Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rafael Gomes Morais
- Gender
- Male
Citation names
- Morais, Rafael G.
- Rafael Morais
- Rafael Gomes Morais
- Rafael G. Morais
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5D1D-C4FA-18F4
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9046-5933
Email addresses
- rafelmorais@hotmail.com (Professional)
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2023/07/28
Concluded
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Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Noble-metal free carbon-based materials for energy conversion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2012/09 - 2017/07/20
Concluded
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Chemical Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Aging Assessment of Industrial Catalysts (Phase II)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/09/21 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal | ||
2017/10/23 - 2020/12/31 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Processos de Separação e Reacção Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/01/01 - 2023/07/28 | Noble-metal free carbon-based materials for energy conversion
2020.06422.BD
PhD Student Fellow
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/09/21 - Current | BiCat4Energy - Electrocatalisadores bifuncionais baseados em materiais de carbono isentos de metais nobres para a produção
de energia renovável: melhoramento da tecnologia da Célula de Combustível Unitária Regenerativa.
PTDC/EQU-EQU/1707/2020
Post-doc
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Ongoing
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2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 | UniRCell - Sistema combinado de célula de combustível / electrolisador para fornecimento eficiente de energia renovável: dos
materias ao dispositivo
SAICTPAC/0032/2015
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering
UID/EQU/50020/2019
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Processos de Separação e Reacção Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Laboratório de Processos de Separação e Reacção
UID/EQU/50020/2019
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Processos de Separação e Reacção Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2013/10 - 2014/03 | Valuing Drêche in Bioethanol Production: Optimization of the Stages of Fermentation of Pentoses and Recovery of Ethanol and
Unfermented Sugars
PP-IJUP2012-UNICER- 6
Other
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
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Concluded
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2011/10 - 2012/12 | Microalgae Treatment of Brewer's Effluent with Biomass Valorization for Biodiesel
PP-IJUP2011-UNICER-107
Other
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Conference abstract |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/09 | Fe,Ni,N-Doped CNT as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst | CESEP 2023 - 9th International Conference on Carbon for Energy Storage and Environmental Protection
(Budapest, Hungary)
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2023/06 | Iron Phthalocyanine and Nickel Nitrate on Carbon Nanotubes as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts | 5th Doctoral Congress in Engineering
(Porto, Portugal)
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2022/07/07 | Efficient production of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from sucrose promoted by S, N doped carbon catalysts in water | Carbon 2022
(London, United Kingdom)
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2022/07/07 | Effect of Cobalt Species supported on CNTs towards the Oxygen Evolution Reaction | Carbon 2022
(London, United Kingdom)
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2022/06/28 | Investigation of Fe,Co,N-Doped carbon nanotubes as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts under application oriented conditions | 9th International Symposium on Carbon for Catalysis, CarboCat–IX
( Zaragoza, Spain)
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2021/10/10 | Cobalt and Iron Phthalocyanine-doped Carbon Nanotubes as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts | XI ENCMP/II RGC
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2021/06 | Iron and Cobalt Phthalocyanines on Carbon Nanotubes as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts | 4th Doctoral Congress in Engineering
(Porto, Portugal)
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2019/10 | Fe-N-doped hydrothermal carbons for the oxygen reduction reaction | 8th International Conference on Carbon for Energy Storage and Environment Protection
(Alicante, Spain)
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2019/07 | Highly Microporous Biomass-Derived Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction | Symposium, Beyond Adsorption II
(New york, United States)
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2018/10 | P-Doped Glucose-Derived Carbon/Carbon Nanotubes hybrids for Oxygen Reduction Reaction | 13th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2018/09 | Effect of microporosity on the oxygen reduction reaction of activated carbons obtained from hydrothermally treated glucose | 41ª Reunión Ibérica de Adsorción
(Gijón, Spain)
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2018/07 | Glucose derived carbon/carbon nanotube hybrids for oxygen reduction reaction | The world conference on Carbon
(Madrid, Spain)
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2018/05 | Hybrids of glucose-derived carbons and CNTs for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction | XXIII Meeting of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society
(Porto, Portugal)
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2015 | Bioethanol from Brewers’ Spent Grain: Pentose Fermentation | 8th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto
(Porto, Portugal)
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2014 | Brewers’ spent grains characterization and its potential as raw material for bioenergy | 7th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto
(Porto, Portugal)
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2014 | Cultivation of Chlamydomonas sp. In brewery wastewater supplemented with pentose sugars | 7th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto
(Porto, Portugal)
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2014 | Sustainability Evaluation of Biodiesel from Microalgae Chlamydomonas sp. Grown in Brewery Wastewater | 7th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto
(Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2024/07 - 2024/10 | Dual Valorization of Food Waste: Development of Carbon Catalysts for Biomass and Energy Conversion
Co-supervisor
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Project in Chemical Engineering (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2024/02/05 - 2024/07 | Development of carbon dots towards the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells
Co-supervisor
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Dissertation (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023/07 - 2023/10 | Development of Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells
Co-supervisor
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Project in Chemical Engineering (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2022/07 - 2022/10 | Development of Carbon Nanotube-Supported Catalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion
Co-supervisor
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Project in Chemical Engineering (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2019/06/11 - 2019/06/15 | Course on different techniques for physicochemical characterization of the surface of adsorbents and catalysts. Fifteen conferences
on methods of characterization of adsorbents and catalysts: structure and morphology, texture, thermal analysis, spectroscopic
techniques, large installations, active centers and surface groups, and surface energetics
Other
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Physical chemical characterization of the surface of adsorbents and catalysts
Conselho Superior de Investigações Científicas, Spain
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2019/04 - 2019/04 | Monitor at the bench of the Associated Laboratory LSRE-LCM during the 17th exhibition of the University of Porto | 17th exhibition of the University of Porto
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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2018/03 - 2018/03 | Monitor of experimental activities carried out in the laboratories of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto | Engineer Profession Week 2018
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2017/04 - 2017/04 | Monitor at the bench of the Integrated Masters course in Chemical Engineering during the 15th exhibition of the University of Porto | 15th exhibition of the University of Porto
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2022/11/14 - 2023/01/05 | Catalysis Today (1873-4308) | ScienceDirect |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - 2019/06/28 | Member of the organizing committee of the symposium on Chemical and Biological Engineering of the third edition of the Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE 2019) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2019 - 2019/06/28 | Member of the scientific committee of the symposium on Chemical and Biological Engineering of the third edition of the Doctoral
Congress in Engineering (DCE 2019)
Member
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
2024 | ACS Young Awards - Young Researcher Support for attending ICC2024 |
2019 | Best Poster Presentation Award Symposium of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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