Leila Moura

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7938-5892

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 4836
EmailL.Moura@qub.ac.uk

Room 02.104 - David Keir Building
United Kingdom

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Achievements

In 2018 Dr Leila Moura was awarded the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) Excellence Award in Fluid Separations for her PhD thesis "Ionic liquids for the separation of gaseous hydrocarbons".

Research Statement

The Moura's group focus is in the development of Liquid Engineering for Gas Separation.

This project aims to overcome the energy and engineering costs associated with the isolation of ethylene and propylene, chemical starting materials for the high-demand materials, from natural gas. This will be achieved by developing new absorbents to selectively capture and release these gases from mixtures.

Research Interests

My core research targets energy reduction and process improvements. I am interested in the development, evaluation and application of new materials to reduce the environmental and energy impact of current operations, specifically in gas-liquid and liquid-liquid separations.

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Research Output

15 Article
2 Patent
1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Effect of Water on Deep Eutectic Solvent/β-Cyclodextrin Systems

Dugoni, G. C., Di Pietro, M. E., Ferro, M., Castiglione, F., Ruellan, S., Moufawad, T., Moura, L., Costa Gomes, M. F., Fourmentin, S. & Mele, A., 01 Apr 2019, In : ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. 7, 7, p. 7277-7285 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

7 Citations (Scopus)

First Evidence of Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes in a Deep Eutectic Solvent

Moufawad, T., Moura, L., Ferreira, M., Bricout, H., Tilloy, S., Monflier, E., Costa Gomes, M., Landy, D. & Fourmentin, S., 18 Mar 2019, In : ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. 7, 6, p. 6345-6351 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

8 Citations (Scopus)

Solution structure of propane and propene dissolved in the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis{(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl}imide from neutron diffraction with H/D substitution and Empirical Potential Structure Refinement modelling

Moura, L., Gilmore, M., Callear, S., Youngs, T. & Holbrey, J., 03 Aug 2019, In : Molecular Physics.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

A comparison of choline:urea and choline:oxalic acid deep eutectic solvents at 338 K

Gilmore, M., Moura, L., Turner, A., Swadzba-Kwasny, M., Callear, S., McCune, J. A., Scherman, O. A. & Holbrey, J., 12 Feb 2018, In : Journal of Chemical Physics. 148, 10 p., 193823.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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16 Citations (Scopus)

640 Downloads (Pure)

Frustrated Lewis pairs in ionic liquids and molecular solvents – a neutron scattering and NMR study of encounter complexes

Brown, L. C., Hogg, J. M., Gilmore, M., Moura, L., Imberti, S., Gärtner, S., Gunaratne, H. Q. N., O'Donnell, R. J., Artioli, N., Holbrey, J. D. & Swadzba-Kwasny, M., 18 Jun 2018, In : Chemical Communications. 54, p. 8689-8692

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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3 Citations (Scopus)

121 Downloads (Pure)

Datasets

Solvation structure of propane/propene in [C4mim][NTf2] ionic liquid

Holbrey, J. (Creator), Padua, A. A. H. (Creator), Moura, L. (Creator), Callear, S. (Creator), Gomes, M. F. C. (Creator) & Gilmore, M. (Creator), STFC ISIS, 29 Feb 2020

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.84424468

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Solvation and structure of iron oxide in a choline chloride/oxalic acid deep eutectic solvent

Imberti, S. (Creator), Swadzba-Kwasny, G. (Creator), Callear, S. (Creator), Gilmore, M. (Creator), Holbrey, J. (Creator) & Moura, L. (Creator), STFC ISIS, 2016

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.83551647

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