Chemistry/Technological Chemistry; Nanofluids; Solar collector; Thermal conductivity; Nanomaterials; NIR spectroscopy; Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD); agriculture and forest residues; Characterization of paints and coatings

- Influência de nanomateriais na eficiência de uma tinta comercial solar, Project student Ana Rita Neto, Final grade: 18, 2013

- Construção de um Painel Solar Térmico, Project student Bruno Henriques, Final grade: 18, 2016.

• Carlos Nieto de Castro, Maria José Lourenço and Salomé Vieira "Block III – Nano¬Particles in Ionic Liquids. IoNanofluids – Synthesis, Properties and Applications" Workshop Synthetic Aspects, DFG – SPP1708, Rostock, Germany,19¬20 Feb 2015.
• Carlos Castro, Sohel Murshed, M. J. Lourenço, F. Santos, M. Lope, J. França, S. Vieira, F. Bioucas "Ionanofluids for thermal applications" NanoUptake COST Action "Overcoming Barriers to Nanofluids Market Uptake" Castellon de la Plana, Spain, 25¬-29 October 2016.
• Salomé I. Vieira, Maria. J. Lourenço, Carlos A. Nieto de Castro "Attention! Nanofluids preparation" 20th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties (ECTP2014), Porto, Portugal, August 2014 Pinto A.T., Vieira S.I.C., C.S. Queirós, Murshed S.M.S., Lourenço M.J.V., Nieto de Castro C.A., "Experimental study on thermal conductivity of micro¬ and nano¬fluids" 20th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties (ECTP2014), Porto, Portugal, August 2014.
• F. E. Bioucas, S. I. Vieira, S. Murshed, M. J. Lourenço, Â. F. Santos, M. L. Lopes, F. J. Santos, C. A. Nieto de Castro e K. Massonne, "[C2mim][CH3SO3] – Is it a suitable new heat transfer fluid?," in 26th EUCHEM Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids, Vienna, Austria, 3¬8 July 2016.
• Salomé Vieira, Maria José Lourenço, Carlos Nieto de Castro, Joerg Mueller, “Solar thermal energy between nano and nature” 11th Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference, ATPC2016, Yokohama, Japan, 2–6 October 2016.
• Luís C. Nobre, Carla S. Queirós, Salomé I. Vieira, Fernando J. Santos, Maria J. Lourenço, João M. Serra, Carlos Nieto de Castro ”Evolution! 20 years of platinum Portuguese thin film sensors”11th Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference, ATPC2016, Yokohama, Japan, 2–6 October 2016