Physics Education and Science Outreach
The Working Group manages our outreach and physics education efforts. We promote physics and excellence in science education in primary and secondary schools, not only by engaging scientists in visits to schools but also bringing students to the Physics Department and our research facilities. We are responsible for the school of excellence in Physics "Quark!" for high-school students from all over the country and for the coordination of the National Physics Olympiad. In addition, CFisUC collaborates on the outreach activities of the Department of Physics, Museum of Science and Centro Ciência Viva Rómulo de Carvalho.
Current projects
Previous projects
Recent Publications
Books
Books
1 - 1655 Escala em Coimbra - um jovem jesuíta entre o Ocidente e o Oriente | 1655 Tussenstop in Coimbra - een jonge jezuiet tussen West en Oost
Noël Golvers, Carlota Simões
Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
ISBN: 978-989-26-2200-2 (2022)
Chapters of Books
2 - Studying cooling curves with a smartphone
Manuela Ramos Silva, Pablo Martin-Ramos, Pedro Pereira da Silva
Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics: Edited Volume Featuring more than 70 Examples from 10 Years The Physics, 327 (2022)
3 - Studying 3D collisions with smartphones
Vanda Pereira, Pablo Martin-Ramos, Pedro Pereira da Silva, Manuela Ramos Silva
Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics: Edited Volume Featuring more than 70 Examples from 10 Years The Physics Teacher., 73 (2022)
Papers
International Journals
4 - Practical Design of 3,6-di-tert-butyl-diphenyldibenzofulvene Derivatives with Enhanced Aggregation-Induced Emission
C. Cunha, M. Peixoto, J. Santos, P. Abreu, J.A. Paixão, N. Pineiro, J. Seixas de Melo
ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 1(1), 340-353 (2023)
5 - The effect of self-interacting bosonic dark matter on neutron star properties
E. Giangrandi, Violetta Sagun, O. Ivanytskyi, C. Providência, T. Dietrich
submitted to Astroph. J. Preprint arXiv:2209.10905 [astro-ph.HE] (2023)
6 - Summerfield scaling model and electrical conductivity study for understanding transport mechanisms of a Cr3+ substituted ZnAl2O4 ceramic
I Elhamdi, F Mselmi, H Souissi, Kammoun, E Dhahri, P Sanguino, BFO Costa
RSC Advances 13(5), 3377-3393 (2023)
7 - Crystal Engineering to Avoid Pairing Dipolar Moments: The Case of 5-Nitrouracil, a Highly Polarizable Molecule
MR Silva, P da Silva
Crystals 13(1), 145 (2023)
8 - Muon spin spectroscopy
Adrian D. Hillier, Stephen J. Blundell, Iain McKenzie, Izumi Umegaki, Lei Shu, Joseph A. Wright, Thomas Prokscha, Fabrice Bert, Koichiro Shimomura, Adam Berlie, Helena Alberto, Isao Watanabe
Nat. Rev. Methods Primers 2:4, 1-2434 (2022)
9 - Characterization of the Interfacial Defect Layer in Chalcopyrite Solar Cells by Depth-Resolved Muon Spin Spectroscopy
HV Alberto, RC Vilao, EFM Ribeiro, JM Gil, MA Curado, JP Teixeira, PA Fernandes, JMV Cunha, PMP Salome, M Edoff, MI Martins, T Prokscha, Z Salman, A Weidinger
Adv. Mater. Interfaces 9(19) (2022)
10 - Portrayal of the Color Polymorphism in the 5-Acetyl-derivative of ROY
