Desenvolvimento, construção e validação de um sistema automatizado de produção de nanomateriais

Abstract

Technological development activities are part of the wide range of laboratory interests, assuming both the role as the focus of the operation and research itself, and the use of this concept to optimize the resulting methodologies. This work takes as reference the Graphene Oxide synthesis process performed at the Laboratório de Pesquisa e Caracterização de Nanomateriais e Nanodispositivos (LPCA-NN), do Departamento de Física da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – Câmpus Curitiba, and aims to carry out the development, construction and validation of an automated system that can be applied in the production of nanomaterials. This system comprises three main areas of action on the synthesis process: the heating module, the injection module and the agitation module. Although it was not possible to produce a final product with a single structure and capable of performing a laboratory routine synthesis, a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was obtained that could fulfill, within the required error margins, the control objectives on a simplified experimental routine.