Materials Processing and Advanced Characterization

This research line concerns mainly the:

• Engineering of multifunctional materials based on their combination, functionalization or microstructural control (e.g. advanced composites, nanostructured cementitious hydraulic binders).

• Characterization of extended materials (such as cellular materials, metallic, ceramic, composite, metallic matrix nanocomposites, cork agglomerate, natural, phase change materials, waste-based and biomaterials), including fracture, fatigue under multiaxial loading, tribology, reaction to high-temperature, and solar radiation.

• Characterization of components, in terms of reliability and maintainability of complex devices, (e.g. biomedical and dental implants, contact lenses, hip prostheses, transports).

• Materials for Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques and subsequent surface and heat treatments, and role in AM-Product Development.