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B-MRS Newsletter. Year 10, issue 9.
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Report from the XXI B-MRS Meeting: gathering the community to face big global challenges.
Sunday of Short Courses: from Microfluidics to Forensic Science
October 1, 2023, Sunday morning. We are in Maceió, capital of the Brazilian state Alagoas. The city will host, for the first time, the B-MRS Meeting, an annual international event organized by the Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS/ SBPMat) that has already been held in 12 cities in Brazil. The meeting will be held at the Ruth Cardoso Cultural and Exhibition Center – a space that hosts fairs and conferences as well as cultural presentations of all sizes.
Around 10 am, dozens of people enter the convention center and head to the Ipioca room, on the first floor. The name evokes one of the beautiful beaches in Maceió, but, on this hot Sunday morning, these people exchanged a possible tourist trip for participation in the short courses that the XXI B-MRS Meeting offered, at no additional cost, to those registered for the event.
In this edition, for the first time, the pre-event program began in the morning, with the mini-course on research in Microfluidics. Given by professor Glauber T. Silva, from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), the two-hour course showed how the development of specific materials is essential to the advancement of microfluidics, especially for the development of technologies known as “lab-on-a chip”, which integrate, into small portable devices, all the analysis steps that normally require complete laboratories and qualified teams to, for example, diagnose diseases.
At 1:15 pm, in the same room, the traditional Young Researchers’ School began – a tutorial by Valtencir Zucolotto, professor at IFSC-USP and editor of two scientific journals. The tutorial aims to help participants develop skills for high-impact research and publication in the best journals of the field. The course, which lasts around two hours, also includes tips on how to prepare to apply for a position at the university.
At the end of the afternoon, the last mini-course of the XXI B-MRS Meeting addressed the development of materials for forensic investigation. Professor Adriana Santos Ribeiro (UFAL) and the Federal Police Criminal Expert Alexandro Mangueira Lima de Assis, who is also a professor at UFAL, spoke about the materials that can help find evidence at a crime scene and analyze it.
In total, more than 320 people participated in the mini-courses, which opened up perspectives for training and professional activity.
Opening of the event: unity to face humanity’s greatest challenges
Still on Sunday, at around 7 pm, the convention center theater, decorated with blue lighting, began to receive hundreds of people who arrived to attend the official opening of the XXI B-MRS Meeting. Thus, when professor Ivan Bechtold, financial director of B-MRS who acted as master of ceremonies, took the floor, more than 1,000 people occupied the main audience and the theater’s mezzanine.
At the opening table sat professors Josealdo Tonholo, rector of UFAL, Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior (IFSC-USP), president of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IURMS) and Monica Cotta (IFGW – Unicamp), president of B-MRS, in addition to the event chairmen, UFAL professors Carlos Jacinto da Silva, from the Institute of Physics, and Mario Roberto Meneghetti, from the Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology.
In her speech, Professor Cotta highlighted the multidisciplinary nature of the B-MRS Meeting, which always includes chemists, physicists, engineers, dentists, biologists… “We need quality science, no matter which area, the tag” she said. The B-MRS president, who is at the end of her second term, also expressed her satisfaction at holding the last event of her mandate in the Northeast of Brazil “which voted against the government that denied science”, she said, referring to the results of the 2022 presidential election.
The rector of UFAL returned to this topic in his speech. “It’s great to meet this people after the pandemic and after the assassination attempt of STI in the country”, expressed Tonholo, who, as a researcher, has already carried out several works in the field of Materials.
Representing IUMRS, an entity that brings together materials research societies from all continents, Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior highlighted the importance of empowering global organizations to overcome humanity’s major current problems, such as wars and climate change. “We need to walk together,” he said.
In turn, Carlos Jacinto da Silva focused on the importance of materials science in addressing the most urgent problems. “From sustainable energy solutions to advanced healthcare technologies, our field is at the forefront of innovation and progress,” he said, and called for unity. “Together we have the power to shape a sustainable future, and I have no doubt that the discoveries and collaborations that emerge from this conference will leave a lasting impact,” said the chair.
“May this event catalyze new collaborations and consolidate old ones”, said Mario Roberto Meneghetti, at the end of the opening of the XXI B-MRS Meeting.
Memorial Lecture for Gilberto de Sá
Afterwards, Sidney José Lima Ribeiro, professor and director of the Chemistry Institute at Unesp, was invited to take the stage to represent the great honoree of the night: Gilberto Fernandes de Sá, professor emeritus at UFPE, who was unable to be present due to health problems.
Gilberto de Sá was chosen to give this year’s Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro Memorial Lecture, an honor granted by B-MRS to senior researchers with an outstanding career within the Brazilian Materials research community.
The honoree was responsible for creating, in 1975, the UFPE Rare Earth Laboratory, the cradle of impactful research in the area of rare earth spectroscopy, luminescent materials and, more recently, advanced photonic materials. Furthermore, he was one of the founders of the university’s Department of Fundamental Chemistry, created in December 1982.
In the Memorial Lecture file, Professor Gilberto highlights the lasting collaborations he established with renowned researchers around the world, such as Professor Larry Thompson, from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and the outstanding Brazilian researchers he helped to train – among them, Professor Sidney Ribeiro.
In a brief and humorous presentation, Ribeiro spoke with affection and admiration of his former doctoral advisor and shared with the public a document written by Professor Gilberto and distributed by him in 2019, at the ceremony in which he received the title of Professor Emeritus from UFPE. At a time when the public university was the target of repeated verbal and budgetary attacks by the Bolsonaro government, Professor Gilberto made public his defense of the institution.
After the Memorial Lecture, participants went to the foyer of the convention center to have, in many cases, the first conversations of the week with collaborators and friends from the most diverse parts of Brazil and the world.
Round Table with the ministers of science and technology from Brazil and Portugal
The first session of the event, on Monday morning, was totally different in this edition of the B-MRS Meeting. The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil, Luciana Santos, and the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal, Elvira Fortunato, arrived shortly after 9 am at the convention center to participate in a round table on opportunities for materials research with the director-president of the Alagoas State Research Foundation (Fapeal), Fábio Guedes Gomes, and the president of B-MRS, Monica Cotta.
The composition of the table brought some atypical participants to the audience: members of the Government of Alagoas and the Embassy and Consulate of Portugal, as well as public managers in the area of science and technology and several journalists.
Opening the discussion, Professor Cotta highlighted the importance of collaborations between two sister countries such as Brazil and Portugal in an area that directly changes everyone’s lives. “About 200 years ago, human beings used only 3 elements: carbon from wood and coal, calcium from cement and iron. Today, we use more than 70 elements from the periodic table in the materials that are present in our daily lives”, she said, handing the floor over to the president of Fapeal.
“It is an honor for me to be a minority at this table,” he expressed, alluding to the presence of three women on the panel. In his speech, Guedes Gomes, who also chairs the Northeast regional board of the National Council of Research Foundations (Confap), highlighted the strength of the Brazilian system of science, technology and innovation, made up of three federal agencies and 27 state foundations , which survived attacks by the previous government. He also spoke about Fapeal’s investments in research grants. “Science can be done anywhere; just give the opportunities,” he said.
