Mariana Coutinho Sardo

Assistant Researcher

Short CV

Since 2019: Assistant Researcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials

2016 - 2018: post-doctoral fellow at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials under the supervision of Doctor Luis Mafra and Professor João Rocha;

2010 - 2016: post-doctoral fellow at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials and Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich supervised by Doctor Luis Mafra, Professor João Rocha and Professor Beat H. Meier; 

2009: PhD in Physical Chemistry: " Weak intermolecular interactions in advanced functional materials: spectroscopic and computational studies” (supervision of Prof. Paulo Ribeiro-Claro), Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro. During this period, 5 months were spent in the University of Malaga, Spain, working in the group of Professor Juan Carlos Otero, developing SERS studies on pharmaceutical compounds;

2005: Degree in Physics and Chemistry (for teaching), Univ. Aveiro (17/20) 

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS 

- Combining high-resolution solid-state NMR methods, X-ray diffraction and computational approaches to study crystal packing interactions in small molecules (namely pharmaceuticals) and materials - NMR crystallography; 

- Study drug-drug and drug-host interactions of molecular scaffolds as drug delivery systems. 

- NMR characterization of modified nanoporous solid sorbents with potential for gas capture (by using 13C-labelled CO2 in a gas mixture); 

- NMR characterization of porous materials relevant in heterogeneous catalysis (study of Lewis and Brønsted acidity);

OTHER INTERESTS 

- Responsible for preparing and delivering solid-state NMR Hands-on courses (II Jornadas Nacionais de Caracterização de Materiais - 2017 and IV Ibero-American NMR Meeting - 2012). - Co-President of the Young Chemists Group (GQJ) of the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ) between 2010-2012 - Member of the organizing committee of several scientific events: Chemistry Olympics competitions, the Portuguese Physics students meeting (2004), International conference on solubility phenomena (2004), Young Portuguese Chemists meeting (2010), European Young Chemists Network (EYCN) delegates assembly (2012) and EYCN contribution to the 4EuCheMS (2012), IV Ibero-American NMR Meeting (2012), SMARTER8 (2024) and PANACEA events (2024; 2025).

Present Research Group

Dr. Luis Mafra; Dr. Ildefonso Marin; Dra. Mirtha Lourenço, Professor João Rocha, Dra. Paula Soares Santos; Daniel Pereira, Márcio Soares, Tiago Morais, Pedro Ouro, Ana Poças, Guilherme Rosa, Andrea Chacón, Renato Vala

Main present collaborators

Dr. Ricardo Vieira (UCoimbra), Dra. Anne Lesage (CNRS-Lyon), Dra. Marina Ilkaeva and Dr. Igor Krivtsov (U. Oviedo), Prof. Manuel Souto (CIQUS), Dr. Manuel Coimbra and Dra. Elisabete Coelho (UA), Dr. Frederick Mentink-Vigier (MagLab), Dra. Laura Salonen (U. Vigo), Dr. Armando Maestro (IKERBASQUE, CSIC, UPV/EHU), Prof. Snorri Sigurdsson (U. Iceland), Prof. Inês Martins (U. Copenhagen), Prof. Mariya Shamzhy (Charles Univ.), Prof. André Martins (U. Tuebingen)

Selected Publications

1. "Comparison of different silica microporous structures as drug delivery systems for in vitro models of solid tumors", Natália Vilaça, Ana F. Machado, Filipa Morais-Santos, Ricardo Amorim, A. Patrícia Neto, Enora Logodin, Manuel F. R. Pereira, Mariana Sardo, João Rocha, Pier Parpot, António M. Fonseca, Fátima Baltazar and Isabel C. Neves, RSC Adv.2017, 7, 13104-13111.

2. "PAIN with and without PAR: Variants for third-spin assisted heteronuclear polarization transfer", Vipin Agarwal*, Mariana Sardo*, Ingo Scholz, Anja Böckmann, Matthias Ernst and Beat H. Meier, J. Biomol. NMR 2013, 56(4), 365-377. (*authors equally contributed for this work)

 3. "Combining multinuclear high-resolution solid-state MAS NMR and computational methods for resonance assignment of glutathione tripeptide", Mariana Sardo, Renée Siegel, Sérgio M. Santos, João Rocha, José R. B. Gomes, Luis Mafra, J. Phys. Chem. A 2012, 116 (25), 6711–6719.

4. "3D–2D–0D Stepwise Deconstruction of a Water Framework Templated by a Nanoporous Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Host", João Rocha, Fa-Nian Shi, Filipe A. Almeida Paz, Luis Mafra, Mariana Sardo, Luis Cunha-Silva, James Chisholm, Paulo Ribeiro-Claro and Tito Trindade, Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 7741-7749.

Ongoing Supervisions

Projects

A Pan-European Solid-State NMR Infrastructure for Chemistry-Enabling Access (PANACEA)

Local CoordinatorEuropean Comission
The chemicals industry is one of Europe’s largest manufacturing sectors. Its modernisation relies on the capacity for atomic-level investigation of increasingly complex solid substrates in multifaceted research areas. Advances have been made in the development and use of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a powe...

