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RESEARCH LINES
The group undertakes diverse research lines, and a generic list is provided below. For more information on any of these topics, please CONTACT us.
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GRAPHENE: NEW INCORPORATION STRATEGIES FOR POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES |
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GRAPHENE AND OTHER 2D MATERIALS: ON-SURFACE CHEMISTRY |
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"CLICK" CHEMISTRY FOR THE DESIGN OF NEW FUNCIONAL MATERIALS |
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NEW MATERIALS FROM BIO-DERIVED WASTE REVALORIZATION |
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POLYMER BLEND AND MESOPOROUS NANOCOMPOSITES |
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FUNCTIONAL ADHESIVES FOR RECYCLING MULTILAYER PACKAGING |
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SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS FOR WATER REMEDIATION AND ENERGY APPLICATIONS |
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CHEMICAL FUNCIONALIZATION OF POLYMERS AND NANOPARTICLES |
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IR MICROSPECTROSCOPY USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION (MIRAS) |
RESEARCH PROJECTS
The most recent Research Projects are presented below:
European Projects
The transition of MultilAyer/multipolymer packagiNg into more sustainable multilayer/single polymer products for the fooD and phArma sectors through the deveLopment of innovative functional Adhesives (MANDALA)
Grant Number 837715
01/07/2019 - 31/12/2022
Biobased Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU), Horizon 2020
Research & Innovation Programme
Project leader: Dr Horacio Salavagione
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National Projects
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL POLYMERIC FIBERS AND FABRICS INCORPORATING GRAPHENE AND RELATED MATERIALS AND BIO-SOURCED MESOPOROUS CARBON STRUCTURES (FUNFIBFAB)
MAT2017-88382-P
01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020
Research Project
in the Excellence Programme of the National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation
Project leader: Dr Horacio Salavagione
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LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS: FROM ULTRA-HIGH VACUUM STUDIES TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (uhv.LDM.app)
MAT2017-85089-C2-1-R
01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020
Subproject in the MINEICO Coordinated Project entitled:
FUNCTIONAL LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL (BIO)SENSING (fun-LDS)
Research Project in the State R+D+i programme Oriented to Societal Challenges
Projec Leaders: Dr. José I. Martínez Ruiz y Prof. J. A. Martín Gago (ICMM-CSIC)
ICTP participant: Dr. Gary Ellis
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SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS FOR AQUEOUS REMEDIATION TREATMENT (SMART)
MAT2014-59674-JIN
16/09/2015 - 15/09/2018
Research Project "Retos-Jovenes" of the MINECO
Project leader: Dr. Peter Shuttleworth
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GRAPHENE AND OTHER 2D ARCHITECTURES VIA ON-SURFACE CHEMISTRY: ADVANCED VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY
MAT2014-54231-C4-4-P
01/01/2015 - 31/12/2017
Subproject in a Coordinated Project of the MINECO entitled:
GRAPHENE AND OTHER 2D ARCHITECTURES VIA ON-SURFACE CHEMISTRY (G*SURF)
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
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HIERARCHICAL MULTIFUNCTIONAL POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON GRAPHENE: DEVELOPMENT, MORPHOLOGY, SOLID-STATE PROPERTIES
MAT2013-47898-C2-2-R
01/01/2014 - 31/12/2016
Subproject in a Coordinated Project of the MINECO entitled:
NANOSCALE PROPERTIES OF HIERARCHICAL POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON GRAPHENE
Project leaders: Prof. Marian A. Gómez-Fatou, Dr. Horacio Salavagione
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IDEAPOLNAN: INTERPHASE-DRIVEN ENHANCEMENT OF ADVANCED POLYMER BLEND AND NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS
MAT-2010-02170-C02-00
01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014
Coordinated Project of the Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (MINECO)
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
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BLENDYNIT: NANOCOMPOSITE DESIGN STRATEGIES BASED ON POLYMER BLEND DYNAMICS AND ASYMMETRIC INTERPHASE MODIFICATION
MAT-2010-02170-C02-01
01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014
Subproject 1 of the Coordinated Project of the MINECO
Project Leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON GRAPHENE FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
MAT-2009-09335
01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013
Project of the Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (MINECO)
Project Leader: Dr. Horacio Salavagione
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NEW POLYMER BLEND NANOCOMPOSITES VIA NANOPARTICLE DEPLOYMENT AND SYNERGETICS
201160E003
01/01/2011 - 31/12/2012
Proyecto Intramural Especial of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Project Leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
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International Projects
GREEN COMPOSITE MATERIALS MADE FROM NATURAL FIBRES AND PLANT PROTEINS
2017A030310300
01/05/2017 - 30/04/2020
Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (China)
Project leader (España): Dr. Peter Shuttleworth
DEVELOPMENT OF MULTICOMPONENT MATERIALS BASED ON GRAPHENE HYDROGELS: APPLICATIONS
PICT-2013-2716
25/06/2013 – 24/06/2016
Research and Collaboration Project of the FONCYT (Argentina)
Project Leader (España): Dr. Horacio Salavagione
NANOCOMPOSITE ENHANCEMENT OF NATURALLY DERIVED MESOPOROUS CARBONS
i-LINK-0636
01/01/2013 - 31/12/2014
CSIC i-LINK+ International Collaboration with the University of York, UK
Project Leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
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Large scale infrastructures
POLARIZATION MODULATION EXPERIMENT
ALBA-CELLS – Project No. FU-2018012574
ALBA Light Source, Cerdanyola del Vallès, España.