The third to speak was the Portuguese minister. A materials scientist with a brilliant career, whose outstanding contributions to “green” electronics received many distinctions and citations (her h-index is 92), Elvira Fortunato participated several times in the B-MRS Meeting, including as a symposium organizer and as a plenary speaker. As minister, she presented data on the exchange that exists in the scientific area between Portugal and Brazil, highlighting the presence of Brazilians in Portuguese higher education. She ended the speech by remembering that “science has no borders, it is global”.
Finally, the Brazilian minister, Luciana Santos, defended the importance of research in advanced materials and nanotechnology for the country’s development. “These are disruptive and future-bearing areas, fundamental to consolidating the innovation ecosystem, training human resources and increasing interaction between academia and industry,” she said. Santos also highlighted the need for international cooperation in science, technology and innovation to face global challenges such as extreme weather events, access to water and food and health emergencies.
After the initial speeches, the president of B-MRS raised a question for the ministers: what can be done to open up professional opportunities for highly qualified young people who complete a postgraduate degree? Luciana Santos responded that, in Brazil, it is necessary to improve the interaction between research and industry, the dialogue between scientists and the productive sector. “To have a strong economy, we need science,” she said. In turn, Elvira Fortunato commented on some measures taken in Portugal with the aim of retaining talent: the effective hiring of professionals who work in large research laboratories and who take years to master certain techniques; the autonomy granted to institutions of the scientific system to open vacancies, and the creation of consortia that bring together universities, companies and government to solve applied research problems.
Symposia: discussing today’s science to generate sustainable innovation tomorrow
Between Monday and Thursday, more than 1,800 research works were presented and discussed at the Maceió convention center within the 25 thematic symposia that, this year, made up the B-MRS Meeting. Under the coordination of the chairmen, around one hundred researchers from fifteen countries participated in the organization of these symposia.
The set of topics covered in the symposia showed, once again, the transversality of materials science and technology. There, advances were discussed in the discovery, synthesis and characterization of materials as diverse as natural polymers, smart nanomaterials, biomaterials and topological materials, among many others. Progress in the application of these materials in sectors such as energy, health, agriculture, environmental remediation, optoelectronics and 3D printing was also presented. “Looking at the 25 symposia of this year, we can briefly say that we will deal with “Innovation and Sustainability with Materials,” topics of utmost importance in the global context”, summarized the chair Carlos Jacinto.
In 12 different rooms, the symposia carried out their oral sessions in parallel, which included more than 500 presentations, including invited lectures (many of them from renowned scientists from abroad) and contributions from students and researchers (the majority, coming from more than 100 institutions of all Brazilian regions).
The scientific level of the presentations was praised by the symposium organizers. “The high quality of the invited talks led to very fruitful discussions,” highlighted the organizers of the symposium U, which discussed advances in materials for the sustainable production of electronics using printing methods. “The excellent talks by Brazilian presenters highlighted the quality of research carried out in the country, despite the persistent funding cuts we have faced in recent years”, commented the organizers of the R symposium, dedicated to electronics, photonics and organic bioelectronics.
The poster sessions were also impressive, in part because of their size. More than 1,300 works were presented in three sessions, held in a large space on the ground floor of the convention center, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. The presenters, mainly undergraduate and postgraduate students, who represented 55% of the participants, were able to interact with researchers of all levels of training. “The enthusiasm of the students who participated in the symposia deserves to be mentioned and motivates us to continue with persistence”, highlighted the organizers of symposium V, dedicated to nanocomposite materials and their applications in lasers, solar cells, optical amplifiers and displays.
Lectures on Tuesday afternoon: a range of options on current topics
On Tuesday afternoon, the B-MRS Meeting program brought another new feature. The symposiums stopped for an hour so that participants could attend one of the seven technical lectures that were held at the convention center.
For those interested in updating themselves in characterization techniques, there were three options, offered by scientific instrumentation companies. Horiba gave a talk on innovations and advanced uses of Raman spectroscopy. Jeol brought a presentation on using TEM and STEM microscopy to probe materials at the picometer level. Anton Paar spoke about the benefits of combining Rheology with Tribology to characterize materials.
In turn, scientific publishers offered lectures on the “art” of writing and publishing scientific articles. The representative of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) gave tips for paper authors on how to attract the attention of editors, reviewers and readers amid the enormous amount of works that are submitted to journals daily. In turn, the lecture by the publisher of the American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) brought an open discussion: the technical and ethical implications of using artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT in the preparation of scientific articles.
Another interesting option during this time was the lecture given by the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). Located in Campinas (SP), CNPEM is the “home” of the state-of-the-art synchrotron light source Sirius and many other laboratories with advanced tools for materials research. These facilities are open to the entire scientific community, and the center offers training to use them profitably. The lecture showed the opportunities that CNPEM offers to researchers of all levels of training.
The program also included a round table with three researchers who have or have had experience of entrepreneurship and technological innovation within the materials area. The debate focused on the contribution that scientists can make to meet the growing demand for products with high technological content.
Conference Party: fun for everyone
At the end of a Tuesday of intense programming, many participants still had energy to enjoy the exclusive party for event participants and their companions, which this time was held at Maikai, one of the main nightclubs in Maceió. With around 650 people, it was the biggest of the B-MRS Meeting parties. On stage, singer Thyago Correia and his band pleased all age groups with a sequence of Brazilian music classics from the most diverse styles, from the 80s to the present. Everyone or almost everyone sang and danced both on the dance floor and in the mezzanine boxes. And, at the request of their colleagues, young researchers with musical talent took the stage and rocked it!
Exhibitors: products, facilities and opportunities for materials research
At the entrance to the convention center, between the registration desk and the access to the rooms, 25 companies and institutions displayed their products, services and facilities in beautiful stands that received many visits from participants.
The group of exhibitors included manufacturers and sellers of equipment and inputs for scientific research, two startups (Autocoat, dedicated to developing solutions in the blade coating technique, and FabNS, specialized in instrumentation and software for Raman spectroscopy), two scientific publishers (ACS Publications and RSC) and two entities of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, CNPEM and GraNioTer.
GraNioTer is a technological hub focusing on graphene, niobium and rare earths which aims to promote strategic projects that have already advanced into the initial stages of the technological maturity scale. At the XXI B-MRS Meeting, the hub proposed a challenge to the participants: to present ideas to solve everyday technological problems of two partner companies. The first problem, from the company Zextec, was to develop a process for adding graphene to cementitious materials. The winner was Douglas de Souza Rocha, an undergraduate student at UFRJ. The second problem, proposed by Ionic Technologies, was removing rare earth elements from magnets in end-of-life equipment. The winning idea was by Bruno Lessmann Fertig, a master’s student at UFSC. Both winners received Ipads as a prize.
Plenary Sessions: high-quality science for sustainable development
The plenary lectures of the XXI B-MRS Meeting brought together, every day, a few hundred participants from all the symposia, always in the theater of the convention center.
Given by very prominent researchers in their fields, these lectures showed how multidisciplinary and quality science is the basis of new sustainable technologies that bring benefits to people’s lives and, at the same time, minimize the impact on the environment.
Professor Luisa De Cola (University of Milan, Italy) spoke about the development of intelligent porous nanomaterials, capable of delivering and capturing substances within the organism, and their applications in healthcare, tested through in vivo experiments. The scientist, who heads the Materials for Health unit at the Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, enchanted the public by showing nanocages based on organosilica that function as tiny smart capsules, capable of directly delivering the medication they carry into tumor cells. Professor Luisa also showed microporous materials based on zeolites that capture serotonin and dopamine, with applications in the area of mental health.
In another fascinating plenary session with an impact on the health sector, Daniel Jaque Garcia, professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), addressed the development of luminescent nanoparticles and their use as tiny thermometers that travel inside the body to measure the temperature of certain cells, allowing, for example, the diagnosis of tumors and cardiovascular and neurological disorders. One of the main experts in luminescent nanothermometers, the scientist spoke about the numerous scientific challenges already resolved and to be resolved in order to bring this technology to hospitals and doctors’ offices.
Within the list of plenary sessions, two of them directly addressed the development of carbon nanomaterials. Andrea Ferrari, founder and director of the Graphene Center at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), spoke about advances in graphene research and development that could make this material a vector of disruptive technological innovation. In turn, Fernando Lázaro Freire Junior, professor emeritus at PUC-Rio, presented his contributions to the synthesis and characterization of carbon-based materials, from DLC films to graphene nanostructures.
On the occasion, the Brazilian scientist received the José Arana Varela Award, granted by B-MRS to researchers from national institutions, with an established career, who stand out for the results achieved in the field of Materials Science and Technology and for their contributions to the community. President of B-MRS from 2006 to 2009, professor Lázaro was director of the Brazilian Center for Physical Research (CBPF) between 2011 and 2015, member of the Superior Council of the Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) from 2012 to 2018 and national coordinator of the National Institute of Surface Engineering from 2009 to the present.
The plenary session by scientist Conchi Ania, a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, was about one of humanity’s most important challenges: ensuring safe drinking water for everyone. She presented the development of sustainable and low-cost materials and processes that can be used to eliminate the enormous amount of new micropollutants that we dump into water every day and that escape conventional treatments. For this work, some of which was tested outside the laboratory in treatment plants, the scientist won a “For Women in Science” award from L’Oréal Unesco.
The need for truly sustainable economic development opened the plenary lecture by Rodrigo Martins, professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal) who has already presided over the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and IUMRS and played an important role in building bridges between B-MRS and these societies. The scientist addressed the development of materials and devices for so-called printed electronics, a “greener” and more versatile technology than conventional silicon electronics. In this new technology, electronic circuits are manufactured using printing techniques on flexible, lightweight, biodegradable and recyclable substrates, such as paper and fabrics, transforming these passive materials into interactive platforms.
The last plenary of the event was given by Christel Marian, senior professor at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany). A specialist in applying computational methods to the study of materials, the researcher showed that modeling based on Density Functional Theory can help improve the performance of OLEDs, flexible light-emitting devices based on organic films, widely used in television screens, monitors and cell phones, which combine energy efficiency, flexibility and transparency.
Closing Ceremony: exciting end to an intense week
Thursday, October 5th. Last day of the XXI B-MRS Meeting. At around 11:30 am, the theater of the Maceió convention center becomes the stage for the traditional Awards and Closing Ceremony of the event, long awaited due to the revelation of the winners of the student awards.
In his presentation, chair Carlos Jacinto da Silva showed the excellent numbers of the event, which had 1,629 participants from 38 countries and 25 Brazilian states. He thanked everyone who made the event possible, from the sponsors and supporters to the secretariat team and the coordinator of the Program Committee, professor André de Lima Moura (UFAL).
The ceremony included this time the farewell of the president of B-MRS. “We are all B-MRS and, in these four years, it has been an honor to be at the head of this society”, said Monica Cotta, taking the opportunity to thank the team and directors who accompanied her in both terms, as well as the event chairmen, for the excellent work.
Special thanks went to professors Ivan Helmuth Bechtold (UFSC) and Iêda Maria Garcia dos Santos (UFPB), for their dedication to the Board of Directors and the Program and Awards Committees of B-MRS. “They have done a lot of hard work in recent years to coordinate, together with the symposium organizers, the delivery of our awards to students”, highlighted Mônica. On stage, the honored directors received hugs and regional souvenirs.
In turn, the president was also surprised with a tribute from the directors and the B-MRS team, currently formed by Aline Barros, executive secretary, Alexandre Souza, manager of the B-MRS Meeting, Leandro D´Agostino, responsible for systems and Verónica Savignano, responsible for communications. Along with the directors, the staff handed a plaque and a souvenir to Mônica. In a brief speech, the team highlighted the president’s commitment to inclusive, diverse, multidisciplinary and quality science, as well as her dedication to every task without sparing efforts and with infinite energy.
The closing featured another speech on stage, read by an event participant. Student Denisson Guimarães do Carmo recalled that, on that same day, the Day of Struggle for Brazilian Democracy was taking place, promoted by the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), an entity to which B-MRS is affiliated. In his motion in support of this initiative, the young man recalled the attacks against Brazilian democracy perpetrated on January 8th and, as a result, the need to continue consolidating democracy in the country. “In dictatorial regimes, reflection, questioning, doubt and truth, pillars of science, are stifled, allowing oppression, torture and persecution to thrive,” said Denisson.
A moment of great excitement was created with the announcement of the B-MRS Meetings for 2024 and 2025. The first, to be held in Santos with the coordination of professors Laura Oliveira Péres Philadelphi (Unifesp) and Lucas Fugikawa Santos (Unesp). The second, to be held in Salvador, with Luiza Amim Mercante (UFBA) and Daniel Souza Corrêa (Embrapa Instrumentação) as chairs.
The Santos event coordinators, who were sitting at the closing table next to the Maceió chairs, took the floor for a quick presentation about the city of Santos and the convention center. Located on the coast of the state of São Paulo, 85 km from the center of the capital, the city is abundant in beaches, forests and historical and cultural attractions, as well as an outstanding gastronomy.
- See the XXII B-MRS Meeting website (Santos, September 29th to October 3rd, 2024).
- See the event’s call for symposia, which is open until November 21, 2023.
Finally, the long-awaited moment of the awards ceremony arrived, which began with the announcement of the JALCOM Award – an award created this year by the Journal of Alloys and Compounds (JALCOM, Elsevier), in partnership with B-MRS, to distinguish researchers from Brazilian institutions with outstanding contributions on certain topics in the areas of Materials and Energy. Professor Valmor Mastelaro, editor at JALCOM, announced Conrado R. M. Afonso (professor at UFSCar) as winner of the prize for advanced career researchers, and doctors Gisele Amaral Labat (INPE) and Piter Gargarella (UFSCar) as winners of the prize for young researchers .
Subsequently, within the B-MRS Bernhard Gross Award, aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, the Awards Committee and the president of SBPMat awarded certificates to the 38 authors of the best contributions presented at each symposium – students from institutions in the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, Amazonas, Ceará, Paraná, Pernambuco and Santa Catarina. Among these finalists, the authors of the best works from the entire event received cash prizes from ACS Publications and book vouchers RSC.
Thus, the XXI B-MRS Meeting came to an end as a large gathering of people from all over the world who are dedicated to understanding today’s materials and developing tomorrow’s materials and their applications. “As we conclude this meeting, I encourage you to carry forward the enthusiasm, newly acquired knowledge and connections made here,” said Chair Carlos Jacinto in his closing remarks. “Let us continue to pioneer our respective fields and champion a sustainable future through the incredible world of materials science,” he concluded.
