Center for Research and Innovation on Smart and Quantum Materials (CRISQuaM)

• Grant number: 24/00998-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC
• Start date: July 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2030
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Mario Ugarte
• Grantee: Daniel Mario Ugarte
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Campinas
• Principal investigators: Antonio Riul Júnior ; Arnaldo Naves de Brito ; Cristiano Monteiro de Barros Cordeiro ; Diego Muraca ; Fanny Béron ; Felipe Fernandes Fanchini ; Jose Alexandre Diniz ; Marcelo Knobel ; Marcos César de Oliveira ; Mônica Alonso Cotta ; Varlei Rodrigues
• Associated researchers: Abner de Siervo ; Alessandra Alves de Souza ; Alex Antonelli ; Andre Alexandre de Thomaz ; Bruno Coelho César Mota ; Bruno Sanches de Lima ; Carlos Rettori ; Cecilia de Carvalho Castro e Silva ; Edison Zacarias da Silva ; Eduardo Granado Monteiro da Silva ; Ernesto Kemp ; Gabriel Alves de Pinho ; Gabriela Castellano ; Iakov Veniaminovitch Kopelevitch ; Jesús Jacobo Hernández Montelongo ; João Marcelo Silva Souza ; Jonathas de Paula Siqueira ; Kelton Augusto Pontara da Costa ; Kleber Roberto Pirota ; Marcos Vinicius Puydinger dos Santos ; Marcus Vinicius Segantini Bonança ; Odilon Divino Damasceno Couto Júnior ; Pascoal Jose Giglio Pagliuso ; Renato de Castro Garcia ; Ricardo Rodrigues Urbano ; Tulio Costa Rizuti da Rocha ; Valéria Loureiro da Silva ; Vivian Vanessa França Henn
• Associated research grant(s): 25/20135-5 - Multi-user equipment approved in grant CEPID CRISQuaM 2024/00998-6: field emission scanning electron microscope, AP.EMU; 25/22032-9 - Multiuser equipment aproved in a grant CEPID CRISQuaM 2024/00998-6: PPMS helium liquefier system for existing systems, AP.EMU; 25/15316-0 - The 39th Microelectronics Technology Symposium - SBMicro 2025, AR.BR
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/19245-0 - Synthesis and characterization of possible Dirac semimetals using metallic flux technique., BP.IC; 25/23946-4 - Development of a fiber optic payoff unit, BP.IC; 25/15957-6 - Development of Cryogenic Thermal Sensors Based on Silicon Diodes for the Control Interface of Superconducting Qubits., BP.IC; + associated scholarships 25/19585-6 - Enhancing Quantum Variational Algorithms: Error Correction, Mitigation, Counterdiabatic Terms, and MultiBasis Coding, BP.DD; 25/22048-2 - Size-Dependent Magnetic, Transport, and Electronic Properties of Multiferroic BiFeO3 and Their Relevance to Smart and Sustainable Technologies., BP.IC; 25/14463-0 - Tuning of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by spacer layer in CoGd ferrimagnetic multilayers for spintronics applications, BP.IC; 25/15950-1 - Superhydrophobic electronic tongue, BP.IC; 25/15731-8 - 3D printed optical fibers, BP.DD; 25/16064-5 - Multi-Modal Control of Resistive Switching in Complex Oxides: Study, Characterization and Optimization., BP.DR; 25/13429-2 - Polymer-based thin films with embedded metallic nanoparticles: tuning electrical properties for sensors devices, BP.MS - associated scholarships

Abstract

The Center aims to explore fundamental and applied sciences synergistically to develop novel materials showing high potential for the design and construction of devices and sensors addressing technological challenges associated with sustainability, climate change, precision agriculture, ecology, and health. To attain these objectives, the research team has been built with the concept of interdisciplinary research and a collaborative approach to integrate expertises from diverse scientific domains to identify and tailor novel materials having high potential for innovation. By combining original synthesis methods, advanced characterization techniques, theoretical approaches, computational simulations, quantum technologies and innovative device design and construction, we aim to pioneer breakthroughs in novel smart and quantum materials, fostering scientific excellence and technological development. We expect to achieve disruptive innovation in instrumentation, both in hardware and artificial intelligence-based tools, quantum technologies, biomedical devices, and signal processing, as well as plant bionics, exploring plant-pathogen interactions. In addition to research activities, we have planned to introduce strong action into education, diffusion, and information outreach to non-specialized public as a modern society must be aware of the serious challenges that humanity is confronting and how research and technology are essential to develop the tools to explore wisely the limited resources our planet can provide. The Center Innovation activities will be accelerated since the very beginning by the partnership with several companies working in related technologies, many of them Brazilian. Finally, all Center activities will be managed respecting diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and best practices. (AU)