Papers by the materials community in the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

AABCSeven scientific articles on topics in the area of materials are part of the latest volume of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (AABC). This is the result of the AABC call for articles in 2018, made in partnership with B-MRS, with the theme “Materials Sciences for a Better Future”. “This was a great opportunity to celebrate the success of materials research in Brazil,” says Professor Frank Crespilho, associate editor of AABC. To participate in the call, the authors submitted their work through the journal’s website at SciELO (an electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals).

AABC publishes scientific articles from all fields of knowledge, and Materials Science and Technology works are welcome in all editions. AABC publications are free of cost to authors and open access. More information for authors can be found at http://www.scielo.br/revistas/aabc/iinstruc.htm.

According to the president of B-MRS, Professor Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior, the growing importance of materials research has been revealed in major technological advances in all areas. In this context, B-MRS has played the role of bringing together students and researchers from Brazil, and their collaborators from other countries. “The partnership with the Brazilian Academy of Sciences is an important milestone of this performance of B-MRS, consolidated with this series of articles published in the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences,” says the president of B-MRS. “The quality of the articles and variety of topics in this edition of the Annals are representative of the strength of the materials research community in Brazil,” he adds.

Published articles can be accessed free of charge (open access) in volume 91, number 4 of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Following is the list of articles on topics in the area of Materials published in this issue of the magazine:

B-MRS Newsletter. Year 6, issue 8.

 

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Newsletter of the
Brazilian Materials
Research Society

Year 6, issue 8. September 9, 2019.

Featured Paper

Scientists from Brazil have discovered a potent anti-inflammatory effect on manganese-doped zinc germanate nanorods. In addition, the scientific team optimized the synthesis process of nanorods, reducing its duration to a few minutes. Nanostructures are promising for drug development. The work was recently published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Know more.

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From Idea to Innovation

Ready to launch nanotechnology-based cosmetics, Nanomed has been active since 2012 in the development of nano-scale technologies focused on the health and wellness segments (notably, nanocapsules that protect and deliver substances of interest). Learn more about Nanomed and its founder, here.

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News from B-MRS Members

– B-MRS member Bartolomeu Cruz Viana Neto (UFPI) has just been certified as an affiliate member of a regional unit of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC). See ABC article about the researcher, here.

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XVIII B-MRS Meeting/ Encontro da SBPMat
(Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, September 22 – 26, 2019)

Website: www.sbpmat.org.br/18encontro/

Registration. Online registration, here.

Pre-event tutorial for participants. Professor Valtencir Zucolotto (USP) will offer the Young Researchers School: How to Produce and Publish High Impact Papers for the event participants, free of charge. The tutorial will take place on September 22 from 13:00 to 17:00 at Sibara Hotel.

Technical lectures. Within the program of the event, companies in the field of scientific instrumentation will offer 13 technical lectures, 20 minutes each, on techniques and equipment for characterization of materials. See schedule.

Program. The program of the event “at a glance” is online, showing technical and social activities and the distribution of oral and poster sessions. See here. Full program, with all presentations by symposium, is also online. See here.

Posters printing service. The poster file can be sent by email and later pick up the impression at the event location. Know more.

Venue. The meeting will be held in the delightful Balneário Camboriú at two hotels located 300 meters apart: Hotel Sibara Flat & Conventions and, for oral sessions of symposia K, M, S and U, the Mercure Camboriu Hotel. The venues are located in the center of the city, close to many hotels, restaurants and shops, and some meters from the sea. See map here.

Opening ceremony venue. The opening ceremony, the memorial lecture and the welcome cocktail will be held on September 22 (Sunday) at the Cristo Luz complex, one of the main tourist attractions in the city. There will be transportation to the venue, leaving the Hotel Sibara from 17:00 on. See Cristo Luz complex here.

Memorial Lecture. The traditional Memorial Lecture Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro will be given by Professor Yvonne Primerano Mascarenhas (IFSC – USP). Know more about the speaker, here.

Event party. The party will be held in the lounge of the Green Valley, a prominent nightclub. Learn more about Green Valley, here. The party will feature the striking Brothers band. Watch the Brothers, here. Tickets for the party are limited and will be sold at R$ 20 at the event secretariat from Monday on.

