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

Data: 06/02/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Lucia Helena Innoctini Mei

Co-advisor: Dr. Antonio Rodolfo Junior

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

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

Author: Kelly Lendini Troni

Data: 08/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Roberta Ceriani

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

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

Author: Bruno Guzzo da Silva

Data: 13/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Ana Maria Frattini Fileti

Co-advisor: Drag. Mary Ann Sheet

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

“IDENTIFICATION OF STOCHASTIC MODELS IN A REFRIGERATION PLANT”

Author: Tarcisio Soares Siqueira Dantas

Data: 16/03/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

Co-advisor: Dr. Ivan Carlos Franco

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

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

Author: Ana Luiza Resende Pires

Data: 24/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Angela Maria Moraes

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. João Ernesto de Carvalho; prof. Drag. Mariana Altenhofen da Silva;

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

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

Author: Samara Boaventura de Moraes

Data: 27/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Elizabeth Fatima de Souza; prof. Drag. Lucia Helena Innocentini May; prof. Drag. Natália Valenga Parizotto; Drag. Maria Ingrid Rocha Barbosa Schiavon.

“QUANTUM DOTS IN THIRD GENERATION PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS”

Author: Agatha Matsumoto

Data: 04/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Fernando Ely

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

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

Author: Nadjma Souza Leite

Data: 06/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Elias Basile Tambourgi

Co-advisor: Dr. Jose Jailton Marques

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

“DETERMINATION OF THERMODYNAMICS OF TERPENIC COMPOUNDS PRESENT IN ESSENTIAL OILS BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY AND PROPOSAL OF GROUP CONTRIBUTION MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF VAPORIZATION ENTHALPIES”

Author: Carlos Eduardo Lima de Oliveira

Data: 10/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marco Aurélio Cremasco

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Silvana Mattedi e Silva; Prof. Dr. Marlus Pinheiro Rolemberg; prof. Drag. Roberta Ceriani; Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz.

“ADVANCED MONITORING AND CONTROL APPLIED TO DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION”

Author: Rodolpho Rodrigues Fonseca

Data: 11/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

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

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

Author: Micaela Tamara Vitor

Data: 26/04/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Lucimara Gaziola de La Torre

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Charles Naim Baroud

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

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

Author: Renato Carajelescov Nonato

Data: 02/05/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Ana Rita Morales

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Lucia Helena Innocentini May; Prof. Dr. Marcos Akira Davila; prof. Drag. Elizabeth Maria Saraiva Sanchez; Drag. Marcia Maria Favaro Ferrarezi.

“BIODIESEL PRODUCTION FROM HETEROTROPHIC MICROALGAE”

Author: Renato Sano Coelho

Data: 12/05/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Telma Teixeira Franco

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

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

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

Author: Rodrigo de Lima Amaral

Data: 26/05/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sávio Souza Venâncio Vianna

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

Examination 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.

“DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THERMAL HYDRAULIC CALCULATION OF NOZZLES OF NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS”

Author: José Afonso Barros Filho

Data: 02/06/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Elizabeth Jordan

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

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

Author: Helder Lima de Moura

Data: 30/06/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Milton Mori

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Maria Regina Parise; Prof. Dr. Henry França Meier; Prof. Dr. Erick de Moraes Franklin; Prof. Dr. João Lameu da Silva Junior.

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

Author: Patricia dos Santos Costa

Data: 30/06/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Aline Carvalho da Costa

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

Examination Board: Drag. Priscilla da Silva Delabona; Drag. Elaine Crespim; prof. Drag. Daniele Farias; prof. Drag. Camila Alves de Rezende.

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

Author: Giovana Maria Genevro

Data: 11/07/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Marisa Masumi Beppu

Co-advisor: prof. Drag. Mariana Agostini de Moraes

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

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

Author: Juliana Miguel Vaz

Data: 14/08/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Marisa Masumi Beppu

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Diego Mantovani

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

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

Author: Kallyana Moraes Carvalho Dominices

Data: 25/09/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Co-advisor: prof. Drag. Laura Plazas Tovar

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

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

Author: William Eduardo Herrera Agudelo

Data: 27/09/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

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

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

"SALE STUDY ASSESSING KINETIC MODELING AND PYROLYSIS CHARACTERIZATION"

Author: Juliana Pedrilho Foltin

Data: 19/10/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Luz Lisbôa

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Elizabeth Jordan; Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek; Dr. Waldir Pedro Martignoni; Dr. Jose Placido.

"ORTHO-PHOSPHO-L-TYROSINE AS A LINKER FOR PURIFICATION OF HUMAN IGG BY PSEUDOBIOAFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY"

Author: Gisele Luiza Pavan

Data: 27/10/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Sonia Maria Alves Bueno

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

"AGLOMATION OF CONCENTRATED RICE PROTEIN IN FLUIDIZED BED: IN MONITORING- PARTICLE SIZE LINE"

Author: Kaciane Andreola

Data: 08/11/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldir Pereira Taranto

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

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

Author: Jefferson Lopes Alves

Data: 14/11/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Ana Rita Morales

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

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

"THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES, BALANCE OF PHASES AND PARTITION OF BIOMOLECULES IN AQUEOUS SYSTEMS TWO-PHASE FORMED BY SYNTHETIC POLYMER AND SALT"

Author: Leonardo Hadlich de Oliveira

Data: 24/11/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Maria Alvina Krähenbühl

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

"SURFACE PROPERTIES INTRODUCED BY RADIO FREQUENCY PLASMA (RF), DOWNLOAD CROWN AND SPIN-COATING IN POLYMERS: PVDF, PDMS e KAPTON”

Author: Selma Aparecida Lopes

Data: 05/12/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. João Sinézio de Carvalho Campos

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

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

Author: Samara Storion Bittencourt

Data: 15/12/2017

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

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Ricardo Belchior Torres

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