Five students from Ilum School of Science gave a presentation at the AFM Workshop, an event organized by CNPEM (Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials) which aims to promote an introduction to scanning probe microscopy techniques, their different applications, as well as technology updates in this area.
In a presentation entitled “Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) in undergraduate studies”, First-year students Brenda Laube Abrunhosa, Edelio Gabriel Magalhães de Jesus, Luiza Davoli, Sarah Santos Silva, and Vitor Araujo Bairral, with the assistance of laboratory analyst Alessandro de Souza Morato, spoke about how these advanced materials characterization techniques are used in the context of first-year undergraduate studies. Students showed the results obtained in their subjects and explained how these techniques work. At the end, the young students also gave a brief explanation about Ilum and the Bachelor’s degree in Science and Technology offered by the School.
Postgraduate students, researchers, technicians and professionals involved in research, teaching, and innovation took part in the meeting. They had the opportunity to learn about the versatility of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques, especially those made available by CNPEM to the scientific community in its open facilities.
About the Ilum School of Science
Ilum offers a free undergraduate degree program that utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to train scientists and professionals in science and technology. With an innovative educational model, the three-year full-time bachelor program offers courses that connect life sciences, materials science, data science, artificial intelligence, and the humanities in order to prepare researchers to work in an ethical and collaborative manner in the search for solutions to the global challenges of the twenty-first century. The Ilum School of Science is funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and is part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas, São Paulo, a social organization overseen by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI). Ilum's educational mission offers early contact with experimental activities, in teaching labs at the school as well as at CNPEM, in projects carried out together with researchers.
About CNPEM
The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) is home to a state-of-the-art, multi-user and multidisciplinary scientific environment and works on different fronts within the Brazilian National System for Science, Technology and Innovation. A social organization overseen by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), CNPEM is driven by research that impacts the areas of health, energy, renewable materials, and sustainability. It is responsible for Sirius, the largest assembly of scientific equipment constructed in the country, and is currently constructing Project Orion, a laboratory complex for advanced pathogen research. Highly specialized science and engineering teams, sophisticated infrastructure open to the scientific community, strategic lines of investigation, innovative projects involving the productive sector, and training for researchers and students are the pillars of this institution that is unique in Brazil and able to serve as a bridge between knowledge and innovation. CNPEM’s research and development activities are carried out through its four National Laboratories: Synchrotron Light (LNLS), Biosciences (LNBio), Nanotechnology (LNNano), Biorenewables (LNBR), as well as its Technology Unit (DAT) and the Ilum School of Science — an undergraduate program in Science and Technology supported by the Ministry of Education (MEC).
