O Programa de Pós-graduação em Materiais e Catálise da Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (Univap) está com inscrições abertas para o segundo semestre de 2014. O mestrado possui três linhas de pesquisa principais: (1) Desenvolvimento de materiais para suporte catalítico; (2) Processamento e caracterização de materiais metálicos; e (3) Processamento e caracterização de materiais compósitos, cerâmicos e poliméricos.
As inscrições podem ser feitas, pela internet, até 04/07. A prova de conhecimentos e entrevistas serão realizadas no dia 30/07, das 13:30h às 18:00h, no Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento do campus Urbanova em São José dos Campos (SP). Podem participar do processo seletivo egressos de Engenharia, Química ou Física incluindo bacharéis e tecnólogos de áreas afins.
Requisito mínimo para inscrição no concurso: ter o título de doutor.
Perfil desejável do candidato: É desejável que o candidato possua experiência em estratégias ou métodos contemporâneos em síntese inorgânica envolvendo elementos representativos, de transição ou de pós-transição; que seja portador do título de Doutor em Química ou em áreas afins, que possua produção científica caracterizada pela publicação de artigos científicos em revistas indexadas relacionada com a área do concurso, capacidade de liderar atividades de pesquisa e de formar recursos humanos. É desejável também que o candidato possua experiência no exterior bem como habilidade ou experiência didática. A inscrição de candidato que deixar de atender ao perfil desejável não será indeferida por este motivo.
Inscrições: podem ser feitas na Secretaria do Departamento de Química Inorgânica, Instituto de Química/UNICAMP – Bloco D sala 349 – R. Josué de
Castro s/n – cidade universitária Zeferino Vaz – distrito de Barão Geraldo – Campinas – SP
Período de inscrições: todos os dias úteis até dia 17.07.2014 das 9h00 às 11h30 e das 14h00 às 17h00.
O aumento da importância e competitividade tecnológica no domínio de nanomateriais e na ciência de materiais é reconhecido como um dos grandes pilares do desenvolvimento científico, tecnológico e social no século XXI. A possibilidade de desenvolver moléculas e materiais que podem substituir os materiais tradicionais terá um profundo impacto em muitos aspectos do desenvolvimento de diversos produtos. O campo emergente de materiais funcionais é, portanto uma tecnologia estratégica para o futuro.
Diante desta realidade o programa de Pós-Graduação em Nanociências e Materiais Avançados da Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC) busca capacitar profissionais com formação interdisciplinar que apresente uma visão abrangente e diferenciada, qualificando-o para a pesquisa de ponta e as inovações tecnológicas nas áreas do programa.
As inscrições para o processo seletivo para o Mestrado e Doutorado estão abertas até o dia 24 de Junho.
O Programa de Pós-graduação em Física e Química de Materiais (FQMat) divulga o Edital 001/2014 do processo seletivo – 2° semestre de 2014, para preenchimento de vagas de mestrado e doutorado.
As inscrições acontecerão no período de 18 a 27 de junho de 2014, 15h às 17h, Sala 3.05 do bloco C do Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Campus Dom Bosco – São João del Rei. As inscrições podem ser feitas via Sedex, desde que a correspondência seja postada até o dia 25 de junho de 2014.
Para mais informações sobre inscrição, documentos necessários, datas das provas e preenchimento da GRU, confira o edital no link http://www.ufsj.edu.br/fqmat/processo_seletivo.php
Outras informações pelo telefone (32) 3379-2535 , (32) 3379-2444 ou pelo e-mail fqmat@ufsj.edu.br.
We have interviewed Professor Alberto Salleo, from Stanford University, who is going to give a plenary lecture on organic electronic devices in the XIII SBPMat Meeting. Young, yet holding a career that stands out internationally, Salleo told us about the work conducted by his group, which has been developing a deeper understanding on the role provided by the defects in charge transport in organic semiconductors. He also shared with us his main papers, published in Nature Materials. Finally, Salleo discussed the next challenges and applications on organic electronics, and anticipated what he is going to address in the plenary lecture, which promises to be very informative while mild enough for a wider audience. Read our interview with Alberto Salleo.
