Corrole-gold nanoparticles: Synthesis, ground and excited state solvation
DYES AND PIGMENTS, 201, 2022
Joana F. B. Barata , Vanda Vaz Serra , Ana L. Daniel-da-Silva , M. Graca P. M. S. Neves , Sílvia M. B. Costa , Jose A. S. Cavaleiro , Tito Trindade

Merging Porphyrins with Gold Nanorods: Self Assembly Construct to High Fluorescent Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules
NANOMATERIALS, 12, 2022
Vanda Vaz Serra , Sofia G. Serra , Mariana C. S. Vallejo , Pedro M. R. Paulo , Nuno M. M. Moura , David Botequim , Maria Graca P. M. S. Neves , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines: Some Insights into Supramolecular Self-Assembly, Microencapsulation, and Imaging Microscopy
MOLECULES, 26, 2021
Raquel Teixeira , Vanda Vaz Serra , David Botequim , Pedro M. R. Paulo , Suzana M. Andrade , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Fluorescent dye nano-assemblies by thiol attachment directed to the tips of gold nanorods for effective emission enhancement
NANOSCALE, 12, 6334-6345 3 2020
David Botequim , Ines I. R. Silva , Sofia G. G. Serra , Eduardo P. Melo , D. M. F. Prazeres , Sílvia M. B. Costa , Pedro M. R. Paulo

Extreme Enhancement of Single-Molecule Fluorescence from Porphyrins Induced by Gold Nanodimer Antennas
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 10, 1542-1549 4 2019
Alexandra P. Francisco , David Botequim , Duarte M. F. Prazeres , Vanda Vaz Serra , Sílvia M. B. Costa , Cesar A. T. Laia , Pedro M. R. Paulo

Enhanced Fluorescence of a Dye on DNA-Assembled Gold Nanodimers Discriminated by Lifetime Correlation Spectroscopy
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 122, 10971-10980 5 2018
Pedro M. R. Paulo , David Botequim , Agnieszka Joskowiak , Sofia Martins , Duarte M. F. Prazeres , Peter Zijlstra , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Core-Assisted Formation of Porphyrin J-Aggregates in pH-Sensitive Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Followed by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
LANGMUIR, 33, 7680-7691 8 2017
Vanda Vaz Serra , Nuno G. B. Neto , Suzana M. Andrade , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Tip-Specific Functionalization of Gold Nanorods for Plasmonic Biosensing: Effect of Linker Chain Length
LANGMUIR, 33, 6503-6510 7 2017
Pedro M. R. Paulo , Peter Zijlstra , Michel Orrit , Emilio Garcia-Fernandez , Tamara C. S. Pace , A. Viana , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Influence of 3D aggregation on the photoluminescence dynamics of CdSe quantum dot films
JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE, 183, 113-120 3 2017
T. Alejo , Pedro M. R. Paulo , M. D. Merchan , Emilio Garcia-Fernandez , Sílvia M. B. Costa , M. M. Velazquez

Design of polyelectrolyte core-shells with DNA to control TMPyP binding
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES, 146, 127-135 10 2016
Vanda Vaz Serra , Raquel Teixeira , Suzana M. Andrade , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Anchoring of Gold Nanoparticles on Graphene Oxide and Noncovalent Interactions with Porphyrinoids
CHEMNANOMAT, 1, 502-510 11 2015
Suzana M. Andrade , Carlos J. Bueno-Alejo , Vanda Vaz Serra , Joao M. M. Rodrigues , Maria G. P. M. S. Neves , A. Viana , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Gold Nanoparticles in Core-Polyelectrolyte-Shell Assemblies Promote Large Enhancements of Phthalocyanine Fluorescence
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 119, 21612-21619 9 2015
Raquel Teixeira , Pedro M. R. Paulo , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Encapsulation of photoactive porphyrinoids in polyelectrolyte hollow microcapsules viewed by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM)
RSC ADVANCES, 5, 79050-79060 2015
Raquel Teixeira , Vanda Vaz Serra , Pedro M. R. Paulo , Suzana M. Andrade , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Evaluation of electrostatic binding of PAMAM dendrimers and charged phthalocyanines by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 17, 4319-4327 2015
Emilio Garcia-Fernandez , Pedro M. R. Paulo , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Time evolution of monomers and aggregates of a polymethine dye probe the dynamics of model vesicles and micelles
JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY, 280, 54-62 4 2014
Maria Isabel Viseu , Alexander S. Tatikolov , Raquel F. Correia , Sílvia M. B. Costa

The Near-Mid-IR HOMO-LUMO gap in amide linked porphyrin-rhodamine dyads
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 49, 8809-8811 2013
José A. B. Ferreira , Vanda Vaz Serra , Antonio Sanchez-Coronilla , Sonia M. G. Pires , Maria A. F. Faustino , Artur M. S. Silva , M. Graca P. M. S. Neves , Jose A. S. Cavaleiro , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Structural Effects of the beta-Vinyl Linker in Pyridinium Porphyrins: Spectroscopic Studies in Organic Solvents and AOT Reverse Micelles
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 117, 15023-15032 12 2013
Vanda Vaz Serra , Suzana M. Andrade , Eduarda M. P. Silva , Artur M. S. Silva , M. Graca P. M. S. Neves , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Photoluminescence Dynamics of CdSe QD/Polymer Langmuir-Blodgett Thin Films: Morphology Effects
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 117, 14787-14795 7 2013
Beatriz Martin-Garcia , Pedro M. R. Paulo , Sílvia M. B. Costa , M. Mercedes Velazquez

Electrophilic Reactivity of Tetrabromorhodamine 123 is Bromine Induced: Convergent Interpretation through Complementary Molecular Descriptors
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 116, 11938-11945 12 2012
José A. B. Ferreira , Antonio Sanchez-Coronilla , Denisio M. Togashi , H Ferreira , José do Rosário Ascenso , Sílvia M. B. Costa

Polyelectrolyte-Assisted Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with Ordered Self-Assemblies of a Water-Soluble Porphyrin
CHEMPHYSCHEM, 13, 3622-3631 11 2012
Suzana M. Andrade , Perumal Raja , Vipin K. Saini , A. Viana , Philippe Serp , Sílvia M. B. Costa