Photoreport of the XIV SBPMat Meeting.

Brazilian Materials Research Society (SBPMat) newsletter News update from Brazil for the Materials community
English edition. Year 2, issue 9.
XIV Meeting - Rio de Janeiro, Sept 27 to Oct 1, 2015: announcements
Registrations: You can still register online here. During the meeting the secretary will be open for registrations from 5 pm to 7 pm on September 27, and from 7 am to 8h30 am on the other days. Message from the conference chairs: Some words from Prof. Marco Cremona and Prof. Fernando Lázaro Freire Jr., with some information about the meeting. Here. Opening session: It will take place on Sunday (27) at 7 pm, comprising a brief ceremony and the Memorial Lecture “Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro”, which will honor Prof. Eloisa Biasotto Mano, professor emeritus from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). After that, the attendees will be welcomed to the event with a cocktail. Know more about Eloisa Mano. Simposia sessions and plenary talks: Near 2,500 works were accepted for presentation within the 27 simposia of this year´s meeting (1,892 posters, 368 oral presentations and 189 invited speechs). The meeting will also have 7 plenary talks given by internationally renowned scientists. See days and times of sessions in the program at a glance and in the full program. Posters printing service: See options here. Expositors technical presentations: On Wednesday (30), in room C, expositors will talk about fabrication and characterization techniques. Know more. Exhibition: 32 stands comprise the exhibition, held on the second floor near the coffee break tables. Closing session and awards: This final session will take place on Thursday (1) at 12:30. 4 awards will be granted: the Bernhard Gross Award (students´ best oral and best poster of each simposium), the IUMRS Award will (3 best posters among Bernhard Gross awarded), the Horiba Award (best oral presentation and best poster of all the event), and the E-MRS Award (best oral presentation and the 2 best posters from symposium C). Tourist information: Flights and hotel booking, transfers, tours, maps and more useful information, on the site of Follow Up agency. Party: The party of the meeting will be held on Wednesday (30) at 8h30 pm in Espaço Rampa. Tickets will be sold for R$ 15,00. Meeting papers publication: Authors of works presented in the meeting will have the possibility to submit papers to peer review for publication in IOP Materials journals. The papers of the XIV SBPMat Meeting accepted for publication in any of the 5 IOP journals will be gathered in an online collection dedicated to the event.The submissions are open up to October 15. Know more. Go to the event website.
Plenary talks of the meeting: know more about the speechs and the speakers
When interacting with advanced materials, light and other waves can behave in quite an unusual way. In the XIV SBPMat Meeting, Nader Engheta, a world expert in materials created by humans known as metamaterials, will speak of extraordinary phenomena that occur when materials developed in his research group interact with light. Among other significant contributions, Engheta and his colleagues have created nanoscale optical circuits using metamaterial arrangements. In an interview to our newsletter, this Professor of the University of Pennsylvania (United States) spoke of this and other contributions, which were published in some of the most renowned scientific journals. In a message to our readers, he mentioned the thrills of a scientist’s life. See the interview.
We also interviewed Professor Edgar Zanotto (UFSCar, Brazil), whose plenary talk will be about glass-ceramics – materials formed from the crystallization of certain glasses. Since the beginning of his scientific career, Zanotto has been studying the mechanisms for glass-ceramics formation and developing applications for them. In the XIV SBPMat Meeting, the scientist will talk about past and future, including the development of new glass-ceramics and their use in new products. See the interview.
We also interviewed Professor Paul Ducheyne, from the University of Pennsylvania (USA). For about 4 decades, Ducheyne has dedicated himself to the study of biomaterials, field in which he is the author of hundreds of papers summing over 10,000 citations, besides 40 patents and books. In the interview, Ducheyne listed some of his most important contributions to the field, such as explaining how synthetic materials lead to tissue formation. In his plenary talk during the XIV SBPMat Meeting, Ducheyne will obviously address biomaterials; particularly bioactive ceramics with in situ functionalization and sol-gel materials used for the release of drugs and growth factors. See the interview.
Professor Ulrike Diebold (UT Wien, Austria) will speak in the XIV SBPMat Meeting about the surfaces of metal oxides. These materials are used for gas monitoring, catalysis, anti-corrosion, energy conversion, pigmentation and many other applications. Using her scanning tunneling microscopes (STM), Diebold investigates, for example, atomic-scale defects in the network of metal oxides. In our interview, she talked about his major contributions in the field of metal oxides and about the power of STM technique for the study of surfaces. She also left a tempting invitation to go to her lecture. See the interview.
Organic electronics applied to the study of the brain and the diagnosis and treatment of neurological deseases will be addressed by Professor George Malliaras, director of the department of Bioelectronics of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (France). Examples of these applications are devices based on organic materials used to record and stimulate the cerebral activity. In an interview to our newsletter, Malliaras spoke about the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to generate research with social impact in his research field. The scientist also mentioned some of his main contributions in organic electronics and bioelectronics. See the interview.
Professor Ichiro Takeuchi, from the University of Maryland (USA), will talk in the SBPMat Meeting about the combinatorial approach in the field of Materials. This methodology, which substantially accelerates the rate of several research processes, has been helping Professor Takeuchi to discover a number of compounds and develop strategies to quickly determine the relation between composition, structure and property in many materials. In our interview, the scientist explains how the combinatorial research works in practice, and lists some of his main contributions to the field. He also discusses a topic of his plenary lecture: the “integrated materials engine”, which combines theory and high-throughput experiments in order to discover new materials. See the interview.
In times of “big data”, Professor Claudia Draxl, from Humboldt University (Germany), will discourse about how to exploit the wealth of information, inherently inside the materials data, which promises unprecedented insight. See her Bio. Here. See the abstract of the talk. Here.

