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XXIII B-MRS Meeting (Salvador): website is live
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The next B-MRS Meeting will be held in Salvador (BA) from September 28 to October 2, 2025, coordinated by Luiza Amim Mercante (UFBA) and Daniel Souza Corrêa (Embrapa Instrumentação). Visit the website and find out the names of the six plenary speakers and the memorial lecture of the event. Learn more.
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XXII B-MRS Meeting (Santos): event report
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The event held in late September and early October this year in Santos had a record 1,777 participants from all continents and all regions of Brazil. In addition to 29 symposia, 7 plenary lectures and 4 short courses, there were several new features in the program. Read our report of the event.
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XXII B-MRS Meeting (Santos): awards
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Marília Junqueira Caldas was awarded the Memorial Lecture Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro by B-MRS in recognition of her distinguished scientific career, dedicated mainly to the computational study of semiconductors. Learn more about this scientist in our interview.
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Bluma Guenther Soares received the José Arana Varela Award for her vast and impactful scientific production and her work in training researchers. Learn a little about this scientist’s career and her advice for younger people in our interview.
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In an interview with B-MRS, Ingrid David Barcelos, winner of the first edition of the B-MRS Early Career Woman Scientist Prize, spoke about her work and being a black female scientist. She also gave tips for conducting impactful research. Read the interview.
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At the end of the event, 41 students were honored with the Bernhard Gross Award, 6 received prizes from ACS Publications and another 6 from the publisher of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In addition, 3 researchers won the prize and honorable mentions in the B-MRS Early Career Woman Scientist Prize. See the full list.
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Professor Valtencir Zucolotto (IFSC-USP), a B-MRS member, and post-doc Natália Noronha Ferreira Naddeo won a medical innovation award for research on the use of nanotechnology to administer medication via the nose to combat a type of brain cancer.
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Opportunities
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– Special issue on materials for energy conversion and storage of the Journal of Alloys and Compounds Communications (Elsevier) accepts papers and review articles.
Guest editors are members of the Brazilian materials community. Submissions are open until December 24th.
Learn more.
– The call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Alloys and Compounds Communications on titanium-based alloys,
from processing to applications, with a focus on biomedical devices, is open until March 31, 2025. The three guest editors are members of B-MRS
(Pedro Nascente, Carlos Grandini and Conrado Afonso).
Learn more.
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Upcoming events
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– Semana de Física de Materiais e Semana de Estudos da Física. Ouro Preto (MG, Brazil). November 18 to 22, 2024.
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– 8th Meeting on Self Assembly Structures in Solution and at Interfaces (Autoorg). Santos (SP, Brazil). November 27 to 29, 2024.
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– Escola Interdisciplinar FAPESP – Ciências Exatas e Naturais, Engenharias e Medicina. Itatiba (SP, Brazil). December 8 to 12, 2024.
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– 21st International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL2025). Naples (Italy). June 23 to 27, 2025.
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– XXIII B-MRS Meeting. Salvador (BA, Brazil). September 28 to October 2, 2025.
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