The PhD student Aylanna Priscila Marques de Araújo, supervised by Prof. Dr. Piter Gargarella, was awarded for the best oral presentation in the 22º Symposium in Materials Science and Engineering (SICEM) that was held online on October 19-23 2020.
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The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) was accredited as a unit of the Brazilian Company for Industrial Research and Innovation (EMBRAPII). EMBRAPII UFSCar will carry-out RD&I in Sustainable Materials and Processes with the participation of PPGCEM.
On Friday afternoon (October 25th, 2019), a Cooperation Agreement was signed between UFSCar and the University of Calgary (Canada) which will provide teachers from both Universities with the institutionalization of partnerships.
A program whose master's degree was created in 1979, is celebrating its 40th anniversary with an eye towards the future.
The student Matheus Colovati Saccardo received the award for the 3rd best poster presentation in the master's category at the 15th Brazilian Polymer Congress.
The student Cristie Luis Kugelmeier received the Bernhard Gross award for the best oral presentation at the symposium “Advances in steel metallurgy and applications” of the XVIII Congress of the Brazilian Society for Research in Materials (SBPMat).
Professor Sebastião V. Canevarolo Jr. published a new book “Polymer Science: A Textbook for Engineers and Technologists”. The book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals in the areas of engineering and exact sciences.
Professor Luiz Antonio Pessan received the ABPol Professor Eloisa Mano Award granted by the Brazilian Polymer Association (ABPol) and delivered at the 15th Brazilian Polymer Congress (15 CBPol), held from 27 to 31 October, 2019, in Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil.
Prof. Leonardo Bresciani Canto was the Scientific Coordinator of the 15th Brazilian Polymer Conference (15 CBPol) held in Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil, from October 27 to 31, 2019.
Pedro Ivo Batistel Galiote Brossi Pelissari, a PhD student graduated from PPGCEM, supervised by Prof. Dr. Victor Carlos Pandolfelli and Prof. Dr. André Rocha Studart (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) received an Honorable Mention from the CAPES Prize for Thesis 2020 in the area of ENGINEERING II.
Prof. Dr. Edgar Dutra Zanotto from DEMa/PPGCEM is in the top 25 most cited Brazilian authors in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) database from 1996 to 2019.
Prof. Edgar Dutra Zanotto from DEMa/PPGCEM is one of the new advisory editors of the Papers in Physics journal (eISSN 1852-4249).
Prof. Dr. Victor Carlos Pandolfelli received the the São Carlos Science-Technology Award 2020 in the Senior Researcher category.
Ana Maria Borges Honorato, supervised by Prof. Dr. Luiz Antonio Pessan, held on 11/02/2020 the first thesis defense of the Dual Degree PhD Program with the Case Western Reserve University, CWRU, USA, funded by CAPES.
Tiago dos Santos Junior, supervised by Prof. Dr. Victor Carlos Pandolfelli, won the national stage of the Young Persons' Lecture Competition in 2019 and represented Brazil in the Young Persons' World Lecture Competition in the same year, in London (UK).
Dr. Danielle Cristina Camilo Magalhães, post-doctoral student with a PhD from PPGCEM, obtained the 1st place in the “Optical Microscopy” category and the doctorate student Renato Belli Strozi obtained the 3rd place in the “Electron Microscopy” category.
In the 2019 report of the JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS (JNCS), recent articles from the Laboratory of Vitreous Materials of DEMa - UFSCar appear with great prominence.
The paper entitled “On the nonlinear behavior of Young´s modulus of carbon-bonded alumina at high temperatures” by Bruno Luchini, Victor C. Pandolfelli and co-authors published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society received the Alfred W. Allen 2021 award from the American Ceramic Society for the best publication in 2018-2020 in the area of ceramic materials for high temperature application.
Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia, journals of excellence in the field of materials and metallurgy, annually choose a list of reviewers who have contributed with most significant reviews with a certificate and $ 200 US dollars. Professor Francisco Gil Coury from DEMa / UFSCar was one of the 2021 recipients for the reviews performed in 2020.
The research group headed by Prof. Edgar Dutra Zanotto, coordinator of the Laboratory of Vitreous Materials (LaMaV) at UFSCar and the Center for Research, Education and Innovation in Glasses (CeRTEV), produced using artificial intelligence techniques two novel glass compositions with properties suitable for manufacturing of lenses for computer cameras and cell phones.