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Amir Bzainia. Completed the Doutoramento in Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Química e Biológica in 2025/09/12 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Mestrado in Engenharia Química in 2019/07/27 by Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão and Bachelor in Industrial Chemistry in 2016/06 by Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie. Published 5 articles in journals. Has 6 section(s) of books. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Exact Sciences with emphasis on Chemical Sciences with emphasis on Polymer Science, Exact Sciences with emphasis on Chemical Sciences with emphasis on Organic Chemistry and Exact Sciences with emphasis on Chemical Sciences with emphasis on Electrochemistry. In their professional activities interacted with 22 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Dye-sensitized solar cells; Conductive polymers; Cylic voltammetry; Nernst-Planck-Possion; Polymersomes; Vesicles; Micelles; self-assembly aggregates; amphi; radical polymerization; living polymerization; modelling; drug delivery; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Amir Bzainia

Citation names

  • Bzainia, Amir

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6F16-0D30-3F93
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1835-1066

Email addresses

  • amir.bzainia@ipb.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 962511605 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança - ESTiG, Bragança, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Polymer Science
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Electrochemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Arab (Mother tongue)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09/01 - 2025/09/12
Concluded
 Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Química e Biológica (Doutoramento)
Major in PhD
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Tailored Polymer Materials for the Purification of Phenolic Compounds from Vine and Wine Residues" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/09 - 2019/09
Concluded
 Engineering Degree (Diplôme d'ingénieur): Chemical Engineering. (Outros)
Université Libre de Tunis, Tunisia
2018/09 - 2019/07/27
Concluded
 Engenharia Química (Mestrado)
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
"Preparation and ionic transport properties of conductive polymers for dye-sensitized solar cells" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
2013/09 - 2016/06
Concluded
 Industrial Chemistry (Bachelor)
Major in Industrial Chemistry
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunisia
"Development and validation of a method for the determination of Chloramphenicol in chicken meat by LC-MS-MS." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/07/01 - 2025/08/31 Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2019/10/15 - 2021/06/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/08/02 - 2018/09/04 Professional Internship Les Ciments Artificiels Tunisiens S.A., Tunisia
Les Ciments Artificiels Tunisiens S.A., Tunisia
2017/05/31 - 2017/06/30 Professional Internship Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia
Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia
2016/02/01 - 2016/05/30 Professional Internship Laboratoire Central d'Analyses et d'Essais, Tunisia
Laboratoire Central d'Analyses et d'Essais, Tunisia
2014/07/07 - 2014/08/07 Professional Internship Société Nouvelle de Boissons - Société de fabrication des boissons de Tunisie , Tunisia
Société Nouvelle de Boissons - Société de fabrication des boissons de Tunisie , Tunisia
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2023/06/30 The BacchusTech - Integrated Approach for the Valorisation of Winemaking Residues
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000044
PhD Student Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Gomes, C.P.; Bzainia, A.; Almeida, A.; Martins, C.; Dias, R.C.S.; Costa, M.R.P.F.N.. "Chemical Routes for the Transformation of Bio-monomers into Polymers". 329-361. 2024.
  2. Gomes, C.P.; Bzainia, A.; Almeida, A.; Martins, C.; Dias, R.C.S.; Costa, M.R.P.F.N.. "Manufacture of Monomers and Precursors from Plant Biomass". 291-327. 2024.
  3. Bzainia, Amir; Gomes, Catarina P.; Dias, Rolando C.S.; Costa, Mário Rui P.F.N.. "Carbon-based hydrogels". In Sustainable Hydrogels, 281-324. Elsevier, 2023.
    10.1016/b978-0-323-91753-7.00016-8
  4. Bzainia, Amir; Gomes, Catarina P.; Dias, Rolando C.S.; Costa, Mário Rui P.F.N.. "Molecular imprinting and surface grafting of glycoprotein fragments in polymeric nanosystems: from cancer diagnosis to virus targeting". In Polymeric Nanosystems, 787-841. Elsevier, 2023.
    10.1016/b978-0-323-85656-0.00012-7
  5. "Polymersomes as versatile drug delivery vesicular carriers". 155-190. Elsevier, 2022.
    10.1016/b978-0-323-91864-0.00018-8
  6. Catarina P. Gomes ; Bzainia, Amir; Rolando C. S. Dias; Mário Rui P.F.N. Costa. "Polymerosomes as versatile drug delivery vesicular carriers". In Systems of Nanovesicular Drug Delivery, edited by Amit Kumar Nayak; Md Saquib Hasnain; Tejraj M. Aminabhavi; Vladimir P. Torchilin. USA: Elsevier, 2021.
    In press
Journal article
  1. Bzainia, Amir; Keller, Erik; Heeres, André; Costa, Mário Rui P.F.N.; Dias, Rolando C.S.. "Synthesis of a dual-function monomer and its corresponding polymer for the valorisation of stilbenes from grape canes". European Polymer Journal 236 (2025): 114142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2025.114142.
    10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2025.114142
  2. Bzainia, A.; Igrejas, G.; Pereira, M.J.V.; Costa, M.R.P.F.N.; Dias, R.C.S.. "Purification of stilbenes from grape stems in a continuous process based on photo-molecularly imprinted adsorbents and hydroalcoholic solvents". Separation and Purification Technology 349 (2024): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85192676552&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.seppur.2024.127798
  3. A. Bzainia; R.C.S. Dias; Mário R P F N Costa. "A simple process to purify (E)-resveratrol from grape stems with a photo-molecularly imprinted sorbent". Food and Bioproducts Processing (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fbp.2023.08.010.
    10.1016/j.fbp.2023.08.010
  4. Bzainia, Amir; Dias, Rolando C. S.; Costa, Mário Rui P. F. N.. "Functionalization of Polymer Networks to Target Trans-Resveratrol in Winemaking Residues Supported by Statistical Design of Experiments". Macromolecular Reaction Engineering (2023): 2200076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mren.202200076.
    10.1002/mren.202200076
  5. Bzainia, Amir; Dias, Rolando C. S.; Costa, Mário Rui P. F. N.. "Enrichment of Quercetin from Winemaking Residual Diatomaceous Earth via a Tailor-Made Imprinted Adsorbent". Molecules 27 19 (2022): 6406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules27196406.
    10.3390/molecules27196406
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Bzainia, Amir. "Preparation and ionic transport properties of conductive polymers for dye-sensitized solar cells". Master, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, 2019.