Papers in Scientific Journals (7)
Franco A. R., Fernandes E. M., Rodrigues M. T., Rodrigues F. J., Gomes M. E., Leonor I. B., Kaplan D. L., and Reis R. L.,
"Antimicrobial coating of spider silk to prevent bacterial attachment on silk surgical sutures",
Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 99, pp. 236-246, doi:
10.1016/j.actbio.2019.09.004, 2019.
Franco A. R., Kimmerling E. P., Silva C., Rodrigues F., Leonor I. B., Reis R. L., and Kaplan D. L.,
"Silk‐Based Antimicrobial Polymers as a New Platform to Design Drug‐Free Materials to Impede Microbial Infections",
Macromolecular Bioscience, doi:
10.1002/mabi.201800262, 2018.
Vieira S. F., Franco A. R., Fernandes E. M., Amorim S., Ferreira H., Pires R. A., Reis R. L., Martins A., and Neves N. M.,
"Fish sarcoplasmic proteins as a high value marine material for wound dressing applications",
Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, vol. 167, pp. 310-317, doi:
10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.04.002, 2018.
Pesqueira T., Costa-Almeida R., Mithieux S. M., Babo P. S., Franco A. R., Mendes B. B., Domingues R. M. A., Freitas P., Reis R. L., Gomes M. E., and Weiss A. S.,
"Engineering magnetically responsive tropoelastin spongy-like hydrogels for soft tissue regeneration",
Journal Of Materials Chemistry B, doi:
10.1039/C7TB02035J, 2018.
Costa-Almeida R., Franco A. R., Pesqueira T., Oliveira M. B., Babo P. S., Leonor I. B., Mano J. F., Reis R. L., and Gomes M. E.,
"The effects of platelet lysate patches on the activity of tendon-derived cells",
Acta Biomaterialia, doi:
10.1016/j.actbio.2018.01.006, 2018.
Babo P. S., Pires R. L., Santos L., Franco A. R., Rodrigues F., Leonor I. B., Reis R. L., and Gomes M. E.,
"Platelet Lysate-Loaded Photo-crosslinkable Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Periodontal Endogenous Regenerative Technology",
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, vol. 3, issue 7, pp. 1359-1369, doi:
10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00508, 2017.
Rodrigues A. I., Franco A. R., Rodrigues F., Leonor I. B., and Reis R. L.,
"Unveiling the effect of three-dimensional bioactive fibre mesh scaffolds functionalized with silanol groups on bacteria growth",
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A , vol. 104A, pp. 2189-2199, doi:
10.1002/jbm.a.35761, 2016.
Review Paper (1)
Ramos N., Miranda M. S., Franco A. R., Silva S. S., Azevedo J., Dias I. R., Reis R. L., Viegas C., and Gomes M. E.,
"Toward Spinning Greener Advanced Silk Fibers by Feeding Silkworms with Nanomaterials",
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, vol. 8, issue 32, pp. 11872–11887, doi:
10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c03874, 2020.
Conference Abstract -ISI Web of Science Indexed (5)
Costa-Almeida R., Franco A. R., Leonor I. B., Babo P. S., Reis R. L., and Gomes M. E.,
"Antibacterial Potential of Platelet Lysate Membranes for Orthopedic Applications",
Transactions of the Society For Biomaterials, vol. 1, pp. 352, 2017.
Costa-Almeida R., Franco A. R., Leonor I. B., Babo P. S., Pesqueira T., Reis R. L., and Gomes M. E.,
"A platelet lysate antibacterial bioactive patch for tendon repair",
European Cells and Materials, vol. 33, issue Suppl.2, pp. 0164, 2017.
Franco A. R., Pirraco R. P., Leonor I. B., Kaplan D. L., and Reis R. L.,
"Biological response of silk-based fibers functionalized with antimicrobial peptides by mimicking bacterial infection in vivo",
European Cells and Materials, vol. 33, issue S2, doi:
10.22203/eCM, 2017.
Franco A. R., Rodrigues F., Leonor I., Reis R. L., and Kaplan D. L.,
"Exploring Silk Based Biomaterials Functionalized with Antimicrobial Peptides to Prevent Surgical Site Infections",
Tissue Engineering Part A. , vol. 21, issue S1, pp. S1-S43, doi:
10.1089/ten.tea.2015.5000.abstracts, 2015.
Comunications - Poster (1)
Comunication - Oral (3)