Host city. Balneário Camboriú (SC) is an important tourist destination that offers urban and wild beaches, ecotourism and adventure sports, boat trips, bicycles and cable cars – all within a unique landscape that combines mountains, sea and skyscrapers. The visitor has access to many options of gastronomy, lodging and shopping, as well as the bustling nightlife that stands out in the Brazilian scenario.

Lodging, tickets, transfers etc. Check the hotel options and the official travel agency of the event, here.

Plenary lectures. Leading scientists from institutions in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States will deliver plenary talks on cutting-edge issues at the event. There will also be a plenary session by the Brazilian scientist Antônio José Roque da Silva, director of CNPEM and the Sirius project (new Synchrotron Light Lab). Learn more about the plenary sessions, here.

Symposia. 23 symposia proposed by the international scientific community compose this edition of the event. See the symposia list, here.

Organization. The chair of the event is Professor Ivan Helmuth Bechtold (Physics Department of UFSC) and the co-chair is Professor Hugo Gallardo (Department of Chemistry of UFSC). The program committee is formed by professors Iêda dos Santos (UFPB), José Antônio Eiras (UFSCar), Marta Rosso Dotto (UFSC) and Mônica Cotta (Unicamp). Get to know all the organizers, here.

Exhibitors and sponsors. 50 sponsors and supporters participate in the event with interesting activities and actions.

More details coming soon in B-MRS next newsletter and social media.

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XIX B-MRS Meeting + IUMRS ICEM 2020
(Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, August 30 – September 3, 2020)

Website: www.sbpmat.org.br/19encontro/

Joint event. The event will bring together the 19th edition of B-MRS’s annual meeting and the 17th edition of the International Conference on Electronic Materials organized every two years by the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS).

Call of symposia. B-MRS and IUMRS invite the international scientific community to submit symposium proposals by October 31, 2019. Learn more.

Organization. Professor Gustavo Martini Dalpian (UFABC) is the general coordinator, Carlos Cesar Bof Bufon (LNNANO) is the program coordinator and Flavio Leandro de Souza (UFABC) is the general secretary. At the international committee, the event features scientists from America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Learn more at the event website.

Plenaries. Five internationally prominent scientists have already confirmed their presence as speakers at the event. Learn more at the event website.

Exhibitors and sponsors. Companies and other entities interested in attending the event as exhibitors, sponsors or supporters can contact Alexandre through the e-mail comercial@sbpmat.org.br.

Reading Tips

– In celebration of the XVIII B-MRS Meeting, the Royal Society of Chemistry prepared a collection of articles by Brazilian authors published between 2017 and 2019. Learn more.

– Scientists make ferroelectric a paraelectric material for a few picoseconds by applying light pulses at THz frequencies, opening up possibilities for developing ultrafast reconfiguration devices (Science paper). Know more.

– OLEDs: Scientists innovate by combining thick layers of perovskites with organic films into material that can be used to develop new generation of screens and lamps (Nature paper). Know more.

– Scientists can make gold sheets only two atoms thick and show that they are catalysts ten times more efficient than nanoparticles. Synthesis method opens possibilities for 2D versions of other metals (Advanced Science paper). Know more. Know more.

– Researchers develop injectable liquid that turns into gel and can be used to make medical procedures such as polyp removal during colonoscopy easier and safer (Advanced Science paper). Know more.

– Scientists can flatten conjugated polymer molecules, which tend to bend, thereby increasing their ability to conduct electricity (Science Advances paper). Know more.

– Impact factors 2018: results from Royal Society of Chemistry journals. Know more.

– Research conducted by scientists from Brazil shows strong action against fungi and tumors of a material obtained by irradiation of silver tungstate (paper from Scientific Reports). Know more.

Opportunities

Postdoctoral fellowship at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Know more.

Events

R2B Research to Business Itália-Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). September 19, 2019. Site.

XVIII B-MRS Meeting. Balneário Camboriú, SC (Brazil). September 22 – 26, 2019. Site.

XL CBRAVIC (Brazilian Congress on Vacuum Applications in Industry and Science). October 7 – 11, 2019. Site.

2° Encontro – Fronteiras Tecnológicas em Engenharia. Lorena, SP (Brazil). October 9 – 10, 2019. Site.

