This work presents the development of a low-cost spin coater for thin film deposition as an alternative to commercial equipment that have high acquisition cost. The proposed spin coater uses a brushless motor taken from an unused hard disk, which is activated through the association of an electronic speed controller (ESC) and an Arduino microcontroller. During deposition, the rotating substrate is attached with a vacuum clamping system. For the control, the system uses a Hall effect sensor to read the engine speed. The rotation readings performed by the equipment sensor were validated with a tachometer. Finally, TiO2 films were deposited on glass substrates with ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) and characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy to obtain the transmittance of the films at different rotation speeds. lowcost low cost disk ESC (ESC microcontroller control tachometer Finally TiO Indium Oxide UVVis UV Vis speeds

ABSTRACT Pyrite (FeS2) is one of the main tailings derived from coal mining. When processed, pyrite has several applications with high value-added, in contrast, if improperly discarded, it causes major environmental impacts, like the acid mine drainage. For those reasons, the seeking for beneficiation techniques of Pyrite has been the target of numerous studies. One of the most employed techniques is the separation by density using heavy liquids, like bromoform, as a separation medium. In the present work, we propose the use of lithium heteropolytungstate (LST), a non-halogenated and non-toxic solution, as an alternative in the separation by density method. For the experiments, raw pyrite samples were collected from the tailings of coal extraction from a mining company in Santa Catarina, Brazil. After the separation process, the samples before and after the beneficiation were characterized by XRD, FTIR, and XRF techniques. The results revealed that the separation technique used in this work led to a significant increase in the concentration of pyrite, going from less than 10% in the raw sample and reaching almost 80% after processing. This impressive result reveals that LST represents a promising alternative for separating pyrite by density techniques, showing much greater effectiveness than other heavy liquids used in the literature, in addition to being environmentally friendly.

A new fluorophore containing 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole unit with alkylated tetrazole terminal groups as electron donors connected through a π-conjugated system of the type (D-π-A-π-D) was synthesized using the Sonogashira coupling reaction with good yields. The genotoxicity of the two intermediate compounds and the final product was evaluated in vitro in consideration of the potential application of the new compound in the chemical production of photovoltaic paints. The new fluorophore did not show significant biological effects in the cell viability test and the comet assay when compared with the intermediate compounds that were obtained synthetically despite the ability to interact with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as demonstrated in circular dichroism assays. Thus, the compound does not show toxic or genotoxic activity, and therefore, it can be applied as a pigment in photovoltaic paint.