Miguel Alexandre Martins Franco
Miguel Alexandre Martins Franco
Postdoc Researcher
ma.franco@uninova.pt

Short Biography

Graduated in Micro and Nanotechnologies engineering from NOVA School of Sciences and Technologies in 2016. Between 2020 and
2024 he took a PhD in Materials Engineering at Minho University under the supervision of Prof. Senentxu and Dr. Asal Kiazadeh
in the field of printed electronics. Additionally, during his PhD, he collaborated with BCMaterials, namely on the European
project ICT-02-2018: Flexible and Wearable Electronics. Since 2017, he has been working on environmentally friendly ink formulations
tuned for specific printing techniques, with a focus on sustainable materials for use on electronic devices and printing techniques.

Período: Português (Idioma materno)
Grau:
Período: Inglês
Grau: Utilizador independente (B2)
Classificação: Utilizador independente (B2)
Período: 2022 Concluído
Grau: Engenharia de Materiais (Doutoramento) Especialização em Sem especialidade Universidade do Minho, Portugal “Development of conductive inks and memristive active material for printed electronic applications ” (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
Período: 2011 – 2016 Concluído
Grau: Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Mestrado integrado) Especialização em Microeléctronica e nanotecnologias Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal “Resistance Switching Memory Devices based on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Paper Substrates” (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
Classificação: 16
Período: 2024/12/01 – Atual
Grau: Investigador Contratado (Investigação)
Classificação: UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Período:
Grau: Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
Período: 2019/03/11 – 2019/12/10
Grau: Investigador Contratado (Investigação)
Classificação: Universidade do Minho Departamento de Física, Portugal
Período:
Grau: Universidade do Minho Departamento de Física, Portugal
Período: 2017/04/17 – 2018/04/17
Grau: Investigador Contratado (Investigação)
Classificação: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
Período:
Grau: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
Período: 2020/01/01 – 2024/02/29
Grau: Development of printed and biocompatible synaptic devices SFRH/BD/145741/2019 10.54499/SFRH/BD/145741/2019 Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
Classificação: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluído
Período: 2019/03/11 – 2019/12/10
Grau: GNESIS – Graphenest’s New Engineered System and its Implementation Solutions POCI-01-0247-FEDER-033566 Bolseiro de Investigação Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto, Portugal
Classificação: Concluído
Período: 2017/04/17 – 2018/04/17
Grau: Large-scale printing of novel photovoltaics based on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 chalcopyrite PTDC/CTM-ENE/5387/2014 Bolseiro de Investigação International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
Período: 2025/07/01 – Atual
Grau: TRANSPER 00000 Investigador Pós-doutorado
Classificação: Em curso
Período: 2024/12/02 – Atual
Grau: ELEGANCE – Green SELf-Powered NEuromorphic Processing EnGines with Integrated VisuAl and FuNCtional SEnsing 101161114 Investigador Pós-doutorado UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Classificação: Em curso
Período: 2024/09 – 2024/11
Grau: FOXES – Fully Oxide-based Zero-Emission and Portable Energy Supply 951774 Investigador Pós-doutorado UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Classificação: Concluído
Período: 2020/01/01 – 2022/02/28
Grau: WEARPLEX – Wearable multiplexed biomedical electrodes 825339 Investigador BCMaterials, Espanha
Período: Artigo em revista
Grau: Miguel Franco; Nikola Perinka; Mohammad Yusuf Mulla; Kathrin Freitag; Javier Vicente; Ashutosh Kumar; Peter Andersson Ersman; Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez. “Reduced Graphene oxide-based sustainable ink formulations and their implementation in screen-printed graphene field effect transistors and humidity sensors development”. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2026): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2025.139273. 10.1016/j.snb.2025.139273 Miguel Franco; Asal Kiazadeh; Rodrigo Martins; Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez; Emanuel Carlos. “Printed Memristors: An Overview of Ink, Materials, Deposition Techniques, and Applications”. Advanced Electronic Materials (2024): https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202400212. 10.1002/aelm.202400212 Miguel Franco; Asal Kiazadeh; Jonas Deuermeier; senentxu lanceros-mendez; Rodrigo Martins; Emanuel Carlos. “Inkjet printed IGZO memristors with volatile and non-volatile switching”. Scientific Reports (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58228-y. 10.1038/s41598-024-58228-y Miguel Franco; Azadeh Motealleh; C. M. Costa; Nikola Perinka; Ribeiro, C.; Carmen Rial Tubio; Sónia Alexandra Correia Carabineiro; Pedro Costa; Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez. “Environmentally Friendlier Printable Conductive and Piezoresistive Sensing Materials Compatible with Conformable Electronics”. ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c01151. 