Cristiana Alves is a Research Fellow at INL. She was awarded the Marie Curie COFUND action (NanoTRAINforgrowth II) and is working in the Atomic Structure-Composition of Materials group at the Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging and Spectroscopy Department. Her research activity focuses on determining the phase and chemical composition distribution in micrometric NMC polycrystalline particles, to understand the Li mobility during charge/discharge and consequently the performance of these Li-ion battery materials.

She holds a PhD degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Minho, Portugal. During her PhD, Cristiana had the opportunity to conduct research abroad and collaborate with the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), the Center of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Coimbra, CENIMAT/I3N at the University of New Lisbon (UNL) and the Département de Physique et de Mécanique des Matériaux of the University of Poitiers.

Selected Publications

• C. F. Almeida Alves, C. Mansilla, L. Pereira, F. Paumier, Th. Gierardeau and S. Carvalho
  Influence of magnetron sputtering conditions on the chemical bonding, structural, morphological and optical behavior of Ta1-xOx coatings
  Genomics Data 7:256–258 (2016) Surface and Coatings Technology, 2017

• C. F. Almeida Alves, A. Cavaleiro and S. Carvalho
  Bioactivity response of Ta1-xOx coatings deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering
  Genomics Data 7:256–258 (2016) Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 2016

• C. F. Almeida Alves, S. Calderon V, D. Dias and S. Carvalho
  Influence of oxygen content on the electrochemical behavior of Ta1-xOx coatings
  Genomics Data 7:256–258 (2016) Electrochimica Acta, 2016

• S. Calderon V, C. F. Almeida Alves, A. Cavaleiro, S. Carvalho
  Electrochemical corrosion properties of nano-structured coatings produced by magnetron sputtering
  Genomics Data 7:256–258 (2016) contribution in Handbook of Modern Coatings Technologies, Elsevier, 2016 (accepted)