SBPMat’s community people
Upon his inauguration as a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), we talked to Professor Fernando Lázaro FreireJunior, SBPMat’s former president, financial director and scientific director. Throughout his scientific path, Professor Fernando Lázaro has been specially committed to researching carbon-based materials: DLC films, nanotubes and graphene. The researcher told us how he became a scientist, and commented on his most highlighted contributions to the field of Materials. Having a great portion of his career developed in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), the Professor emphasized, in his message to younger readers: it is possible to do research with an international impact in Brazil. Read our interview with Fernando Lázaro Freire Junior.
History of SBPMat
We talked again to Professor Fernando Lázaro Freire Junior, President of the society during two turns in a roll, from 2006 to 2009. During such time, SBPMat held, in addition to the 4 annual meetings, with an increasing number of attendees, the International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM 2009). It was also in those years that the society organized its office. Professor Fernando Lázaro presented a brief overview on his administration, regretted some pending issues (proximity with members and the interaction with the industry) and, to conclude, said that young people should be more involved in SBPMat’s decisions. Read it here.
Featured papers with Brazilian participation
– Our “featured paper” (release about a scientific paper made in Brazil) about ultra-small crystals with modulated shell thickness was posted at the webpage of Materials Today. Read it.
– “A new ozone sensor“, another SBPMat “featured paper”, is among the 10 most read in the month of April at the webpage of Materials Today. Read it.
Reading recommendations
Science journalism stories based on papers published in journals with high impact factor.
– Breakthroughs on molybdenum disulfide lead to new technique and advance the applications of this two-dimensional material (Science). Read it.
– In a blender, scientists create graphene production route in large scale for composites and coatings (Nature Materials). Read it.
– Biomaterials: silk microstructures are produced with photolithography and guide cell adhesion (Advanced Materials). Read it.
– Biomimetics: new discoveries on the anatomy of the gecko inspired a high-performance adhering material, developed without nanotechnology (Advanced Materials). Read it. Materials news from the Brazilian National Institutes of Science and Technology (INCTs).
– In order to monitor air pollution rates, project from university-industry partnership develops low-cost sensors, without batteries. Read it. Another news.
– New Brazilian laboratory for the development of low-weight, high-resistance structures, components and parts. Read it.
– In the United Kingdom, £ 3 million project on nanoparticles for diagnosing and treating cardiovascular diseases. Read it.
Opportunities
– Postdoctoral fellowship on micro-nanomaterials, monitoring and processing for industrial application in the Brazilian Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Here.
– Selection of the new director for the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). Here.
– Call for collaborative projects São Paulo State – Finland on some Materials topics. Here.
– L´Oréal-Unesco-ABC Award “For women in Science” for research projects conducted by young female Doctors. Here.
Upcoming events in the area
– 13th International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies (CIMTEC 2014). Here.
– 1st International Conference on Polyol Mediated Synthesis. Here.
– 2º Workshop Adesão Microbiana e Superfícies. Here.
– 13th European Vacuum Conference + 7th European Topical Conference on Hard Coatings + 9th Iberian Vacuum Meeting. Here.
– 19th International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials. Here.
An active participant of the creation process of SBPMat and member of its founding board, Fernando Lázaro Freire Junior was elected the president of our society for two consecutive terms, chairing SBPMat’s board from 2006 to 2007, and from 2008 to 2009. During the whole time, Professor Fernando Lázaro counted with Professor Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Júnior as managing director. The financial office was held by Glória Dulce de Almeira Soares in the first tenure, then by Sérgio de Souza Camargo Júnior in the second one. Aldo Felix Craievich and Paulo Fernando Papaleo Fichtner were the scientific directors for both terms, being joined in the latter by Antonio Eduardo Martinelli and Margareth Spangler Andrade.
It can be said that Professor Fernando Lázaro is a physicist from the Pontifical Catholic Universityof Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio),as it was there that he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Physics, in 1978, his Master’s in 1981 and Doctorate in 1985. In 1979, he started teaching in the same university and, in 2012, became a Full Professor. He was the Director of PUC-Rio’s Physics Department from 2003 to 2008. In Europhysics Letters (a journal from the European Physical Society), Professor Lázaro worked as coeditor between 2006 and 2010, and advisory editor from 2010 to 2013. In the Research Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ),he was the coordinator of the Physics and Astronomy field, from 2008 to 2012, and currently is a member of the Higher Board.
