Resumen: The Interrelated aspects of thermo-mechanical behavior with a specific focus on microstructural characteristics and defects, such as partial and total dislocations densities and grain-boundaries (GBs) that span the nano to the micro, and how these characteristics affect failure modes,

Resumen: The delicate alveolar structure of the mammalian lungs is stabilized against forces tending to its collapse, thanks to the coating of a complex lipid-protein network assembled by the pulmonary surfactant system. This material, assembled and secreted by type II pneumocytes, prevents the

Resumen: The equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy (HEA) and its derivatives have attracted attention fromscientific community due to their mechanical properties, also at cryogenic conditions. Extensivemechanical twinning is mainly responsible for their outstanding mechanical response under

Resumen: The current hydrogen economy is in a phase marked by the lowrate and efficiency of the hydrogenproduction from water and the energy generation by hydrogen oxidationinto water. This first yearassessment explores the possibility of exploiting the change ofelectronical configuration due

Resumen: The on-going energy crisis demands extensive research into new alternatives for enhancing the energy efficiency in electric motors. As a probable solution to this, soft magnetic materials (SMM) portray excellent properties with high saturation magnetisation (JS) and low coercivity

Resumen: Modern technology demands the development of strong and flame-resistant multifunctional thermoplastic-based nanocomposites that are also compatible with three-dimensional (3D) printing, as this method has become a standard production process in essential industries. This study tackles

Resumen Modeling the damage and fracture of materials has been a recurrent topic in solid mechanics and materials engineering in the last century. In the present there is a strong interest to extend these studies to model complex multiphysical problems including explicitly the effect of the

Resumen: The active materials used in current LIBs fall short in energetic terms due to their limited uptake of Li, so further development of these materials is needed. In contrast to the insertion materials usually used in the LIBs, alloy materials are not restricted by the sites in the host

Abstract: Nanocomposite materials based on a polymer matrix and nanomaterials (as Graphene Nanoplateletes, 2D clays or Metal Organic Frameworks) acting as additives are an exciting type of materials that bring the opportunity to create plastics with better properties (mechanical, thermal,

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 12:00h , en el Salón de Grados de la ETSI de Informáticos de la UPM (Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla). La disertación se titula "Advanced deep Learning technologies for the smart manufacturing of structural composites". Fue asesorada por el Prof.

Resumen: Titanium alloys are widely employed in aerospace applications owing to superior properties such as a high specific strength and a good corrosion resistance. In particular, the variety of dual phase microstructures obtained through different thermo-mechanical processing routes enables

Resumen: Functional and structural parts, made so far with metals, have been progressively reengineeredby replacing metallic materials by discontinuous fibre reinforced polymers and continuous fibrereinforced composites. Polymer composites are usually divided into two groups, advanced (orhigh

Abstract: Floating Catalyst Chemical Vapor Deposition (FCCVD) is a method for the synthesis of 1D nanoparticles, i.e., nanotubes and nanowires, in the aerosol phase. Specifically, 1-D nanoparticles grow on the surface of spherical catalyst nanoparticles while floating through a gas reactor. An

Resumen: Reconstructing the morphology of aerogels presents significant challenges if 3D visualizations of their mesoporous nanostructure are desired. Available microscopic and tomographic tools find it difficult to probe into all types of aerogels for the purposes of reconstructing their 3D

Resumen: We all are very familiar with graphene and carbon nanotubes and their extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties. Both materials are composed of sp2 carbon atoms; their structures look very similar locally but exhibit different properties due to the way their atoms are arranged

Resumen: Systems with broken continuous symmetry in ideal lattices cannot be rectified through rearrangement or deformation. Topological metamaterials featuring nontrivial, artificially induced phase transitions have emerged as pivotal constituents for engineering these topological defects,

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 10:30 am, en el Aula de Grados (Edificio Padre Soler), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Leganés Campus, Madrid. La disertación se titula "Development of Ti-Fe-based powders for laser additive manufacturing of ultrafine lamellar eutectics". Fue

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 11:30 am, en el edificio Concepción Arenal, sala 14.0.11, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Campus de Getafe. La defensa tendrá una parte pública y otra confidencial. La disertación se titula "Binder Jetting: A Microstructural Perspective". Fue

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 11:00 am, en la Sala Echegaray, E. T. S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid. La disertación se titula "Facilitating development of special clays by incorporation of machine learning techniques". Fue asesorada por el Prof. J. LLorca y

