Nonlinear optical materials for the smart filtering of optical radiation

D Dini, MJF Calvete, M Hanack - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future
technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their …

Hybrid materials for heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics

MJF Calvete, G Piccirillo, CS Vinagreiro… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ever-growing number of multi-resistant bacteria caused by the proliferation of antibiotics
in the environment led to an increased interest in finding more sustainable processes for …

A short review article on conjugated polymers

AH Malik, F Habib, MJ Qazi, MA Ganayee… - Journal of Polymer …, 2023 - Springer
This article provides a brief review of conjugated polymers and the various typical
polymerization reactions exploited by the community to synthesise different conjugated …

Metal coordinated pyrrole-based macrocycles as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging technologies: Synthesis and applications

MJF Calvete, SMA Pinto, MM Pereira… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
The number of scientific reports on the field of imaging in biomedical sciences is rising
massively, with the emergence of “noninvasive” in vivo imaging technologies, of which …

Nanoparticles and nanocomposites for fluorescence sensing and imaging

AP Demchenko - Methods and applications in fluorescence, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The assortment of fluorescence reporters is changing dramatically. Traditionally explored
intrinsic fluorescence of biological macromolecules and cellular pigments and of externally …

Porphyrin@ Lignin nanoparticles: Reusable photocatalysts for effective aqueous degradation of antibiotics

G Piccirillo, N Maldonado-Carmona, DL Marques… - Catalysis Today, 2023 - Elsevier
The aqueous photocatalyzed degradation of trimethoprim (TMP) and sulfamethoxazole
(SMX), highly prescribed antibiotics, often found in hospital wastewaters and/or …

Aggregation-induced FRET via polymer–surfactant complexation: A new strategy for the detection of spermine

AH Malik, S Hussain, PK Iyer - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
A new water-soluble cationic conjugated polymer [9, 9-bis (6′-methyl imidazolium bromide)
hexyl) fluorene-co-4, 7-(2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole)](PFBT-MI) was designed and synthesized …

Supported metalloporphyrins as reusable catalysts for the degradation of antibiotics: synthesis, characterization, activity and ecotoxicity studies

G Piccirillo, M Moreira-Santos, M Valega… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
The preparation of covalently linked manganese (III) meso-tetrakis (2, 6-dichlorophenyl)
porphyrin acetate to aminopropyl functionalized silica gel and its full characterization by …

Fluorinated Mn(III)/(II)‐Porphyrin with Redox‐Responsive 1H and 19F Relaxation Properties

SMA Pinto, ARR Ferreira, DSS Teixeira… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A new fluorinated manganese porphyrin,(Mn‐TPP‐p‐CF3) is reported capable of providing,
based on the Mn (III)/Mn (II) equilibrium, dual 1H relaxivity and 19F NMR response to redox …

A biocompatible redox MRI probe based on a Mn (II)/Mn (III) porphyrin

SMA Pinto, MJF Calvete, ME Ghica, S Soler… - Dalton …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
For the development of redox responsive MRI probes based on the MnIII/MnII couple, stable
complexation of both reduced and oxidized forms of the metal ion and appropriate tuning of …