Heloisa Nunes Bordallo

Heloisa Nunes Bordallo

Associate Professor

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    The unifying theme of my research has been to understand the effects of structural changes on the physical properties principally those governing dynamics in, and induced around, a material. The sequence of topics I worked on evolved from luminescent impurities in ionic crystals to other classes of materials; ferroelectrics, colossal magnetoresistance, molecular magnets, cement paste, clays, and then to systems of biological significance. As a consequence of this development of scientific interest, I have been trained in a broad range of experimental and computational techniques, starting with optical spectroscopy and proceeding to Raman, infrared, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, X-rays and synchrotron radiation.
    I have sought to develop links to strong collaborators at the international level and have being engaged on promoting neutron scattering as a technique that possesses the ability to answer important questions to physicists, chemists, material scientists, and biologists.

    Selected publications

    1. Published

      Hydrogen bonds in crystalline D-alanine: diffraction and spectroscopic evidence for differences between

      Belo, E. A., Medeiros Pereira, J. E., Freire, P. T. C., Argyriou, D. N., Eckert, J. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 5 Jan 2018, In: IUCrJ. 5, Part: 1, p. 6-12 6 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    2. Published

      Nanoscale Mobility of Aqueous Polyacrylic Acid in Dental Restorative Cements

      Berg, M. C., Benetti, Ana Raquel, Telling, M. T. F., Seydel, T., Yu, D., Daemen, L. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 5 Mar 2018, In: A C S Applied Materials and Interfaces. 10, 12, p. 9904-9915

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    3. Published

      The pH influence on the intercalation of the bioactive agent ciprofloxacin in fluorohectorite

      dos Santos, E. C., Gates, W. P., Michels, L., Juranyi, F., Mikkelsen, A., da Silva, G. J., Fossum, J. O. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 15 Dec 2018, In: Applied Clay Science. 166, p. 288-298 11 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    4. Published

      Probing Water Mobility in Human Dentine with Neutron Spectroscopy

      Lauritsen, A. K., Pereira, J. E. M., Juranyi, F., Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, Larsen, L. & Benetti, Ana Raquel, 2018, In: Journal of Dental Research. 97, 9, p. 1017-1022

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    5. Published

      Electric Field Induced Polarization Effects Measured by in Situ Neutron Spectroscopy

      Ignazzi, R., Gates, W. P., Souleymane, D. O., Dehong, Y., Juranyi, F., Natali, F. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 26 Oct 2017, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121, 42, p. 23582-23591

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    6. Published

      Probing the dynamics of complexed local anesthetics via neutron scattering spectroscopy and DFT calculations

      Longo Martins, M., Eckert, J., Jacobsen, Henrik, Carvalho, E. D. S., Ignazzi, R., de Araujo, D. R., Bellissent-Funel, M. C., Natali, F., Koza, M. M., Matic, A., de Paula, E. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 30 May 2017, In: International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 524, 1-2, p. 397-406 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    7. Published

      How mobile are protons in the structure of dental glass ionomer cements?

      Benetti, Ana Raquel, Jacobsen, J., Lehnhoff, B., Momsen, N. C. R., Okhrimenko, D., Telling, M. T. F., Kardjilov, N., Strobl, M., Seydel, T., Manke, I. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 10 Mar 2015, In: Scientific Reports. 5, 6 p., 8972.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    8. Published

      Restricted mobility of specific functional groups reduces anti-cancer drug activity in healthy cells

      Longo Martins, M., Ignazzi, R., Eckert, J., Watts, B., Kaneno, R., Zambuzzi, W. F., Daemen, L., Saeki, M. J. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 2016, In: Scientific Reports. 6, 22478.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    9. Published

      Nano-scale hydrogen-bond network improves the durability of greener cements

      Jacobsen, J., Rodrigues, M. S., Telling, M. T. F., Beraldo, A. L., Santos, S. F., Aldridge, L. P. & Nunes Bordallo, Heloisa, 16 Sep 2013, In: Scientific Reports. 3, p. 2667-

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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