The contribution of Ph.D. student Carlos Vega-Aguilar was selected to be the front cover art of Volume 60, Issue 9 of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC) Journal. 

The cover image is from the work entitled Effect of Methoxy Substituents on Wet Peroxide Oxidation of Lignin and Lignin Model Compounds: Understanding the Pathway to C4 Dicarboxylic Acids by Carlos A. Vega-Aguilar, M.F. Barreiro and A.E. Rodrigues (2021).

 According to I&EC, the cover is about:
"Lignin model compounds (p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, and syringic acid) and hardwood and softwood lignin samples were oxidized using hydrogen peroxide oxidation to evaluate methoxy substituents' effect in C4-DCA production (succinic, maleic, fumaric, malic, and tartaric acids)."

Congratulations Carlos!

More info at https://pubs.acs.org/toc/iecred/60/9

LSRE-LCM congratulates Margarida Sarmento Cunha Abrunhosa de Brito for her PhD thesis defense approved by the jury.

On February 26th, 2021 Margarida finished the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled "Mixing Mechanisms in 2D Reactors" supervised by Associate researcher Ricardo Santos, Professor José Carlos Lopes and Dr. Cláudio Fonte from the University of Manchester.

The staff and team of LSRE-LCM wish Margarida success for the new professional stage that will begin!