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

Abstract: Laser bioprinting is a very promising technique that has demonstrated an outstanding cell viability. With an appropriate process parameterization single cell printing is possible with high spatial accuracy. In this seminar, current developments at Laser center UPM in the field of laser

Resumen: Functional polymer composites are applied in various fields in industry and daily lives. To overcome the main weakness of polymer materials, the high sensitivity to fire and other high temperature sources, flame retardancy is requested to the polymer composites. Generally, it is to find

Resumen: The fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are gaining increasing popularity due to their high strength to weight ratio, weight reduction properties. However, the heat/fire vulnerability of polymer-bsased tructural composites brings abrupt mechanical properties reduction with

RESUMEN: This First Year Assesment is focused on the development of biodegradable self-feinforced composites to be used in biomedical applications. Self-reinforced composites are considered a new class of composites in which a single type of polymer (or family) acts as both reinforcement and

La Defensa Doctoral tendrá lugar el 15 de octubre a las 11:00 am en la Sala de Grados, modulo 8, Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. La disertación se titula «Nanoscale engineered electrode materials for high performance lithium-ion batteries». Ha sido supervisada por

El viernes 4 de octubre, Jorge Valilla presentará su FYA titulado "Simulación física y termodinámica de materiales funcionalmente graduados". Será un evento completamente remoto (zoom), a las 4:30 pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86733563907 Abstract: With the up and coming interest for

Abstract: Catalysts design has been one of the most relevant issues for the hydrogen economy during decades, especially for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). These catalytic processes are controlled by the electronic structure of the catalyst, that can

Abstract: High entropy alloys (HEAs) have recently garnered significant research attention due to the variety of properties they offer, including high strength, fracture resistance, thermal stability, wear resistance, corrosion resistance and irradiation resistance. When it comes to processing of

La defensa se llevará a cabo online el martes 7 de septiembre de 2021 a las 12:00 horas. Ha sido supervisada por el Prof. Vinodkumar Etacheri.

Resumen: The work presented is the result of a year studying the growth of inorganic nanowires by floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition (FCCVD) with the objective of applying this technique to the synthesis of metal oxide nanowires. The differences between substrated-CVD and FCCVD

La Defensa Doctoral tendrá lugar el 21 de junio a las 11:30 pm en la "Sala Verde" de la Escuela de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la UPM. La disertación se titula "Analysis of precipitation hardening in metallic alloys by means of dislocation dynamics". Ha sido supervisada por el Dr. Javier

La Defensa Doctoral tendrá lugar el 25 de junio a las 12:00 pm en la "Sala Verde" de la Escuela de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la UPM. La disertación se titula "Experimental and computational micromechanics of fibre-reinforced polymer composites at high strain rates" Ha sido supervisada por

Resumen: Resin transfer molding (RTM) is a closed-mold procedure in the composite manufacturing process. The resin enters the mold from the inlet port, and the gradient pressure of the inlet and outlet makes the flow move into the mold. A common disturbance that happened during the process is

Resumen: Microstructural defects on the atomic level are known to be responsible to the macroscopic deformation of metals. Despite, the study of microstructure-based plasticity of metals is still a great challenge owing to the multiphysics and multiscale nature of plasticity. In this talk, I will

Resumen: The quenching and partitioning (Q&P) process is a relatively new heat treatment (2003) aimed at the creation of a multi-phase microstructure of tempered martensite and stabilized retained austenite. This microstructure enhances the mechanical properties of the steel, achieving an

Abstract: A novel series of multilayered nanocomposite materials based on the AlTiN system with high Al content and the addition of B as the successful element for obtaining the amorphous phase are presented. The coatings were grown using co-deposition reactive HiPIMS from an alloyed TiAl(X)

La Defensa Doctoral tendrá lugar el 22 de enero a las 12:00 hr. La asistencia será a modo remoto. La disertación se titula "Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Derived Hierarchical Hybrids as Fire Retardants for Epoxy Composites".

La Defensa Doctoral tendrá lugar el 15 de enero a las 10:00 hr. La asistencia será a modo remoto. La disertación se titula "X-Ray Tomographic Investigation of Resin Flow in Liquid Moulding of Composite Materials".

Resumen: Understanding and describing plastic deformation in polycrystalline materials is fundamentally challenging due to the complex atomic rearrangements that must occur at grain boundaries. Thus, there is a significant need to develop new techniques to study, correlate, and describe

El pasado viernes 27 de noviembre, la Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid volvió a acoger la actividad que los Institutos IMDEA organizamos dentro de la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e Investigadoras de Madrid, coordinado por la Fundación para el Conocimiento madrimasd. La actividad de