(Português) XXI B-MRS Meeting em números.
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XXI B-MRS Meeting: symposia overviews
Check out the highlights of some symposiums according to their organizers.
Symposium D: Advanced materials applied in sensors for health, agricultural, and environmental applications.
Our symposium featured the presentation of approximately 130 papers, 28 of which were oral. We had a presentation by 4 invited speakers from Spain, England, Austria, and Brazil. Regarding oral presentations in the form of posters, we had the participation of Brazilian researchers from practically all regions. Thirteen students submitted their work to compete for RCS and ACS awards. Notably, one of the competitors was selected to receive both awards.
In summary, the objectives proposed for this symposium were fully achieved.
Symposium G: Photocatalytic materials applied in energy conversion and environmental remediation.
162 works were presented, 134 works in the form of posters, 23 works in the form of oral presentation and 5 lectures (invited lecture), with the presence of 2 renowned speakers from abroad: Dr. Conchi Ania from the University of Orléans – France and Dr. Andrea Folli from Cardiff University- United Kingdom.
Of the 162 participants in Symposium G, 69 were from the Northeast region, 60 participants from the Southeast region, 19 from the South region, 4 from the North region, 2 participants from the Center-West of Brazil and 8 from abroad. 9 students competed for prizes, being awarded a prize for the presentation in the form of a poster and a prize for the oral presentation.
This Symposium promoted interaction between researchers and students on advances in the development of new nanostructured materials for the conversion and storage of solar energy, mainly photocatalytic materials for solar water splitting for hydrogen production, conversion of CO 2 into fuels and environmental remediation.
Symposium H: New developments in battery materials: designing and producing more efficient systems via nanoscale characterization.
The Symposium H and the workshop of 2023 B-MRS meeting focused on the latest advances and challenges in the field of battery materials and were held successfully.
Both events gathered a good number of participants. The symposium featured 4 high- level invited speakers from Harvard University, University of Lisbon, Wien University and Thermo Fisher Scientific, 5 oral presentations with one from Thermal Fisher Scientific, one from Italy and 3 from different institutions of Brazil and 10 posters.
There were two invited speakers from China and one invited speaker from USA who could not make their trip due to visa issues. There were less participants than we expected, and the main reason might be that there were three similar symposia for energy storage materials. We believe that the research about battery materials would be significantly boosted in the next years due to the discovery of the Lithium ore in Bazil and thus, a battery symposium will attract a larger interest in the future, namely participants from Industry. Another point that we would like to address is the student awards. There were only a few extended abstracts submitted for awards. We visited all the posters and asked why the students did not apply for the award and the answer was lacking courage. In this case, we should really encourage all the students for extended abstract submission. Overall, the symposium and the workshop were successful, and the symposium organizers would like to thank all the speakers, participants, sponsors and reviewers for their contribution to the success of the event.
Symposium R: Organic electronics, photonics and bioelectronics: fundamentals, applications and emerging technologies.
Symposium R on organic electronics, photonics, and sensing applications was an outstanding success, showcasing the vibrant and innovative landscape of research in this field. We were honored to host renowned international researchers who delivered inspiring talks, shedding light on the cutting-edge developments in this area. The impressive talks from Brazilian presenters highlighted the exceptional quality of research carried out in the country, despite the persistent funding cuts we have faced in recent years. Moreover, the contributions from our talented student speakers demonstrated the remarkable potential of the next generation in advancing the field and filled us with hope for the future of research in Brazil. Symposium R was a true demonstration of the collaborative spirit of our community, and we look forward to replicating its success next year in Santos.
Symposium U: Sustainable production of nanomaterials and ink formulations for affordable, efficient, and reusable printed electronics.
The XXI BMRS Symposium U received a total of 25 submissions, of which 8 were oral presentations covering a wide range of topics. These submissions were mainly represented by bright young researchers from Brazil. In terms of invited talks, the symposium was marked by high-level presentations from international researchers, namely Dr Sergio Pinilla from the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (IMDEA); Prof. Jeff Kettle from the University of Glasgow; Dr Emanuel Carlos from CENIMAT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Dr João Coelho from CENIMAT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla. These were high-quality presentations that led to a very fruitful discussion session. In fact, in all the presentations, with an audience of around 50 people, there were always interesting questions for the speakers, which raised the scientific level of the symposium. It is also important to mention that Merck also had a representative, Carla Decandio, at the symposium. This participation provided a very interesting overview of how big companies are trying to move towards sustainable chemicals and green-printed electronics.
In terms of awards, the oral presentation “Electrodeposition of manganese oxide on paper-based laser-induced graphene for sustainable supercapacitor fabrication” by PhD student Maykel dos Santos Klem ((FCT-UNESP)) was awarded the Bernhard Gross Prize for Best Symposium Presentation. The best poster award went to Júlia Ketzer Majewski (UFPR).
Overall, the symposium was a success and hopefully an inspiration for all young researchers interested in sustainability and printed electronics.
Symposium V: Advanced nanocomposites for photonics : materials synthesis, optical properties and applications.
The symposium focused on recent developments of photonic nanocomposites: synthesis, characterization and potential technological applications. Overview of recent works and experiments that are still being conducted were presented based on advanced nanocomposites: glasses, glass-ceramics, colloids, two-dimensional materials, photonic crystals, hybrid systems, flexible and nanostructured thin films, quantum dots, among others. Several applications for photonics were highlighted as follows: nanothermometry, color displays, optical amplifiers, photovoltaic devices, magneto-optical sensors and random lasers
Poster sessions occurred (October 2nd to 4th) with 70 presentations; the work about tellurite glasses doped with Er3+ ions with potential for thermometry sensing applications, presented by Gaston Lozano Calderón, from Instituto de Física de São Carlos (São Paulo-Brazil), received the Bernhard Gross Award for poster presentation. Oral sessions took place from October 2nd to 5th with 37 presentations, including 14 invited lectures from Brazil (3), Canada (1), Italy (2), France (2), Mexico (1), Spain (1), and USA (4). João Antonio Oliveira Santos, from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, received the Bernhard Gross Award for the oral presentation about smart nanohybrid platform for temperature sensing. It is important to emphasize the broad audience in all the sessions and the permanent interaction with the presenters. The enthusiasm of the students deserves to be mentioned and motivates all of us to continue persistently.
XXI B-MRS Meeting: Student Awards and Prizes.
Photos: the album of the Student Awards and Prizes Ceremony is available here.
Bernhard Gross Award
(Established by B-MRS in honor of Bernhard Gross, a pioneer of Brazilian materials research. It distinguishes the best oral and poster contributions presented by students in each symposium)
Symposium A – Poster. Cléber Gomes de Jesus. Artificial neural networks applied in the catalytic process of urease and conjugated polymer thin films.
Symposium A – Oral. Tatiane Pretto. Synthesizing double halide perovskites with machine learning prediction.
Symposium B – Poster. Douglas S. Rocha. SiO2/graphene oxide nanocomposite obtained from rice husk pyrolisis.
Symposium C – Poster. William Ottoni Barbosa Azevedo. Preparation and Characterization of PET/PA6 blend composites with sugarcane bagasse ash as a filler and Joncryl as a chain extender.
Symposium C – Oral. Francielle Crocetta Turazz. Polyaniline-silica doped with oxalic acid as a novel extractor phase in thin film solid phase microextraction for determination of hormones in urine.
