Areas Focused

Areas Focused

Advanced materials

Ceramics, Glasses, Polymers (plastics), Composites, Semiconductors, Magnetic materials, Biological materials, Biomimetics materials, Siloca, Carbon materials, Metals, Alloys, Intermetallics, Energy materials, Nanostructured materials and Nanocomposites.

All kinds of functional materials used for the development of medical implants in medicine and in dentistry, coatings and films, pigments, ionic crystals, covalent crystals, metals, and intermetallics.

Novel processing methods

Additive manufacturing, friction welding, severe plastic deformation, phase transformations.

Advanced characterization, analysis, and modelling of material behaviour

Material characterization techniques such as electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, calorimetry, nuclear microscopy and spectroscopy, laser technology, optical fibers, Rutherford backscattering, and neutron diffraction, among others.

Fundamental research

Fundamental research in condensed matter physics and materials physics, continuum mechanics and statistics, mechanics of materials, tribology (friction, lubrication and wear), solid-state physics, etc.