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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Carolina Pedreira Afonso

Citation names

  • P. Afonso, Ana Carolina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9010-C54F-B958
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8806-230X

Email addresses

  • anaafonso191@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 914716425 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Japanese Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019 - 2021
Concluded
 Química (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Development of optical nanosensors through active surface preservation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2020/10/30
Concluded
 Reaproveitamento de Fármacos para Oncologia e COVID-19 (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2016 - 2019
Concluded
 Ciências e Tecnologia do Ambiente (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Imobilização de nanomateriais fluorescentes de carbono para aplicações foto-catalíticas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Ana Carolina P. Afonso; Ana Salomé Correia; Diana Duarte; Ana T. S. C. Brandão; Maria del Valle Martínez de Yuso; José Jiménez-Jiménez; Nuno Vale; et al. "An Active Surface Preservation Strategy for the Rational Development of Carbon Dots as pH-Responsive Fluorescent Nanosensors". Chemosensors 9 8 (2021): 191-191. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9080191.
    10.3390/chemosensors9080191
  2. Ana Carolina P. Afonso; Luís Pinto da Silva. "Carbon Dots as a Fluorescence pH Nanosensor by Application of an Active Surface Preservation Strategy". Chemistry Proceedings (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/CSAC2021-10638.
    10.3390/CSAC2021-10638
  3. Sendão, Ricardo M. S.; Crista, Diana M. A.; Afonso, Ana Carolina P.; Martínez de Yuso, Maria del Valle; Algarra, Manuel; Esteves da Silva, Joaquim C. G.; Pinto da Silva, Luís. "Insight into the hybrid luminescence showed by carbon dots and molecular fluorophores in solution". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 37 (2019): 20919-20926. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9cp03730f.
    10.1039/c9cp03730f
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/07/12 Carbon dots as a fluorescence pH nanosensor by application of an active surface preservation strategy 1st International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry (CSAC2021)
2021/05/06 Use of an active surface preservation strategy for developing carbon dots as a fluorescence pH nanosensor 14º Encontro da Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/11/25 - Current Online course on the software Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) Formação em VMD
Núcleo de Bioquímica da Universidade do Porto (NEBQUP), Portugal
2021/11/23 - Current Online course on the software PyMOL Formação em PyMOL
Núcleo de Bioquímica da Universidade do Porto (NEBQUP), Portugal
2019/07/24 - 2019/07/26 Scientific communication in poster format "Sol-Gel immobilization of green-emitting carbon dots"
Meeting
 XXVI Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal