🤔 Ever wondered how we can tell which elements are in a material, and in what amounts? 👩‍🔬 In #BIOMET4D Science Explained, IMDEA Materials' Blanca Limones walks us through one of the key analytical techniques used in the Horizon Europe BIOMET4D project: ICP-OES. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwo...

🏆 Prof. Javier LLorca’s Miguel Catalán Award 2025 consolidates his position as one of the leading scientific figures in the @comunidadmadrid.bsky.social. However, this latest recognition is not just another accolade for this born-and-bred“madrileño”. Read more: materials.imdea.org/from-madrid-...

👏 IMDEA Materials Institute would like to recognise and congratulate our doctoral researcher, Mingyang Zhang, who successfully defended her thesis entitled: "Fire-safe lithium-ion batteries: material, assessment, and mechanism" at @upm.es last week! Great work, Mingyang!

👋 Today, we present our High-Performance Polymers and Fire Retardants group, led by Prof. De-Yi Wang. Founded by Prof. Wang in 2012, it focuses on application-oriented fundamental problems and novel technologies in fire safety engineering. +info: materials.imdea.org/groups/hppn/

🤝 We have taken a new step in strengthening international collaboration by signing a Framework Collaboration Agreement with INEGI, one of Portugal’s leading research and technology organisations in mechanical and industrial engineering. +info: materials.imdea.org/imdea-materi...

👩‍🔬 In this webinar, Dr. Gina Greenidge from the National Physical Laboratory hosts IMDEA Materials' Prof. Teresa Pérez Prado, to explore how additively manufactured Fe-based metallic glasses can improve the efficiency of electric motors via reduced energy losses. 🔗 youtu.be/xRn1V_6V_XM?...

🔌 Building the electric motor of the future: #AM2SoftMag In the final episode of #AM2SoftMag: Science Explained, IMDEA Materials' Marcos Rodríguez presents this Horizon European project, uniting top research and industry partners from several European countries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyF...

⏳ There is just 1 month remaining to apply for the #ATENEA MSCA Actions Co-Fund #postdoctoral #fellowship programme, coordinated by IMDEA Materials. We especially encourage female candidates who can bring their talent and expertise to this wide-reaching MSE project.

👨‍🔬 Led by Dr. Pedro J. Díaz Payno, our new 'Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Materials' group aims to develop advanced biomaterials and organoids - miniature organ models - to regenerate tissues such as bone, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons. 📖 materials.imdea.org/towards-lab-...

👏 Two of our predocs, Paula Chonillo and Yufei Liu, with Sepideh Khalatabad from UGent and Fan Chen from @universitedeliege.bsky.social, share thoughts on the big questions facing researchers! Paula and Yufei are IMDEA Materials team members on #AID4GREENEST. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3zX...

1/2...🥳 Felicitamos a nuestro Director Científico, el Prof. Javier LLorca, !galardonado con el Premio Miguel Catalán de la @comunidadmadrid.extwitter.link! El Prof. LLorca fue destacado por ser pionero en la aplicación sistemática de herramientas computacionales y estrategias de simulación...

🥽 During this year's #BIOMET4D project meeting at RWTH Aachen University Hospital, researchers from IMDEA Materials and @upm.es stepped into the future of research training: Virtual Reality (#VR). It’s a clear example of how such Horizon Europe projects enable international collaboration.

💡 What if we could #3Dprint the perfect magnetic material? In this episode of #AM2SoftMag: Science Explained, IMDEA Materials' Saumya Sadanand explores how #additivemanufacturing is unlocking the potential of #BulkMetallicGlasses. #3DPrinting www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ebr...

🏆 We would like to congratulate the three winners of our annual Four Minute Thesis Talk (#4MT) event, held earlier this week: predoctoral researchers Wei Tang, Ángela García de la Camacha Díaz and Marcos Rodríguez Sánchez!

👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 On Tuesday, IMDEA Materials held our annual Four Minute Thesis Talk (#4MT), with 13 of our predoctoral researchers taking part. The 4MT event challenges young researchers to present their thesis clearly and engagingly to a non-specialist audience in just four minutes.

🧲 They’re at the heart of modern technology. But, what exactly are soft magnetic materials? In this week’s #AM2SoftMag: Science Explained, researcher Saumya Sadanand explains what makes Soft Magnetic Materials so special, and how they can boost motor efficiency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFZm...

