This research was developed within the scope of a Master's thesis in Industrial and Product Design at the University of Porto, Portugal from 2018-2021. All the works were carried out in partnership with the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of...

Research published in the Rapid Prototyping Journal in 2021 entitled "Effect of 3D printer enabled surface morphology and composition on coral growth in artificial reefs". The purpose of this paper was to prove and qualify the influence of textured surface substrates morphology and chemical composition...

The IJUP scientific meetings are annual events, which take place at the beginning of the second semester, where U.Porto students have the opportunity to present and discuss the results of the studies in which they participated in the context of research initiation projects. The research initiation...