Additive alloy melting: Speeding up future alloy development

Miguel Cristóbal (IMDEA Materiales & CENIM, CSIC) Members of IMDEA Materials Institute and of the National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM-CSIC) are working together on the development of a novel method to accelerate the design of metallic alloys named Additive Alloy Melting, or ADAM. This method allows to limit significantly the time required to fabricate new alloys that meet the increasing demands of the energy, transport or biomedical sectors, which is currently carried out by costly and time consuming trial…

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Seminar Dr. Isaac Toda-Caraballo: An overview on the designing High Entropy Alloys

Dr. Isaac Toda-Caraballo: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. University of Cambridge (UK) Within the last two decades, a new type of material has been increasingly explored. Widely known as High Entropy Alloys (HEAs), they contrast with most of the existing metallic materials in which they do not contain a major element, such as steels, aluminium alloys or magnesium alloys. Their original definition assumes 5 or more different elements, with composition between 5% and 35% of atomic content, displaying a…

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From Katanas to nanolayered composites, a similar processing route

Rafael Sancho Cadenas: Pre-doctoral UPM-MMEAN (DIMMAT-CM PROJECT) From 2010, when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, graphene has become one of the most important topical issues in the world of Materials Science because of its outstanding properties of strength and electrical conductivity. Adapting the folding-forging technique, which was used by Japanese sword-smiths to combine the hardness of high-carbon steel with the toughness of low-carbon steel to…

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Diseño de materiales con propiedades extraordinarias mediante la aplicación de deformaciones elásticas

Dr. Teresa Pérez Prado: Physical Metallurgy Group (IMDEA Materials Institute) En un banquete de la Sociedad Americana de Física, el 29 de Diciembre de 1959, Richard Feynman pronunció su ya mundialmente famosa conferencia titulada “There is plenty of room at the bottom”. Por aquel entonces ya concebía un mundo en el que los 24 volúmenes de la Encyclopedia Britannica se podrían escribir en la cabeza de un alfiler mediante un microscopio electrónico. Además, pronosticó que, en el mundo de lo…

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Seminar Dr. Alexander Zhilyaev: Bulk nanostructured materials processed by severe plastic deformation: from fundamentals towards applications

Dr. Alexander Zhilyaev: Fundació CTM Centre Tecnològic (Spain) and Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of Russian Academy of Science (Russia) In recent years, the development of bulk nanostructured materials (BNM) has become one of the most fascinating directions in modern materials science. One method of nanostructuring is the “top-down” approach which is based on grain refinement through heavy straining or shock wave loading. During the last two decades, grain refinement by severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques has attracted special interest…

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Summer School on Advanced Processing of Metallic Materials

The last 28th and 29th of June IMDEA Materials Institute hosted the first Summer School on Advanced Processing of Metallic Materials. This event was organized under the auspices of the DIMMAT-Project for 2016 (dissemination and training programme). This course was offered for undergraduates and graduates in sciences and engineering, and also for industry professionals in advanced materials. Lectures were carried out by distinguished scientists, technologists and industry practitioners participating in the DIMMAT consortium as well as in other technological centers…

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Nace el Blog «Diseño de Materiales Avanzados»

A lo largo de la historia el ser humano ha trabajado incansablemente para desarrollar materiales con propiedades más avanzadas que las disponibles en su época. El descubrimiento progresivo de nuevos materiales ha sido vital para alcanzar el nivel de vida actual de las sociedades occidentales. Estos han permitido mejorar las tecnologías de construcción y de las comunicaciones, desarrollar medios de transporte más rápidos, idear tratamientos médicos más eficaces y menos intrusivos, y aprovechar de forma más eficiente los recursos energéticos.…

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