The following activities are carried out in the Biomaterials Laboratory:

• studies of the physical properties of materials used in prostheses and implants.

The following equipments are available: 

• thermal cycler; 

• Quimis water bath; 

• Quimis fume hood; 

• Quimis drying oven; 

• Quimis muffle oven with microprocessor; 

• Quimis heating blanket; 

• goniometer for wettability measurements; 

• three digital torque wrenches;

• motor for surgery; 

• Pasco systems for force, temperature, current and voltage measurements; 

• Zygo 3D NewView 7100 Interferometry Roughness Measurement system; 

• Netzsch Hyperion thermomechanical analyzer; 

• DSC-60 Shimadzu fluorescence spectrometer; 

• equipment for torque measurements up to 5 N.m; 

• profiler for roughness measurements;

• cutting machine with micrometric precision. 

Area: 52 m².

Contacts: Prof. Carlos Nelson Elias - elias@ime.eb.br

  Prof. Marcelo Henrique Prado da Silva - marceloprado@ime.eb.br