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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 sólidoSupported Covalent Organic Frameworks for the Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Pollutants (Charm)
PartnerFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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 polarizationPublications
Assessing CO2 Capture in Porous Sorbents via Solid-State NMR-Assisted Adsorption Techniques
Marina Ilkaeva, Ricardo Vieira, João Pereira, Mariana Sardo, Ildefonso Marín Montesinos and Luís Mafra
2023, Journal of the Americam Chemical Society.
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Understanding CO2 adsorption mechanisms in porous adsorbents: A solid-state NMR survey
Daniel Pereira, Rita Fonseca, Ildefonso Marin-Montesinos, Mariana Sardo, Luís Mafra
2023, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 60, Special issue NMR 2022.
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Engineering Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate model membranes enriched 1 in endocytic cargo: a neutron reflectometry, AFM and QCM-D structural study
Daniel Pereira, Andreas Santamaria, Nisha Pawar, Javier Carrascosa-Tejedor, Mariana Sardo, Luis Mafra, Eduardo Guzman, David J. Owen, Nathan R. Zaccai, Armando Maestro, Ildefonso Marin-Montesinos
2023, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 227.
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One-Shot Resin 3D-Printed Stators for Low-Cost Fabrication of Magic-Angle Spinning NMR Probeheads
Daniel Pereira, Mariana Sardo, Ildefonso Marín-Montesinos, an Luís Mafra
2023, Anal. Chem., 95, 27.
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Covalent connectivity of glycogen in brewer's spent yeast cell walls revealed by enzymatic approaches and dynamic nuclear polarization NMR
Rita Bastos, Ildefonso Marín-Montesinos, Sónia S. Ferreira, Frédéric Mentink-Vigier, Mariana Sardo, Luís Mafra, Manuel A. Coimbra, Elisabete Coelho
2023, Carbohydrate Polymers, 324.
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Exploring Molecular Dynamics of Adsorbed CO2 Species in Amine- Modified Porous Silica by Solid-State NMR Relaxation
Fonseca, R; Vieira, R; Sardo, M; Marin-Montesinos, I; Mafra, L
2022, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 126, 30, 12582-12591.
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Moisture effect on the separation of CO2/CH4 mixtures with amine-functionalised porous silicas
Pacheco, M; Bordonhos, M; Sardo, M; Afonso, R; Gomes, JRB; Mafra, L; Pinto, ML
2022, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 443.
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Hidden CO2 in Amine-Modified Porous Silicas Enables Full Quantitative NMR Identification of Physi- and Chemisorbed CO2 Species
Vieira, R*; Marin-Montesinos, I*; Pereira, J; Fonseca, R; Ilkaeva, M; Sardo, M; Mafra, L
2021, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 125, 27, 14797-14806.
ISBN:
1932-7455
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Unravelling moisture-induced CO2 chemisorption mechanisms in amine-modified sorbents at the molecular scale
Sardo, M; Afonso, R; Juzkow, J; Pacheco, M; Bordonhos, M; Pinto, ML; Gomes, JRB; Mafra, L
2021, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 9, 9, 5542-5555.
ISBN:
2050-7496
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Unravelling the Structure of Chemisorbed CO2 Species in Mesoporous Aminosilicas: A Critical Survey
Afonso, R; Sardo, M; Mafra, L; Gomes, JRB
2019, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 53, 5, 2758-2767.
ISBN:
1520-5851
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Characterisation of pharmaceutical solids combining NMR, X-ray diffraction and computer modelling

In María Angeles Canales (Eds.), Biophysical Techniques in Drug Discovery
Mariana Sardo, Inês Martins, Chiara Vladiskovic, M.Teresa Duarte, João Rocha, Norberto Masciocchi and Luís Mafra
2018, 120-169, Royal Society of Chemistry.
ISBN:
978-1-78262-733-3
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Calculation of NMR tensors: application to small molecule pharmaceutics

In Yuriy A. Abramov (Eds.), Computational Approaches in Pharmaceutical Solid State Chemistry
Luis Mafra, Sérgio Santos, Mariana Sardo, Heather Schmidt
2016, 287-329, John Wiley & Sons, Inc..
ISBN:
9781118700686
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Solid-state NMR applications in the structural elucidation of small molecules

In Maria-Magdalena Cid, Jorge Bravo (Eds.), Structure Elucidation in Organic Chemistry : The Search for the Right Tools
Mariana Sardo, João Rocha and Luís Mafra
2014, 173-240, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
ISBN:
9783527664610
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