XII Brazilian Symposium on Glass and Related Materials. Lavras, MG (Brazil). October 22 – 25, 2019. Site.

19th Brazilian Workshop on Semiconductor Physics. Fortaleza, CE (Brazil). November 18 – 22, 2019. Site.

XIX B-MRS Meeting and 2020 IUMRS ICEM (International Conference on Electronic Materials). Foz do Iguaçu, PR (Brazil). August 30 – September 3, 2020. Site.

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B-MRS members are co-authors of an article that is among the most read 100 papers of Scientific Reports in 2018 in the area of materials.

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Professor Elson Longo (CDMF-UFSCar), founding member and former president of B-MRS, is the corresponding author of an article that appears in the Top 100 2018 ranking of the journal Scientific Reports in the area of Materials Science. The ranking highlights the most read articles in 2018, among those published that year in the journal of the Nature group. The paper was published on January 30, 2018 and received 1,042 views throughout the year.

Entitled Towards the scale-up of the formation of nanoparticles on alpha-Ag2WO4 with bactericidal properties by femtosecond laser irradiation, the article is signed by eleven authors, six of them from Brazilian institutions, including the researcher Camila Cristina de Foggi (UNESP), who is also a B-MRS member.

The work proposes a new process to produce bactericidal nanocomposites based on silver nanoparticles and semiconductor materials. The method increases 32 times the bactericidal action of the nanocomposite and, at the same time, generates a new class of spherical nanoparticles.

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B-MRS Newsletter. Year 5, issue 8.

 

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Newsletter of the
Brazilian Materials
Research Society

Year 5, issue 8. September 5, 2018.

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Message from the chair

Dear speakers and panelists,

I take advantage of the forthcoming 17th Annual B-MRS Meeting to welcome, on behalf of the Society and the Organizing Committee of the event, all the participants. From September 16 to September 20, the city of Natal will welcome you with open arms for a journey of technical and scientific dissemination and exchange of experiences.

With the active participation of the community, we have prepared a multidisciplinary, diverse and comprehensive program. We thank the 76 members of the community who organized the 21 symposia of the meeting, divided into 6 major thematic areas. In addition, we will have 1 workshop and 1 challenge proposed by Boeing. The programming of the meeting is composed of 1,666 submissions, resulting from the work of 4,617 authors, reported and approved by 185 reviewers. Approximately 1,000 participants have already confirmed their presence. This is the breadth and strength of our community, whose resilience allowed the 17th Meeting to take shape, even in a period of enormous challenges regarding the promotion of research in the country.

During the meeting, 8 plenary lectures will be presented. There will be two daily lectures, given by internationally renowned researchers, specialists in frontier issues in Materials Science and Engineering.

To mark the opening of the meeting, we have prepared a pleasant cultural and social program. But, the highlight of the night will undoubtedly be the memorial lecture of Prof. Fernando Galembeck, who needs no further introduction. Wednesday night will hold a separate attraction, a party embellished by the sea breeze. The closing ceremony will feature the awards of B-MRS and ACS Publications for the best student works.

Last but not least, I would like to thank B-MRS’s confidence in choosing Natal as the venue for its 17th meeting, the support of our sponsors and the administration of UFRN, the incessant and hard – but very enjoyable work done by the local support team, composed by UFRN students, and by the tireless and competent performance of the B-MRS team.

I look forward to your presence. It will be a pleasure to meet you in Natal.

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Prof. A. E. Martinelli, chair

Useful information

Registrations. Registrations remain open until the last day of the event. You can join or renew the B-MRS membership during the event’s registration and enjoy the registration with special price for members. Attention: The event registration fee + B-MRS annuity is less than the cost of the event registration for non-members. See here.

Program at a glance. See here.

Detailed program, by symposium. See here.

Poster printing service. You can e-mail the file and, during the event, take the printed poster at the convention center. Know more.

Lodging, transfer and tours. See options of the event’s official tourist agency, Harabello, here.

Venue. The event will be held in the convention center of Hotel Praiamar, located a few meters from the famous beach of Ponta Negra. See adress and Google Map, here.

