Ongoing Supervisions
Cátia Afonso
PhD Student
Sonia Chimuco
PhD StudentProjects
Oxicidade Humana de nanopartículas de titânio e cério em co-exposição com contaminantes clássicos. (NANOLEGATOX)
Local CoordinatorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Providing solutions for water treatment and recovering of technological critical elements: from ‘the wonder material’ to new chemobrionics systems (GraphChem)
CoordinatorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Problem: Water is a vital resource for life, but according with the United Nations, in 2017, an estimated 3 billion people worldwide lacked the ability to safely wash their hands at home – one of the cheapest, easiest, and most effective ways to prevent the spread of diseases like the coronavirus, and despite progress 2.2 billion of people throug...Seagrass beds as green and blue infrastructures for ecosystem restoration (RemediGrass)
PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Publications
Simple, mono and bifunctional periodic mesoporous organosilicas for removal of priority hazardous substances from water: The case of mercury(II)
Lourenco, MAO; Figueira, P; Pereira, E; Gomes, JRB; Lopes, CB; Ferreira, P
2017, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 322, 263-274.
ISBN:
1873-3212
Periodic mesoporous organosilica with low thiol density - a safer material to trap Hg(II) from water
Figueira, P; Lourenco, MAO; Pereira, E; Gomes, JRB; Ferreira, P; Lopes, CB
2017, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 5, 5, 5043-5053.
Comparative study on metal biosorption by two macroalgae in saline waters: single and ternary systems
Figueira, P; Henriques, B; Teixeira, A; Lopes, CB; Reis, AT; Monteiro, RJR; Duarte, AC; Pardal, MA; Pereira, E
2016, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH, 23, 12, 11985-11997.
Mercury in river, estuarine and seawaters - Is it possible to decrease realist environmental concentrations in order to achieve environmental quality standards?
Tavares, DS; Lopes, CB; Daniel-da-Silva, AL; Vale, C; Trindade, T; Pereira, ME
2016, WATER RESEARCH, 106, 439-449.
Remediation of mercury contaminated saltwater with functionalized silica coated magnetite nanoparticles
Mohmood, I; Lopes, CB; Lopes, I; Tavares, DS; Soares, AMVM; Duarte, AC; Trindade, T; Ahmad, I; Pereira, E
2016, SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 557, 712-721.
Simple and effective chitosan based films for the removal of Hg from waters: Equilibrium, kinetic and ionic competition
Rocha, LS; Almeida, A; Nunes, C; Henriques, B; Coimbra, MA; Lopes, CB; Silva, CM; Duarte, AC; Pereira, E
2016, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 300, 217-229.
Sustainable approach for recycling seafood wastes for the removal of priority hazardous substances (Hg and Cd) from water
Monteiro, RJR; Lopes, CB; Rocha, LS; Coelho, JP; Duarte, AC; Pereira, E
2016, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 4, 1, 1199-1208.
Interference of the co-exposure of mercury with silica-coated iron oxide nanoparticles can modulate genotoxicity induced by their individual exposures-a paradox depicted in fish under in vitro conditions
Mohmood, I; Ahmad, I; Asim, M; Costa, L; Lopes, CB; Trindade, T; Duarte, AC; Pereira, E
2015, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH, 22, 5, 3687-3696.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Evaluate the Efficiency of a Clean-Up Technology to Remove Mercury from Water
Lopes, CB; Lopes, I; Rocha, LS; Duarte, AC; Soares, AMVM; Rocha, J; Pereira, E
2014, BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY, 93, 2, 138-143.
Cork stoppers as an effective sorbent for water treatment: the removal of mercury at environmentally relevant concentrations and conditions
Lopes, CB; Oliveira, JR; Rocha, LS; Tavares, DS; Silva, CM; Silva, SP; Hartog, N; Duarte, AC; Pereira, E
2014, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH, 21, 3, 2108-2121.