Papers in Scientific Journals (14)
Castro V. I. B., Araújo A. R., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Nanoengineered self-assembling peptides with increased proteolytic stability promote wound healing",
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 17, issue 8, pp. 11624 - 11633, doi:
10.1021/acsami.4c18221, 2025.
Castro V. I. B., Amorim S., Caballero D., Abreu C. M., Kundu S. C., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Patterned glycopeptide-based supramolecular hydrogel promotes the alignment and contractility of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes",
Biomaterials Advances, vol. 167, pp. 214091, doi:
10.1016/j.bioadv.2024.214091, 2025.
Gonçalves R. R., Peixoto D., Costa R. R., Franco A. R., Castro V. I. B., Pires R. A., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., Maniglio D., Tirella A., Motta A., and Alves N. M.,
"Antibacterial properties of photo-crosslinked chitosan/methacrylated hyaluronic acid nanoparticles loaded with bacitracin",
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol. 227, pp. 134250, doi:
10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.134250, 2024.
Castro V. I. B., Gao Y., Brito A., Chen J., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Cooling rate uncovers epimer-dependent supramolecular organization of carbohydrate amphiphiles",
Journal Of Materials Chemistry B, vol. 12, pp. 6996-7000, 2024.
Castro-Ribeiro M. L., Castro V. I. B., Vieira de Castro J., Pires R. A., Reis R. L., Costa B. M., Ferreira H., and Neves N. M.,
"The Potential of the Fibronectin Inhibitor Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser in the Development of Therapies for Glioblastoma",
Int. J. Mol. Sci., vol. 25, pp. 4910, 2024.
Castro V. I. B., Araújo A. R., Duarte F., Sousa-Franco A., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Glycopeptide-based supramolecular hydrogels induce differentiation of adipose stem cells into neural lineages",
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 15 , issue 25, pp. 29998 - 30007, doi:
10.1021/acsami.3c05309, 2023.
Alves A. L., Carvalho A. C., Machado I., Diogo G. S., Fernandes E. M., Castro V. I. B., Pires R. A., Vázquez J. A., Perez-Martin R. I., Alaminos M., Reis R. L., and Silva T. H.,
"Cell-Laden Marine Gelatin Methacryloyl Hydrogels Enriched with Ascorbic Acid for Corneal Stroma Regeneration",
Bioengineering, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 62, doi:
https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10010062, 2023.
Freitas D. S., Rocha D., Castro T. G., Noro J., Castro V. I. B., Teixeira M. A., Reis R. L., Cavaco-Paulo A., and Silva C.,
"Green Extraction of Cork Bioactive Compounds Using Natural Deep Eutectic Mixtures",
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, vol. 10, issue 24, pp. 7974–7989, doi:
https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c01422, 2022.
Brito A., Dave D., Lampel A., Castro V. I. B., Kroiss D., Reis R. L., Tuttle T., Ulijn R. V., Pires R. A., and Pashkuleva I.,
"Expanding the conformational landscape of minimalistic tripeptides by their O‑glycosylation",
Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 143, issue 47, pp. 19703 - 19710, doi:
10.1021/jacs.1c07592, 2021.
Craveiro R., Castro V. I. B., Viciosa M. T., Dionisio M., Reis R. L., Duarte A. R. C., and Paiva A.,
"Influence of natural deep eutectic systems in water thermal behavior and their applications in cryopreservation",
Journal of Molecular Liquids, vol. 329, pp. 115533, doi:
10.1016/j.molliq.2021.115533, 2021.
Silva J. M., Pereira C. V., Mano F., Silva E., Castro V. I. B., Sá-Nogueira I., Reis R. L., Paiva A., Matias A. A., and Duarte A. R. C.,
"The therapeutic role of deep eutectic solvents based on menthol and saturated fatty acids on wound healing",
ACS Appl. Bio Mater, vol. 2, issue 10, pp. 4346-4355, doi:
10.1021/acsabm.9b00598, 2019.
Castro V. I. B., Craveiro R., Silva J. M., Reis R. L., Paiva A., and Duarte A. R. C.,
"Natural deep eutectic systems as alternative nontoxic cryoprotective agents",
Cryobiology, vol. 83, pp. 15-26, doi:
10.1016/j.cryobiol.2018.06.010, 2018.
Castro V. I. B., Mano F., Reis R. L., Paiva A., and Duarte A. R. C.,
"Synthesis and Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Lactic Acid and Malic Acid-Based Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents",
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, vol. 63, issue 7, pp. 2548-2556, doi:
10.1021/acs.jced.7b01037, 2018.
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Comunications - Poster (16)
Castro V. I. B., Gao Y., Brito A., Chen J., Ulijn R. V., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Control of supramolecular helicity by the energy input and the monomer stereochemistry",
TERMIS-EU 2020 Chapter Meeting , 2020.
Castro V. I. B., Gao Y., Brito A., Soares da Costa D., Chen J., Ulijn R. V., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Out of equilibrium assembly of carbohydrate amphiphiles as a modulator of the supramolecular helicity and gelation",
FoReCast 2nd Workshop, 2019.
Comunication - Oral (5)
Castro V. I. B., Gao Y., Brito A., Soares da Costa D., Chen J., Ulijn R. V., Reis R. L., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Different energy inputs promotes helicity change in the supramolecular arrangement of carbohydrates",
1st Discoveries Forum on Regenerative and Precision Medicine, 2019.
Castro V. I. B., Gao Y., Brito A., Soares da Costa D., Chen J., Reis R. L., Ulijn R. V., Pashkuleva I., and Pires R. A.,
"Cabohydrate stereoisomerschemistry self-assemble into affects the supramolecular fibers with different assemblyhelicityof Short short aromatic carbohydrate amphiphiles based supramolecular structures: stereochemistry effect on the assembly",
Glupor 13, 2019.
Patent (1)