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XIV SBPMat Meeting: message from the chairmen.

Posted on Friday 18 de September de 2015

Dear readers,

We hope to see you at the XIV Brazilian Materials Research Society Annual Meeting, that will be held on 27 September to 1 October 2015, in Rio de Janeiro. This year the meeting congregates almost 2,000 participants and has 2,325 accepted abstracts. The XIV Annual Meeting is comprised of 26 symposia, 2 workshops and one symposium organized by the University Chapters. The program also includes 7 plenary lectures.

After 13 years of the first annual meeting of SBPMat today’s figures are impressive. At that meeting, also held in Rio de Janeiro, they were 5 symposia, one workshop and no more than 300 participants.

The present edition of the Annual Meeting covers almost all relevant areas of research in Materials Science. The Opening Ceremony will be followed by the Memorial Lecture “Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro”, about the importance of macromolecular materials, by Professor Eloisa Biasotto Mano. During the Closing Ceremony, the symposium coordinators will honor students with the “Bernard Gross Award” for the best poster and best oral presentation of each symposium, the IUMRS (International Union of Materials Research Societies) Award for the three best posters among the set of the works awarded with Bernhard Gross, and the Horiba Award for the best oral presentation and best poster of the Meeting. Also during the Closing Ceremony, the E-MRS (European Materials Research Society) Award will be granted to the best oral presentation and to the two best posters of symposium C: Nanoscaled Materials: characterization techniques and applications.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to thank the Brazil-MRS staff and board, the funding agencies, the symposium coordinators, the local, organizing and scientific committee members, for the commitment and great effort to make this Meeting possible.

We hope that the participants will have a very pleasant Meeting with stimulating exchange of scientific information and establishment of new collaborations.

Marco Cremona and Fernando Lázaro Freire Jr.

Conference Chairs

SBPMat newsletter. English edition. Year 2, issue 8.