🤝 #BIOMET4D have met at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen to share progress, strengthen collaborations, and plan next steps to shape the future of smart, bioresorbable implants. In this video, members of the project share their impressions of the meeting and the advances made. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🎥 ¡Aquí les mostramos un vistazo a todo lo que ha estado ocurriendo hasta ahora en #FITEA2025, el Forum de Innovación, Talento y Educación Aeroespacial 2025 en el Instituto IMDEA Materiales!

🚀 Uno de los aspectos más emocionantes de #FITEA2025 es su colaboración con la final del Mars Challenge. El #RetoMarte es una iniciativa que invita a estudiantes de Iberoamérica a desarrollar soluciones innovadoras para la vida en Marte y la sostenibilidad en la Tierra.

🔍 Great insights from our AID4GREENEST research partners at the University of Oulu. This video, featuring researcher Rishabh Bharadwaj, offers a look at how experimental characterisation supports the development of accurate modelling tools within #AID4GREENEST. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSOT...

✈️ ¡Esta mañana, hemos celebrado la espectacular inauguración del Forum de Innovación, Talento y Educación Aeroespacial 2025 (#FITEA2025) en IMDEA Materiales! El acto de apertura reunió a destacadas personalidades del ámbito gubernamental, educativo y del sector aeroespacial.

⚡ Electric motors power our world. But, how do they really work? In this episode of AM2SoftMag: Science Explained, IMDEA Materials' Marcos Rodríguez explains the science of electrical machines and the role of magnetic materials in their efficiency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ERL...

⚡ One of the most exciting areas of materials research is #catalysis and #energymaterials. That is why IMDEA Materials has been so pleased to see the growth in our Catalysis and Energy Materials research group, led by Prof. Dr. Harun Tuysuz, in the past 12 months!

👨‍🔬 "If I were to give one piece of advice, it would be to stay curious". 📽️ In the latest edition of our #PHDPerspective series, we speak with Ignacio Rodríguez, a former #doctoral student in our Sustainable Metallurgy Group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fORn...

👩‍🔬 Bacterias que depuran agua, biomateriales impresos en 3D para "tejer" el cerebro, comunicación cuántica segura, gymkhana de software... 🤔 Si te interesan estos y otros muchos temas, ven a los #IMDEAInstitutes en la #SemanaCienciaInnovación. + Inf.: c.madrid/66m47

👋 We are delighted to welcome Dr. Julia Lyubina, Head of Global New Business Development at @evonik.bsky.social Creavis and Prof. at @tuda.bsky.social to our Industrial Advisory Board! Dr. Lyubina brings lengthy experience at the intersection of materials innovation and industrial application.

Beyond its capability to create intricate geometries, #LPBF additive manufacturing is a powerful tool to tailor the microstructure of metallic materials. Last Friday, we were pleased to welcome a guest seminar from Dr. Christos Sofras from @empa-materials.bsky.social on this fascinating topic.

🎉 IMDEA Materials is proud to congratulate Prof. Maria Pau Ginebra @upc.edu, and a member of IMDEA Materials Institute’s Scientific Council, on receiving Spain’s most prestigious distinction in engineering: the Leonardo Torres Quevedo National Research Award 2025!

📝 IMDEA Materials Institute is proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as the inauguration of the LAF–IMDEA Joint Research Centre for Light Alloys and Technology.

🚨 We are #hiring! IMDEA Materials is looking for a #PhD researcher to join an exciting project funded by the @comunidadmadrid.extwitter.link, integrating experimental biology, materials engineering, and computational modelling (#digitaltwins). +info: jobs.materials.imdea.org/offer/view?i...

📽️ We bring you the 8th video in our #PHDPerspectives series, this time with former IMDEA Materials predoctoral researcher, Guillermo Domínguez! During his doctoral studies, Guillermo focused on research into bioabsorbable materials for biomedical applications. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTcW...

🏮 We are #hiring! IMDEA Materials is on the hunt for #Postdoctoral Researchers to work on cutting-edge technologies for #composite materials. These opportunities are part of our recently launched #ATENEA MSCA co-fund PF programme. +info: atenea-cofund.eu

🏃‍♂️ Can smarter materials help prevent sports injuries and boost performance? Dr. Ruben Sanchez-Gomez from @ucm.es explored how reactive polymeric materials and a new generation of technologies could transform sports footwear in his guest seminar at IMDEA Materials last week.

