(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Teresa Casimiro is Principal Investigator at LAQV/REQUIMTE and Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She leaders the CleanMIPTech Group (https://sites.fct.unl.pt/clean-mip-tech/) at the Green Polymer Synthesis & Processing Laboratory at LAQV/REQUIMTE. T. Casimiro is co-author of over 90 scientific refereed papers, with h-index: 30. Her research is focused on the synthesis and processing of polymers using green technologies, in particular, supercritical fluid technology, molecular imprinting and plasma technology. The combination of SCF and MI technologies have led to the development of new affinity polymers- Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs)- for different applications. These "plastic antibody" materials are very robust and show molecular recognition ability, with many advantages over natural antibodies and conventional MIPs. Different applications have been explored such as chromatography, drug delivery, extraction, API purification, diesel desulfurization, catalysis, sensors, etc.
Her scientific areas of research also include preparation of formulations by Supercritical CO2-Assisted Spray-Drying for lung delivery, cyclodextrin inclusion complexes formation and cleaning and consolidation of museum heritage items using dense CO2.