Doctoral Thesis Defenses 2017

“IN SITU POLYMERIZATION OF TPU IN PVC MATRIX AIMING FOR THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE FINAL MIXTURE”

Author: Ívi Martins de Carvalho

Date: 02/06/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Lucia Helena Innoctini May

Co-advisor: Dr. Antonio Rodolfo Junior

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Grillo Fernandes; Prof. Dr. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona; Prof. Dr. Fabio Roberto Passador; Prof. Dr. Carlos Henrique Scuracchio.

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“IMPROVEMENT OF DIFFERENTIAL EXPLORATORY CALORIMETRY TECHNIQUE IN DETERMINING BOILING TEMPERATURE DATA FOR PURE COMPOUNDS AND BINARY MIXTURES”

Author: Kelly Lendini Troni

Date: 03/08/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Roberta Ceriani

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Christianne Elisabete da Costa Rodrigues; Prof. Dr. Rafael Maurício Matricarde Falleiro; Prof. Dr. William José Maximo; Prof. Dr. Patricia Fazzio Martins Martinez.

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“EXTRACTION OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM SCHINUS TEREBINTHIFOLIUS RADDI (PINK PEPPER) FRUITS: CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND WITH SUPERCRITICAL CO2: INFLUENCE OF DRYING ON RAW MATERIAL QUALITY; AND ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY IN HUMAN TUMOR CELLS”

Author: Bruno Guzzo da Silva

Date: 03/13/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ana Maria Frattini Fileti

Co-advisor: Dr. Mary Ann Sheet

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Maria do Carmo Ferreira; Prof. Dr. Cristiana Maria Pedroso Yoshida; Prof. Dr. Julian Martinez; Prof. Dr. Patricia Fazzio Martins Martinez.

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“IDENTIFICATION OF STOCHASTIC MODELS IN A REFRIGERATION PLANT”

Author: Tarcisio Soares Siqueira Dantas

Date: 03/16/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

Co-advisor: Dr. Ivan Carlos Franco

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Vivaldo Silveira Junior; Prof. Dr. Angel Pontin Garcia; Prof. Dr. Bruno Faccini Santoro; Prof. Dr. Luis Fernando Novazzi.

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“DEVELOPMENT OF DENSE AND POROUS FLEXIBLE DEVICES FOR THE CONTROLLED RELEASE, IN SKIN LESIONS, OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS EXTRACTED FROM PLANTS”

Author: Ana Luiza Resende Pires

Date: 03/24/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Angela Maria Moraes

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. João Ernesto de Carvalho; Prof. Dr. Mariana Altenhofen da Silva;

Dr. Rodrigo Alvarenga Rezende; Prof. Dr Ivan Hong Jun Koh.

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“FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION MEDIATED BY NITROXIDES IN EMULSION AND MINI-EMULSION AT LOW TEMPERATURES”

Author: Samara Boaventura de Moraes

Date: 03/27/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Fatima de Souza; Prof. Dr. Lucia Helena Innoctini May; Prof. Dr. Natália Valenga Parizotto; Dr. Maria Ingrid Rocha Barbosa Schiavon.

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“QUANTICAL DOTS IN THIRD GENERATION PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS”

Author: Agatha Matsumoto

Date: 04/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Fernando Ely

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Julio Roberto Bartoli; Dr. Maria Ingrid Rocha Barbosa Schiavon; Dr. Jilian Nei de Freitas; Prof. Dr. Alessandra Greatti.

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“DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADSORBENT DERIVED FROM CASUARINEQUISETIFOLIA FOR REMOVAL OF HYDROCARBONS FROM AQUEOUS EFFLUENTS”

Author: Nadjma Souza Leite

Date: 4/6/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Elias Basile Tambourgi

Co-advisor: Dr. Jose Jailton Marques

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Gabriel Francisco da Silva; Prof. Dr. Roberto Rodrigues de Souza Dr. Juliana Ferrari Ferreira Secato; Prof. Dr. Edgar Silveira Campos.

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“DETERMINATION OF THERMODYNAMIC VALUES OF TERPENIC COMPOUNDS PRESENT IN ESSENTIAL OILS BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY AND PROPOSED GROUP CONTRIBUTION MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF VAPORIZATION ENTALPIES”

Author: Carlos Eduardo Lima de Oliveira

Date: 10/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marco Aurélio Cremasco

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Silvana Mattedi e Silva; Prof. Dr. Marlus Pinheiro Rolemberg; Prof. Dr. Roberta Ceriani; Prof. Dr. Edson tomas.

