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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/

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