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  1. Nanohybrid silica/polymer aerogels: The combined influence of polymer nanoparticle size and content

    Article • Materials & Design, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  2. Silica nanocarriers with user-defined precise diameters by controlled template self-assembly

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, March 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  3. Bioactive silica nanoparticles with calcium and phosphate for single dose osteogenic differentiation

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering C, February 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  4. Electrophoresis as a simple method to detect deleterious actions of engineered nanoparticles on living cells

    Article • Environmental Chemistry, January 2020, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  5. Structural color and rheology of self-assembled poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-methacrylic acid) microgels in water

    Article • European Polymer Journal, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  6. Hybrid Mesoporous Nanoparticles for pH-Actuated Controlled Release

    Article • Nanomaterials, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  7. Temperature-responsive copolymers without compositional drift by RAFT copolymerization of 2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl trimethylammonium chloride and 2-(diethylamino)ethyl acrylate

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  8. Multifunctional Platform Based on Electroactive Polymers and Silica Nanoparticles for Tissue Engineering Applications

    Article • Nanomaterials, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha, Professor Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez, Andreia Castro Gomes

  9. Multifunctional Platform Based on Electroactive Polymers and Silica Nanoparticles for Tissue Engineering Applications

    Article • October 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  10. On the Structure of Amorphous Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles by Aberration-Corrected STEM

    Article • Small, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  11. Bulk dynamics of the thermoresponsive random copolymer of di(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (MEO 2 MA) and oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (OEGMA)

    Article • Polymer, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  12. Boron-chelating membranes based in hybrid mesoporous silica nanoparticles for water purification

    Article • Materials & Design, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  13. Temperature-responsive fibres of cellulose-based copolymers

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  14. An overview of the use of nanoclay modified bitumen in asphalt mixtures for enhanced flexible pavement performances

    Article • Road Materials and Pavement Design, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  15. Synthesis, characterization and protein-association of dicyanomethylene squaraine dyes

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  16. A Cationic Smart Copolymer for DNA Binding

    Article • Polymers, November 2017, MDPI AG

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  17. Versatile Tetrablock Copolymer Scaffold for Hierarchical Colloidal Nanoparticle Assemblies: Synthesis, Characterization, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation

    Article • Langmuir, August 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  18. Smart polymeric nanoparticles for boron scavenging

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, July 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  19. Metal Enhanced Fluorescence measurement in Silica Coated Gold Nanoparticles

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2017, Nature

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  20. PNIPAm-based microgels with a UCST response

    Article • Polymer, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  21. Nanocellulose in green food packaging

    Article • Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  22. Hybrid mesoporous silica nanocarriers with thermovalve-regulated controlled release

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  23. Optical sensing of aqueous boron based on polymeric hydroxytriphenylene derivatives

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  24. Functional Group Coverage and Conversion Quantification in Nanostructured Silica by 1H NMR

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, December 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  25. Interaction of the Alzheimer Aβ(25–35) peptide segment with model membranes

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  26. Smart Polymer Nanoparticles for High-Performance Water-Based Coatings

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  27. Structural effects of soft nanoparticulate ligands on trace metal complexation thermodynamics

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  28. Multifunctional Hybrid Silica Nanoparticles with a Fluorescent Core and Active Targeting Shell for Fluorescence Imaging Biodiagnostic Applications

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  29. Hybrid smart mesoporous silica nanoparticles for theranostics

    Article • Nanomedicine, August 2015, Future Medicine

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  30. Structure of Multiresponsive Brush-Decorated Nanoparticles: A Combined Electrokinetic, DLS, and SANS Study

    Article • Langmuir, April 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  31. NIR and visible perylenediimide-silica nanoparticles for laser scanning bioimaging

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  32. Smart Polymer Nanoparticles for High-Performance Water-Borne Coatings

    Article • Langmuir, October 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  33. Functional Films from Silica/Polymer Nanoparticles

    Article • Materials, May 2014, MDPI AG

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  34. Particles Decorated by an Ionizable Thermoresponsive Polymer Brush in Water: Experiments and Self-Consistent Field Modeling

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, March 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  35. Controlled release of singlet oxygen using diphenylanthracene functionalized polymer nanoparticles

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Mario Berberan-Santos, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  36. A new optical boron detection method

    Article • Analytical Methods, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  37. ChemInform Abstract: Sc(OTf)3Promoted Multicomponent Synthesis of Fluorescent Imidazo[1,2-c]pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine.

