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Sunday, 01 September 2019


Facilities and Major Equipments available in the labs

The MMRG has two modern laboratories - Laboratório de Química de Coordenação e Materiais Moleculares (LQCMM) and Laboratório de Bioquímica e Cultura Celular (LBCC) with space enough to accommodate 10 - 15 graduate and undergraduate students as well as post doctoral researchers, adequately equipped for inorganic and organometallic synthesis, with five hoods, three vacuum-nitrogen manifolds for manipulations of oxygen- or water-sensitive compounds under standard inert-atmosphere (nitrogen or argon) conditions by using syringe and standard Schlenk techniques and for biochemistry.

  • Parr shaker hydrogenator model 3911 with explosion proof motor and switch (2011);
  • Laminar Flux chamber (Labgard 425 Biological safety cabinet) (2011);
  • Solvent purification system (MBRAUN) (2011);
  • Nikon TE2000-E inverted epi-fluorescent microscope with nanoprecision Z-axis control (2008);
  • Perkin Elmer VICTOR³™ microplate reader with fluorescence/absorbance/luminescence, red sensitive PMT and dispenser module (2008);
  • Contact Angle Measuring Instrument DS100 from Krüss (2008);
  • AutoFlow H Air jacketed CO2 Incubator Water Bath (2008);
  • AutoFlow IR Direct Heat CO2 Incubator;
  • Laminar Flux chamber (Nuaire Biological Safety Cabinets Class II);
  • PARSAT advanced electrochemical equipment;
  • GBC-Cintra 40, UV-vis spectrometer;
  • Two low-temperature storage freezers (one cools to -85°C, the other cools to -25°C);
  • Gel Electrophoresis System (Thermo Electron Corporation);
  • Autoclave 88 (sterilization equipment);
  • Two Büchi rotary evaporators with "Huber" minichiller;
  • Two ovens for glassware;
  • One analytical balance;
  • Two refrigerated Savant vapour traps RVT400(-55 ºC);
  • Ultrasound Bath Branson 2210;
  • Bio Block 72434 Vibra Cell ultrasonic power supply with CV18 probe and mixing chamber;
  • High and low boiling point system for distillation and purification of solvents.

Equipment available in the Centro de Química da Madeira

  • Electro-Spinning Device (2011);
  • Refrigerated centrifuge, Sigma 3K30(2011);
  • Zetasizer Nano ZS (2011);
  • qNano + VPM (2011);
  • Water Purification System: Milli-Q Direct 8 (2010);
  • UPLC H-Class Acquity, Waters, with Acquity PDA and Acquity FLR
  • LS 55 FluorescenceSpectrometer (2009);
  • 400 MHz NMR (Bruker Avance II+) (2007);
  • LCMSMS (Bruker Esquire 6000 - Dionex) (2007).
  • Nicolet Avatar 360 FTIR spectrometer (400 to 4000 cm-1);
  • HPLC (Waters equipment with Millenium Software and diode array UV (986), UV (486) and fluorescence (470 nm) scanning detectors;
  • GCMS (ion trap, with MSMS capacity - Varian Saturn 3).

Coming Soon

Other facilities

  • An office (10 m2 of area) near the LQCMM, equipped with three desks, two PC with internet access (wireless included), one small library with more than 50 books and thesis, in the field of Chemistry/Biochemistry, synthesis and mechanisms in organic/inorganic/organometallic chemistry, nonlinear materials, dendrimers, molecular wires, electrochemistry and nanotechnologies.

Available on-line data bases

B-on, Web of Knowledge, Espacenet (Patents data base) and Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).

Other data bases available in our office by intranet

Papers data base, with more than 1000 records, in nonlinear optical materials, dendrimers and molecular materials fields. Reagents data base - For an efficient stocks management we have all available reagents in our Lab registered.

International Collaborations

Our group carries out studies of interdisciplinary nature in collaboration with other Portuguese and international research groups, namely with:

  • Prof. Didier Astruc (Groupe Nanosciences Moléculaires et Catalyse, LCOO, University of Bordeaux I, France)
  • Prof. Kari Rissanen (NanoScience Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
  • Prof. Etienne Goovaerts and Prof. Wim Wenseleers (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Group - University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Prof. Sumio Iijima and Prof. Yudasaka Masako (Nanotube Research Center - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)
  • Prof. Gary Balian (School of Medicine – Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, USA)
  • Prof. Fernando Lahoz (Instituto Universitario de Estudios Avanzados en Física Molecular, Atómica y Fotónica, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain).
  • Prof. Ivan Miksik ( Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of Check Republic, Check Republic )
  • Prof. Wölf-Dieter Müller (Dental School, Charite Medical University of Berlin, Germany)

National Collaborations

  • Prof. Ruis Reis and Prof. João Mano (3B´s Research Group, University of Minho)
  • Prof. Pedro Granja and Prof. Ana Pego (Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, University of Oporto)
  • Prof. Maria Helena Garcia (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa)
  • Prof. Maria Paula Robalo (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Centro de Química Estrutural /IST)
  • Prof. Miguel Xavier (CQM-Universidade da Madeira)

Financial Support

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Programa POCTI - FSE/FEDER), Universidade da Madeira, CITMA, European Science Foundation, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian , Fundação Luso-Americana, GRICES-EGIDE, GRICES-CNRS.