Resumen, The structures of materials play a critical role in defining their unique properties and applications. In particular, the engineering of materials to enhance their performance or understand their defect, dislocation, impurity, or catalytic activity requires knowledge of atomistic-level

Resumen: Digital Light Processing (DLP)[1] is an additive manufacturing technology based on a Vat photopolymerisation process. 3D objects are manufactured layer upon layer by projecting 2D light patterns onto a liquid photocurable resin. This fast and accurate process is usually limited to

Resumen: The morphology of grains produced during metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) can be very different from that given by conventional processing and is central to controlling the properties of the final build. In addition, the interfacial velocities and temperature gradients found during AM

Resumen: ¿Qué papel ha jugado la metalurgia en el desarrollo tecnológico de nuestra civilización tal como la conocemos? ¿Cómo se vincula la metalurgia con las llamadas tecnologías verdes? ¿Cómo se relaciona la metalurgia con el desarrollo de nuevas formas de generar energía? ¿Qué desafíos

Resumen: Fe-based soft magnetic bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) have shown unprecedented magnetization saturation and coercivity values and are thus envisioned as potential candidates to increase the efficiency of electromagnetic components. Laser powder bed fusion (LBPF) allows to manufacture

Resumen:The modeling of plastic deformation over the length scales has still been a challengeable problem. One of the most crucial defect interactions related to the plasticity is the reaction between the dislocation and GB, that is, GB strengthening of Hall-Petch law from the materials science view

Abstract The increasing awareness for the reduction of environmental damage caused by synthetic polymers is contributing to the growth of sustainable biopolymer sectors. In the last decade, numerous research resources have been devoted to replace the fossil-based polymers available in the

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 12:00 horas, en la “Salón de Grados - Edificio Padre Soler” de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid en Leganés. La disertación se titula "Facilitating development of special clays by incorporation of machine learning techniques. ". Fue asesorada por el

Abstract:AI is transforming our approach to molecular engineering. Driven by the goal of accelerating drug development, our aim is to develop AI-driven molecular engineering methods which will enhance our approach to biomolecular discovery, such as drug discovery, drug repurposing, and chemical

Resumen: Biodegradable magnesium-based stents (BMgS) present outstanding potential to revolutionize the treatment of coronary artery diseases, in which full recovery of arteries without long-term irritation of implants is anticipated for averting adverse events associated with the permanent

Resumen: Developing a multiscale paradigm requires careful investigation of composite materials at the microscale. Experimental approaches that capture progressive damage of complex heterogeneous materials would enable a new understanding of failure phenomena. To further enhance our knowledge, a

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 11:00 horas, en la “Sala de Adoración de Miguel 1.2.C16” de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid en Leganés. La disertación se titula " Effect of Microstructure on Architected Materials Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing ". Fue asesorada por la Dra.

Abstract: Photonics, Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials are considered by the European Commission as key enabling technology due to the transcendental fields where these technologies have proved their capacity to provide solutions, as improved sensors, imaging and treatment in medicine, or

Resumen: Despite that Mg has a lot of possible applications, the easiest deformation mechanism in Mg alloys, basal slip, can only provide two independent slip systems, leading to large plastic anisotropy and poor mechanical properties of Mg alloys at room temperature, restricting the applications

Abstract: 3D extrusion printing has evolved as one of the most employed manufacturing techniques for the fabrication of polymer scaffolds for applications in tissue engineering. Within the context, the selection of the polymer hydrogel to be employed as biomaterial ink is crucial and several

Resumen: Carbon nanomaterials show remarkable heating rates in response to applied radio frequency (RF) fields. We can now show that these responses may be generalized across a wide range of nanomaterial-loaded structures, including carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, and laser-induced graphene.

Resumen: Aluminum alloys have been the primary material of choice for structural components of aircraft,among which Al-Li, Al-Ni, Al-Co and Al-Cu alloy have attracted much attention due to theirexceptional fracture toughness, corrosion resistance and so on. Understanding the relationshipsamong

Resumen, Robust and efficient full-field crystal plasticity models (based on finite element or FFT methods) have been developed over the past decades, and were extensively used for simulating and understanding different material phenomena at the macro- and mesoscales. On the other hand, nanoscale

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 11:00 horas, en la “sala verde” de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos. La disertación se titula «Microstucture sensitive simulation framework for additive manufactured Hastelloy-X». Fue asesorado por el Prof. Javier

Resumen: 3D bioprinting is usually implemented on flat surfaces, posing serious limitations in the fabrication of multilayered curved constructs. 4D bioprinting, combining 3D bioprinting with time-dependent stimuli-induced transformation, enables the fabrication of shape-changing constructs.