B. A. Nogueira, M. Carvalho, J. A. Paixão, M. Ermelinda S. Eusébio, S. M. M. Lopes, T. M. V. D. Pinho e Melo, R. Fausto
Cryst. Eng. Comm. 241, 1459-1474 (2022)
11 - Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitors: The Pharmacophore as a Guide for Co-Crystal Screening
JA Baptista, MTS Rosado, RAE Castro, AOL Evora, TMR Maria, MR Silva, J Canotilho, MES Eusebio
Molecules 26(21), 6721 (2022)
12 - Color Polymorphs of ROY-ol
Bernardo A. Nogueira, Susana M. M. Lopes, Alberto Milani, Vânia André, José A. Paixão, M. Ermelinda S. Eusébio, Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo, M. Teresa Duarte, Chiara Castiglioni, Rui Fausto
Cryst. Growth Des. 22(9), 5375-5389 (2022)
13 - Molecular and Crystal Structures of N-Picryl-m-phenolidine and Investigation of Single Crystal Polarized Raman Spectra
Bernardo A.Nogueira, Susana MMLopes, Teresa MVD Pinho e Melo, José A. Paixão, Alberto Milani, Chiara Castiglioni, Rui Fausto
J. Mol. Struct. 1262, 133111 (2022)
14 - Investigations on the structural and magnetic properties of Ba1-xGdxFe12O19 (0 <= x <= 0.15) nanoparticles
MAP Buzinaro, BFO Costa, MS Ivanov, GC Cunha, MA Macedo, RS Angelica, NS Ferreira
J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 555, 169340 (2022)
15 - A computational model of organism development and carcinogenesis resulting from cells bioelectric properties and communication
Carvalho, J
Sci. Rep. 12(1) (2022)
16 - Heavy baryons in hot stellar matter with light nuclei and hypernuclei
T Custodio, H Pais, C Providencia
Phys. Rev. C 105(6), 065803 (2022)
17 - Bilayer conducting salts with polymeric anions
Gonçalo Lopes, Vasco da Gama, Isabel C. Santos, Elsa B. Lopes, Graça Brotas, Laura C. J. Pereira, Ana C. Cerdeira, José A. Paixão, Sandra Rabaça, Manuel Almeida
Cryst. Eng. Comm. 24, 4500-4508 (2022)
18 - Landau parameters and entrainment matrix of cold stellar matter: effect of the symmetry energy and strong magnetic fields
Helena Pais, Oleksii Ivanytskyi, Constança Providência
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 04, 024, 024 (2022)
19 - Evidence of a Cluster Spin-Glass Phase in the Skyrmion-Hosting GaMo4S8 compound
José Francisco Malta, Marta S. C. Henriques, José António Paixão, Antonio Pereira Gonçalves
J. Mater. Chem. C 10, 12043-12053 (2022)
20 - Identification of binary neutron star mergers in gravitational-wave data using object-detection machine learning models
João Aveiro, Felipe F. Freitas, Márcio Ferreira, Antonio Onofre, Constança Providência, Gonçalo Gonçalves, José A. Font
Phys. Rev. D 106, 084059 (2022)
21 - Influence of UV degradation of bioplastics on the amplification of mercury bioavailability in aquatic environments
João Pinto, Mariana Dias, Joana Amaral, Maxim Ivanov, José A. Paixão, Manuel A. Coimbra, Paula Ferreira, Eduarda Pereira, Idalina Gonçalves
Mar. Pollut. Bull. 180, 113806(1-11) (2022)
22 - Delta baryons in neutron stars
Kauan D. Marquez, Débora P. Menezes, Helena Pais, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. C 106, 055801 (2022)
23 - Polytropic fits of modern and unified equations of state
Lami Suleiman, Morgane Fortin, Julian Leszek Zdunik, Constanca Providencia
Phys. Rev. C 106, 035805 (2022)
