Group Members:

  Prof. Maria do Carmo M. Alves

Prof. Jonder Morais

 Graduate Students:

      Carlos Willian Feltrin

      Demétrius William Lima

      Felipe Ferreira Selau

 Under-Graduate Students:

      Leonardo Pessoa da Silva

      Antônio Buaczik Júnior

 Post-Docs: 

      Marcus Vinicius Castegnaro

   ALUMINI:

      Adriana Rodrigues

      Alex Sandre Kilian

      Jocenir Boita

      Jéssica Alexandre

      Talita Stroher Burger

      Vagner Z. C. Paes

      Andreia Gorgeski

      Lucas Nicolao

      Deise Schaffer

      Fabiano Bernardi

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Experimental Techniques:

Photoelectron Spectroscopy - ESCA, XPS
Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED) 
Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES)
UV-Vis, Photoluminescence
Cyclic Voltammetry
Sputtering, Spin coating
At Synchrotron Sources: X-Ray absorption (EXAFS and XANES), also in dispersive mode (DXAS), XPS/UPS

Present Research:

Synthesis of nanostructures
Biosensors development
Surface characterization of metallic nanoparticles
In situ-XAS and XPS studies of catalysts (nanoparticles)
Ideal catalysts: modeling of surface structure and catalytic reactions
Structural properties of advanced materials via XAS and XRD