Posted on Friday 4 de September de 2015

Brazilian Materials Research Society (SBPMat) newsletter News update from Brazil for the Materials community
English edition. Year 2, issue 8.
SBPMat news: XIV Meeting – Rio de Janeiro, Sept 27 to Oct 1, 2015
Registrations: You can register online here. During the meeting,the secretary will be open for registrations from 5 pm to 7 pm on September 27, and from 7 am to 8h30 am on the other days. Program: See here the program at a glance and here the full program. Meeting papers publication: Authors of works presented in the meeting will have the possibility to submit papers to peer review for publication in IOP Materials journals. The papers of the XIV SBPMat Meeting accepted for publication in any of the 5 IOP journals will be gathered in an online collection dedicated to the event.The submissions are open up to October 15. Know more. Awards: This year, 4 awards will be granted in the meeting. The Bernhard Gross Award for undergraduate and graduate students will ditinguish the best works (at most, one oral and one poster) of each simposium. The IUMRS (International Union of Materials Research Societies) Award will be granted to the 3 best posters among the set of works awarded with Bernhard Gross Award. The Horiba Award will be granted to the best oral presentation and best poster of all the event. The E-MRS (European Materials Research Society) Award will distinguish the best oral presentation and the 2 best posters of symposium C. Hosting: A list of hotels is available, with special conditions for participants of the XIV SBPMat Meeting. Here. Sponsors and exhibitors: 30 companies have already booked their place in the XIV SBPMat Meeting. Contact for exhibitors and other sponsors: rose@metallum.com.br. Go to the event website.
XIV SBPMat Meeting: Memorial Lecture for Eloisa Biasotto Mano
The Memorial Lecture “Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro” (SBPMat award for researchers with outstanding carrer) will be granted to Eloisa Biasotto Mano. Professor Eloisa, who pursued international scientific education at a time when most women were illiterate in Brazil, founded in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) the first research group in polymers in the country. This group later became the Institute of Macromolecules (IMA), which was directed by Eloisa until she retired. On the evening of September 27, during the opening of the XIV SBPMat meeting, this professor emeritus from UFRJ, who is aged 90, will be awarded by SBPMat and will speak of the importance of macromolecular materials. Know more about Prof. Eloisa.
XIV SBPMat Meeting: interviews with plenary speakers
When interacting with advanced materials, light and other waves can behave in quite an unusual way. In the XIV SBPMat Meeting, Nader Engheta, a world expert in materials created by humans known as metamaterials, will speak of extraordinary phenomena that occur when materials developed in his research group interact with light. Among other significant contributions, Engheta and his colleagues have created nanoscale optical circuits using metamaterial arrangements. In an interview to our newsletter, this Professor of the University of Pennsylvania (United States) spoke of this and other contributions, which were published in some of the most renowned scientific journals. In a message to readers, he mentioned the thrills of a scientist’s life. See the interview.
Featured paper
A team of scientists from Brazilian institutions (UCS, Unicamp and UFRGS), with a chemical approach on an issue traditionally addressed with physics, managed to advance in the understanding of adhesion and delamination of DLC thin films deposited on steel surfaces. The results of the study, which were published in ACS journal devoted to applied interfaces and materials, can help optimize the deposition of these films, thus expanding its use in the industry in applications of high impact, such as increasing the energy efficiency of car engines. See our story about the paper.
SBPMat´s community people
We interviewed Sergio Neves Monteiro, currently Professor at the Brazilian Militar Institute of Engineering (IME). Neves Monteiro worked in the introduction of Materials research in Rio de Janeiro State. He was associate dean of graduate studies and research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), higher education secretary in the Ministry of Education, assistant secretary of science and technology in the State of Rio de Janeiro and president of the Rio de Janeiro research foundation (FAPERJ), among other functions. In an interview to our newsletter, he spoke a bit about his career and left a message for our readers who are beginning their careers as researchers: “I remember you that, much more than a career with stability and adequate remuneration in teaching and research institutions, being a researcher can bring great personal satisfaction and the certainty of contributing directly to the country’s development. See the interview.
Victor Pandolfelli, Professor ar the Materials Department at the Federal University of São Carlos (DEMa – UFSCar) received the “Theodore J. Planje – St. Louis Refractories Award – 2015”. Since the establishement of the prize in 1967, Pandolfelli was the first winner in the southern hemisphere of this award on refractable ceramic materials of the American Ceramic Society.
Reading tips
Scientific journalism stories based on highlighted papers An interdisciplinary team formulates a theoretical frame for crystals that organized into complex structures, impacting biology, geology, materials and other areas (based on paper from Science). See here. Scientists develop ink that breaks the record of conductivity among materials that stretch over 150% (based on paper from Nature Communications). See here. News from Brazilian National Institutes of Science and Technology (INCTs) and Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (CEPIDs) In São Carlos, school on glasses and glass-ceramics gathered 100 doctoral students from around the world for eight days for education and networking (short report of the organizers). See here. Video interview to Elson Longo and Edgar Zanotto, coordinators of CEPIDs on the field of materials, held during the 67th Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC). See here.
Events
XXII Reunião da Associação Brasileira de Cristalografia (ABCr) and I Reunião da Latin America Crystallographic Association (LACA). São Paulo e Campinas, SP (Brazil). September, 9 to 11, 2015. Site. I Workshop Universidade-Indústria em Materiais Vítreos. São Carlos, SP (Brazil). September, 11, 2015. Program. 2015 IUCr High-Pressure Workshop. Campinas, SP (Brazil). September, 12 to 15, 2015. Site. Workshop em Ciências dos Materiais. São Carlos, SP (Brazil). September, 21 to 25, 2015. Site. XIV SBPMat Meeting. Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). September 27 to October 1, 2015. Site. 8th International Summit on Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells Stability (ISOS-8). Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). September 29 to October 1, 2015. Site. 13th International Conference on Plasma Based Ion Implantation & Deposition (PBII&D 2015). Buenos Aires (Argentina). October, 5 to 9, 2015. Site. Nanomercosur 2015. Buenos Aires (Argentina). October, 6 to 8, 2015. Site. 4th EPNOE International Polysaccharide Conference. Warsaw (Poland). October, 18 to 22, 2015. Site. 10th Ibero-American Workshop on Complex Fluids 2015. Florianópolis, SC (Brazil). October, 25 to 29, 2015. Site. 14th International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM 2015). Jeju (Korea). October, 25 to 29, 2015. Site. Polymers and Self-Assembly: from Biology to Nanomaterials. Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). October, 25 to 30, 2015. Site. III Método Rietveld de Refinamento de Estrutura. Belém, PA (Brazil). October, 26 to 30, 2015. Site. 16th International Feofilov Symposium on spectroscopy of crystals doped with rare earth and transition metal ions. St Petersburg (Russia). November, 9 to 13, 2015. Site. 6th Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Summer School. Campinas, SP (Brazil). January, 11 to 29, 2016. Site. 43rd International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF). San Diego (EUA). April, 25 to 29, 2016. Site.

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