Since 2011, Professor Fernando Lázaro is the director of the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF).In December 2013 he was elected full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC).Author of over 170 scientific articles, with more than 2.500 citations, he is a Level 1A researcher in the Brazilian National Research Foundation, CNPq.
Which follows is an interview with this SBPMat’s former president on his two terms:
1. List the main actions performed during your terms as SBPMat’s president.
In addition to organizing the annual meetings, which had an ever increasing audience in that time, we held the International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM) in Rio de Janeiro, structured the SBPMat office, as well as established the cooperation with the sister institutions MRS and E-MRS, the American and European Materials societies, but also with the International Union of Materials Research Society (IUMRS), when SBPMat attended the Second World Materials Summit on Advanced Materials in Energy Applications and Sustainable Society Development, in Lisbon. From a financial perspective, the coffer of the society had funds when we leave. By the way, such practice started in the administration of Professor Longo, leaving the presidency free of financial or labor problems for the next one, and it has still been followed in the administrations that succeed mine.
2. List the main difficulties faced during your terms as SBPMat’s president.
Initially, there was the lack of an administrative structure in the society, which, up to that point, depended entirely on the work of its directors and of the researchers organizing the annual meetings. I had more luck than the previous administration, and with the funds available, we could hire a secretary and interns to run the society. Later, we hired a second secretary and the management became more professional. Another issue was organizing the ICAM. An events agency was hired, but it could not deliver, which caused a great stress, due to the hardship to organize an international meeting with more than 1600 researchers.
3. What could have been done, but was still pending?
Take the Society closer to its members. This was very poorly attempted with SBPMAt’s electronic panel, which used to spread news of the interest of its associates. Nowadays, our newsletter is orders of magnitude better. Such process requires time; we can’t compare a society like ours, with little more than 10 years, to others, holding over 40, 50 years of existence. It was still lacking a major interaction with the productive sector, which is still far from occurring in a level that truly represents the importance held by the Materials research in several fields of our economy.
4. What would you highlight about the SBPMat meetings that were organized and held in your administration?
First, there was the increasing participation of students and researchers, proving that the SBPMat’s Annual Meeting came to fill a gap in the Brazilian scenario. In addition to that, there is the itinerant nature of the meeting. In those four years, we held meetings in Natal and Florianópolis, as well as Rio de Janeiro and Guarujá. As the meeting counts with the substantial attendance of foreign researchers, this aspect is important as it brings the possibility of gaining access to scientific events to new students in all regions of the country. Another important point is the good scientific level of the contributions which have been presented and the interdisciplinary nature of the symposia, making the SBPMat Annual Meeting the most important event in the field of Materials, in Brazil.
5. Would you like to leave a message to our readers, concerning the election process of our SBPMat?
The participation rate is still very low, and I think the effective involvement of its associates is crucial to strengthen SBPMat. The current board and its council represent an important renewal when compared to previous ones, and that is good, it is good for the younger people to take part in the society, its decisions and management.
On May 6th, at the Naval School of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC)held the tenure ceremony of its new members, elected in a process of nomination and evaluation by their peers, performed throughout 2013. In the event, 24 scientists were assigned as full members of ABC. Among those, in the field of Physical Sciences, there was Professor Fernando Lázaro de Freire Junior, Materials researcher and former president of SBPMat.
Contemplating the ideia of being a researcher, Fernando Lázaro chose to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO),earning it in 1978. In 1979, he started teaching in the same university, while attending his Master’s (1979-1981) and Doctorate (1981-1985) courses in Physics there. During his graduate studies, Fernando Lázaro made his first scientific interventions in the field of Materials by means of an ion accelerator, initially used by him for works in Atomic Physics. In 1998, he went to Università degli Studi di Padova (in Italy) for his Postdoctoral studies, working with materials surfaces and interfaces.