24 - Physico-chemical characterisation of remains from a Bronze Age ochre-burial in Biniadris cave (Menorca, Spain)
P Martin-Ramos, FPSC Gil, J Martin-Gil
J. Archaeol. Sci. 42, 103362 (2022)
25 - Thickness dependent high-temperature piezo- and ferroelectricity in a fluorenone-based molecular crystal
Maxim Ivanov, Timur Nikitin, Susy Lopes, Yulong Duan, Jialiang Xu, Rui Fausto, José António Paixão, Paula Maria Vilarinho, Theo Rasing, Sergey Semin
Adv. Mater. Interf. 9(29), 2201103 (2022)
26 - The neutron star outer crust equation of state: a machine learning approach
Murarka Utsav Anil, Kinjal Banerjee, Tuhin Malik, Constança Providência
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 01, 045 (2022)
27 - Extracting nuclear matter properties from the neutron star matter equation of state using deep neural networks
Márcio Ferreira, Valéria Carvalho, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 106, 103023 (2022)
28 - A multiscale cell-based model of tumor growth for chemotherapy assessment and tumor-targeted therapy through a 3D computational approach
SJ Nivlouei, M Soltani, E Shirani, MR Salimpour, R Travasso, J Carvalho
Cell Prolif. 55(3), e13187 (2022)
29 - Enhancing SIM behaviour in a mononuclear tetrahedral [CoN,N’-2-iminopyrrolyl)2] complex
Patrícia S. Ferreira, José F. Malta, Nuno A. G. Bandeira, Alexander Allgaier, Joris van Slageren, José A. Paixão, Manuel Almeida, Laura C. J. Pereira, Pedro T. Gomes
Chem. Commun. 58, 9682-9685 (2022)
30 - Unravelling the structure of peroxides with antiparasitic activity: relative impact of a trioxolane or a tetraoxane pharmacophore on the overall molecular structure
Patrícia S. M. Amado, A. J. Lopes Jesus, José A. Paixão, Rui Fausto, M. Lurdes S. Cristiano
ChemPlusChem 87, e202200207-1-e202200207-16 (2022)
31 - Synthesis, structure and antileishmanial evaluation of endoperoxide-pyrazole hybrids
Patrícia S. M. Amado, Inês C. C. Costa, José A. Paixão, Ricardo F. Mendes, Sofia Cortes, Maria L. S. Cristiano
Molecules 27, 5401(1)-5401(23) (2022)
32 - Chemical trace XRF analysis to detect sharp force trauma in fresh and burned bone
J Rosa, LAEB De Carvalho, MT Ferreira, D Goncalves, MPM Marques, FPSC Gil
Sci. Justice 62(5) (2022)
33 - Insightful vibrational imaging study on the hydration mechanism of carbamazepine
Sara Fateixa, Helena I. S. Nogueira, José A. Paixão, Rui Fausto, Tito Trindade
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 24, 19502-19511 (2022)
34 - Optical and structural properties of an octupolar salt: Triphenylguanidinium trithiocyanurate
MR Silva, M Susano
Solid State Commun. 353, 114854 (2022)
35 - Short Note on Ethyl 7-Acetyl-8a-methyl-3-(1-phenyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-1,4,4a,5,6,8a- hexahydro-7H-pyrano[2,3-c]pyridazine-1-carboxylate
Susana M. M. Lopes, Américo Lemos, José A. Paixão, Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo
Molbank 1, M1338(1-6) (2022)
36 - Heavy baryons in hot stellar matter with light nuclei and hypernuclei
Tiago Custódio, Helena Pais, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. C 105, 065803 (2022)
