Congratulations to Sebastian Calderon (University of Minho and International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory - INL) and Filipe Fernandes (University of Minho and University of Coimbra) for PSE Early Career Award 2018, with Keynote lectures "Magnetron Sputtering as a Tool for Producing Metallic and Bimetallic Multifunctional Nanoparticles: The Case of Zn-Fe" and "The wrinkling concept applied to plasma polymer films: a novel route for controlling their nano-architecture", respectively.

Congratulations to Bianca Caratão on her award: 1st Honourable Mention SPM at Dia Mundial dos Materiais 2015 in Lisbon, PT

Simone Rodrigues was honored with the bronze award of "2018 Graduate Student Award", at the 45th ICMCTF in San Diego, CA, USA

Sandra Carvalho's idea was to develop a coating for orthopedic prostheses , in order to double the lifetime of a prosthesis. Reviews of Sandra Carvalho, SMF group coordinator.

The Ordem dos Engenheiros awarded Cristiana Alves for her work in dental implantology.

Sebastián Calderón, was honored with “The Graduate Student Awards”, at the 42nd ICMCTF in San Diego, CA, USA.

Sebastián Calderón, was interviewed by Porto Canal about his award and research.

Congratulations to Sebastián on his latest published paper: "Biotribological behavior of Ag–ZrCxN1−x coatings against UHMWPE for joint prostheses devices"

Prof. Sandra Carvalho´s team, from the University of Minho was selected as the winner of "The next Big Idea" to represent Portugal in the event RedEmpredia SPIN2014 in Mexico.

The Portuguese Engineering Association awarded Cristiana Alves for her work in dental implantology.