🎖️ On Tuesday, IMDEA Materials Institute's Prof. Jose Manuel Torralba was inducted as a full member of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Prof. Torralba is a Senior Researcher and former Director of IMDEA Materials, as well as a Professor at @uc3m.es. +info: materials.imdea.org/prof-jose-ma...

🎉 12 of our scientists have featured in @stanforduniversity.bsky.social's global rankings of scientific excellence. Four rank among the top 500 worldwide in their fields: Profs. Drs. Andrés Díaz Lantada, Javier LLorca, Harun Tuysuz and De-Yi Wang. +info: materials.imdea.org/four-imdea-m...

👏 We were pleased to welcome Prof. Sam Kassegne from San Diego State University for a guest seminar entitled: Re-Imagining Carbon: The Quest for Material Discovery and Synthesis of New and Novel Carbon Hybrids. 🙏 We thank Prof. Kassgne for sharing his expertise with us! @sdsuresearch.bsky.social

👋 IMDEA Materials recently welcomed a visit from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, led by Vice Minister Yong Qiu. The visit forms part of our efforts to strengthen international collaborations. You can read more about the visit: materials.imdea.org/imdea-materi...

😆 The #ATENEA MSCActions-COFUND Fellowship Programme has officially launched! The call is open until 15/12, offering an excellent opportunity for researchers to advance their careers in materials science. To submit applications: jobs.materials.imdea.org/msca-atenea.

💡 IMDEA Materials researchers demonstrate new approach to synthesise tin oxide (#SnO) #nanowires using floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition (#FCCVD), a method where nanowires grow while suspended in a gas stream. +info: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org

👨‍🔬 In the 6th instalment of our #PhDPerspectives series, we speak with Jorge Valilla Robles, a former predoctoral researcher at IMDEA Materials Institute! 👀 Essential viewing for anyone considering or currently completing their own PHD! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaV...

🙏 We would like to thank Prof. Paraskevas Kontis from NTNU for his recent seminar on 'Atomic-scale engineering for crack-free additively manufactured superalloys'. 😀 We appreciate him sharing his expertise with us, and hope to welcome him to Madrid again in the near future.

👨‍🔬 Yesterday, IMDEA Materials hosted a guest seminar from Prof. Pere Barriobero from @upc.edu on "Real-time monitoring of engineering alloys under manufacturing and service conditions". 🙏 We would like to thank him for his time and for sharing his expertise with us!

💡 IMDEA Materials researchers pioneer a new method to assemble silicon nanowires into ordered, macroscopic networks - a crucial step toward their use in next-generation batteries, electronics, and advanced functional materials. +info: materials.imdea.org/imdea-materi...

#EstaSemana Materiales para aviones inspirados en los esqueletos de los erizos de mar Un artículo de Lucía Doyle de @imdeamaterials.bsky.social 

👏 IMDEA Materials is pleased to announce that Dr. Damien Tourret recently accepted the role of the Institute's new Deputy Director. He takes over from Prof. Jon Molina-Aldareguia in the Deputy Director position after Prof. Molina was named IMDEA Materials' new Director.

👩‍🔬 In the latest edition of our #PHDPerspectives, we speak with recent doctorate, Yuyao Liu! In this video, she shares insights on completing her PhD at IMDEA Materials, with advice for any potential PhD researchers out there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th9s...

✈️♻️ La aviación es hoy más ligera y eficiente gracias a los materiales compuestos, pero su reciclaje sigue siendo un gran reto. Nuestra investigadora Lucía Doyle, investigadora #MSCA del proyecto #HipPEEK, explica en @theconversation.com ‬España cómo la naturaleza puede inspirar soluciones.

💻 How to tackle a $10 million-$1 billion bottleneck: building smarter tools for faster, more efficient materials discovery That is the goal of #BENIFICIARY, a new project at IMDEA Materials that seeks to optimise these processes. Read more: materials.imdea.org/how-to-tackl...

📢 The countdown is on for the #ATENEA MSCA Actions-COFUND Fellowship Programme Info Day Webinar! 🎥 You can find out more about this exciting opportunity in our video below, where we speak with Dr. Lucía Doyle, #MSCA fellow and one of the speakers at the Info Day Webinar.

🔬 A new study published in @springernature.com's Journal of Materials Science explores how temperature and architecture influence the behaviour of additively manufactured Inconel 718 lattices under mechanical stress. Read the full publication here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...