From 2003 to 2008, he was the Director of PUC-Rio’s Physics Department. From 2008 to 2012, he coordinated the field of Physics and Astronomy in the Research Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). In Europhysics Letters (a journal from the European Physical Society), Professor Lázaro worked as coeditor between 2006 and 2010, and advisory editor from 2010 to 2013. In SBPMat, he served two consecutive terms as president, two as scientific director and one as financial director.
Currently, Fernando Lázaro is a Full Professor in PUC-Rio and director of Centro the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF), in addition to being a member of the FAPERJ’s Higher Board and coordinator of the National Institute of Surface Engineering. Author of over 170 scientific articles, with more than 2500 citations, he is a level 1A researcher in the Brazilian National Research Foundation, CNPq. Among his most relevant papers, there are several studies on carbon-based materials: DLC (diamond-like carbon) films, nanotubes and, more recently, graphene.
Following there is a brief interview with the researcher.
SBPMat newsletter: – Tell us a little about your history: what led you to become a scientist and work in the field of Materials?
Fernando Lázaro: – I always enjoyed Physics and Mathematics during high school, but in 1974 I had no ideia, when I applied for college entrance exams, that it was possible to do research in Brazil. Because of this, I took the exam to major in Electrical Engineering in PUC-Rio, and only there I realized that it was possible to perform researches in the field of Physics, in Brazil. Then, I transferred myself to the Bachelor’s in Physics, which was easier, as in 1975 PUC-Rio already had a common Basic Cycle for the whole of its Scientific and Technical Center. So, I didn’t waste any time. I was in my second year in the undergraduate studies. My graduate studies, then, still in PUC-Rio, were in Atomic Physics, using an ion accelerator as a working tool. As such accelerator was also a great tool to analyze materials, it was through this path that I entered into the field of Materials.
SBPMat newsletter- What do you consider as your main contributions to the field of Materials?
Fernando Lázaro: – My research has always been conducted in collaboration with several colleagues and students, and I think we made an important contribution to the study of nanostructured carbon films (diamond-like carbon films, DLC), as attested by the papers with a high number of citations and all the invitations to be invited lecturer in many international congresses. It is evident that supervising students has been important too, as well the management positions in PUC-Rio, CBPF and SBPMat.
SBPMat newsletter: – Choose some of your more highlighted papers, and comment on them, if possible.
Fernando Lázaro: – My most cited paper is an article in Applied Physics Letters, published in 1992, coauthored by Carlos Achete, from COPPE/UFRJ, and Dante Franceschini, currently at UFF, on the nitrogen incorporation in DLC films [Franceschini, D. F. ; Achete, C. A. ; Freire Junior, F. L. Internal Stress Reduction By Nitrogen Incorporation In Hard a-C:H Thin Films. Applied Physics Letters, New York, v. 60, p. 3229-3231, 1992]. It was released at the right time, and offered a relevant result for the issue of the applications of such materials, namely, the decrease of the internal tension of the film (an important factor in the debonding of films from the substrates), without a significant change in its hardness.
SBPMat newsletter: – In your opinion, what are the main challenges in your current research field for Materials Science and Engineering?
Fernando Lázaro: – I have been working with graphene and carbon nanotubes. For both, the production of good quality samples, in a controlled and profitable form, still represents a great obstacle for the use of those materials in a broader way than the one that has been verified up to this point.
SBPMat newsletter: – Send a message to our readers who are starting their careers as scientists.
Fernando Lázaro – An encouraging message. The material working conditions nowadays are much better than when I started, three decades ago; the same can be said about the wages in academia. So, things have improved and tend to keep getting better, and I think it is feasible to conduct good quality researches, with an international impact, in Brazil.
Com bolsa PNPD/CNPq, por 6 meses. Já disponível; renovável por mais 1 ano.
Local: Instituto de Física, UFRGS – Porto Alegre, RS (Programa de Pós-Graduação nível 7, o máximo, por avaliação da CAPES).
Perfil do candidato: Doutorado em Física, Química, Engenharia ou Ciência dos Materiais. Conhecimentos anteriores relacionados ao projeto serão apreciados.
