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Contribution of Prof. Alírio Rodrigues in special Issue cover from Journal of Chemical Engineering Data

December 13, 2019

Emeritus Professor Alírio E. Rodrigues was invited to contribute to the Journal of Chemical Engineering Data's special issue "Celebrating Our High Impact Authors Special Issue". 

Prof. Alírio Rodrigues' contribution was entitled "Adsorption Equilibrium of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrogen, Carbon Monoxide, and Hydrogen on UiO-66(Zr)_(COOH)2" and was selected to be in the Special issue Cover.

The cover shows some images from papers in this special issue. The top left image is from Adsorption equilibrium of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen on UiO-66(Zr)_(COOH)2 by M.A. Moreira, R.O.M. Dias, U.-Hwang Lee, Jong-San Chang, A.M. Ribeiro, A. F.P. Ferreira and A.E. Rodrigues (DOI:10.1021/acs.jced.9b00053)


Portuguese contribution in Boletín del Grupo Español del Carbón by Prof. José Luís Figueiredo

December 13, 2019

A special issue of Boletín del Grupo Español de Carbón, nº54, is dedicated to the recent research carried out on carbon materials in Portugal.

This special issue contains two contributions by Emeritus Professor José Luís Figueiredo, integrated member of LSRE-LCM, entitled "The Carbon Group of the Portuguese Chemical Society (Grupo do Carbono@SPQ)" and "Carbon materials@LCM: an update"

More information:

BoletínGEC nº54 here: http://www.gecarbon.org/Boletines/Boletin/BoletinGEC_054.pdf
Webpage of Grupo Español del Carbón: http://www.gecarbon.org/

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

J.L. Figueiredo. A Relevância da Indústria Química e o seu Contributo para a Sociedade. Princípia Editora, Lda., Cascais, 2022

APPROVED PROJECTS

ERA-ARE - A new ERA for Environmental Risk Assessment: Chirality as a tool towards environmentally safe pharmaceuticals. Reference: ERC - 101039270. Funded by: European Comission, Horizon Europe | ERC | STARTING GRANTS. Starting Date: 2023/12/31. Duration: 60 months.
F-CAT - A catalytic tool for the defluorination of PFAS in drinking water into degradable organics. Reference: 2022.03874.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.
STAR - STereoselective environmental processes in Antibiotics: role for Resistance. Reference: 2022.02842.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.
DRopH2O - Drinking water quality: early warning and removal of microcontaminants by innovative carbon-based materials. Reference: 2022.08738.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.
SuN2Fuel - Photo-assisted production of green ammonia-based fuels. Reference: 2022.04682.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.
CO2-to-CH4 - Cutting-edge solar-to-heat technology to foster photo-thermocatalytic CO2 methanation towards a climate-neutral economy. Reference: 2022.01176.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.
H2O-3DCapture - Water harvesting – sustainable solution based on a gas-adsorption process using innovative 3D-printed hybrid materials. Reference: 2022.01973.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.

THESIS DEFENSES

Vinicius Viena Santana
Cyber-physical oriented chemical process for green and sustainable production
André Tiago Torres Pinto
Optimised 2D Carbon Materials Activated by Artificial Light and Electrical Current for Catalytic Water and Wastewater Treatment
Larissa Oliveira Paulista
Solar-Driven Thermo-Photocatalytic CO2 Valorisation into Value-Added Fuels
Isabel Sousa Fernandes
Multiphase Flow in NETmix: mixing studies and applications
Rute Agostinha Gomes Seabra
Separation of light hydrocarbons by Simulated Moving Bed
Rafael Gomes Morais
Noble-metal free carbon-based materials for energy conversion