Symposium D – Poster. Maria Helena Lacerda de Oliveira Fung. Use of an electrolyte-gated transistor to distinguish honey from molasses.
Symposium D – Oral. Andre Oliveira Santos. Agaricus bisporus lectin/poly(methylene blue)-based photoelectrochemical biosensor for selective lactose analysis in foodstuffs.
Symposium E – Poster. Maria Eduarda Colaço Mesquita da Silva. Graphene oxide antibacterial activity for medical devices.
Symposium E – Oral. Isabela Tavares Rampim. Physico-chemical characterization of six commercial chitosan and impact on antibacterial releasing.
Symposium F – Poster. Mariana Gisbert Jardim dos Santos. CO2 reduction reaction during pulsed laser ablation of gold in water for the control of the regenerative properties of carbon monoxide rich gold nanoparticles in endothelial tissues.
Symposium F – Oral. Alessandro Ajó. siRNA controlled release from porous silicon nanoparticles coated with hyaluronic acid.
Symposium G – Poster. Daiane Fernandes. Fast Synthesis of NaNbO3 nanoparticles with high photocatalytic activity.
Symposium G – Oral. Maria Eduarda Ribeiro da Silva. Effect of relative band position between semiconductors in photoanodes dedicated to green hydrogen production: TiO2/CdTe case.
Symposium H – Poster. Rodrigo Lavareda dos Santos. Synthesis and characterization of PVA/PVDF membranes blended with LiOH.
Symposium H – Oral. Juliana Pereira da Silva. Poly(o methoxyaniline) modified by the Biphasic Ceramic System Na2Ti3O7/ Na2Ti6O13.
Symposium I – Poster. Camila Angela Gonzatti. Enzymatic catalyst for valorization of domestic food waste as a renewable feedstock.
Symposium I – Oral. Breno Luiz de Souza. Unveiling the lithium-sulfur batteries: insights from a multidimensional in-situ and operando cell.
Symposium K – Poster. João Pedro Ferreira Assunção. Ti3C2Tx-MXene dopped PMMA passivation layer for highly efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cell.
Symposium L – Poster. Roberto Turibio Ebina Kawanaka Martins. Study of optically stimulated luminescence properties of amazonite.
Symposium L – Oral. Matheus Cavalcanti dos Santos Nunes. Investigation of the Optically Stimulated Luminescence of Brazilian Alexandrite stimulated with different light sources
Symposium N – Poster. Luana Cristina Miguel Rodrigues. Wear-resistant Fe-Cr-Mo-Nb-B coating by plasma transferred arc.
Symposium N – Oral. Jéssica Bruna Ponsoni. Reversible room temperature hydrogen storage in the (Ti0.5Zr0.5)(Fe0.33Mn0.33Cr0.33)2 multicomponent alloy designed by computational thermodynamic tool.
Symposium O – Poster. Aline da Graça Sampaio. Effect of home-made non-thermal plasma jet on oral mucosal wound healing in rats undergoing chemotherapy treatment: a screening setting.
Symposium P – Poster. Jaqueline F. Rocha. Tuning the chemical and electrochemical properties of carbon paper-based electrodes by pyrolysis of polydopamine nanofilms.
Symposium P – Oral. Bruno Las-Casas Chaves. Fine-tuning cellulose nanofribils for enhanced packing performance via enzyme-assisted defibrilation packing performance via.
Symposium Q – Poster. Brenda Juliet Martins Freitas. Wear and corrosion behavior of a boron-modified duplex stainless steel produced by laser powder bed fusion.
Symposium Q – Oral. Jhonata Rafael Verza. Main parameters and challenges for producing high-quality alumina-based ceramic parts via digital light processing technique.
Symposium R – Poster. Carlos Augusto da Silva Leão. Asymetric Donor-Acceptor molecule exhibiting an efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Photophysical study.
Symposium R – Oral. Bianca de Andrade Feitosa. Unraveling Fundamentals on Organic Electrochemical Transistors Through Thermodynamics Principles.
Symposium S – Oral. Pedro Henrique de Lara Sanches. Spectroscopic studies of a composite from Eu3+-doped cellulose nanocrystals/fibroin for luminescent cholesteric film production.
Symposium U – Poster. Júlia Ketzer Majewski. Thin Flexible Films Obtained by Slot Die Coating of Water Based P3HT and P3HT:PCBM Nanoparticles.
Symposium U – Oral. Maykel dos Santos Klem. Electrodeposition of manganese oxide on paper-based laser-induced graphene for sustainable supercapacitor fabrication.
Symposium V – Poster. Gaston Lozano Calderón. Optical thermometry of tellurite glasses doped with Er3+-Yb3+ under UV and NIR excitation.
Symposium V – Oral. João Antonio Oliveira Santos. A smart nanoplatform based on upconversion nanoparticles functionalized with europium complexes for temperature sensing
Symposium X – Poster. Frederico Barros de Sousa. Optical Characterization of Vanadium Doped WS2 Monolayers with Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Ordering.
Symposium X – Oral. Flávio Henrique Feres. Graphene as a gate-tunable window for near-field imaging in the terahertz.
Symposium Y– Poster. Ana Carolina Figueiredo Prado. Microstructural evolution of castable high-alumina ceramics bonded with anionic colloidal silica.
Symposium Z – Oral. Pamela Costa Carvalho. Correlation between interfacial atomic intermixing and the formation of skyrmions.
ACS Publications Prizes
(Sponsored by journals of ACS Publications, a division of the American Chemical Society. Prizes for the best student contributions of all the event)
Symposium B – Poster. Douglas S. Rocha. SiO2/graphene oxide nanocomposite obtained from rice husk pyrolisis.
Symposium F – Poster. Mariana Gisbert Jardim dos Santos. CO2 reduction reaction during pulsed laser ablation of gold in water for the control of the regenerative properties of carbon monoxide rich gold nanoparticles in endothelial tissues.
Symposium P – Poster. Jaqueline F. Rocha. Tuning the chemical and electrochemical properties of carbon paper-based electrodes by pyrolysis of polydopamine nanofilms.
Symposium Q – Poster. Brenda Juliet Martins Freitas. Wear and corrosion behavior of a boron-modified duplex stainless steel produced by laser powder bed fusion.
Symposium X – Poster. Frederico Barros de Sousa. Optical Characterization of Vanadium Doped WS2 Monolayers with Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Ordering.
Symposium Y – Poster. Ana Carolina Figueiredo Prado. Microstructural evolution of castable high-alumina ceramics bonded with anionic colloidal silica.
Symposium A – Oral. Tatiane Pretto. Synthesizing double halide perovskites with machine learning prediction.
Symposium D – Oral. Andre Oliveira Santos. Agaricus bisporus lectin/poly(methylene blue)-based photoelectrochemical biosensor for selective lactose analysis in foodstuffs.
Symposium E – Oral. Isabela Tavares Rampim. Physico-chemical characterization of six commercial chitosan and impact on antibacterial releasing.
Symposium G – Oral. Maria Eduarda Ribeiro da Silva. Effect of relative band position between semiconductors in photoanodes dedicated to green hydrogen production: TiO2/CdTe case.