10.1021/acsapm.3c01151 Franco, Miguel; Motealleh, Azadeh; Costa, Carlos M.; Hilliou, Loic; Perinka, Nikola; Ribeiro, Clarisse; Viana, Júlio César; Costa, Pedro; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu. “Environmentally Friendly Conductive Screen-Printable Inks Based on N-Doped Graphene and Polyvinylpyrrolidone”. Advanced Engineering Materials (2021): 2101258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adem.202101258. 10.1002/adem.202101258 Franco, Miguel. “Environmentally Friendly Graphene-Based Conductive Inks for Multitouch Capacitive Sensing Surfaces”. Advanced Materials Interfaces (2021): 2100578-2100578. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.202100578. 10.1002/admi.202100578 Franco, Miguel. “Water-Based Graphene Inks for All-Printed Temperature and Deformation Sensors”. ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 9 (2020): 2857-2867. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.0c00508. 10.1021/acsaelm.0c00508 Liliana P.L. Gonçalves; Jianguang Wang; Simone Vinati; Emanuele Barborini; Xian-Kui Wei; Marc Heggen; Miguel Franco; et al. “Combined experimental and theoretical study of acetylene semi-hydrogenation over Pd/Al2O3”. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 45 2 (2020): 1283-1296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.04.086. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.04.086 Sousa, Viviana; Gonçalves, Bruna F.; Franco, Miguel; Ziouani, Yasmine; González-Ballesteros, Noelia; Fátima Cerqueira, M.; Yannello, Vincent; et al. “Superstructural Ordering in Hexagonal CuInSe2 Nanoparticles”. Chemistry of Materials 31 1 (2018): 260-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04368. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04368 Marek Piotrowski; Miguel Franco; Viviana Sousa; José Rodrigues; Francis Leonard Deepak; Yohei Kakefuda; Naoyuki Kawamoto; et al. “Probing of Thermal Transport in 50 nm Thick PbTe Nanocrystal Films by Time-Domain Thermoreflectance”. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2018): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04104. 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04104
Período: Tese / Dissertação
Grau: Franco, Miguel. “Resistance Switching Memory Devices based on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Paper Substrates”. Mestrado, 2016.
Período: 2025/07/01
Grau: Inkjet printed IGZO memristors with volatile and non-volatile switching
Classificação: Materiais 2025 SPM – Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (Lisboa, Portugal)
Período: 2025/05/27
Grau: Inkjet printed IGZO memristors with volatile and non-volatile switching
Classificação: E-MRS Spring Meeting European Materials Research Society (Estrasburgo, França)
Período: 2024/11/26
Grau: Webniar – Environmentally friendly graphene-based inks for sensing electronics
Classificação: Infrachip webinar Infrachip
Período: 2024/09/01
Grau: Development of conductive inks and memristive active material for printed electronic applications
Classificação: CMD 31 SPF – Sociedade Portuguesa de Física (Braga, Portugal)
Período: 2023/09/18
Grau: Environmentally friendly and biocompatible graphene-based inks for printed electronics
Classificação: E-MRS Fall Meeting European Materials Research Society (Varsóvia, Polónia)
Período: 2017/10
Grau: Syntesis and evaluation of transport mechanisms of thermoelectric lead telluride (PbTe) nanocrystal ensembles.
Classificação: International Conference on Functional Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICFNN 2017) (Nepal)
Período: 2023/01/23 – 2023/01/25
Grau: Poster “Fully Printed IGZO memristors towards edge computation devices”. Conferência
Classificação: NeuMatDeCaS
Período: 2018/02/06 – 2018/02/08
Grau: Poster – Development of screen printing ink with metal oxides nanoparticles Viviana Sousa, Miguel Franco, Yury V. Kolen’ko Conferência
Classificação: Israel Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC 2018)
Período: 2017/09 – 2017/09
Grau: Poster – Bottom-up fabrication of thermoelectric nanocrystal superlattices composed of 10 nm – PbTe and 5 nm – Au particles Marek Piotrowski, Miguel Franco, Jéróme Borme, José Rodrigues, Yury V. Kolen’ko Conferência
Classificação: International conference on micro and nanoengineering – MNE 2017
Período: 2025/06/23
Grau: Development and optimization of an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jet printer – towards micro-device fabrication Arguente principal
Classificação: PEDRO AFONSO CALAIM CERQUEIRA (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Tese / Dissertação: Franco, Miguel. “Resistance Switching Memory Devices based on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Paper Substrates”. Mestrado, 2016.
Ano: 2019/03/11 – 2019/12/10
Título: GNESIS – Graphenest’s New Engineered System and its Implementation Solutions
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-033566
Bolseiro de Investigação
Financiadores: Em curso
Ano: 2017/04/17 – 2018/04/17
Título: Large-scale printing of novel photovoltaics based on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 chalcopyrite
PTDC/CTM-ENE/5387/2014
Bolseiro de Investigação
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
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