Figueiredo and Doctor Sónia Carabineiro are co-authors of a scientific publication that was featured as the cover of Chemistry - An Asian Journal.

More information about the cover picture can be found in:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asia.201700839/abstract

Full Paper reference:
J. Wang, L.M.D.R.S. Martins, A.P.C. Ribeiro, S.A.C. Carabineiro, J.L. Figueiredo, A.J.L. Pombeiro. Supported C-Scorpionate Vanadium(IV) Complexes as Reusable Catalysts for Xylene Oxidation. Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 12:1915-1919, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/asia.201700499

Asma Sharkway has received the Best Student Contribution Prize from the Scientific Committee of the 25th International Conference on Bioencapsulation held at La Chapelle sur Erdre (Nantes), France on July 3-6, 2017

The work presented at this conference Aroma encapsulation for antibacterial and eco-friendly textile finishing was part of Asma’s Master Thesis entitled Vanillin encapsulation for eco-friendly textile application and performed at LSRE-LCM under the supervision of Professors Alírio Rodrigues and Filomena Barreiro.

We congratulate Asma, who will soon join again LSRE-LCM as PhD Student with a scholarship from FCT/PDEQB.