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“ADVANCED MONITORING AND CONTROL APPLIED TO DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION”

Author: Rodolpho Rodrigues Fonseca

Date: 11/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Messiah Borges da Silva; Prof. Dr. Edson Aparecido Abdul Nour; Prof. Dr. Guilherme José Castilho; Prof. Dr. Luis Cláudio Oliveira Lopes.

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“DROP MICROFLUID SYSTEMS FOR INCORPORATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS INTO CATIONIC LIPOSOMES AND FOR IN VITRO TRANSFECTION OF MAMMALSIAN CELLS”

Author: Micaela Tamara Vitor

Date: 04/26/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Lucimara Gaziola de La Torre

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Charles Naim Baroud

Examining Board: Prof. Dr Stephanie Descroix; Prof. Dr. Severine LeGac; Prof. Dr. Rosiane Lopes da Cunha; Prof. Dr. Hernandes Faustino de Carvalho.

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“STUDY OF SOLUTION AND PROCESS PARAMETERS IN THE MORPHOLOGY OF ZNO NANOFIBERS OBTAINED BY ELECTROPHICATION AND THEIR APPLICATION IN PLA NANOCOMPOSITES BY 3D PRINTING”

Author: Renato Carajelescov Nonato

Date: 05/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ana Rita Morales

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Lucia Helena Innoctini May; Prof. Dr. Marcos Akira Davila; Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Maria Saraiva Sanchez; Dr. Marcia Maria Favaro Ferrarezi.

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“PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM HETEROTROPHIC MICROALGAE”

Author: Renato Sano Coelho

Date: 05/12/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Telma Teixeira Franco

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Luuk Van der Wielen

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Mark Van Loosdrecht; Prof. Dr. Gustavo Paim Valença; Prof. Dr. Rene Wijffels; Prof. Dr. Michel Eppink.

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“QUALITY ANALYSIS OF 2D-2C AND 2D-3C F-PIV MEASUREMENTS OF LIQUID PHASE SPEED IN A BUBBLE COLUMN”

Author: Rodrigo de Lima Amaral

Date: 05/26/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sávio Souza Venâncio Vianna

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho

Examining Board: Prof. Drag. Ana Cristina Avelar Baptist of Jesus; Prof. Dr. Erick de Moraes Franklin; Prof. Dr. João Felipe Miter de Araujo, Prof. Dr. Dirceu Noriler.

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“DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THERMOHYDRAULIC CALCULATION OF NOZZLES OF NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS”

Author: José Afonso Barros Filho

Date: 06/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Jordan

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Elias Basile Tambourgi; Prof. Dr. Wagner dos Santos Oliveira; Prof. Dr. Hugo Cesar Rezende; Prof. Dr. Amir Zacarias Mosque.

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“QUALITY ANALYSIS OF F-PIV MEASUREMENTS AND FLUIDODYNAMICS IN BUBBLE COLUMN USING CHAOTIC INVARIANTS”

Author: Helder Lima de Moura

Date: 06/30/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Milton Mori

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Maria Regina Parise; Prof. Dr. Henry France Meier; Prof. Dr. Erick de Moraes Franklin; Prof. Dr. João Lameu da Silva Junior.

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“INCREASED ACTIVITIES OF GLYCOHYDROLASES PRODUCED BY TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM BY OPTIMIZATION OF CULTURE MEDIUM AND CLASSIC GENETIC IMPROVEMENT AIMING THE VIABILITY OF 2G ETHANOL”

Author: Patricia dos Santos Costa

Date: 06/30/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. José Geraldo da Cruz Pradella

Examining Board: Dr. Priscilla da Silva Delabona; Dr. Elaine Crespim; Prof. Dr. Daniele Farias; Prof. Dr. Camila Alves de Rezende.

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“DEVELOPMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURED MATERIALS FROM BIOPOLYMERS TO OBTAIN HIGH PERFORMANCE DRESSINGS”

Author: Giovana Maria Genevro

Date: 11/07/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marisa Masumi Beppu

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Mariana Agostini de Moraes

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Mariana Altenhofen da Silva; Prof. Dr. Cecília Amélia de Carvalho Zavaglia; Prof. Dr. Classius Ferreira da Silva; Prof. Dr. Patricia Santos Lopes.