App of the event. Users can access the event program, create a personal agenda with the presentations that interest them, send questions to the speakers, access the abstracts of the posters capturing their QR code and more. The final version of the event app will soon be available in Apple and Google app stores (name: XVII B-MRS Meeting). Also, it will be available from a link on the event website.

FAPESP Collective support. For the participants included in the FAPESP collective support, there is some important information, here.

Organizers. Meet the organization committee, here.

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Program highlights

Sunday, the 16th, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Workshop. Professor Valtencir Zucolotto (IFSC/USP, Brazil) will conduct a tutorial on the production and publication of scientific articles. After a break, Elsevier professionals will talk about diversity and inclusion of young scientists, and about dissemination of published articles. Those enrolled in the event can participate in this workshop at no additional cost, but must reserve a place in advance in the form used to register for the meeting.

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Sunday, the 16th, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Opening of the event and memorial lecture. The Memorial Lecture “Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro”, a distinction awarded by B-MRS to outstanding senior researchers, will be delivered by Professor Fernando Galembeck (Unicamp, Brazil), who will talk about “Materials for a better future”. Learn more about Prof. Galembeck, here.

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Sunday, the 16th, 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Welcome cocktail with a musical presentation.

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Monday, the 17th, 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Plenary lecture. Junbai Li, Professor at the Institute of Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of Colloids & Surfaces, will speak about nanomaterials with biomedical applications based on self-assembled amino acids. Learn more about the speaker and the lecture, here.

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Monday, the 17th, 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Plenary lecture. Christian Polak, Director of the Department for Rapid Solidification Technology at Vacuumschmelze (Germany) will speak about nanocrystalline magnetic materials and their applications, especially in the miniaturized electronics segment. Learn more about the speaker and the lecture, here.

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Tuesday, the 18th, 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Plenary lecture. Heinz von Seggern, Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) and former principal investigator at Bell Labs and Siemens Research Center, will talk about applications of organic polymers, from electret microphones to energy harvesters.

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Tuesday, the 18th, 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Plenary lecture. Bernhard Keimer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany) will talk about the study of collective electron behaviors using spectroscopic analyses of nanometric structures composed of various materials. Learn more about the speaker and the lecture, here.

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Wednesday, the 19th, 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Plenary lecture. Carlos F. O. Graeff, pro-Rector of Research at UNESP (Brazil) and Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of that university, will give a comprehensive lecture on photovoltaic energy – from the principles of operation to the application perspectives. Learn more about the speaker and the lecture, here.

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Wednesday, the 19th, 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Plenary lecture. You-Lo Hsieh, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis and UC Berkeley (USA), will speak about biomass processing strategies to generate new nanomaterials with various applications. Learn more about the speaker and the lecture, here.

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Thursday, the 20th, 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Plenary lecture. Pietro Matricardi, Professor at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) will speak about polysaccharide hydrogels – their preparation and applications in biomedicine, mainly as controlled drug delivery systems. Learn more about the speaker and the lecture, here.

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Thursday, the 20th, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Plenary lecture. Joan Ramón Morante Lleonart, Director of the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Professor at the University of Barcelona and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physics D will talk about scientific efforts to make “circular carbon economy” real. He will specifically address the development of new catalytic materials. Learn more about the speaker and the lecture, here.

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Exhibitors. There will be booths representing 20 companies and 1 institution: Boeing, Bruker, Horiba, Tescan, Agilent Technologies, Altmann, Analítica, Anton Paar, Avaco, dp Union, Fischer, Jeol, MBraun, Metrohm, Netzsch, Quantum Design International, Renishaw, Tech Scientific, ThermoFisher, Zeiss e UFRN.

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Tuesday, the 18th, and Wednesday, the 19th, at lunchtime. Technology Challenge for Students. Boeing Challenge “Materials and aerospace manufacturing for the next century”. Learn about this activity and how to participate, here.

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Wednesday, the 19th, morning and afternoon. Technical lectures by exhibitors. Ten technical lectures, offered by scientific instrumentation companies, will address the advances and new applications of various characterization techniques, as well as innovations in laboratory equipment. See the data of the lectures, here.

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Wednesday, the 19th, 9 pm. Conference Party. The party will be by the sea, at the Imirá Plaza Hotel & Convention and will be sponsored by ACS Publications scientific journals. Tickets, limited to 400 people, will be sold at the event venue (secretariat office) starting Monday, the 17th. Cost: R$ 20,00. Know more.

