Publications

The editors of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics have selected our recent paper “Understanding the effect of mechanical strains on the catalytic activity of transition metals”, published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24, 4832–4842, 2022, as a Hot Paper and will

Dr. José Manuel Guevara has obtained the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (formation) from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and has joined IMDEA Materials as a post-doctoral research associate. Dr. Guevara research will be focussed in the application

The poster entitled “The effect of mechanical strains on the catalytic activity of transition metals for the hydrogen evolution and the oxygen reduction reactions” by Carmen Martínez-Alonso, José Manuel Guevara-Vela and Javier LLorca has been elected by the audience as

Materials Research Letters is a high impact, open access journal on the engineering and technology of materials, materials physics and chemistry and novel and emergent materials. Javier LLorca has been appointed editor in charge of the papers dealing with mechanics

The Spanish Supercomputing Network has awarded two research projects to the Mechanics of Materials Research group. The Network will provide 1.69 million of CPU hours to carry out both projects. The first project entitled “Prediction of the phase-diagram of metallic

The thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca and Prof. Javier Segurado and has obtained the highest grade “Sobresaliente cum laude” together with the international mention, as Rodrigo carried out part of his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (USA) has approved one research project entitled “Design of catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction by means of elastic strain engineering”. Pt is the best catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction,

The doctoral thesis of Jingya Wang, entitled “High throughput investigation of diffusion and solid solution hardening of HCP Mg alloys”, has obtained the Award of the Technical University of Madrid to the best doctoral thesis. The thesis was advised by

National Geographic has featured our recent paper on the manufacturing and characterization of porous Mg scaffolds fabricated by 3D printing for bone implants. https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/ciencia/crean-estructura-biodegradable-impresa-3d-para-regenerar-huesos-rotos_16102

Carmen Martínez has obtained the FPU fellowship from the Ministry of Universities to carry out her doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. J. LLorca. Carmen’s thesis will be devoted to modify the catalytic properties of metallic alloys through the

Prof. Javier LLorca has been appointed Executive Editor of Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, one of the leading international, peer-reviewed journals in materials modelling. The journal, published by the Institute of Physics, publishes original research work that

The thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca and Dr. Ilchat Sabirov and has obtained the highest grade “Sobresaliente cum laude” together with the international mention, as Bárbara carried out part of her thesis work at Purdue University. Congratulations to