| Acronym: ANION |
| Main Objective: The main goal of this project is to develop novel anion host materials, with adequate structural features, for biomedical, environmental and sensing applications. Based on our interest in the development of an efficient technology for water treatment we considered the possibility of supporting the most promising anion receptors on magnetic nanoparticles, allowing their recovery using external magnetic forces. Another goal will be the construction of a refractive index sensor based on tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBG)- functionalized by the most efficient synthesized hosts or by gold nanoparticles wrapped also with anion hosts. These efforts will be pursued in order to evaluate the potential applications of these molecules and the resultant materials to be used as anion receptors. This proposal aims five specific objectives having the overall goal of exploiting the anion properties of new hosts that are stated below: (Aim 1) develop robust precursors or platforms that enable rapid development of new compounds, and build up the target receptors based on porphyrin related compounds; (Aim 2) develop new sensors based on smaller and cheaper commercial reagents like triazine and perfluorinated derivatives. Such new materials should be able to host different types of anions in selective and efficient ways, through their cavities or clefts; (Aim 3) screen the most promising materials, evaluating the anion binding properties of all new compounds/materials; assessing their hypothetic advantage as novel anion binding agents, when compared with the present technologies; (Aim 4) prepare new nanomaterials, based on magnetic nanoparticles covered with small and cheap hosts, that can be recovered and reused; (Aim 5) translate the anion binding results in solution into the construction of novel optical fiber sensors, by wrapping a thinned fiber Bragg gratings with the best selective anion hosts synthesized, covalently or supramolecularly. |
| Reference: PTDC/CTM/101538/2008 |
| Funding: FCT/PTDC |
| Start Date: 01-04-2010 |
| End Date: 01-04-2013 |
| Team: Rogério Nunes Nogueira, Carlos Alberto Ferreira Marques, Nélia Jordão Alberto, João de Lemos Pinto |
| Groups: Optical Communication Systems and Networking – Av |
| Partners: Universidade de Aveiro, CICECO |
| Local Coordinator: Rogério Nunes Nogueira |
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