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Thursday, the 20th, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Students awards and closing ceremony. The works of students selected for the Bernhard Gross Award (B-MRS) and the ACS Publication Prizes will be announced. Prizes will only be awarded to the winners who are in attendance at the ceremony. Know more.

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News from B-MRS Members

Professor Monica A. Cotta (Unicamp), director of B-MRS, is associate editor of ACS Applied Nano Materials. The journal was released earlier this year. Know more.

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Professors Edgar Dutra Zanotto (UFSCar) and Elson Longo da Silva (UFSCar and Unesp), founding members of B-MRS, are included in the list of new recipients of the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit.

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The Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (AABC) in partnership with the Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS) will launch the special volume “Materials Sciences for a Better Future”.

aabc-sbpmatAccording to the editor, Frank Crespilho, professor at the São Carlos Institute of Chemistry (IQSC) at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a B-MRS member, this is a great opportunity to celebrate the success of Brazilian research in the area of Materials. Crespilho adds that the theme of the special event is in tune with the title of the memorial lecture that professor Fernando Galembeck will deliver at the XVII B-MRS Meeting, an event to be held at Praiamar Natal Hotel in Natal (Brazil), from September 16 to 20 of 2018. Furthermore, this special volume is part of the continuation of the centenary celebrations of the Academy.

SBPMat members and other researchers are invited to submit their full original works through the SciELO journal’s website, from August 9 to November 9, 2018, indicating in the submission and Cover Letter their participation in the special volume.

AABC publications have no cost to authors and can be accessed freely. The AABC have been engaged in the publication of special volumes, covering all areas of science. Recently, the journal has published articles for the special “Brazil: Frontiers of Chemical Sciences,” which can be freely accessed at: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=0001-376520180002&lng=en&nrm=iso.

B-MRS at the annual meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC).

From the left, Marcos Pimenta, Glaura Goulart Silva (scientific director of SBPMat) and Aldo Zarbin in the panel on carbon nanostructures at the 60th Annual SBPC Meeting.
From the left, Marcos Pimenta, Glaura Goulart Silva (scientific director of SBPMat) and Aldo Zarbin in the panel on carbon nanostructures at the 60th Annual SBPC Meeting.

The Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS) was present at the 69th Annual Meeting of the SBPC  (Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science), represented by one of its board members, Professor Glaura Goulart Silva (UFMG). A free event and open to society, the annual SBPC meeting has been held since 1948 in public universities in different Brazilian states. This year, the meeting was held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Belo Horizonte (state of Minas Gerais), from July 16 to 22, with the central theme “Innovation –Diversity – Transformations.”

“The 69th Annual SBPC Meeting was an area of resistance to the dismantling of science and technology in Brazil,” declared B-MRS scientific director, Goulart Silva. “The Brazilian community actively involved in science, of all ages, origins and functions, has united in a clear message: science and education are investments, it is on this basis that we can build a future for our people,” she said.

As part of the event’s program, Professor Goulart Silva participated in the roundtable “Carbon Nanostructures: The Next Technological Revolution?” which took place on July 17 from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The other members of the roundtable were Professor Aldo Zarbin (UFPR), President of the Brazilian Society of Chemistry (SBQ), and Professor Marcos Pimenta (UFMG), coordinator of the INCT of Carbon Nanomaterials and of the Center for Nanomaterials (CTNano), of which Professor Goulart Silva is vice-coordinator.

Carbon nanomaterials, their structure, properties and applications were presented at the roundtable, which had a large audience and many questions raised, focusing on their potential to contribute to various technological areas. “We discussed how nanotechnology can impact a new technological era that has sustainability as a fundamental requirement,” informed the scientific director of SBPMat. “The members and participants of the roundtable expounded on a joint vision that a wide range of nanomaterials will occupy relevant spaces in future technologies. Not only carbon nanomaterials, but also that carbon nanotubes and graphene are indisputably very important systems in this set,” she says.

According to Goulart Silva, all participants in the session emphasized the need for investments in science and technology in Brazil, so that the advances made in areas such as nanotechnology continue.