Meet our guest researchers from Brazil! Brazil is not only famous for football, the carnival in Rio de Janeiro and the Copacabana. Embraer is the third largest manufacturer of civil aircraft in the world. Our guest will introduce you to a new class of materials, MXenes, which were synthesized for the first time in 2011 and can be applied from making magnets to making airplanes.

• Author: Meriene Gandara, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) and Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE), São José dos Campos, Brazil