    Article • ChemInform, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Laurent El Kaim, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  38. Impact of Electrostatics on the Chemodynamics of Highly Charged Metal–Polymer Nanoparticle Complexes

    Article • Langmuir, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jerome F.L. Duval, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  39. Sc(OTf)3 promoted multicomponent synthesis of fluorescent imidazo[1,2-c]pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Laurent El Kaim, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  40. Formation of hybrid films from perylenediimide-labeled core–shell silica–polymer nanoparticles

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  41. Hybrid mesoporous silica nanoparticles for imaging and controlled drug delivery

    Article • Microscopy and Microanalysis, June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  42. Stimuli-Responsive magnetic nanoparticles for monoclonal antibody purification

    Article • Biotechnology Journal, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  43. Polymer-Coated Nanoparticles by Adsorption of Hydrophobically Modified Poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide)

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, March 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  44. Structure, morphology and interfacial behaviour of ethylene/methacrylate copolymers

    Article • Journal of Polymer Research, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  45. Enhanced Photoluminescence from Micellar Assemblies of Cadmium Sulfide Quantum Dots and Gold Nanoparticles

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, February 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  46. Flexible hybrid aerogels prepared under subcritical conditions

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  47. Biotin-end-functionalized highly fluorescent water-soluble polymers

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  48. High performance NIR fluorescent silica nanoparticles for bioimaging

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  49. Preparation and Characterization of Low Dispersity Anionic Multiresponsive Core–Shell Polymer Nanoparticles

    Article • Langmuir, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  50. Determination of the critical micelle concentration of surfactants and amphiphilic block copolymers using coumarin 153

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  51. The influence of nanoparticle architecture on latex film formation and healing properties

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  52. Novel Malachite Green- and Rhodamine B-labeled cationic chain transfer agents for RAFT polymerization

    Article • Polymer, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  53. Formation of an intact liposome layer adsorbed on oxidized gold confirmed by three complementary techniques: QCM-D, AFM and confocal fluorescence microscopy

    Article • Surface and Interface Analysis, August 2011, Wiley

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  54. DNA Hybridization in Thermoresponsive Polymer Nanoparticles

    Article • ChemPhysChem, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  55. Schizophrenic Behavior of a Thermoresponsive Double Hydrophilic Diblock Copolymer at the Air−Water Interface

    Article • Langmuir, February 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  56. Thermoresponsive Micelles of Phenanthrene-α-end-labeled Poly(N-decylacrylamide-b-N,N-diethylacrylamide) in Water

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  57. Oxygen-proof fluorescence temperature sensing with pristine C70encapsulated in polymernanoparticles

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Mario Berberan-Santos, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  58. RAFT polymerization and self-assembly of thermoresponsive poly(N-decylacrylamide-b-N,N-diethylacrylamide) block copolymers bearing a phenanthrene fluorescent α-end group

    Article • Polymer, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  59. Synthesis and Characterization of Perylenediimide Labeled Core−Shell Hybrid Silica−Polymer Nanoparticles

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, September 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  60. Fluorescence of oligonucleotides adsorbed onto the thermoresponsive poly(isopropyl acrylamide) shell of polymer nanoparticles: Application to bioassays

    Article • Pure and Applied Chemistry, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  61. Control of Oligonucleotide Distribution on the Shell of Thermo-responsive Polymer Nanoparticles

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, September 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  62. Resonance Energy Transfer in Polymer Nanodomains

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, July 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  63. Understanding Fluorescence Quenching in Polymers Obtained by RAFT

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  64. Hybrid Silica/Polymer Aerogels Dried at Ambient Pressure

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, May 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  65. Preparation and Surface Characterization of Polymer Nanoparticles Designed for Incorporation into Hybrid Materials

    Article • Langmuir, May 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  66. Nanostructured silica/polymer subcritical aerogels

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  67. Resonance Energy Transfer in Polymer Interfaces

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  68. Effect of Surfactant on the Intra- and Intermolecular Association of Hydrophobically Modified Poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide)

    Article • Macromolecules, December 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  69. Rotational Mobility in a Crystal Studied by Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy. An Experiment for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

    Article • Journal of Chemical Education, September 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  70. Polymer Diffusion in Gel-Containing Poly(vinyl acetate-co-dibutyl maleate) Latex Films

    Article • Macromolecules, May 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  71. Thin Films of Hydrophobically Modified Poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide)

    Article • Langmuir, April 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  72. Well-defined polymer precursors synthesized by RAFT polymerization of N,N-dimethylacrylamide/N-acryloxysuccinimide: random and block copolymers

    Article • Polymer, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  73. Dipole−Dipole Electronic Energy Transfer:  Fluorescence Decay Functions for Arbitrary Distributions of Donors and Acceptors in Systems with Cylindrical Symmetry

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, October 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  74. Compatibility of Chlorinated Polyolefin with the Components of Thermoplastic Polyolefin:  A Study by Laser Scanning Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  75. Preparation and Characterization of Polymer Nanoparticles for Hybrid Silica-Latex Aerogel Foams

    Article • Materials Science Forum, May 2004, Trans Tech Publications

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  76. Coil−Globule Transition of Poly(Dimethylacrylamide):  Fluorescence and Light Scattering Study . Volume 36, Number 21, October 21, 2003, pp 8119−8129.