37 - A possible trial beyond the conventional random phase approximation for the su(2)-Lipkin model including the case of nonclosed shell system
Y Tsue, C Providencia, J da Providencia, M Yamamura
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 31(05), 2250055 (2022)
38 - Bayesian inference of signatures of hyperons inside neutron stars
Tuhin Malik and Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 106, 063024 (2022)
39 - Inferring the nuclear symmetry energy at suprasaturation density from neutrino cooling
Tuhin Malik, B. K. Agrawal, and Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. C (Letter) 106, L042801 (2022)
40 - Relativistic Description of Dense Matter Equation of State and Compatibility with Neutron Star Observables: A Bayesian Approach
Tuhin Malik, Márcio Ferreira, B.K. Agrawal, Constança Providência
Astrophys. J. (ApJ) 930, 17 (2022)
41 - CompOSE reference manual
S Typel, M Oertel, T Klahn, D Chatterjee, V Dexheimer, C Ishizuka, M Mancini, J Novak, H Pais, C Providencia, AR Raduta, M Servillat, L Tolos
Eur. Phys. J. A 58(11), 221 (2022)
42 - Structural and magnetic phase transitions in Ca-substituted bismuth ferromanganites
V. A. Khomchenko, M. Das, J. A. Paixão, M. V. Silibin, D. V. Karpinsky
J. Alloys Compd. 901, 163682 (2022)
43 - Large magnetization jumps in Ca-doped bismuth ferromanganite
V.A. Khomchenko, M. Das, J.A. Paixão, M.V. Silibin, D.V. Karpinsky
Physica B 625, 413509 (2022)
44 - Quick Guides for Use of the CompOSE Data Base
Veronica Dexheimer, Marco Mancini, Micaela Oertel, Constança Providência, Laura Tolos, Stefan Typel
Particles 5, 346-360 (2022)
45 - Pasta phases in neutron stars under strong magnetic fields
Xiaopeng Wang, Jing Li, Jianjun Fang, Helena Pais, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 105, 063004 (2022)
Portuguese Journals
46 - O que são materiais “frustrados’’?
Constança Providência
Gazeta de Física (secção Vamos Experimentar!) 4 vol 44, 24 (2022)
47 - Porque está a mudar o clima?
Constança Providência
Gazeta de Física (secção Vamos Experimentar!) 1/2 vol 3, 66 (2022)
48 - O que é o vento?
Constança Providência, Helena Arede, Marta Henriques, Joana Pancas, Rita Wolters
Gazeta de Física (secção Vamos Experimentar!) 45, 26 (2022)
Proceedings
International Conferences
49 - A cellular Potts model describing wound healing assays in diverse cell motility and cell adhesion conditions
J Carvalho, S Jafari, G Martins
Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 52(1) (2022)
50 - Hybrid stars with large strange quark cores
Márcio Ferreira, Renan Câmara Pereira, Constança Providência
EPJ Web Conf. (Contribution to Confinement XV) 274, 07001 (2022)
51 - Hybrid stars from a constrained equation of state
Márcio Ferreira, Renan Câmara Pereira, Constança Providência
EPJ Web Conf. (Contribution to vConf21) 258, 07001 (2022)
52 - How does dark matter affect compact star properties and high density constraints of strongly interacting matter
Violetta Sagun, E. Giangrandi, O. Ivanytskyi, C. Providência, T. Dietrich
EPJ Web Conf., Proceedings of the 15th Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum Conference (QConf) 274, 07009 (2022)
Communications
Invited
53 - As super-propriedades das estrelas de neutrões!
