Instituto de Nanotecnologias-Unidade IFIMUP

 

Physics department FCUP

 

Rua do Campo Alegre, 687

4169-007 Porto

Portugal

 

Contacts:

Tel: +351-22-0402336

Fax: +351 220402706

email: celiasousa@fc.up.pt

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Biography.

 

Célia Tavares de Sousa, is a Post-doc research at IFIMUP-IN, Porto University in collaboration with INA (Zaragoza, Spain). She  have a PhD in Physics in Porto University. Her research is focused in nanotechnology and physics of materials, including self-organized nanoporous alumina and high aspect ratio nanoparticles for several applications, such as biomedical, fuel cells, optics and spintronic. His actual research is the development and study of neuromorphic neural networks based on metal-insulator-metal memristors.

 

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Area of scientific activity

 

· Synthesis, developing and characterization of new materials by bottom-up and top-down techniques for energy harvesting, biotechnological and metamaterials applications.

· Clean-room techniques: Top-down nanofabrication (by Ion-beam deposition, evaporation, and sputtering), optical lithography, e-beam and focus ion beam lithography, perfilometry.

· Bottom-up nanofabrication: self-assembled nanomaterials, electrodeposition and sol-gel techniques.

· Nanostructures morphologic characterization by TEM, SEM, AFM and MFM.

· Structural and reflectivity characterization by X-ray diffraction.

· Electric and magnetic characterization of nanostructures.

· Fluorescence quenching, UV-Vis and FTIR analysis.

· Surface modification and functionalization of nanoparticles.

· Animal cell culture and biomembranes synthesis, biomolecular detection, manipulation, separation and magnetic fluidic hyperthermia.

· applications.

Instituto de Física dos Materiais da Universidade do Porto

IFIMUP