Compreender os mecanismos de sorção em silicatos de Li e Na usados como sorventes de captura de CO2 nos processos de pré/pós- combustão : estratégias para síntese e RMN do estado sólido. (DRI/INDIA/0518/2020)

PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Captura de CO2; Silicatos de lítio; Propriedades sorventes; RMN do estado sólido

Delivery vehicles of therapeutic gasotransmitters NO and H2S based on nanoporous materials (PTDC/MED-QUI/28721/2017)

PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Especies de CO2 formadas a superficie de materiais porosos para aplicacoes ambientais caracterizadas por RMN de polarizacao nuclear dinamica (GAS2MAT-DNPSENS)

PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Polymorphism in pharmaceuticals: new insights from NMR Crystallography (EXPL/QEQ-QFI/2078/2013)

CoordinatorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Solid-state NMR spectroscopy Polymorphism in active pharmaceutical ingredients NMR Crystallography Dynamic nuclear polarization

Supported Covalent Organic Frameworks for the Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Pollutants (Charm)

PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Unveiling CO2 chemisorption mechanisms in solid adsorbents via surface-enhanced ex(in)-situ NMR (NMR4CO2)

PartnerEuropean Comission
Reaching a record high of 32.5 gigatonnes in 2017, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion continue to increase. Adsorption is considered a viable technology to reduce CO2 emissions. Because of its lower regeneration cost, amine-modified porous silica (AMPS) is the most promising CO2-adsorbent material for replacing the decades-old liqu...

Publications

Hydrogen bonding networks in gabapentin protic pharmaceutical salts: NMR and in silico studies

Martins, ICB; Sardo, M; Cendak, T; Gomes, JRB; Rocha, J; Duarte, MT; Mafra, L
2019, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY, 57, 5, 243-255.
ISBN: 1097-458X

H-1-P-31 HETCOR NMR elucidates the nature of acid sites in zeolite HZSM-5 probed with trimethylphosphine oxide

Bornes, C; Sardo, M; Lin, Z; Amelse, J; Fernandes, A; Ribeiro, MF; Geraldes, C; Rocha, J; Mafra, L
2019, CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 55, 84, 12635-12638.
ISBN: 1364-548X

Revisiting the crystal structure of dickite: X-ray diffraction, solid-state NMR, and DFT calculations study

Rocha, J; Paz, FAA; Sardo, M; Mafra, L
2018, AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, 103, 5, 812-818.

Detecting Proton Transfer in CO2 Species Chemisorbed on Amine-Modified Mesoporous Silicas by Using (CNMR)-C-13 Chemical Shift Anisotropy and Smart Control of Amine Surface Density

Cendak, T; Sequeira, L; Sardo, M; Valente, A; Pinto, ML; Mafra, L
2018, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 24, 40, 10136-10145.

Microwave-assisted N,N-dialkylation of amine-functionalized periodic mesoporous phenylene-silica: An easy and fast way to design materials

Lourenco, MAO; Ferreira, MJG; Sardo, M; Mafra, L; Gomes, JRB; Ferreira, P
2017, MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS, 249, 10-15.
ISBN: 1873-3093

Comparison of different silica microporous structures as drug delivery systems for in vitro models of solid tumors

Vilaca, N; Machado, AF; Morais-Santos, F; Amorim, R; Neto, AP; Logodin, E; Pereira, MFR; Sardo, M; Rocha, J; Parpot, P; Fonseca, AM; Baltazar, F; Neves, IC
2017, RSC ADVANCES, 7, 22, 13104-13111.

Packing Interactions and Physicochemical Properties of Novel Multicomponent Crystal Forms of the Anti-Inflammatory Azelaic Acid Studied by X-ray and Solid-State NMR

Martins, ICB; Sardo, M; Santos, SM; Femandes, A; Antunes, A; Andre, V; Mafra, L; Duarte, MT
2016, CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN, 16, 1, 154-166.

Interaction of CO2 and CH4 with Functionalized Periodic Mesoporous Phenylene-Silica: Periodic DFT Calculations and Gas Adsorption Measurements

Lourenco, MAO; Siquet, C; Sardo, M; Mafra, L; Pires, J; Jorge, M; Pinto, ML; Ferreira, P; Gomes, JRB
2016, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 120, 7, 3863-3875.

Diazole-based powdered cocrystal featuring a helical hydrogen-bonded network: Structure determination from PXRD, solid-state NMR and computer modeling

Sardo, M; Santos, SM; Babaryk, AA; Lopez, C; Alkorta, I; Elguero, J; Claramunt, RM; Mafra, L
2015, SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, 65, 49-63.

X-ray and NMR Crystallography Studies of Novel Theophylline Cocrystals Prepared by Liquid Assisted Grinding

Fernandes, JA; Sardo, M; Mafra, L; Choquesillo-Lazarte, D; Masciocchi, N
2015, CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN, 15, 8, 3674-3683.

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