Resumen:Magnetic storage systems and magnetically actuated devices are ultimately controlled by magnetic fields generated using electric currents. This involves significant power dissipation by Joule heating effect. Manipulating magnetism with electric voltage has an enormous potential to boost

Resumen: Most of Additive Manufacturing (AM) are solidification processes. As a result of the phase transformations, usual metallurgical features of arc welding processes are found, e.g., textured structures, intergranular hot tears, deviation from thermodynamic transformation paths, … The

Abstract: Model-free data-driven computational mechanics (DDCM) is a new paradigm for simulations in solid mechanics. One of the its advantagesis the fact that it avoids regression-based, bias-prone constitutive modeling. However, many materials do display a simple linear response in the

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 11:00 horas, en la sala verde de la Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos. La disertación se titula "Modelado multiescala de la cinética de crecimiento dendrítico con convección líquida". Fue asesorado por el Dr. Damien Tourret y el Prof.

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar a las 11:00 horas, en el "aula C" de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales. La disertación se titula "Modelado computacional de la fabricación de metales por fusión de lecho de polvo". Fue asesorado por el Prof. Ignacio Romero y el Dr. Damián

Resumen: El antienvejecimiento se ha convertido en un importante tema de investigación en el campo de las ciencias biológicas modernas. Es interesante considerar los hidrogeles para aplicaciones antienvejecimiento debido a su estructura única. En los últimos años, nuevos hidrogeles basados ​​en

Resumen:La Ingeniería de Tejidos surgió a principios de los años 90 sobre la base de la fabricación de andamios de biomateriales de diseño para guiar la unión, distribución, diferenciación y depósito de una matriz extracelular (ECM) característica del tejido objetivo. Las células son capaces de

Abstract:A novel series of FRMs was synthesized by suspension polymerization which had coreshell structure and complete spherical morphology. The core material is composed of a variety of flame-retardant components, some phosphate ester flame-retardant such as BDP, RDP, TPP etc. (or several of them)

Resumen:La interpretación de experimentos que prueban las propiedades mecánicas de los materiales a menudo se ve limitada por la falta de herramientas adecuadas para una inspección operativa de los mecanismos de deformación. Las simulaciones de dinámica molecular ofrecen la posibilidad de realizar

Resumen: El desarrollo de electrolitos de estado sólido compuestos (CSSE) avanzados se considera una de las direcciones más prometedoras para lograr avances en la tecnología de baterías de litio. Para mejorar el rendimiento general de los electrolitos, como las propiedades mecánicas, el

Resumen: Comprender el daño, la localización y la fractura en sólidos dúctiles y estructuras sujetas a impactos de alta velocidad o cargas explosivas tiene importancia en la industria aeroespacial, aplicaciones militares, ingeniería civil y aplicaciones geofísicas. Los cráteres meteóricos, el

Resumen:El desarrollo de modelos precisos y simulaciones de deformación plástica en materiales metálicos requiere una comprensión del comportamiento de los defectos y modos de deformación en metales en múltiples escalas de longitud y tiempo. En esta presentación, se resumirán los esfuerzos recientes

Abstract: Lightweight materials including aluminum, magnesium and titanium alloys and metal matrix composites are increasingly being used in the transportation and manufacturing industries to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint. Emerging materials including high entropy alloys,

Resumen: The increasing prevalence of cardiovascular diseases on the world population urge the development of efficient new therapies for the reestablishment of the cardiac function. The heart has a very limited regenerative ability, and so lost cardiomyocytes cannot be replaced, thus causing

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar el 21 de junio a las 5:00 pm en la Universidad de Texas en Arlington. Será de forma online. La disertación se titula “Hierarchical Microstructures to Overcome the Conflict Between Strength and Toughness of Hard Coatings: Tin/Ni as a Model System”. Ha sido

Resumen: The goal of regenerative medicine is to control an individual’s healing response after trauma, working at the cellular level to repair damaged tissue. However, to successfully intervene in tissue repair, there must be a basic understanding of the types of signals cells receive from their