Constança Providência
Rómulo CCVUC Ciência às seis 18 de janeiro (2022)
54 - Nos Ínfimos do Universo: Estrelas de neutrões como laboratórios de física nuclear e de partículas
Constança Providência
ENEF - Encontro Nacional dos Estudantes de Física UBI, 24-27 Setembro (2022)
55 - he complex composition of neutron stars: heavy baryons, kaon condensates and light nuclei and hypernuclei
Constança Providência
Mini Simposium Baryons: from the lab to neutron stars (HADES meeting, 23 September 2022, University of Coimbra) (2022)
56 - Learning about high density nuclear matter equation of state from neutron stars
Constança Providência, Márcio Ferreira, Tuhin Malik
Workshop "From holography to machine learning" (Helsinki, Finland) (2022)
57 - An historical overview of X-ray crystallography
J.A. Paixão
7th European Crystallographic School 10/7 (2022)
58 - Muon as local probes in semiconductors and dielectrics
Rui Vilão
3rd CMPNC, 3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference, Lisboa, 28/2-2/3 (2022)
59 - Probing dark matter with neutron stars
Violetta Sagun, Tim Dietrich, Mattia Emma, Edoardo Giangrandi, Oleksii Ivanytskyi, Ilidio Lopes, Francesco Pannarale, Constança Providência, Federico Schianchi
at the IPA2022: Interplay between Particle and Astroparticle physics 2022, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 5 - 9 September (2022)
60 - Impact of dark matter on compact stars and their merger dynamics
Violetta Sagun, Tim Dietrich, Mattia Emma, Edoardo Giangrandi, Oleksii Ivanytskyi, Ilidio Lopes, Francesco Pannarale, Constança Providência, Federico Schianchi
Invited seminar at the Laboratoire de Physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie – IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, France, 5 November (2022)
61 - Constraints on dark matter from observations of neutron stars and their mergers
Violetta Sagun, Tim Dietrich, Mattia Emma, Edoardo Giangrandi, Oleksii Ivanytskyi, Ilidio Lopes, Francesco Pannarale, Constança Providência, Federico Schianchi
Invited seminar at the Gr@v group, University of Aveiro, Portugal, 19 October (2022)
Oral
62 - Theoretical Design, Synthesis and Characterization of
Novel Thermochromic Materials
Bernardo Albuquerque Nogueira, Alberto Milani, Rita Cardoso, José António Paixão, Chiara Castiglioni, Rui Fausto
27th International Conference on Raman spectroscopy 14-19 August, Long Beach California, USA (2022)
63 - The development of molecular conductor and bilayers systems
Vasco da Gama Gonçalo Lopes, Isabel C. Santos, Elsa B. Lopes, Laura C. J. Pereira, Sandra Rabaça, José António Paixão, Manuel Almeida
The 73rd Yamada Conference, 8-11/20/2022, Sendai, Japão (2022)
64 - Structural and Magnetic Transformations Induced by Mn Doping in Ca- and Sr- substituted BiFeO3
M. Das, J.A. Paixão, V.A. Khomchenko
Física2022, 23ª Conferência Nacional de Física, Porto, 7-10/9 (2022)
65 - Compact stars as dark matter probes
Violetta Sagun, T. Dietrich, M. Emma, E. Giangrandi, O. Ivanytskyi, I. Lopes, F. Pannarale, C. Providência, F. Schianchi
at the Kashiwa Dark Matter symposium,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, November 29 - December 2 (2022)
66 - How dark matter affects compact star’s properties and constraints we put on strongly interacting matter at high densities
Violetta Sagun, Tim Dietrich, Mattia Emma, Edoardo Giangrandi, Oleksii Ivanytskyi, Ilidio Lopes, Francesco Pannarale, Constança Providência, Federico Schianchi
at the “XVth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum” conference, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway, 1 - 6 August (2022)
67 - The effect of dark matter on compact stars and constraints we put on strongly interacting matter at high densities
Violetta Sagun, Tim Dietrich, Mattia Emma, Edoardo Giangrandi, Oleksii Ivanytskyi, Ilidio Lopes, Francesco Pannarale, Constança Providência, Federico Schianchi