Symposium P – Oral. Bruno Las-Casas Chaves. Fine-tuning cellulose nanofribils for enhanced packing performance via enzyme-assisted defibrilation packing performance via.
Symposium X – Oral. Flávio Henrique Feres. Graphene as a gate-tunable window for near-field imaging in the terahertz.
RSC Prizes
(Sponsored by journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prizes for the best student contributions of all the event)
Symposium N – Poster. Luana Cristina Miguel Rodrigues. Wear-resistant Fe-Cr-Mo-Nb-B coating by plasma transferred arc.
Symposium A – Poster. Cléber Gomes de Jesus. Artificial neural networks applied in the catalytic process of urease and conjugated polymer thin films.
Symposium R – Oral. Bianca de Andrade Feitosa. Unraveling Fundamentals on Organic Electrochemical Transistors Through Thermodynamics Principles.
Symposium N – Oral. Jéssica Bruna Ponsoni. Reversible room temperature hydrogen storage in the (Ti0.5Zr0.5)(Fe0.33Mn0.33Cr0.33)2 multicomponent alloy designed by computational thermodynamic tool.
Symposium S – Oral. Pedro Henrique de Lara Sanches. Spectroscopic studies of a composite from Eu3+-doped cellulose nanocrystals/fibroin for luminescent cholesteric film production.
Symposium L – Oral. Matheus Cavalcanti dos Santos Nunes. Investigation of the Optically Stimulated Luminescence of Brazilian Alexandrite stimulated with different light sources.
B-MRS Newsletter. Year 10, issue 8.
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History of the B-MRS Meetings.
It took two years of dedicated planning, visiting different materials research groups all over Brazil and in continuous email discussions, for the Brazilian Materials Research Society, BMRS (named in Portuguese as SBPMat for Sociedade Brasileia de Pesquisa em Materials) to be founded on June 26 in an assembly meeting in Rio de Janeiro and over internet.
A year later, from July 7th to 10th 2002, almost 400 scientists, from 18 countries, gathered in Rio de Janeiro, at the Carlton Rio Atlantica Hotel and Convention Center, for the inaugural meeting of the Brazil MRS, with English as the official language. It is thus clear the international environment of the meeting. In fact, the foreign participants included the presidents of MRS (Alex King) and the European MRS, E-MRS (Giovani Marletta), as well as the General Secretary of the International Union of MRS, IUMRS, (Robert P. Chang). Chaired by the founding president Guillermo Solórzano (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), the program committee assembled five symposia ranging from nanostructured Materials and System to Semiconductors and polymeric thin film materials. The program included plenary sessions and a workshop on the processing of powder materials. Slightly more than 400 technical presentations were made either orally or as posters, displayed in a neighboring area of a commercial exhibition, engaging the attendees into lively discussions. The meeting emphasized international materials collaborations, which were the themes of three plenary sessions. RP Chang described his vision of a Materials World Net to complement efforts of international materials research collaborations; Adrian the Graff of the US National Science foundation, NSF, and Celso P. de Mello of Brazilian founding Agency, CNPq, described the creation of mechanisms for joint funding towards establishing , with other governmental agencies, an Inter-American Materials Collaboration Program. At the closing session the SBPMat governing body announced that, in view of the success of this conference, the society will make this meeting an annual event.
On October 26th-29th 2003 the second BMRS meeting took place also in Rio de Janeiro. The program, augmented to six symposia, covering a wider spectrum of subjects including on Nanostructured and Biomaterials II, Materials for energy conversion and environmental protection, Structural alloys for transport systems, composite and supramolecular materials, and a workshop on Semiconductors group III nitrides. High light of this meeting were two plenary sessions on international collaboration: one session in the scope of the Inter-American Collaboration Program –CIAM, with authorities of the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq and FINEP, the NSF and MRS president (also representing the US National Academy of Sciences). The event also hosted a Pan American Advanced study institute, funded by NSF, with the participation of students from Brazil, the US and other Latin American countries. The meeting also provided a commercial exhibition of products and services of interested to the community of materials researchers. With close to 500 participants and held at the Pestana Rio Atlantica Hotel Convention Center, on Copacabana beach with Rio other sights closed by, the meeting provided a wide range of opportunities for extra curriculum activities, but nevertheless held the attention of a well-engaged audience.
The proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Brazil MRS Meetings were published in two journals: Materials Characterization and Materials Research. The former selects contributions mainly concerning materials microstructure and properties. The later, a journal with a larger range of subjects, consider contributions dealing with theory, modeling, phenomenological studies and experimental papers on synthesis, processing, performance and applications of materials.
Brazil is country of continental dimensions with several options for venues to host BMRS meetings. An important defining criterion, however, is to offer an appropriate relaxing environment with hotels and convenient accommodation for students, local tourist attractions together with a ready access to an International airport. So the 3rd BMRS was held in world famous Iguassu Falls, south west of Brazil, from October 10th -13th 2004 at Hotel Bourbon Cataratas and Convention Center. The meeting consolidated the symposium model and the Program committee successfully organized a set of topics enhancing the interdisciplinary scope of materials research in 9 symposia, covering theory and frontiers on experimental research, from solid state chemistry to environmental sciences applied to materials. One workshop on Spintronics in Semiconductors was also included. Joining efforts with sister scientific societies and lead by Elson Longo (Federal University of Sao Carlos), BMRS president in this year, other well-stablished materials-related events were incorporated in this BMRS edition: the IV Brazilian Symposium on Electroceramics and a Symposium on Nano-scale structural Characterization of Materials, hosting the bi-annual MICROMAT meeting, which is a traditional event of the Brazilian Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis- SBMM. Three plenary lectures presented New Developments in Nanotechnologies (Cylon Gonçalves da Silva, General Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology- MCT, Brazil), the Atomistic Structure of Internal Interfaces (Manfred Ruhle, director Max Plank Institut, Germany) and on International Cooperation on Nanotechnologies (Dietling Jering, The European Union). The number of registered participants at this 3rd Meeting was close to 1000.
The 4th BMRS Meeting moved to Recife, an important and historical capital in the north east of Brazil, October 16th-19th 2005. The program committee, chaired by Celso P. de Mello and Anderson S.L. Gomes (Federal University of Pernambuco), successfully set up 8 symposia, all on interdisciplinary topics, including 37 invited talks by national and international scientists, 157 oral and 599 posters presentations, providing a total of 793 technical contributions, involving over 800 participants in the meeting. The opening session had as the Keynote Speaker Prof. Sérgio Rezende, the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, a world renowned materials scientist himself. Four Plenary Lectures were also delivered by international experts in different themes of materials research: Atomic-scale Defect Analysis of Ceramic Materials (Barry Carter – Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota, US), Construction of Molecular Nano-Structures and Electronic Properties (Takuji Ogawa , Center for Molecular-Scale Nanoscience, Institute of Molecular Science, IMS/Okazaki, Japan), Multifunctional Organic/Inorganic Hybrids (Luis A. Ferreira M. Dias Carlos, Department of Physics, Universidade de Aveiro. Portugal), and from High-Temperature Superconductivity to Complex Electron Systems Science (H. Takagi, Magnetic Materials Laboratory, RIKEN’S Discovery Research Institute). A well-attended roundtable discussion session was included in this year’s program, aiming at stablishing the perspectives of the materials science area in Brazil. As in previous years, the meeting also offered a commercial exhibition.
