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(METACALATED) METAMATERIAL FIBRES OF INTERCALATED BUNDLES

Project details Funding: European Office of Aerospace Research and DevelopmentProject coordinator: IMDEA MaterialsProject period: 30/09/2023 – 29/09/2026 IMDEA Materials' researchers Dr. Juan José Vilatela and Dr. Johan Christensen Abstract Intercalation compounds are inorganic

(MENAWIR) Mechanics of Nanoporous W under irradiation

Project details Funding: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021. HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 Project coordinator: IMDEA Materials Project period: 01/09/2022 – 31/08/2024 Website: IMDEA Materials' researchers Supervisor: Prof. Javier Segurado Fellow: Carlos Ruestes Abstract The MeNaWir project

(AM2SoftMag) Additive Manufacturing of Amorphous Metals for Soft Magnetics

Project details Funding: Horizon Europe. EIC Pathfinder Open 2021Project coordinator: Universität des Saarlandes Project period: 01/03/2022 – 28/02/2026Website: IMDEA Materials' researchers Dra. María Teresa Pérez-Prado Abstract AM2SoftMag is working toward the vision that, one

(CNSTech) DEVELOPMENT OF GAMMA PRIME STRENGTHENED CONI SUPERALLOY FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 101028155 )                                                                                                                                                                           

(FUNMAT) Functionally Metalized Nanocellulose For Future Smart Materials

Funding: H2020. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships Region: European Project period: 2021 – 2024 Principal Investigator: Dr. Ahmed Said Azizi Samir (ahmed.azizisamir@imdea.org) Designing at the nanoscale is a promising and challenging strategy to innovate new building-block

(SiNERGY) Silicon nanowire fabrics for high energy density batteries

Project details Funding: ERC Proof of Concept, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 963912) Partners: IMDEA Materials Institute Project period: 01/10/2020 – 31/03/2022 Researcher Dr. Juan José Vilatela  Abstract Meeting European energy storage in transport, stationary and emerging

(TESCOM) TAILORED LIGHTWEIGHT SANDWICH COMPOSITES WITH MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES AND GOOD DESIGNABILITY

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 895931)                                                                                                                                                                                     

(ENTENTE) EUROPEAN DATABASE FOR MULTISCALE MODELLING OF RADIATION DAMAGE

  Funding: H2020. European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) Region: European Project period: 2020 – 2024 Partners: Centro de Investigaciones energéticas, medioambientales y tecnológicas-CIEMAT (Project Coordinator), Fundación IMDEA Materiales, Bay Zoltan Alkalmazott Kutatasi Kozhasznu nonprofit

(DELIGHTED) DESIGN OF LIGHTWEIGHT STEELS FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

Intranet The project Triggered by environmental issues, the EU market has a strong interest in development of low-cost and lightweight heavy gauge steels for various applications. The austenitic Fe–Al–Mn–C quaternary alloys have recently been attracting tremendous attention, as they can

(MUVITCAPCOM) MULTISCALE VIRTUAL TESTING CAPABILITY FOR COMPOSITES

Funding: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). U.S. Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program.Region: InternationalProject period: 2019 – 2022Principal Investigator: Claudio Faria Lopes (claudiosaul.lopes@imdea.org) The AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) and IMDEA Materials are at the

(MULTICOMP) MULTI-FUNCTIONAL NANO-CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIALS NETWORK

Funding: European Union, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST action CA15107)Partners: 31 participating countries, chaired by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. IMDEA Materials Institute is one of the representatives of SpainRegion: Europe Project period: 2016 – 2020Principal

(NABISCO) INTEGRATION OF CARBON NANOTUBE FIBRES IN STRUCTURAL COMPOSITES

Funding: China Scholarship CouncilRegion: InternationalProject period: 2016 – 2020Principal Investigator: Drs. Juan José Vilatela(juanjose.vilatela@imdea.org) and Carlos González(carlosdaniel.gonzalez@imdea.org)This project deals with the development of strategies to integrate macroscopic fibres and

(HIPREP) HIGH PERFORMANCE REINFORCED FIRE-RETARDANT POLYMERS

Funding: China Scholarship CouncilRegion: InternationalProject period: 2015 – 2019Principal Investigator: Dr. De-Yi Wang (deyiwang@imdea.org)The objective of this investigation is to develop high performance reinforced fire-retardant polymers via special molecular design, chemical functionalization

(OPTIQPAP) OPTIMIZATION OF QP STEELS DESIGNED FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

The Project Commercialization of the Quenched and Partitioned (Q&P) steels to a large extent is currently limited by the lack of knowledge on their application related performance properties. The OptiQPAP project (Optimization of QP steels designed for industrial applications) addresses

(STEM) STRUCTURAL ENERGY HARVESTING COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Structural energy harvesting composite materials     ​Funding: European Union, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 678565). ERC Starting grantRegion: EuropeProject period: 2016 – 2021Principal Investigator: Dr. Juan José Vilatela (juanjose.vilatela@imdea.org)The purpose of this project is the