2018
Project leader: Dr. Ibraheem Yousef
Participants:
Dr. Gary Ellis, Dr. Peter Shuttleworth
POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF MIRAS: OPTIMIZATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION DICHROIC INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY II
ALBA-CELLS – Project No. 2017092499
ALBA Light Source, Cerdanyola del Vallès, España.
2018
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
DO LAMELLAE TWIST? POLARIZATION-MODULATED SYNCHROTRON IR MICROSPECTROSCOPY STUDIES ON SPHERULITIC SUPERSTRUCTURES IN SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYMERS 
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EU, Project No. 17205671-ST/R
BESSY Synchrotron, HZB Berlin, Alemania
2018
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF MIRAS: OPTIMIZATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION DICHROIC INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY
ALBA-CELLS – Project No. 2017032181
ALBA Light Source, Cerdanyola del Vallès, España.
2017
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
DO LAMELLAE TWIST? POLARIZATION-MODULATED SYNCHROTRON IR MICROSPECTROSCOPY STUDIES ON SPHERULITIC SUPERSTRUCTURES IN SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYMERS
EU, Project No. 17103985-ST
BESSY Synchrotron, HZB Berlin, Alemania
2017
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
SYNCHROTRON INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY TO PROBE MICROSCALE MORPHOLOGIES IN NOVEL HYBRID POLYMER BLEND NANOCOMPOSITES
ALBA-CELLS – Project No. 2016091892
ALBA Light Source, Cerdanyola del Vallès, España.
2017
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
SYNCHROTRON INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY OF SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE MATERIALS
ALBA-CELLS – Project No. 2016091850
ALBA Light Source, Cerdanyola del Vallès, España.
2017
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
PHASE BEHAVIOUR OF ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE UNDER EXTREME PRESSURES
EU (ESRF), Project No. MA-2976
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France
2016
Project leader: Dr. Dario Cavallo, University of Genova (Italy)
Participants: Dr. Gary Ellis
NOVEL SYNCHROTRON-IR APPROACH FOR THE STUDY OF ON-SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF GRAPHENE
20150689
EU Access to Synchrotron SOLEIL, Paris, France
1st semester 2016
Project leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
ASSESSMENT OF THE INTERPHASE IN GRAPHENE-BASED HIERARCHICAL POLYMER COMPOSITES
I-20140214EC
EU Access to Synchrotron DESY (PETRA III), Hamburg, Germany
Period: 2015
Project Leader: Dr. Horacio Salavagione
Participants: Susana Quiles, Prof. Marián Gómez-Fatou.
Other participants: Dr. Araceli Flores (IEM-CSIC), Dr. Fernando Ania (IEM-CSIC), Patricia Enrique (IEM-CSIC)
NANOSTRUCTURE OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL POL(STYRENE-b (ETHYLENE-CO-BUTYLENE)-b-STYRENE)/GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITES
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Access to ALBA Synchrotron, Barcelona, Spain
Period: 2015
Project Leader: Dr. Araceli Flores (IEM-CSIC).
Participants: Dr. Horacio Salavagione, Susana Quiles, Prof. Marián Gómez-Fatou.