The efforts to provide the society with a professional administration structure, initiated in 2006 with Fernando Lazaro F Jr (Catholica University of Rio de Janeiro) as president of BMRS, proved to be productive regarding the communication required for the organization of the following meetings. So the 5th BMRS Meeting was successfully held at Costao do Santinho Resort and Spa in Florianopolis, a city of spectacular natural scenarios in in the south of Brazil, October 8th-12th 2006. Under the coordination o Aloisio N Klein (Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC), the program reached 13 symposia. In parallel, a well-attended commercial exhibition stimulated the attendee’s interest on experimental materials research. This 5th edition was organized jointly with the MICROMAT meeting, contributing with 4 symposia to the event overall and enriching the 1scope of topics and the key note lectures, such as the one delivered by the president of the International Federation of Microscopy Societies –IFSM (Cristian Colliex, Orsay, France) . This meeting also hosted the International Symposium on Hybrid Materials, chaired by Antony Cheetham (University of Santa Barbara, US), and the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Electroceramics, chaired by R. Muccillo (IPEN, SP) and JA Varela (UNESP, SP) As a result, a record number of 1166 submitted abstracts and a about 1000 participants proved this annual meeting to constitute the most important Brazilian conference of Materials Science and Engineering.
The following year, for the 6th edition, the meeting moved again to the North Easter region of Brazil, being held in the exuberant city of Natal at SERHS Grand Hotel and convention center, October 28th –November 1st 2007. Coordinated by Dulce M de Araujo (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte- UFRN) the program consisted of plenary lectures and 10 symposia covering a wide range of topics, ranging from nanomaterials to superconductors, including organic semiconductors, multiferroic materials, catalysis, and computational modeling of materials. The meeting had 1057 submitted abstracts nearly reaching again one thousand participants, with significant numbers of delegates from abroad, namely form Latin America and Europe. The commercial exhibition has continued to increase in number of stands and gained the name of VI Expomat.
The seventh annual Meeting was held in Guaruja, a beach resort in the state of Sao Paulo, Southeast of Brazil, at Casa Grande Hotel Resort and Spa, Praia da Enseada, September 28th – October 2nd 2008. Chaired by Aldo Craievich (University of Sao Paulo-USP) and Reginaldo Muccillo (Institute for Nuclear Energy Research-IPEN) the program offered 8 plenary lectures delivered by outstanding scientists and successfully sat up 14 symposia, including 5 symposia in partnership with MICROMAT meeting, and one microscopy pre-meeting course. With a total of 1417 submitted abstracts, the meeting reached a record of 1284 registered participants including about 700 graduate and undergraduate students! Two MRS journalist covered this meeting in loco and reported it in a 2008 issue of the MRS Bulletin.
In 2009 Rio de Janeiro hosted the International Conference of Advanced Materials, ICAM 2009, for the first time in South America, with Guillermo Solórzano (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio) and Elisa B Saitovitch (Brazilian Center for Physics Research) as chairs. ICAM is the most prestigious conference of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) and in 2009 was organized together with the 8th Brazilian MRS Meeting from 20th to 25th September 2009. Twenty eighth technical symposia, 8 plenary lectures, 2 workshops, an Energy Forum and an Exhibition composed the program. Each symposium featured invited talks, contributed oral and poster presentations. About 2000 scientists from 47 countries gathered at Windsor Convention Center in Rio, during this event. The 28 Symposia were assembled in seven major areas: Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies, Health and Biological Materials, Energy and Environment, Functional and Electronic Materials, Structural Materials, Theory and Phenomena, and General Interest. The meeting opened with an official ceremony which included address talks by the president of the Brazilin MRS, the Program Committee Chair, the Conference Chairman and Brazilian government authorities. The state ministry for Science and Technology delivered the opening lecture. All the oral presentation were delivered in English, which emphasized the international flavor of the meeting. As in previous BMRS meetings, a poster session was held each evening and a there was also an equipment exhibition. More than 1800 technical presentations were made (485 orally and 1374 posters) and the strong interdisciplinary program provoked lively discussions both in the formal sessions and informally and in the formal session. The conference also featured two workshops “Innovation in Materials Research “and “Global Nanotechnology Network” and an Energy Forum. The commercial exhibition has doubled in terms of space and number of stands.
The BMRS entering its nine year of existence, the Brazilian materials research community was accustomed to the annual meeting. From 24th – 28th October 2010 the 9th BMRS meeting takes place in Minas Gerais, an important Brazilian central state, in Ouro Preto, a patrimonial city recognized by UNESCO, at UFOP Arts and Convention Center. Chaired by Margareth Spangler Andrade (Center for Technology of Minas Gerais , CETEC – MG) and Evando Mirra de Paula e Silva (Federal University of Minas Gerais UFMG/CGEE) the event offered an interdisciplinary program of 12 Symposia and 6 plenary lectures delivered by distinguish invited speakers. With a new record of 1766 submitted abstracts, 195 presentations were delivered orally and 1456 as posters, the meeting reached a 1562 registered participants, including graduate and undergraduate students!
The 10th edition of the BMRS meeting was held in Gramado, an emblematic mountain region city in South of Brazil, at the Convection Center of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, October 25th- 29th 2011. The program and meeting committee chaired by Paulo F Fichtner and Naira M Balzaretti (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) arranged 16 symposia in a wellbalanced spectrum of subjects, 9 plenary lectures delivered by distinguished scientist from Brazil and abroad, and 3 pre-meeting courses on Advanced X ray diffraction techniques. Celebrating the occasion of the 10th meeting, BMRS president, Jose A Varela, inaugurated the “Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro Memorial Lecture” and presented an award in recognition for accomplishments serving the society to founding President Guillermo Solórzano and to former state ministry for Science and technology Sergio M Rezende. This year, numerical output continued to increase both in terms of submitted abstracts (1907) and presentations (266 oral and 1546 posters) with 1840 registered participants, stablishing a new record for a national meeting. The comercial exhibitions has become a well-established parallel event.
The BMRS meeting has then become a consolidated event in Brazil and known abroad. The symposium–base model has been successfully accepted by the local scientific community and gained increased attention. In the following years the meeting experienced a steady growth in the number of participants, as summarized in the paragraphs bellow, with no less than 20 and up to 40 different countries represented, mainly from Latin America and Europe. The meeting sites have moved year to year across the country, selected by the local arrangement committees. Highlights of the meetings are the continuous participation of renowned scientists as plenary and key note lectures on various state-of-the-art topics in Materials Science and Technologies. No less important has been the involvement of young students both in oral presentations and, more prominently, in the ebullient poster sessions. In fact, aiming at promoting and better organizing student’s participation, the Society successfully established University chapters. On the other hand, the comercial exhibitions has become a wellestablished parallel event.
The 11th BMRS meeting was held again in Florianopolis, September 23th -27th 2012, at the same venue of 2006. The meeting was chaired by Aloisio N Klein and Adre A Pasa (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and program consisted of 16 Symposia, 7 plenary lectures and a round table discussion session on science technology and innovation in Brazil. BMRS President Roberto M Faria (University of São Paulo- USP) stablished in this meeting the Bernhard Gross Award. From the 1863 abstracts submitted to this meeting, 230 were presented orally and 1460 as posters with 1708 registered participants.
