MoisÉs Luzia Pinto

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Slide 1 jFlow PlusSelective adsorption and gas purification
Selective adsorption of gases and vapors can be used industrially for the recovery of valuable products...Read More!
Slide 2 jFlow PlusGas storage and delivery
Adsorbent materials can used to store gases inside their pores...Read More!
Slide 3 jFlow PlusComposite materials
Adsorbents are commonly obtained as fine powders, which pose some difficulties for their application...Read More!


Short C.V.

Moisés Luzia Pinto (b. 1976) obtained the Ph.D. in Chemistry (Physical Chemistry), at the end of 2005, at the University of Lisbon. He is Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and researcher at CERENA. He was President of CERENA, Assistant Secretary General of the Portuguese Chemical Society and is currently Vice-president of the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research has been focused in the past 20 years on adsorbent materials and related applications, with several types of materials. He worked for the chemical industry as an external consultant and as manager of R&D laboratories and was a co-founder of a start-up company. He has successfully developed materials and processes for gas separation/purification, gas storage and therapeutic gas delivery. He has been strongly engaged in the development of very selective hybrid materials for volatile organic compounds capture that can be applied in cultural heritage preservation.

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Research Areas

  • Selective adsorption and gas purification.
  • Gas storage and delivery.
  • Composite materials.
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Available positions

No positions are currently open for research grants in the framework of funded projects. Additional grants for both Ph.D. students or post-doctoral researchers are available from FCT. Candidates with interests in our present research topics are strongly encouraged to apply by contacting us. Master and undergraduate students (Bologna) interested in our research work are also invited to join. Integration into research grants may be requested.

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  • Storage and release of therapeutic Nitric Oxide using nanoporous materials

    Although nitric oxide (NO) is very toxic in low concentrations it plays a key role in the regulation of several biological systems of the human body. Solid carriers have potential biomedical interest in the delivery of exogenous NO for anti-bacterial, anti-thrombic and wound healing applications. In this research line, we prepare and modify nanoporous materials with the main goal of studying its potential in the field of storage and release of nitric oxide for therapeutic applications. This project is funded in part by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

  • New applications for composites of polyurethane and recycled rubber

    Rubber from end-of-life tires is being used to develop composite foams with interesting properties for some applications. After grinding, the rubber obtained from the tires can be incorporated in the polyurethane foams. This project is funded by Valorpneu.

  • Variable pressure solid-state NMR methods to study gas-surface interactions in nanoporous sorbent materials for industrial post/precombustion CO2 capture

    This project aims at developing high-resolution in-situ solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) methods, adapted to variable pressure measurements, to gain an atomic-level understanding of the surface interactions between nanoporous inorganic-organic hybrid sorbent materials and CO2.

    This project is funded in part by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.


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