Manuel Piedade is an associate professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). As part of a sabbatical leave, he came to Berlin-Adlershof, more precisely to BAM. Here, together with Dr. Franziska Emmerling, head of the Analytical Chemistry; Reference Materials department and her team, he is conducting research on mechanochemical synthesis.
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Prof. Manuel Piedade together with the BAM team is conducting research on mechanochemical methods, which also play an important role in developing novel pharmaceuticals.
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Their focus is on designing and building a prototype of a ball mill, whose core (the milling jar) looks a bit like a surprise egg.
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Besides the mechanochemical apparatus, Prof. Manuel Piedade is also working with the BAM team on the development of other devices, such as a new cell for solution calorimetry studies.
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Prof. Manuel Piedade (middle) and the BAM team in their workshop (from left to right): Christoph Naese, Klaus-Jürgen Wenzel, Kevin Linberg and Bettina Röder.
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