Luís Miguel Nunes Pereira

Luis Pereira is an Associate Professor at the School of Science and Technology - NOVA University Lisbon and currently CTO of the AlmaScience Colab. The versatility and initiative demonstrated throughout his scientific career have been very important in building up his expertise in different fields, complementary or distinct from where he began his career. He was involved in the first demonstration of oxide transistors using paper ad dielectric and substrate. This resulted in a family of 14 patents.

He has coordinated and participated in several R& D projects under different funding schemes, including industry direct funding ones. He has been granted in 2015 a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) on the development of cellulose nanocomposites for paper electronics (NewFun, project 640598). Recent research interests were on the design and synthesis of 1D, 2D and 3D inorganic and hybrid nanostructures, chiral cellulose nanocomposites, functional micro and nanofibers and their integration on chromogenic, electronic and electrochemical devices. Luis Pereira has published more than 180 papers and has an h-index of 57 with more than 14000 citations (Google Scholar).

In 2020 he became CTO of AlmaScience Colab (https://almascience.pt/) a tech transfer and incubation institution for smart and sustainable solutions based on cellulose and other natural materials. This means that for the last two years, Luis Pereira has been involved in applied research projects led and promoted by industrial partners, highly market-oriented.

“Multifunctional flexible and stretchable electrochromic energy storage devices”, Libu Manjakkal, Luis Pereira, Eric Kumi Barimah, Paul Grey, Fabiane F Franco, Zhengyu Lin, Gin Jose, Richard A Hogg (2024) Progress in Materials Science, 101244.

“Sustainable electrochemical energy storage devices using natural bast fibres”, Libu Manjakkal, Amrita Jain, Suman Nandy, Sumita Goswami, José Tiago Carvalho, Luis Pereira, Chan H See, Suresh C Pillai, Richard A Hogg, (2023) Chemical Engineering Journal, 465, 142845.

“Smart IoT enabled interactive self-powered security tag designed with functionalized paper", Guilherme Ferreira, André Opinião, Shubham Das, Sumita Goswami, Luís Pereira, Suman Nandy, Rodrigo Martins, Elvira Fortunato” (2022) Nano Energy, 95, 107021.

"UV-cured selfhealing gel polymer electrolyte toward safer room temperature lithium metal batteries" (2022), Simone Siccardi, Julia Amici, Samuele Colombi, José Tiago Carvalho, Daniele Versaci, Eliana Quartarone, Luis Pereira, Federico Bella, Carlotta Francia, Silvia Bodoardo. Electrochimica Acta, 433,141265

“Porous PDMS conformable coating for high power output carbon fibers/ZnO nanorod-based triboelectric energy harvesters, Raquel Barras, Andreia dos Santos, Tomás Calmeiro, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Hugo Águas, Pedro Barquinha, Rui Igreja, Luís Pereira” (2021). Nano Energy 90, 106582