Note: this text was written by Professor Cláudio Schön, my friend and collaborator. I am re-posting here because it is so cool! I am brazilian, therefore I am addicted to coffee. OK, not all brazilians drink coffee, as not all US Americans play baseball. This does not change the fact that I feel miserable if … Continue reading The physical chemistry of brewing a decent coffee
Author: Matheus A. Tunes
An experimental physicist who enjoys the company of intriguing people and is able to endure many cups of coffee and engage in endless scientific discussions.
The multidisciplinary interplay in materials sciences: can we understand and mimic the nature?
Nature is smart and brilliant. In nature, we can find the best examples on how to biosynthesise a material and use it for several purposes with efficiency. An astonishing case study is the spider silk which is a form protein fibre structurally similar to cellulose and human hair. Looking at the nanoscale, Transmission Electron Microscopy … Continue reading The multidisciplinary interplay in materials sciences: can we understand and mimic the nature?
The world of Martian rocks: a cutting-edge system to materials characterization.
Launched in 2012 by NASA the Curiosity robot has revealed a lot of secrets from the red planet only studying Mars rocks and soil geology. What is the mechanism that allows human robots perform the Mars remote sensing of small rocks in a research to seek water, life and the own Mars's history? The human … Continue reading The world of Martian rocks: a cutting-edge system to materials characterization.
Materials at Extremes 