Mirtha A. O. Lourenço

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  • 29.3.28

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Mirtha Alejandra de Oliveira Lourenço is a European Research Area Postdoctoral Fellow (ERA-PF) funded under the application to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)-PF 2021 call. She started this position in March 2023 at the University of Aveiro/CICECO, where she is developing sustainable porous silicas for optimal CO2 uptake from biogas (GRACE project). She holds a degree in Chemistry and a Master's in Chemistry in the field of Chemical and Industrial Processes from the University of Coimbra. In December 2016, she obtained the Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Aveiro (UA). During this period, under the supervision of P. Ferreira and J.R.B. Gomes, she focused her research on developing new functionalized periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) for different adsorption and catalysis applications, combining computational and experimental methods. In 2018, she started to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. C.F. Pirri at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) - Center for Sustainable Future Technologies (CSFT), Italy. Here, she developed novel carbon based materials for environmental applications, such as gas adsorption/separation and catalytic CO2 reduction. From May 2021 to May 2022, she was a Researcher at the CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials focusing on the synthesis and structural elucidation of functionalized porous silicas towards CO2 adsorption-separation under the EU-funded NMR4CO2 project, led by L. Mafra. In November 2021, she was awarded a Junior researcher grant by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) to valorize biomass waste for biogas upgrading.

Projects

Rationale design of sustainable porous organosilicas for optimal CO2 uptake from biogas (GRACE)

Funded under the HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-02; Type of Action: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101090287/de

Biomass waste valorization for biogas upgrading (SWAN)

Funded under the CEEC– 4th Edition by FCT (2021.01158.CEECIND)

Ongoing Supervisions

Tiago Fernando Teixeira Morais

PhD Student

Publications

Experimental and computational analysis of NOx photocatalytic abatement using carbon modified TiO2 materials

T. Zhiltsova, N. Martins, M.R.F. Silva, C.F. Da Silva, M.A.O. Lourenço, D.M. Tobaldi, D. Covita, M.P. Seabra, P. Ferreira
2020, Catalyst, 10, 1366.

Pyrolyzed chitosan-based materials for CO2/CH4 separation

Lourenco, MAO; Nunes, C; Gomes, JRB; Pires, J; Pinto, ML; Ferreira, P
2019, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 362, 364-374.
ISBN: 1873-3212

Flue gas adsorption on periodic mesoporous phenylene-silica: a DFT approach

Lourenco, MAO; Ferreira, P; Gomes, JRB
2018, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 20, 24, 16686-16694.

Carbonization of periodic mesoporous phenylene- and biphenylene-silicas for CO2/CH4 separation

Lourenco, MAO; Pinto, ML; Pires, J; Gomes, JRB; Ferreira, P
2017, CARBON, 119, 267-277.
ISBN: 1873-3891

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

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

Selectivity for CO2 over CH4 on a functionalized periodic mesoporous phenylene-silica explained by transition state theory

Kunkel, C; Vines, F; Lourenco, MAO; Ferreira, P; Gomes, JRB; Illas, F
2017, CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 671, 161-164.
ISBN: 1873-4448

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.

Chiral Copper(II) Bis(oxazoline) Complexes Directly Coordinated to Amine-Functionalized Phenylene/Biphenylene Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas as Heterogeneous Catalysts

Carneiro, L; Silva, AR; Lourenco, MAO; Mayoral, A; Diaz, I; Ferreira, P
2016, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 3, 413-421.

Insights into CO2 and CH4 Adsorption by Pristine and Aromatic Amine-Modified Periodic Mesoporous Phenylene-Silicas

Lourenco, MAO; Siquet, C; Santos, J; Jorge, M; Gomes, JRB; Ferreira, P
2016, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 120, 26, 14236-14245.

Gas-organic and gas-inorganic interfacial effects in gas-adsorbent interaction: The case of CO2/CH4 separation

In M.-H. Delville (Eds.), Rational design of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces: The next step towards advanced functional materials
M.A.O. Lourenço, J. R. B. Gomes, P. Ferreira
2018, 413-458, Weinheim, WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA.
ISBN: 978-3-527-34255-6

Making Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas Functional Materials

In Mahmood Aliofkhazraei (Eds.), Comprehensive Guide for Mesoporous Materials, Volume 4: Application and Commercialization
Paula Ferreira, Cláudia Bispo, Mirtha A. O. Lourenço, José R. B. Gomes, Nicolas Bion, Karine De Oliveira Vigier and François Jérôme
2015, 4, New York, Nova Publishers.
ISBN: 978-1-63482-092-9

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