The Especialized Group of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (GERMN) comitee has awarded his Thesis entitled «Relaxation NMR Studies: Dendrimer Dynamics, Intermolecular Interactions, Signals Suppression and Sensitive Enhancement», as one of the Best Doctoral Thesis of RMN and its Applications Awards 2015. This work, led by Professor Eduardo Fernández Megía, is focused on the preparation of well-defined polymeric nanostructures, e.g. dendrimers, for biomedical applications.
The characterization of these systems by NMR relaxation gives information on their structure and dynamics. Moreover, the use of paramagnetic relaxation agents described to reduce acquisition times NMR and selective suppression of signals in complex spectra of polymer blends. Thus, the relaxation times can be used to obtain relevant information about trends relating within dendrimers.
The members of the evaluation committee, composed of Dr. Oscar Millet (President) and Drs. María Victoria Gómez and Ignacio Alfonso Almagro (vocal) rated at its decision the high scientific level of the theses, which will be defended in conferences which will be held in future journeys of GERMN.
Previously, Luiz F. Pinto was recognized in 2014 with the award for the best oral communication at the VII Biennial NMR, because of his presentation entitled "Evaluation of dendrimer dynamics and stepwise filtering of Their internal layers by T2- NMR edited"