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“DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CHITOSAN COATINGS PRODUCED BY PLASMA-GRAFTING FOR ANTIBACTERIAL SURFACES”

Author: Juliana Miguel Vaz

Date: 08/14/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marisa Masumi Beppu

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Diego Mantovani

Examining Board: Dr. Gaétan Laroche; Dr. Mariana Altenhofen da Silva; Prof. Dr. Lucimara Gaziola de La Torre; Dr. Jesus Jácobo Hernández Montelongo; Prof. Dr. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona.

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“DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION ETHANOL PRODUCTION FROM SWEET POTATOES (Ipomoea potatoes Lam. (L))”

Author: Kallyana Moraes Carvalho Dominices

Date: 25/09/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Laura Plazas Tovar

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano; Prof. Dr. Leonardo Vasconcelos Fregolente; Dr. Melina Savioli Lópes; Dr. Bethany Hoss Lunelli.

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“PROCESS MODELING AND CONTROL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION ETHANOL APPLYING NEURAL NETWORKS”

Author: William Eduardo Herrera Agudelo

Date: 09/27/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Elmer Alberto Rivera Copa

Examining Board: Dr. Carlos Eduardo Vaz Rossell; Dr. Daniel Ibraim Pires Atala; Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano; Dr. Solange Inês Mussato Dragone.

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“SHALE STUDY ASSESSING KINETIC MODELING AND PYROLYSIS CHARACTERIZATION”

Author: Juliana Pedrilho Foltin

Date: 10/19/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Luz Lisbon

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Jordan; Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek; Dr. Waldir Pedro Martignoni; Dr. Jose Placido.

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“ORTO-PHOSFO-L-TYROSINE AS A LINKER FOR PURIFICATION OF HUMAN IGG BY PSEUDOBIOAFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY”

Author: Gisele Luiza Pavan

Date: 10/27/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sonia Maria Alves Bueno

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Everson Alves Miranda; Dr. Patricia Ucelli Simioni; Dr. Luis Antonio Peroni; Dr. Wirla Maria da Silva Cunha Tamashiro.

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“AGGLOMERATION OF CONCENTRATED RICE PROTEIN IN FLUIDIZED BED: IN- LINE MONITORING OF SIZES”

Author: Kaciane Andreola

Date: 11/8/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldir Pereira Taranto

Examining Board: Dr. Sandra Cristina dos Santos Rocha; Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho; Dr. Gustavo César Dacanal; Dr. Carlos Alberto Severo Felipe.

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”STUDY OF THE PREPARATION OF BRAZILIAN ORGANOMONTMORILLONITE BY DIFFERENT ORGANOPHILIZATION PROCESSES WITH IONIC, NON-IONIC AND HYBRID SYSTEMS AND ITS APPLICATION IN PLA NANOCOMPOSITES”

Author: Jefferson Lopes Alves

Date: 11/14/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ana Rita Morales

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Paulo de Tarso Vieira and Rosa

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Meuris Gurgel Carlos da Silva; Dr. Antônio Rodolfo Júnior; Dr. Lucilene Betega de Paiva; Dr. Francisco Rolando Valenzuela Diaz.

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“THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES, PHASE BALANCE AND BIOMOLECULE PARTITION IN BIPHASIC AQUEOUS SYSTEMS FORMED BY SYNTHETIC POLYMER AND SALT”

Author: Leonardo Hadlich de Oliveira

Date: 11/24/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Maria Alvina Krähenbühl

Examining Board: Dr. Domingos Savio Giordani; Dr. Marlus Pinheiro Rolemberg; Dr. Pedro de Alcântara Pessôa Filho; Prof. Dr. Eduardo Augusto Caldas Batista.

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“SURFACE PROPERTIES INTRODUCED BY RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) PLASMA, CORONA DISCHARGE AND SPIN-COATING IN POLYMERS: PVDF, PDMS and KAPTON”

Author: Selma Aparecida Lopes

Date: 12/05/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. João Sinézio de Carvalho Campos

Examining Board: Dr. Viktor Oswaldo Cardenas Concha; Dr. Alexandre Antunes Ribeiro; Prof. Dr. José Alexandre Diniz; Prof. Dr. Julio Roberto Bartolli.

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“THERMODYNAMIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF BINARY SOLUTIONS OF IONIC LIQUIDS BASED ON N-BUTYLAMONIUM WITH ALCOHOLS”

Author: Samara Storion Bittencourt

Date: 12/15/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. José Vicente Hallak D’Angelo

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Ricardo Belchior Torres

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Roger Josef Zemp; Dr. Andreia de Araújo Moramdim-Giannetti; Dr. João Guilherme Rocha Well; Prof. Dr. Arthur Zaghini Francesconi.

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