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  77. Polymer Diffusion in PBMA Latex Films Using a Polymerizable Benzophenone Derivative as an Energy Transfer Acceptor

    Article • Macromolecules, November 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  78. Coil−Globule Transition of Poly(Dimethylacrylamide):  Fluorescence and Light Scattering Study

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  79. Thermodynamics and Morphology of Latex Blend Films

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  80. Surface-directed morphology evolution in ternary blends of polyethylene, polypropylene, and ethylene-propylene copolymer: A study by laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, February 2003, Wiley

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  81. Synthesis of 4-aryl-butylamine fluorescent probes

    Article • Journal of Chemical Research, November 2002, Science Reviews 2000 LTD

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  82. Fluorescence Study of the Coil-Globule Transition of a PEO Chain in Toluene

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, November 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  83. Energy Transfer in the Restricted Geometry of Lamellar Block Copolymer Interfaces

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, May 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  84. Picosecond Fluorescence Studies of the Surface Morphology of Charged Polystyrene Latex Particles

    Article • Langmuir, March 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  85. Linear and convolution methods for the analysis of ground and excited state kinetics. Application to the monomer–excimer scheme

    Article • Chemical Physics, October 2000, Elsevier

    Mario Berberan-Santos, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  86. An Energy Tranfer Study of the Interface Thickness in Blends of Poly(butyl methacrylate) and Poly(2-ethylhexyl methacrylate)

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  87. Cross-Linking, Miscibility, and Interface Structure in Blends of Poly(2-ethylhexyl methacrylate) Copolymers. An Energy Transfer Study

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  88. Polyethylene Melt Adsorption and Desorption during Flow on High-Energy Surfaces:  Characterization of Postextrusion Die Wall by Laser Scanning Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy

    Article • Langmuir, August 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  89. Characterization of Oil Droplets under a Polymer Film by Laser Scanning Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy

    Article • Langmuir, April 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  90. Characterization of Polyisoprene-b-Poly(methyl methacrylate) Diblock Copolymer Micelles in Acetonitrile‖

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, October 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  91. Imaging an Oil Droplet under a Latex Film

    Article • Langmuir, September 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  92. Steady-State and Dynamic Fluorescence Measurements of a Perylene-Labeled Triblock Copolymer:  Evidence for Ground-State Dye Aggregate Formation

    Article • Macromolecules, July 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  93. Preparation and Spectroscopic Properties of Phenanthrene-Labeled SEBS Triblock Copolymers

    Article • Macromolecules, June 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  94. Interfaces in Self-Assembling Diblock Copolymer Systems:  Characterization of Poly(isoprene-b-methyl methacrylate) Micelles in Acetonitrile

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, April 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  95. Structure in Tethered Chains:  Polymeric Micelles and Chains Anchored on Polystyrene Latex Spheres

    Article • Langmuir, April 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  96. Electronic energy transfer in restricted geometries Application to the study of spherical and planar interphases of diblock copolymer films

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, June 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  97. Iron release mechanism in a trihydroxamate siderophore analogue. Kinetics and effect of pH

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, May 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  98. Dipole−Dipole Electronic Energy Transfer. Fluorescence Decay Functions for Arbitrary Distributions of Donors and Acceptors. II. Systems with Spherical Symmetry

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, March 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  99. Article • Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  100. Latex Film Formation Probed by Nonradiative Energy Transfer:  Effect of Grafted and Free Poly(ethylene oxide) on a Poly(n-butyl methacrylate) Latex

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  101. Direct Nonradiative Energy Transfer in Polymer Interphases: Fluorescence Decay Functions from Concentration Profiles Generated by Fickian Diffusion

    Article • Macromolecules, August 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  102. Adsorption of poly(ethylene glycol) s on mercury/aqueous solution interface 2. Influence of the chain length

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, October 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  103. Adsorption of poly(ethylene glycol)s on mercury/aqueous solution interface 1. Kinetics of PEG 8000 adsorption

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, October 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  104. Influence of intrachain hydrogen bonding on the cyclization of a polystyrene chain

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, July 1994, Wiley

    Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  105. Test of a model for reversible excimer kinetics: Pyrene in cyclohexanol

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 1992, American Institute of Physics

    Mario Berberan-Santos, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  106. Lifetime recovery for species participating in complex kinetics. Application to the reversible excimer

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, February 1992, Elsevier

    Mario Berberan-Santos, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha

  107. Reversible monomer-excimer kinetics in solution

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, January 1991, Elsevier

    Mario Berberan-Santos, Professor Jose Paulo Farinha