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Brazilian Materials Research Society (SBPMat) newsletter
News update from Brazil for the Materials community |
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English edition. Year 2, issue 12.
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SBPMat news
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Holiday message from SBPMat. See the message to the associates from the Board and Council that headed our society in 2015. Here.
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Elections at SBPMat. Get to know the results of the election of the Executive Office and members of the Council, which voting was performed between December 1st and 12th. Here.
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| XV SBPMat Meeting. Save the date. The next annual meeting of our society will take place in the city of Campinas (SP), form September 25th to 29th of 2016. Know more. |
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| Internationalization. Representing SBPMat, Professor Roberto Faria was elected vice-president of IUMRS (International Union of Materials Research Societies) and shall strengthen the entity action in South America. Know more. |
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Featured paper
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A multidisciplinary team of 13 Brazilian scientists tested the efficiency of several functionalized nanomaterials for delivering genes of interest (gene delivery) to humans and rat cells, protecting the nucleic acid until destiny. The results were published on Nanoscale. See our story about the study.
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Having a series of experimental evidences, a team of Brazilian scientists presented, in Applied Physics Letters, the newest member of the photovoltaic materials family: bismuth telluride. The finding opens possibilities for fundamental studies and for applications of the material. See our story.
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People in the Materials community
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| The doctoral thesis that won the Capes Award for Doctoral Theses in the field of materials science and engineering was also winner of a Grand Capes Award. Know more. |
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Scientists of the Brazilian materials community, Oswaldo Alves and Marcos Pimenta, were empowered as members of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences).
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Events
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- 6th Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Summer School. Campinas, SP (Brazil). January, 11 to 29, 2016. Site.
- 5th International Conference on Surface Metrology. Póznan (Poland). April, 4 to 7, 2016. Site.
- 43rd International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF). San Diego (USA). April, 25 to 29, 2016. Site.
- 40th WOCSDICE ‐ Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits held in Europe & 13th EXMATEC ‐ Expert Evaluation and Control of Compound Semiconductor Materials and Technologies. Aveiro (Portugal). June, 6 to 10, 2016. Site.
- Photonic Colloidal Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications (PCNSPA Conference 2016). Saint Petersburg (Russia). June, 27 to July, 1, 2016. Site.
- XXV International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS2016). Fortaleza, CE (Brazil). August, 14 to 19, 2016. Site.
- XV Encontro da SBPMat. Campinas, SP (Brazil). September, 25 to 29, 2016. Site.
- Aerospace Technology 2016. Stockholm (Sweden). October, 11 to 12, 2016. Site.
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