Informações e candidatura: Enviar link para CV-Lattes ou CV completo, indicação de dois professores-pesquisadores de referência para contato (telefone, e-mail, carta de recomendação) e um parágrafo sobre motivações/expectativas para flavio.horowitz@ufrgs.br, até 31/05/2014 (ou, em 2ª chamada, 10/06/2014).
“Organic electronic devices” is the subject of the plenary talk that will be given by Professor Alberto Salleo at the XIII SBPMat Meeting. Professor Salleo is the head of a research group at Stanford University (USA), working on novel materials and processing techniques for large-area and flexible electronic/photonic devices. Salleo received his Laurea degree in Chemistry in 1994 from the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy) and his M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in Materials Science from UC Berkeley (USA) investigating optical breakdown in fused silica. He spent 4 years at the Palo Alto Research Center (USA) before joining the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University in December 2005. Salleo is Principal Editor of MRS Communications, Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic Materials, and member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Organic Electronics. Salleo was awarded the Early Career Achievement Award from SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics and the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, among other honors. He has (co)/authored over 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 6 book chapters and has co-authored a book on flexible electronics.
Read our interview with the lecturer.
SBPMat newsletter: – Please choose some of your main publications on organic electronics to share them with our public.
Alberto Salleo: – My group has long been interested in the role defects play in transport in organic semiconductors. We combine materials characterization to correlate structure to properties and really get deep in the “Materials Science” of organic semiconductors. In 2009 we looked at the role of grain-boundary structure in charge transport in crystalline organic semiconductors [J. Rivnay, L. Jimison, J. Northrup, M. Toney, R. Noriega, T. Marks, A. Facchetti, A. Salleo, “Large Modulation of Carrier Transport by Grain Boundary Molecular Packing and Microstructure in Organic Semiconductor Thin Films. Implications for Organic Transistor Performance”, Nature Materials 8, 952-958 (2009)]. Later, we extended this work to understanding how the microstructure of semicrystalline polymers affects carrier mobility and we outlined some basic design rules for materials [R. Noriega, J. Rivnay, K. Vandewal, F.P.V. Koch, N. Stingelin, P. Smith, M.F. Toney, A. Salleo, “A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers”, Nature Materials, 12, 1037-1043 (2013)].
In the last few years we have been interested in the fundamental processes of charge generation in organic photovoltaics. In collaboration with other groups we discovered the fundamental intermediate of the charge generation process, which is the thermalized charge-transfer state [K. Vandewal, S. Albrecht, E.T. Hoke, K.R. Graham, J. Widmer, J.D. Douglas, M. Schubert, W.R. Mateker, J.T. Bloking, G.F. Burkhard, A. Sellinger, J.M.J. Frechet, A. Amassian, M.K. Riede, M.D. McGehee, D. Neher, A. Salleo, “Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces,” Nature Materials 13, 63-68 (2014)].
Charge transport in heterogeneous polymeric microstructures is dominated by percolation through ordered regions.
SBPMat newsletter: – In your opinion, which are the organic electronics´main challenges for Materials Science and Engineering? And the main applications of organic semiconductors we´ll see in everyday life in the next decades?
Alberto Salleo: – Because these materials are bound by weak van der Waals bonds, their microstructure is very process-dependent. This is a great property for fundamental studies as it allows to generate a zoo of structures relatively easily. On the other hand, most applications require that many (sometimes thousands) of devices be integrated, which puts stringent requirements on the reproducibility of the electrical characteristics. Reaching the level of reproducibility needed to build somewhat complex circuits is still challenging.
As far as applications, it is important to think of a space that is well-matched to the unique properties of organic semiconductors. OLED displays are already commercial but maybe in the future they can be driven by organic transistors to further push flexibility and fabrication sustainability. OLEDs are also exciting as low-power, low-cost lighting sources. Of course, there is continuing progress in photovoltaics and the possibility of organics being part of tandem cells is becoming ever more realistic, while fundamental breakthroughs may also make them competitive as single junctions in specific applications where their low weight and flexibility add value. Finally, there are plenty of applications that don’t require great speed but that take advantage of the mechanical properties of organics. I am thinking of bio-electronics and wearable electronics, which are experiencing a significant growth lately. Organic devices have been used to monitor brain signals and to deliver drugs locally, as well as to measure heartbeat or oxygen content in blood.