(ENERYARN) NANOSTRUCTURED YARN COMPOSITES FOR STRUCTURAL ENERGY STORAGE

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 797176) Partners: IMDEA Materials Institute Project period: 2018 – 2020 Project Coordinador: Supervisor: Dr. Juan José Vilatela (juanjose.vilatela@imdea.org); Fellow: Anastasiia

(SORCERER) STRUCTURAL POWER COMPOSITES FOR FUTURE CIVIL AIRCRAFT

 Funding: European Union, Clean Sky Joint Undertaking 2, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 738085)Partners: Imperial College (Project Coordinator), Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and IMDEA Materials InstituteRegion: EuropeProject period: 2017 –

(ELAM) ULTRAFINE EUTECTICS BY LASER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Funding: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. M-ERA.NET Partners: DLR Institute of Materials Research (Project Coordinator), IMDEA Materials Institute, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V, Access e.v., Wigner Research Center for Physics, Procter & Gamble

(VITAL) VIRTUAL TESTING OF METALLIC MATERIALS

     ​Funding:  Fonds National de la Recherche LuxembourgRegion: InternationalProject period: 2018 – 2020Partners: IMDEA Materials Institute (Project Coordinator), e-XstreamPrincipal Investigator: Supervisor Dr. Javier Segurado (javier.segurado@imdea.org); Fellow: Marco Magri

(NEWCPLECS) NEW CIRCULAR POLARIZED LIGHT-EMITTING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS

  Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 795905) Partners: IMDEA Materials Institute Project period: 2018 – 2020 Project Coordinador: Supervisor: Dr. Rubén Costa (ruben.costa@imdea.org); Fellow: Julio Jacinto

(MAFMA) MULTISCALE ANALYSIS OF FATIGUE IN Mg ALLOYS

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement 795658)Partners: IMDEA Materials InstituteProject period: 2019 – 2021Project Coordinador: Supervisor: Prof. Javier Llorca (javier.llorca@imdea.org); Fellow: Anxin Ma

(ECOPVC) ECO-FRIENDLY FIRE RETARDANT PVC NANOCOMPOSITES

Funding: China Scholarship CouncilRegion: InternationalProject period: 2013 – 2017Principal Investigator: Dr. De-Yi Wang (deyiwang@imdea.org)The study of fire retardancy in PVC is a very important topic nowadays due to its huge industrial application. ECOPVC project aims to develop a series

(MUFIN) MULTIFUNCTIONAL FIBRE NANOCOMPOSITES

Funding Organisation: Marie Curie Action-CIG, 7th Framework ProgrammeRegion: Europe Project Period: 2012 – 2016Principal Investigator: Dr. Juan José Vilatela (juanjose.vilatela@imdea.org)The subject of this project is the production and study of new composites with multifunctional properties,

(NFRP) NANO-ENGINEERED FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMERS

Funding Organization: Marie Curie Action-CIG, 7th Framework ProgrammeRegion: EuropeProject Period: 2013 – 2017Principal Investigator: Dr. Roberto Guzmán de VilloriaFiber-reinforced polymers (FRP’s), stronger per unit of weight than steel or aluminium, are highly demanded for high-performance

(ECOFIRENANO) NEW GENERATION OF ECO-BENIGN FIRE RETARDANDT AND NANOCOMPOSITES

Funding Organization: Marie Curie Action-CIG, 7th Framework ProgrammeRegion: EuropeProject Period: 2012 – 2016Principal Investigator: Dr. De-Yi Wang (deyi.wang@imdea.org)Fire retardants can significantly improve the fire safety of the materials leading to enhance security and reduction of risks in

(ECURE) ELECTRICALLY-CURABLE RESIN FOR BONDING/REPAIR

Funding Organization: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S. L.Industrial Sector: AerospaceRegion: InternationalProject Period: 2013 – 2015Principal Investigators: Dr. Juan José Vilatela (juanjose.vilatela@imdea.org) and Dr. Juan Pedro Fernández(juanpedro.fernandez@imdea.org)ECURE is an industrial contract between

(CUCCOMP) Development of Cu-C metal matrix composites

Funding: China Scholarship CouncilRegion: InternationalProject period: 2014 – 2015Principal Investigator: Prof. José Manuel Torralba (josemanuel.torralba@imdea.org)Novel Copper-Carbon metal matrix composites will be developed under three different approaches in relationship with the raw materials

(IMS & CPS) FIRE RESISTANCE OF STRUCTURAL COMPOSITES

Funding Organisation: European Union, 7th Framework Programme (Cooperation, NMP Theme)Region: EuropeProject Period: 2010 – 2013Partners: The research consortium is led by COEXPAIR S.A. (Belgium), and comprises EADS France IW, Nanocyl S.A., Alstom, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Výzkumný a zkušební

(DEFCOM) THE EFFECT OF DEFECTS IN STRUCTURAL COMPOSITES

Funding: ERA-Net MATERA, 6th Framework ProgrammeRegion: InternationalProject period: 2008 – 2011Partners: The research consortium is led by IMDEA Materials Institute and includes two manufacturers of composite materials and components (Secar from Austria and Gamesa from Spain) and two research