Other participants: Dr. Fernando Ania (IEM-CSIC), Patricia Enrique (IEM-CSIC)
DETERMINATION IN SITU OF IR METABOLIC PROFILE OF NEURAL STEM CELLS WITH INDUCED DIFFERENTIATION BY FUNCTIONAL POLYMER SUBSTRATES (II)
20140921
EU Access to Synchrotron SOLEIL, Paris, France
1st semester 2015
Project leader: Dr. Leoncio Garrido
Participant: Dr. Gary Ellis
PHASE BEHAVIOUR OF ISOTACTIC PROPYLENE AT ELEVATED PRESSURES
20140009
EU Access to Synchrotron SOLEIL, Paris, France
1st semester 2015
Project leader: : Dr. Dario Cavallo, Univ. Genova (Italy)
Participant: Dr. Gary Ellis
DETERMINATION IN SITU OF IR METABOLIC PROFILE OF NEURAL STEM CELLS WITH INDUCED DIFFERENTIATION BY FUNCTIONAL POLYMER SUBSTRATES (I)
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EU Access to Synchrotron SOLEIL, Paris, France
1st semester 2014
Project leader: Dr. Leoncio Garrido
Participant: Dr. Gary Ellis
CATALYTIC BEHAVIOUR OF METAL CLUSTERS USING INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
20130999
EU Access to Synchrotron SOLEIL, Paris, France
1st semester 2014
Project leader: Dr. Patricia Concepción Heydorn, ITQ-CSIC, Valencia
Participant: Dr. Gary Ellis
SYNCHROTRON INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF SELF-SEEDING IN ISOTACTIC POLY(1-BUTENE): DEFYING OSTWALD'S RULE OF STAGES
20130363
EU Access to Synchrotron SOLEIL, Paris, France
2nd semester 2013
Project leader: Dr. Dario Cavallo, Univ. Genova (Italy)
Participant: Dr. Gary Ellis
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PROTEIN ASSISTED TEETH REMINERALIZATION PROCESS BY SYNCHROTRON IR MICROSPECTROSCOPY
20130214
EU Access to Synchrotron SOLEIL, Paris, France
2nd semester 2013
Project leader: Mrs. Olga Kotkowska, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona
Participant: Dr. Gary Ellis
BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER BLEND NANOCOMPOSITES FOR ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
I-20110152 EC
Julio 2011 - Julio 2012
EU financed Access to DESY Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
Project Leader: Dr. Mohammed Naffakh
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SYNCHROTRON INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY STUDIES ON FUNCTIONAL POLYMER BLEND - NANOFILLER HYBRIDS AND BIOCOMPOSITES FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING APLICATIONS
SM-7860
1st semester 2012
EU financed Access to DIAMOND Synchrotron, Oxfordshire, UK
Project Leader: Dr. Gary Ellis
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KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
INDUSTRY
The group has maintained throughout its history an intimate relationship with the polymeric materials industrial sector through more than 30 Research Contracts with various companies, such as...
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... centred on diverse matierials, including polyolefins (polypropylene, polyethylene and copolymers), synthetic rubbers (SBS, SEBS), polyamides and polyesters, for various application areas, and in various forms, such as blends and composites, fibres, monolayer and multilayer films, etc.
Por otra parte se ha mantenido relaciones de cooperación técnica con diferentes empresas.
PATENTS
The group has developed a series of patents that are described below:
CYRENE TERNARY MIXTURES FOR THE ENHANCED USE OF DISPERSION AND SOLVATION |
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| MESOPOROUS MATERIALS FROM NANOCOMPOSITE ENHANCED POLYSACCHARIDES Owners: CSIC y Universidad de York, UK Refs: UK Pat. App. GB1416239.0 and PCT/GB15/052676 of 15/09/2015 Priority date: 15/09/2014 |
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NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS OF POLYPROPYLENE AND CARBON NITRIDES, PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINMENT THEREOF AND APPLICATIONS |
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MATERIAL NANOCOMPUESTO REFORZADO CON UN DERIVADO POLIMERICO INJERTADO EN UN NANOMATERIAL DE CARBONO |
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MATERIALES NANOCOMPUESTOS DE POLIAMIDAS Y FULERENOS INORGANICOS CON PROPIEDADES TERMICAS, TRIBOLOGICAS Y MECANO-DINAMICAS MEJORADAS Y SU APLICACION COMO RECUBRIMIENTOS |
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MATERIALES NANOCOMPUESTOS DE POLIPROPILENO Y NITRUROS DE CARBONO, PROCEDIMIENTO PARA SU OBTENCION Y APLICACIONES |
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PROCEDIMIENTO DE OBTENCION DE MATERIALES NANOCOMPUESTOS DE POLIMEROS CLORADOS Y NANOESTRUCTURAS DE CARBONO |
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| MATERIAL POLIMERO EN POLVO MODIFICADO POR PLASMA PARA USO COMO AGENTE COMPATIBILIZANTE EN MEZCLAS Y COMPOSITES POLIMERICOS Owner: CSIC Ref: PCT/ES09/070384 del 16/09/2009 |
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