SBPMat newsletter: – Tell us a little about the plenary lecture on organic electronic devices you are going to give at the XIII SBPMat Meeting.
Alberto Salleo – My interest is in understanding how microstructure and defects play a role in materials properties. In the end, these relationships are important for all devices, therefore I view our work as quite fundamental, regardless of applications. My goal for the lecture is to pick a device (I have a few months to decide which one!) and show exactly how the structure of the material at all length-scales affects the device behavior. This type of studies provides a nexus between scientists who make materials, those who process materials and those who design devices.
Brazilian Materials Research Society (SBPMat) newsletter
News update from Brazil for the Materials community
English edition. Year 1, issue 4.
Greetings, .
SBPMat’s news
XIII SBPMat meeting:
João Pessoa, September 28th, to October 2nd.
– Until May 23rd, the submission of abstracts is open for the SBPMAT symposia, which cover 19 different fields. The best papers presented by students in each symposium will be granted with the Bernhard Gross Award, and may be published in a special issue of IOP’s open access journal. More.
– Do you wish to help promoting the XIII SBPMat Meeting? On the website of the event, you may find and print its poster and folder.
Other SBPMat news
– Materials Today published our “featured paper” of March. Read.
– Our Facebook profile already has more than 1,000 followers. Don’t you know it yet? Like our Facebook and follow the Brazilian and international news on Materials research.
Featured paper with Brazilian participation
A team of researchers from Brazilian universities (Federal University of Uberlândia and University of Brasília) have developed a new method to synthesize quantum dots. In addition to be cheap, reproducible and efficient to produce the minuscule semiconductor crystals, the method comes with a bonus: the modulation of the thickness of the quantum dots’ shells. Promising for biotechnological applications, the results of the paper were published on ACS Nano. Read the story.
(To suggest papers with Materials focus with Brazilian participation published in high impact journals for this section of our newsletter contact comunicacao@sbpmat.org.br)
SBPMat’s community people
We talked with researcher Fernando Zawislak, the introducer of the field of ion implantation in Brazil. More than 30 years ago, Zawislak founded the Ion Implantation Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – still the largest in Latin America, to this day – which approaches numerous fields of knowledge by means of the creation of nanostructures and the analysis of materials with ion beams. The scientist also was one the founders of the Graduate Studies Program in Materials Sciences in UFRGS. In our interview, the Emeritus Professor talked about such contributions and what led him to achieve them. He also left a message to younger researchers, advising them to choose a field they like, an advisor in a modern research field, and to have an entrepreneurial spirit and an open mind to multidisciplinarity.
Professor Edgar Zanotto honored for his actions for the development of the city of São Carlos, the “Brazilian Capital of Technology“. Here.
Professor Victor Pandolfelli elected for the advisory board of the World Academy of Ceramics. Here.
Reading recommendations
Science journalism stories based on papers published in journals with high impact factor.
– Biomimetic materials: inspired by the structure of nacre, new ceramics achieves tenacity, resistance and hardness (based on paper from Nature Materials). Read it here.
– As it was reinforced concrete, graphene is reinforced with carbon nanotubes, with potential use in flexible screens (based on paper from ACS Nano). Read it here.
– Nanobionic plants:carbon nanotubes enhance the photosynthesis and introduce non-natural functions to plants (based on paper from Nature Materials). Read it here.
– Acoustic cloak: 3D device turns a region of space “invisible to sound” (based on paper from Nature Materials). Read it here. Materials news from the Brazilian National Institutes of Science and Technology (INCTs).
– INCT on Functional Complex Materials: Triboelectrification is an important element of friction. Read it here.
– Nanotoxicity of graphene and graphene oxide: paper of Brazilian researchers on the cover of ACS journal. Read it here.
– Sensor developed in INCT Namitec is used in floriculture. Read it here.
– Namitec develops sensor for ionizing radiation, which may prevent interferences in devices for satellites, airplanes etc. Read it here.
