FISMAT - Materials Physics

Group type Consolidated R+D+I Group ( Generic )
AEI areas Material Sciences and Technologies (MAT)
2030 Goals and Targets
  • Clean and affordable energy
    • Goal 7 - Target 3 @ Double improvement in energy efficiency
  • Industry, innovation and infrastructure
    • Goal 9 - Target b @ Support for domestic technology development
Areas
  • Characterising the physical and structural properties of materials. Techniques: calorimetry (conventional and high resolution DSC); dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA); ultrasonic resonance (PUCOT); magneto-mechanical spectroscopy; dilatometry; microscopy (optical, tracking electron and transmission electron); EDX microanalysis; X-ray diffraction
  • SMA aspects: temperature and stress-induced transformation; shape memory effect and superelasticity; martensitic structures; mechanical properties; thermodynamic behaviour under thermomechanical treatment; high-temperature SMAs; martensite stabilisation; attenuation and interphase properties; developing new ferromagnetic shape memory alloys; magneto- and elastocaloric effects
  • Solid-solid transitions. Martensitic transformation in conventional and magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (SMA)
Research team
Principal investigators
Dr Pons Morro, Jaime (University Professor)
Main members
Members