The Brazilian government hopes to improve the country's knowledge base in key scientific disciplines
Universities in Germany, the US, the UK and other nations are preparing for an influx of tens of thousands of Brazilian students, doctoral candidates and post-docs in the next three years.
The students will start arriving in January as part of Brazil’s new Science Without Borders programme.
The goal of the programme is to more than quadruple the number of Brazilians studying abroad to 75,000 by 2014. The plan is to place them at leading universities in fields of strategic national importance to Brazil.
To find out more, read the full story at Chemistry World.
Brazil is certainly growing in scientific output – here, we’ve collected together some of our recent content from Brazilian authors for you to take a look at. They are free to access until the end of October:
Information visualization techniques for sensing and biosensing
Fernando V. Paulovich, Marli L. Moraes, Rafael Mitsuo Maki, Marystela Ferreira, Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. and Maria Cristina F. de Oliveira
Analyst, 2011, 136, 1344-1350
DOI: 10.1039/C0AN00822B
Recent advances in electronic tongues
Antonio Riul Jr., Cléber A. R. Dantas, Celina M. Miyazaki and Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr.
Analyst, 2010, 135, 2481-2495
DOI: 10.1039/C0AN00292E
Instantaneous chemical profiles of banknotes by ambient mass spectrometry
Livia S. Eberlin, Renato Haddad, Ramon C. Sarabia Neto, Ricardo G. Cosso, Denison R. J. Maia, Adriano O. Maldaner, Jorge Jardim Zacca, Gustavo B. Sanvido, Wanderson Romão, Boniek G. Vaz, Demian R. Ifa, Allison Dill, R. Graham Cooks and Marcos N. Eberlin
Analyst, 2010, 135, 2533-2539
DOI: 10.1039/C0AN00243G
Biosensor for luteolin based on silver or gold nanoparticles in ionic liquid and laccase immobilized in chitosan modified with cyanuric chloride
Ana Cristina Franzoi, Iolanda Cruz Vieira, Jairton Dupont, Carla Weber Scheeren and Luciane França de Oliveira
Analyst, 2009, 134, 2320-2328
DOI: 10.1039/B911952C
