Professora Auxiliar com Agregação Lic.Eng.Química (1983,IST/UTL); Provas de Apt. Ped. e Cap. Cient., Materiais Poliméricos e Mesomorfos(1986, FCT/UNL); Doutoramento em Ciência dos Materiais, Materiais Poliméricos e Mesomorfos (1992,FCT/UNL); Agregação Materiais Poliméricos e Mesomorfos (2003)
 

 

Interesses Profissionais

 

Principais interesses científicos na área de Síntese e Caracterização de Polímeros líquido-cristalinos Celulósicos e Elastómeros, Estudo da Morfologia e Comportamento Dinâmico. Cristais Líquidos.

 

Publicações Representativas

 

“A cellulose liquid crystal motor: a steam engine of the second kind” Y. Geng, P.L. Almeida, S.N. Fernandes, C. Cheng, P. Palffy-Muhoray, M.H. Godinho, Scientific Reports, 3, 1028 (2013) (corresponding author) (http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130104/srep01028/full/srep01028.html).

 

“Hierarchical wrinkling on elastomeric Janus spheres” A.C. Trindade, J.P. Canejo, P. Patrício, P. Brogueira, P.I. Teixeira, M.H. Godinho, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(41), 22044-22049 (2012) (corresponding author).

 

“Liquid crystal beads constrained on thin cellulosic fibers: electric field induced microrotors and N-I transition” G. Yong, P.L. Almeida, J.L. Figueirinhas, E.M. Terentjev, M.H. Godinho, Soft Matter, 8(13), 3634-3640 (2012) (corresponding author).

 

“Cellulose-Based Liquid Crystalline Photoresponsive Films with Tunable Surface Wettability” L.F.V. Pinto, S. Kundu, P. Brogueira, C. Cruz, S.N. Fernandes, A.Aluculesei, M.H. Godinho, Langmuir, 27(10), 6330-6337 (2011) (corresponding author).

 

“Wrinkling Labyrinth Patterns on Elastomeric Janus Particles”, A.C. Trindade, L.F.V. Pinto, P. Patrício, P.I.C. Teixeira, M.H. Godinho, Macromolecules, 44(7), 2220 (2011) (corresponding author).

 

“Self-winding of helices in plant tendrils”, M.H. Godinho, J.P. Canejo, G. Feio, E.M. Terentjev, Soft Matter, 6(23), 5965 (2010) (Featured Research, SoftMatterWorld, Newsletter, October 2010, Issue 22) (corresponding author)

 

“Deuterium NMR Study of Orientational Order in Cellulosic Network Microfibers”, S. Kundu, G. Feio, L.F.V. Pinto, P.L. Almeida, J.L. Figueirinhas, M.H. Godinho, Macromolecules, 43(13), 5749 (2010) (corresponding author).

 

“Helical twisting of electrospun liquid crystalline cellulose micro- and nanofibers”, J.P. Canejo, J.P. Borges, M.H. Godinho, P. Brogueira, P.I.C. Teixeira, E.M. Terentjev, Advanced Materials, 20(24), 4821 (2008) (corresponding author).