Laboratory of Surface Treatments

Student Antonio Augusto Cipriani, from the Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering program, defended his undergraduate theses titled “Estudo do desenvolvimento e avaliação de desempenho de células solares sensibilizadas por corante de rutênio e mirtilo” (in Portuguese). The work was supervised by Professor Diego Alexandre Duarte and co-supervised by Professor Kléber Vieira de Paiva. The examination commitee consisted of Professors Diego Alexandre Duarte, Rafael Gallina Delatorre (UFSC), and Franciso Alfaro (UFSC)

During the same week, student Maria Helena de Oliveira Ferreira, from the Bachelor’s in Naval Engeneering program, also defended her undergraduate thesis titled “Estudo da deposição de TiO₂ pelo processo spin coating em superfícies metálicas para aplicação como antincrustantes” (in Portuguese). The work was supervised by Professor Viviane Lilian Soethe Parucker. The examination commetee consisted of Professors Viviane Lilian Soethe Parucker, Rafael Gallina Delatorre (UFSC) and Diego Alexandre Duarte (UFSC).

LTS/LaTS appreciates the effort put into completing these projects and wishes both students great success in their professional carrers!

Professor Diego Duarte’s research project titled Obtaining Transparent and Conductive Electrodes via Magnetron Sputtering has been approved under CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT call No. 25/2022. The proposal aims to produce transparent electrodes using plasma-assisted techniques (magnetron sputtering) for photovoltaic solar cell production, and will be conducted in partnership with the University of Minho (UM) and several Brasilian institutions. Our laboratory also participated in the proposal titled Intensification of Biodiesel Production Process via Plasma-Assisted Catalytic Route, which was approved under CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT  call No. 18/2022 by the Applied  Combustion and Catalysis Laboratory of UFSC Joinville. This project focuses on biodiesel development using DBD discharge-assisted techniques.