Piezoelectric and electromechanical characterization of materials and mechanical into electric energy converters devices

• Grant number: 19/05894-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2019
• End date: April 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: José Antonio Eiras
• Grantee: Pablo Nascimento Mandelo
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/13769-1 - Multiferroic and ferroelectric materials for energy converters: synthesis, properties, phenomenology and applications, AP.TEM

Abstract

This work plan aims to introduce and training a graduate student in characterization of piezoelectric materials and assembly and testing of prototypes of mechanical to electrical energy converters. The knowledge of this methodology and technique will allow the scholarship holder to act, later, in the private initiative in activities of technological innovation.