The 12th BMR meeting moved to Campos to Jordão, a touristic mountain region city in Sao Paulo state, at the Convention center, September 29th- October 3rd 2013. The conference was chaired by José Alberto Giacometti (University of Sao Paulo, USP) and Julio R Sambrano (Faculty of Sciences, UNESP); and the program featured 16 symposia, an opening lecture, 7 plenary lectures, a round table discussion session on Science, Engineering of Industrial, Electronic and Biomedical Devices, a Humboldt Kolleg 2013 – Science & Technology in Contemporary Life: Impacts and Horizons and a “Bernhard Gross Award” Closing ceremony. The number of submitted abstract was 1835, of which 215 presented orally and 1547 as posters with 1679 registered participants.
On September 28- October 2 nd 2014, the 13th BMRS meeting moved back to Northeast Brazil, being held in the historical city of João Pessoa, and capital of Paraiba state, at the Convention Center. The meeting was chaired by Ieda M Garcia dos Santos (Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Paraiba, UFPB) and Severino J Guedes de Lima (Department of Mechanical Engineering, UFPB) and the program featured 19 symposia, including International Symposium Cementitious Materials (ICSM-2014), an opening lecture, 7 plenary lectures and the Bernhard Gross Award” Closing ceremony. The submitted posters reached the record number of 2528, enabling 294 oral presentations and 1800 as posters with 2148 register participants, including 1652 effective attendees.
The 14th BMRS meeting was held again in Rio de Janeiro, at the Sul America Convention Center, September 27th – October 1st, 2015. The meeting chairs Marco Cremona (Department of Physics, PUC-Rio) and Fernando Lazaro F. Jr (Brazilian Center for Physics Research, CBPF) assembled a program of 27 symposia, an opening session/memorial lecture, 7 plenary lectures and 2 workshops, one on Nanofabrication and innovating manufacturing technologies and the other on Organic/Thin films Electronics in Industry and Processes, and a Closing ceremony awards presentation session. The 27 symposia were organized in 7 major groups: Nanomaterials and Synthesis, Theory Characterization and Modelling, Electronics and Photonics, Energy and Sustainability (which included the 8th International Summit on Organic and Hybrid Solar Cell Stability (ISOS-8), Biomaterials and Soft Materials, and New Horizons in Materials Science. A new record was established in terms of submitted abstracts: 1607 and in terms of presentations: 373 orally and 1880 as posters, with 1987 registered participants including 1400 attendees.
In spite of the economic situation affecting Brazil since the last decade, BMRS president Oswaldo N de Oliveira Jr (University of Sao Paulo USP) and his team were successful in maintaining the impetus and quality of the society’s well- stablished activities. For the 15th Edition the BMRS annual meeting stayed in the South East of Brazil, in Campinas, a technological hub city in the state of Sao Paulo, 25th – 29th September 2016, at the Expo Dom Pedro Convention Center. Chaired by Ana Flavia Nogueira (Institute of Chemistry, Unicamp) and Monica A Cotta (institute of Physics, Unicamp) the meeting program features 23 symposia, an opening session/memorial lecture, 5 plenary lectures, 3 meeting panels, one workshops (school of scientists and hands on tutorial), and a Closing ceremony. From the 2133 abstract submitted, 276 were presented orally and 1567 as posters with 1768 registered participants and 1416 effectively attending.
The 16th BMRS meeting moved again to Gramado, at FAURGS, September 10th – 14th 2017, chaired by Daniel E Weibel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul- UFRGS). Keeping up with the previous meetings, this edition programmed 23 symposia, one workshop (Young researches school: how to produce and publish high impact papers), an opening ceremony/memorial lecture and a closing ceremony. From the 2029 abstract submitted, 345 were presented orally and 1487 as posters with 1507 registered participants and 1275 attendees form about 20 countries.
As venue for the 17th BMRS meeting the city of Natal in the northeast Brazil was chosen for the second time. The event took place at the Praiamar Natal Hotel and convention center, September 10th -14th 2018. Chaired by Antonio E Martinelli (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte) the meeting featured 21 symposia, one workshop (reedition of the successful Young researchers’ school), an opening ceremony/memorial lecture, 8 plenary lectures and the closing ceremony. From the 1743 abstract submitted, 343 were presented orally and 1256 as posters with 1861 registered participants and 1071 effective attendees.
The 18th annual Meeting was held in Camburiu, a beach resort city in the southern state of Santa Catarina, September 22th – 28th 2019. The meeting, chaired by Ivan H Bechtold (Department of Physics, Federal University of Santa Catarina–UFSC) and Hugo Gallardo (Department of Chemistry, UFSC) assembled a program constituted of 23 symposia, an opening ceremony/memorial lecture, 8 plenary lectures, a pre-meeting workshop and the closing ceremony. The 23 Symposia were organized in 5 major groups: Bio-related Materials and Applications, Materials Properties and Emerging Technologies, Materials Characterization and Degradation, Materials Synthesis and Processing, Nanostructured and Functional materials. The number of submitted abstracts stablished a new record of 2616 as well as the 467 oral presentations and 1868 posters, with 1987 register participants including 1686 attendees.
The 19th BMRS meeting, planned to be held in Foz de Iguazu in 2020, did not take place because of the pandemic year. So it was postponed and held virtually from August 30th to September 3rd 2021 together with the 2021 International Conference on Electronic Materials – IUMRS ICEM 2021. The meeting chairs Gustavo M Dalpian (Federal University of ABC) and Carlos C B Bufon (National Nanotechnology Laboratory) were successful in setting up a full program consisting on 23 symposia, an opening ceremony /memorial lecture, 9 plenary lectures and a Closing ng ceremony awards presentation, besides a pre-meeting school (Young researchers), a workshop (Women in Science) and a parallel virtual exhibition. In addition, a discussion on CBAN- BrazilArgentina Nanotechnology Center was stablished. From the 1003 abstract submitted, 304 were presented orally and 706 as posters with 1307 registered participants including 1038 effective attendees.
In summary, over the past two decades the Brazilian MRS meeting has grown steadily and consolidated as the major interdisciplinary meeting of Materials Science, Technology and Engineering in Brazil. It has reach a reputation that transcends country borders, is continuously attracting international participation, mainly from Latin America, USA and European countries, consolidated as the second Materials Research Meeting in the Americas and perhaps as number 3 in the western hemisphere. The merit of this success is due to the enthusiastic involvement of volunteer society members led by competent and dedicated Brazil MRS executives, with the effective assistance of a small and committed BMRS staff and the electronic and data processing Aptor system, over the years. The continuous support of (older) sister societies MRS and E-MRS as well of IUMRS have provided additional incentive. Recognition for the financial support received periodically from the Federal funding agencies MCT, CNPq, FINEP and CAPES, as well as from the State funding agencies namely FAPESP and FAPERJ for financing part of the infrastructure and granting the students participation. Other state agencies such as FAPEMIG, FAPERGS, and FAPESC have also contributed to local arrangements in their states. On the other hand, the partnership established with the commercial exhibitors, in enriching the success of the meetings, is also acknowledged.
Guillermo Solórzano
Brazilian MRS founding President
Rio de Janeiro, February 2022.
B-MRS Newsletter. Year 10, issue 7.
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(Português) Edital SBPMat – Programa University Chapters (UCs) 2023: Materiais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável.
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