at the Institute for Nuclear Theory workshop (INT-22-2b) “Dark Matter in Compact Objects, Stars, and Low-Energy Experiments ”, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA, 1 August - 2 September (2022)
Poster
68 - Ab-initio studies of Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, and Bi2Se3-xTex
Ana Fontes, Fernando Nogueira, Pedro Borlido
Física2022, 23ª Conferência Nacional de Física, 7-10/9 (2022)
69 - XFeAs (X=Cu, Fe, Au) - Micromagnetic simulation, comparison with experiments and improvement perspectives
Phinifolo Cambalame, José António Paixão
Non-linear Magmetism, WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, 5/1-7/1 (2022)
70 - Structural diversity in conducting bilayer salts (CNB-EDT- TTF)4A
Isabel C. Santos, Vasco Gama, Gonçalo Lopes, Sandra Rabaça, José A. Paixão, Manuel Almeida
2º Encontro Nacional de Cristalografia Lisboa, 15-16/7 (2022)
71 - Structural diversity in conducting bilayer salts (CNB-EDT- TTF)4A
Isabel C. Santos, Vasco Gama, Gonçalo Lopes, Sandra Rabaça, José A. Paixão, Manuel Almeida
2º Encontro Nacional de Cristalografia Lisboa, 15-16/7 (2022)
72 - "Three days" Physics Projects for High School Students
J.A. Paixão
4º Conferência de Física dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, Praia, Cabo Verde, 12-16/9 (2022)
73 - CuFeAs: Electronic Structure and Lattice Dynamics
P.L.S. Cambalame J.A. Paixão, T. Nikitin, R. Fausto
4º Conferência de Física dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, Praia, Cabo Verde, 12-16/9 (2022)
74 - Polytypism in nanostructure AgBiSe2
J.N.Q. Oliveira, J. Batista, A. Fontes, T. Cerqueira, F. Nogueira, J.A. Paixão
2º Encntro Nacional de Cristalografia Lisboa, 15-16/7 (2022)
75 - Magnetic skyrmions in GaM4X8 (M = V, Mo; X = S, Se) lacunar spinels
José F. Malta, José A. Paixão, Marta S.C. Henriques, António P.Gonçalves, Miguel F.Carvalho
3rd CMPNC, 3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference, Lisboa, 28/2-2/3 (2022)
76 - Graph theory approach to wildfire supression
João Aveiro, Daniel Neves, Paulo Silva, Orlando Oliveira, Fernando Nogueira, Jaime Oliveira da Silva
Física2022, 23ª Conferência Nacional de Física, 7-10/9 (2022)
77 - Phase diagrams of high-pressure ternary systems
João N.Q. Oliveira, Fernando Nogueira, Tiago F.T. Cerqueira
Física2022-23ª Conferência Nacional de Física, 7-10/9 (2022)
78 - Effect of Mn substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of Ca doped bismuth ferrite
M. Das, V.A. Khomchenko, J.A. Paixão, M.V. Silibin, D.V. Karpinsky
3rd CMPNC, 3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference, Lisboa, 28/2-2/3 (2022)
79 - Disentangle the phase sequence and correlated critical properties in B0.7La0.3FeO3 by structural studies
M. M. Gomes, T. T. Carvalho, B. Manjunath, R. Vilarinho, A. S. Gibbs, K. S. Knight, J. A. Paixão, P. B. Tavares, A . Almeida, J. Agostinho Moreira
3rd CMPNC, 3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference, Lisboa, 28/2-2/3 (2022)
80 - Polymorphism of trispyrazoylmethanes bearing an oxime moiety prepared by mechanochemistry
Marta Pineiro, Carla Gomes, Bernardo A. Nogueira, Susana M. M. Lopes1 , Teresa M. D.V. Pinho e Melo, Rui Fausto José Paixão, Luísa M. D. R. S. Martins
2º Encontro Nacional de Cristalografia Lisboa, 15-16/7 (2022)
81 - Comparison of Structural and Energetic Properties Between Trioxolane and Tetraoxane Analogues with Established Antiparasitic Activity
Patrícia S. M. Amado, A. J. Lopes Jesus, José A. Paixão, Rui Fausto, Maria Lurdes Cristiano
8th EuChemS Chemistry Congress, Lisboa, Portugal 28/8-1/9 (2022)
82 - The effect of dark matter on neutron stars and their merger dynamics
Violetta Sagun, E. Giangrandi, O. Ivanytskyi, T. Dietrich, C. Providência
at the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop 2022 (GWPAW), Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 December (2022)
Other
83 - Estrelas de neutrões:
um laboratório de física nuclear, física de partículas e relatividade geral
Constança Providência
Palestra Outreach: Escola Secundária Infanta D. Maria 20 abril (2022)
