EMU: acquisition of an INVENIO/Hyperion FTIR spectrometer for the UFABC Multiuser Experimental Center

• Grant number: 23/17223-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Infrastructure Program - Small Medium Sized
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• End date: August 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Biophysics - Molecular Biophysics
• Principal Investigator: Herculano da Silva Martinho
• Grantee: Herculano da Silva Martinho
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Amedea Barozzi Seabra ; Camilo Andrea Angelucci ; Cristina Ribas Fürstenau ; Luis Felipe das Chagas e Silva de Carvalho ; Marcela Sorelli Carneiro Ramos ; Paulo Henrique Braz da Silva

Abstract

This proposal refers to the replacement of the spectrometer (FTIR) model 640-IR FT-IR manufactured by CEM's Agilent Technologies company with a new model INVEVIO+HYPERION II produced by the manufacturer Bruker Optics. It is a system that contains the set of options and accessories equivalent to CEM's current FTIR, with important new features, described in the project. The replacement is due to the fact that the manufacturing of the 640-IR FT-IR has been discontinued. Several current FAPESP research projects have researchers as users of this system. The pace of production of work, the quantity and quality of publications directly depend on the proper functioning of this equipment. Due to the wide diversity of research lines and areas of activity of equipment users, a greater diversity of spectrometer accessories and measurement options, including the microscope, is justified. In the last 5 years, 410 articles were published by the group of users of CEM's FTIR, in works using exclusively the technique or relying on it and others for various characterizations, 33% in Qualis A1 magazines, 22% in A2 magazines, 13 % in A3 magazines, and 14% in A4 magazines. During the period, 29 doctoral theses, 27 master's theses, in addition to 19 scientific initiation projects were defended. A total of 67 research projects with funding, 16 of which are FAPESP grants, benefit or have benefited from this multi-user infrastructure for their implementation. In support of this proposal, we have a list of 7 current FAPESP projects, coordinated by researchers who, for the most part, are actually users of the CEM FTIR at UFABC. Together with the associated researchers, we will have the institutions UNESP, USP and UNITAU represented in this proposal. In summary, the acquisition of the INVENIO/Hyperion FTIR spectrometer (Bruker) is strategic in order to maintain CEM's competencies in high-level workforce training and provision of an internationally competitive multi-user structure in the State of São Paulo. Prof. Herculano is an experienced multi-user infrastructure manager and CEM is a set of laboratories that were born and consolidated with multi-use characteristics. (AU)