"The Laboratory for the Development of Materials for Biosystems (MATBIO) conducts research on multifunctional materials for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, polysaccharides and liposome systems, micro and nano structured systems and biosensors, molecular recognition processes in solution and at the solid/liquid interface, applications of infrared spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry for the study of biological materials and systems. High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications are also being developed for model analysis studies of metabolic processes of unicellular organisms and studies of binder-receptor interaction.
Another field of research is the agrifood-energy sector, in particular with the study of processes of production and bio-transformation of vegetable biomass into biofuels and the development of processes of radiation transfer in aquatic ecosystems (analysis of dissolved organic components and interaction with solar and ultraviolet radiation, photodegradation and photoactivation for the production of biomass of aquatic origin).
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