Resumen: The current global pandemic (COVID-19) and other recent major epidemics, including SARS and MERS and the historical Spanish flu, are caused by respiratory viruses that affect the lung. To better understand the pathophysiology of these diseases and develop preventive and therapeutic

Resumen: The current paradigm that guides many materials and manufacturing research is to optimize a materials’ (hierarchical) structure to accomplish a specific function and then assemble different components made with different materials into ever more complex arrangements in order to realize

La Defensa de Doctorado tendrá lugar el 17 de junio, a las 11:00 hr, en el Salón de Grados (Módulo 8) de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Cantoblanco). La disertación se titula “Stable lithium-sulfur batteries through electrode and interface engineering”. Ha sido

Abstract: Residual stresses are those that remain in the material after external loads have been removed. To satisfy static equilibrium, they are self-equilibrating. Residual stresses are generated as a response of the material to inhomogeneous permanent inelastic strains. The latter will induce

La Defensa Doctoral tendrá lugar el 24 de mayo a las 11:00 am en la «Sala Verde» (José Echegaray) de la Escuela de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la UPM. La disertación se titula «Fundamentals of solidification during selective laser melting of aerospace alloys». Ha sido supervisada por el Prof.

Resumen: Neural networks are able to approximate nonlinear functions with accuracy. This makes them suited for many fields far from their origin in computer science.In this work we will apply these neural networks to composite materials from two different perspectives: top-down, for structural

Resumen: Carbon microelectromechanical system (carbon MEMS) has emerged as a technique alternative to silicon-based MEMS technologies in the last two decades. Although carbon-MEMS allows for the fabrication of 3D carbon microstructures useful for several applications, complex architectures are

La Defensa Doctoral tendrá lugar el 4 de mayo a las 10:30 hr. La asistencia será a modo remoto: https://short.upm.es/t3l99 La disertación se titula « Perovskite for hybrid light emitting devices». Fue supervisado por el Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa y el Prof. Dr. De-Yi Wang.

Resumen y bibiografía: High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are multi-principal elements materials that challenge the traditional alloy design techniques. Due to their large design space and ample mechanical, optical, electrical, and thermal properties, HEAs are exiting material systems to explore and

Resumen: Hydrogels are used as scaffolds in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM) for different applications such as delivery vehicles for bioactive molecules, space filling agents and as three-dimensional structures hosting cells to stimulate the regeneration of the desired tissue.

Resumen: In recent years, combinatorial materials science has had a major impact helping to accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. The combinatorial approach encompasses the combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization methods. Among the different techniquesfor

Resumen: Magnesium and its alloys are promising biodegradable metal scaffolds for potential bone regeneration applications, such as bioabsorbable implants. However, for this to be possible, further developments are necessary. On the one hand, Mg tends to corrode at a high rate, leading to

Resumen: In this research work, the combination of the data-driven approaches based on the machine learning method and the group interactions modeling is used to predict the thermomechanical and mechanical properties of the vast number of polymers. The macroscopic properties of polymers were

Resumen: Materials deformation is ultimate controlled by physical processes at the atomic scale. In many cases, these processes are controlled by fluctuations characterized by highly stochastic behavior. While we have learned to subsume this stochasticity into continuum laws that describe average

Resumen: There are several problems in physics that involve the presence of interfaces between different phases and the evolution of these interfaces with time. These problems include phase transformation, solidification, fracture, Li-ion transport in batteries, etc. In this work, the phenomenon

Resumen: Solid solution strengthening is a classical metallurgical process that has been brought to the center stage by the development of high entropy alloys. Solutes may affect dislocations at different levels, from their core structure to their long-range glide, depending on the alloy

Resumen: Biodegradable materials are an option where problems related with permanent implants induce complications in the long term, especially for bone and cardiovascular application. Research have focused on different materials for these applications, such as bioceramics, polymers, metals or

Resumen: The combination of experiment, simulation, and data plays an important role in the development and characterization of advanced materials.In the first part of the presentation, this combination and the implications of the activities for advanced multiphase steels are described and

Resumen: This report identifies key ingredients necessary for developing a robust numerical framework capable of performing full-field simulations of polymer base lattice materials. Direct simulation of components manufactured out of lattice materials is not deemed suitable on account of high