IMDEA Materials news

Hotnano will work on overcoming the instrumental limitations to apply nanoindentation, nanocmechanics characterization technique, at high temperatures to a range of structural materials, from advanced composites to nanostructured metals and ceramics.

Link to Project: HOTNANO.-High temperature nanoindentation

On July 13th, three EUITA (UPM) students defended their bachelor theses, carried out at IMDEA Materials Institute, obtaining the maximum grade with Honors.

Carlos Cabeza Barrantes, has been awarded with the FOINDESA 2010 prize for the best EUITA (UPM) bachelor thesis in the Equipments and Aerospace Materials specialty. The project “Nanoindentation for in-situ characterization of composites”, was carried out at IMDEA Materials facilities advised by the researchers M.Rodriguez and J.Molina within the framework of the collaboration agreement between EUITA and IMDEA Materials.

Researchers from IMDEA Materials and the Materials Science Department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), members of the ESTRUMAT programme (Advanced Structural Materials), participate in the European project MAAXIMUS, which aims to develop new simulation techniques to design aircraft structures fabricated from composite materials.

Link to the complete text: Madri+d

It's official. President Barack Obama has chosen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering (MIT) Dean Subra Suresh to be the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prof. Suresh is member of the Board of Trustees and Scientific Council of IMDEA Materials.

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