Award-winning students during the SBPMat meeting in Salvador (BA). Photo: B-MRS Meeting
Students and researchers from all areas of materials research gathered from September 28 to October 2 in Salvador, Bahia for the annual meeting of the Brazilian Materials Research Society (SBPMat). The event featured an extensive scientific program, with institutional support from the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) and active participation by a number of its collaborators.
The SBPMat meeting included presentations of more than 1900 posters, seven short courses, seven plenary sessions and 22 symposia. Many of the scientific debates were distributed across the thematic symposia, which were organized by professionals invited from various institutions and designed to group relevant work on topics such as nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, renewable materials and new energy sources. Rafael Furlan de Oliveira, head of LNNano’s Devices division, was one of these coordinators for the symposium on devices and sensors, under the title of “Molecular and Polymer-based Materials and Devices for Next-generation Organic Electronics and Bioelectronics.”
Many researchers and undergraduate and graduate students working in CNPEM’s research units took part in the poster and oral communication sessions throughout the event, presenting their scientific work.
During the closing ceremony on October 2, six prizes were awarded to four students with links to CNPEM for the best papers in their respective sessions, in the Oral Communication and Poster modalities. The Bernhard Gross Award is presented by SBPMat, while two other awards are offered in partnership with the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Three graduates of the Ilum School of Science graduates were awarded the Bernhard Gross Award at this year’s event:
- Rafaella Tamyres Siqueira Gonçalves, who won best poster for the Bernhard Gross and ACS Awards with her project entitled “Exploring hollow carbon spheres and molybdenum disulfide supported on pyrolized paper for green hydrogen generation and storage.”
- Gabriel Xavier Pereira, winner of best poster for his work “Halide ‘perovskenes’: a study on mechanical and thermodynamic stability of these emergent materials.”
- Pedro Henrique Machado Zanineli, recognized for best oral communication with his project “Advances in understanding the complex dynamics of (nano)ceramics with machine learning interatomic potentials.”
In addition to the Ilum alumni, Guilherme Boenny Strapasson, a PhD student in chemistry at UNICAMP who is associated with the Paineira group at LNLS, was awarded the Bernhard Gross and ACS Awards for best oral communication for his work entitled “Tuning the exsolution of multimetallic particles from high-entropy oxides.”
CNPEM participated with an institutional exhibition stand during the event. Photo: B-MRS Meeting
CNPEM was a supporter of the event and had a stand promoting the institution where participants could learn more about the user program, details about the research infrastructures available for use by the scientific community and companies, and sign up for the mailing list to receive news about CNPEM and its infrastructure, the calendar with calls for proposals using the open facilities, scientific events, and various opportunities. You can also sign up for our newsletter here.
About the event
The 23rd SBPMat, the meeting of the Brazilian Materials Research Society, united 2100 participants from 25 Brazilian states and 36 other countries. This traditional meeting is dedicated discussing to recent advances and future prospects for materials science and related technologies. The event is an excellent opportunity to bring together scientists, engineers and students from academia and the productive sector to discuss the state of the art and discoveries in this area.
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).
