Laboratory Description

The Biomaterials Laboratory at the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) is part of the Materials Engineering Section (SE/8). Its main purpose is to academically support the Undergraduate Program in Materials Engineering and the Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering (Master’s and PhD levels) by meeting the demand for practical classes and the development of undergraduate capstone projects, master’s dissertations, doctoral theses, and other research projects related to the field of Materials.

Laboratory Infrastructure

• Thermal cycler for analysis of dental materials

• Quimis water bath

• Quimis fume hood

• Quimis drying oven

• Quimis muffle furnace with microprocessor

• Quimis heating mantle

• Goniometer for wettability (contact-angle) measurement

• Three digital torque meters

• Surgical motor

• Pasco systems for measuring force, temperature, current, and voltage

• Zygo 3D NewView 7100 interferometric roughness measurement system

• Netzsch Hyperion TMA (Thermomechanical Analyzer)

• Fluorescence spectrometry equipment for chemical composition analysis, Shimadzu DSC-60

• Torque measurement device

• Contact stylus profilometer for roughness measurement

• Precision cutting machine with micrometric accuracy
  
  

Area: 52 m²

Expertise

• Study of physical properties of materials used in prostheses and implants

• Characterization of roughness and wettability of coatings on metallic and ceramic materials for use in prostheses and implants

• Study of corrosion properties and other forms of degradation of materials used in dentistry
  
  

Contact Information

Prof. Carlos Nelson Elias – elias@ime.eb.br
Prof. Alaelson Vieira Gomes – alaelson@ime.eb.br