Sofia Machado

University of Porto | UP · Departamento de Biologia

The world's population is continuously increasing; therefore, food availability will be one of the major concerns of our future. In addition to that, many practices and products used, such as pesticides and fertilizers have been shown harmful to the environment and human health and are assumed as being one of the main factors responsible for the lo...

Participation in the 9th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces (RICI9) as first author of the poster entitled "Encapsulation and characterization of essential oils into chitosan/tripolyphosphate nanoparticles and ecotoxicity evaluation"

Poster presentation in Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal 2022 Conference, entitled "Micro/nanobiopesticide formulation of Satureja montana essential oil with montmorillonite (MMT): assessing its ecotoxicological impact"

Since its revolutionary discovery in 2004, graphene-a two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial consisting of single-layer carbon atoms packed in a honeycomb lattice-was thoroughly discussed for a broad variety of applications including quantum physics, nanoelectronics, energy efficiency, and catalysis. Graphene and graphene-based nanomaterials (GBNs) have...

Introduction Research on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) occupies a prominent place in the field of biomedicine nowadays, being their putative toxicity and bioactivity areas of major concern. The green synthesis of metallic nanoparticles using extracts from marine organisms allows the avoidance of hazardous production steps while maintaining features of...

20th Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX) as first author of an oral presentation entitled "Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles using brown algae Cystoseira baccata and Cystoseira tamariscifolia: Comparing toxicity and bioactivity"

Participation in the 8th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces (RICI8) as second author of the posters "Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles led by algae Cystoseira tamariscifolia and evaluation of their biological activity" and "In vivo neurotoxicity validation of nanoparticles in Zebrafish"