Projects

Current Projects

PD-MPEA

Phase Diagram of MultiPrincipal Element Alloys

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellowships, grant agreement nº 101148301

Principal Investigators: C. Shi & J. LLorca

Duration: 2024-2026

BIOMEND Doctoral Network
BIOMEND is an Industrial Doctorate Network that will provide world-class interdisciplinary training to 15 high-achieving Doctoral Candidates  in the area of BIOabsorbable Metallic ENdovascular Medical Devices. The scientific objective is to develop the next-generation bioabsorbable metals for endovascular medical devices for both cardiovascular and peripheral applications

Funding: European Union, Horizon Europe, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement nº 101120006)

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2024-2027

Webpage: biomend.eu

MACS

Novel Magnesium alloys for bone tissue engineering manufactured by selective laser melting.

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellowships, grant agreement nº 1011105323

Principal Investigators: M. Sabbaghian & J. LLorca

Duration: 2024-2026

MetaLeish

Metals against Leishmaniasis

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellowships, grant agreement nº 101110142

Principal Investigators: B. Gomes & J. LLorca

Duration: 2023-2025

HighHydrogenML

High-throughput Discovery of Catalysts for the Hydrogen Economy through Machine Learning

Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellowships, grant agreement nº 101105610

Principal Investigators:  V. Vassilev-Galindo & J. LLorca

Duration: 2023-2025

MAD2D-CM

Materials with advanced functionalities for the new technological transformation

Funding: Comunidad de Madrid, Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, and NextGenerationEU from the European Union

Principal Investigators:  J. LLorca

Duration: 2022-2025

DITTCE

Implantable devices for the treatment of brain tumors through electric fields .

Funding: Research Agency of Spain (reference PLEC2022-009308). Strategic projects for the recovery, transformation and resilience.

Principal Investigators: M. Echeverry-Rendón and J. LLorca

Duration: 2022-2025

CATbyESE

High-throughput strategies for the discovery of new catalysts for the hydrogen economy through elastic strain engineering

Funding: Research Agency of Spain (reference TED2021-129497B-I00). Oriented projects for the ecological and digital transition.

Principal Investigators: J. LLorca and J. Molina-Aldareguía

Duration: 2022-2024

MultiMat-3D

Design and fabrication of multimaterial bioresorbable scaffolds by 3D printing for osteochondral tissue regeneration

Funding: Research Agency of Spain (reference PID2021-124389OB)

Principal Investigators: J. LLorca and J. Sánchez del Río

Duration: 2022-2025

BIOMET4D
Smart 4D biodegradable metallic shape-shifting implants for dynamic tissue restoration

Funding: European Union, Horizon Europe, EIC Pathfinder Open program

Principal Investigator: J. Patterson, J. Molina-Aldareguía, J. LLorca

Duration: 2022-2026

i-IMPLANTS-CM

Printing of metamaterials using shape memory alloys and functional gradients for a new generation of smart implants

Funding: Synergy program, Comunidad de Madrid

Principal Investigators: J. Molina / M. Echeverry / J. LLorca

Duration: 2021-2024

Completed Projects

Design of new bimetallic alloys with catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction through elastic strain engineering using first principles calculations
Design of new bimetallic alloys with catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction through elastic strain engineering using first principles calculations 

Funding: European High Performance Computing  Joint Undertaking (PRACE REG-2022R01-040)

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2022-2023

MAMAP-CM

Materials and Models Against Pandemics

Funding: Comunidad de Madrid

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2021-2022

Design of catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction by means of elastic strain engineering

Design of catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction by means of elastic strain engineering

Funding: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2021-2022

Prediction of the phase-diagram of metallic alloys of technological interest from cluster expansion and statistical mechanics

Funding: Spanish Supercomputing Network.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2020-2021

ATOM DESIGN 2

Atomistic simulations of heterogeneous precipitate nucleation for optimum design of light alloys for green transportation

Funding: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2020-2021

MAPAA

Multiscale analysis of precipitation in Al-Cu alloys

Funding: Individual Fellowships, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 program, European Union
Principal Investigators: S. Liu and J. LLorca

Duration: 2020-2022

“María de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence accreditation of IMDEA Materials Institute

“María de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence accreditation of IMDEA Materials Institute

Funding: Research Agency of Spain

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2019-2022

MAFMA

Multiscale Analysis of Fatigue in Mg Alloys

Funding: Individual Fellowships, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 program, European Union
Principal Investigators: A. Ma and J. LLorca

