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IMDEA Materials Institute has welcomed Prof. Yoji Shibutani from Osaka University to give a guest seminar on how defect interactions between dislocation and grain boundaries (GB) affect the inside of the grain on September 1st, 2023,

1 September, 2023

Prof. Shibutani is an expert in solid mechanics, in particular the defect theory of materials and plasticity from a multiscale view and nondestructive observation techniques. His presentation sought to address the challenge of modeling plastic deformation at various length scales,

Wahaaj Ali defended his PhD thesis entitled “Bioabsorbable composite laminates of PLA reinforced with surface-modified Mg wires for orthopedic implant applications”” on July 24th at the Carlos III University of Madrid

24 July, 2023

The thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca and Prof. Carlos González and obtained the highest grade “Sobresaliente cum laude”. Congratulations to the new doctor from the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group.

Abbas Jamali defended his PhD thesis entitled “Fatigue behavior and fatigue crack initiation micromechanisms of rolled AZ31 Mg alloy” on July 19th at the Technical University of Madrid

19 July, 2023

The thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca and Dr. Anxin Ma and obtained the highest grade “Sobresaliente cum laude”. Congratulations to the new doctor from the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group.

Javier LLorca participates in the Chinese Materials Conference in Shenzhen and visits the National Facility for Translational Medicine in Shanghai Jiao Tong University

11 July, 2023

Javier LLorca gave two keynote lectures at the Chinese Materials Conference in Shenzhen in the symposia devoted to “Materials Simulation, Computation, and Design” and “Magnesium alloys”. In addition, he visited the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Shanghai Jiao

Prof. G. Yuan from Shanghai Jia Tong University visited the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials research group on June 30th and gave a seminar.

2 July, 2023

The seminar was entitled “Research & Development of biodegradable Mg-based vascular stent”. Prof. G. Yuan is professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and also belongs to the National Engineering Research Center of

Supercomputing time from the Spanish Supercomputing Network has been granted for two projects on the discovery of new catalysts and the calculation of phase diagrams through first principles calculations

27 June, 2023

The first project (High-Throughput Discovery of New Catalysts for the Hydrogen Economy by Combining Ab Initio Calculations and Machine Learning) will use first principles calculations to determine the adsorption energy of H, O and OH on the surface of different

Carmen Martínez presents her research at the EuroMech Colloquium on “Modulation of physico-chemical processes by elastic strain engineering”

1 June, 2023

Carmen Martínez gave an invited talk at the EuroMech Colloquium on “Modulation of physico-chemical processes by elastic strain engineering” celebrated in Besançon (France), May 22nd-23rd, 2023. The Colloquium explored -from a multidisciplinary perspective- the potential of elastic strain engineering to

Wei Shao and Biaobiao Yang have passed their First Year Assessments and move towards their PhD.

1 May, 2023

Wei Shao presented her First Year Assessment entitled “First principles prediction of Al-based binary phase diagrams” on April 21st and Biaobiao Yang presented his First Year Assessment entitled “Deformation mechanisms of dual-textured Mg-6.5Zn alloy with limited tension-compression yield asymmetry” on

Javier LLorca recieves the Structural Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS).

21 March, 2023

Javier LLorca received the award at the 152nd Annual Meeting of the TMS in San Diego, California during the StructuralMaterials/Functional Materials Divisions Luncheon. This year’s award was presented to Prof. LLorca “for his contributions towards establishing processing-microstructure-property linkages in structural

Javier LLorca has given two invited scientific seminars at the Technical University of Warsaw and NOMATEN

15 February, 2023

Prof. Javier LLorca has given to scientific seminars in Warsaw on February 13th and 14th. They summarise several research activities in the areas of materials for health and multiscale materials modelling. The first one entitled “3D printed multimaterial bioabsorbable scaffolds

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