Duration: 2019-2021

HEXAGB

Grain Boundaries in Hexagonal microstructures: Linking processing and properties in lightweight structural alloys

Funding: Research Agency of Spain (reference RTI2018-098245-B)

Principal Investigators: J. LLorca and D. Tourret

Duration: 2019-2021

MAT4.0-CM

Smart manufacturing of advanced materials for energy, transport and health

Funding: Comunidad de Madrid (reference P2018/NMT-4381)

Principal Investigators: J. M. Molina-Aldareguía

Duration: 2019-2022

BioImplant is a European Industrial Doctorate-Innovation Training Network to develop improved bioresorbable materials for orthopaedic and vascular implant applications

Funding: European Union, Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovate Training Network (Grant Agreement No. 813869)

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2019-2023

Webpage: https://bioimplantitn.eu

SAM

Superalloys for additive manufacturing

Funding: Renishaw

Principal Investigators: M. T. Pérez-Prado and J. LLorca

Duration: 2018-2021

MULTIFOAM

Multiscale Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of Polyurethane Foams

Funding: BASF

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2018-2019

This project will transfer to BASF the multiscale modelling framework developed in the thesis of Dr. M. Marvi-Mashhadi to simulate the mechanical behavior of polyurethane foams. The strategy can take into account the influence of the foam microstructure (density, cell anisotropy, ratio of bulk material between walls and struts, etc.) on the mechanical properties in compression until densification of open and closed-cell s foams, including the effect of gas pressure within the cells in the latter case.

The framework was developed within the framework of the project MODENA (Modelling of morphology Development of micro- and Nano Structures), which was supported by the European Union 7th Framework Programme (NMP4-SL-2013-604271).

Characterization and modelling of dislocation-interface interactions in metallic laminates at multiple
scales

Funding: Individual Fellowships, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 program, European Union
Principal Investigators: J. M. Molina-Aldareguía and J. LLorca

Duration: 2018-2019

Atomistic simulations of precipitate-strengthening for optimum design of light alloys for green transport

Funding: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2017-2020

VIRMETAL

Virtual design, virtual processing and virtual testing of metallic materials.

Funding: Advanced Grant, European Research Council.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2015-2020

MODENA

Modelling of morphology development of micro- and nano structures.

Funding: 7th Framework Program, European Union.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2014-2016

Multiscale Modelling of Precipitation Strengthening in Metallic Alloys

Funding: Spanish Supercomputing Network.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca.

Duration: 2017-2019.

ICMEG

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Expert Group.

Funding: 7th Framework Program, European Union.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca

Duration: 2013-2016

Multiscale design of advanced materials.

Funding: Comunidad de Madrid.

Principal Investigator: M. T. Pérez-Prado.

Duration: 2015-2018

Multiscale approach for the simulation of thermomechanical problems under severe conditions: application to machining.

Funding: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

Principal Investigator: I. Romero

Duration: 2016-2018

MICROFRAC

Visualization and modelling of fracture at the microscale.

Funding: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, H2020, European Union.

Principal Investigator: A. Weck.

Duration: 2015-2016.

 

CRASHING

Characterization of structural behaviour for hIgh frequency phenomena.

Funding: Joint Technology Initiative, Clean-Sky program, 7th Framework Program, European Union.

Principal Investigator: C. S. Lópes

Duration: 2014-2016

Multifunctional and Damage Tolerant Composites.

Funding: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

Principal Investigator: C. González.

Duration: 2013-2016.

VMD

Virtual Materials Design Platform.

Funding: Abengoa Research.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca.

Duration: 2012-2016.

ITER PCRs

Structural analysis of ITER pre-compression rings.

Funding: EADS CASA Espacio.

Principal Investigator: C. González.

Duration: 2012-2015.

SIMSCREEN

Simulation for screening properties of materials.

Funding: Airbus Operations.

Principal Investigator: C. González.

Duration: 2012-2014.

 

MICROMECH

Microstructure-based material mechanical models for superalloys.

Funding: Joint Technology Initiative, Clean-Sky program, 7th Framework Program, European Union

Principal Investigator: J. Segurado.

Duration: 2013-2016.

RADINTERFACES

Interface Design of Crystalline Materials with Improved Radiation Damage resistance Based on Multiscale Modelling Concepts

Funding: 7th Framework Program, European Union.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca.

Duration: 2011-2014.

Microstructural evolution and mechanical behavior of Mg-Mn-RE alloys

Funding: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and US National Science Foundation.

Principal Investigator: J. LLorca.

Duration: 2011-2014.