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Rankings

Miguel Ángel is within the World's top 2% scientist based on the information compiled by a study of the University of Stanford.

Miguel Ángel is within the top 10 national researchers in the area of Polymer Science, and Raquel has made it to the top 20. The list is elaborated by grupo DIH based on the information gathered from ISI Web of Knowledge.

Sustainable Energy Storage Days

The first Sustainable Energy Storage Days in Madrid, SESDIM 2019, was celebrated in Madrid from the 8th till 11th October. The Polymer Composite Group organized this international event with more that 200 participants during 4 days. Thanks for 4 days full of scientific knowledge and really interesting talks and discussions. We enjoyed a lot!

PhD Award

Ruben obtained the award for Outstanding PhD Thesis from the University of Oviedo. See the ceremony here (min. 54.53).

Our work in the media!

  • Saúl was awarded the most popular poster in LatinxChem, a Twitter conference. Go check his poster here
  • Mónica was interviewed by the Departamento de Posgrado y Especialización as part of the 11F events. You can watch it You can watch it here.
  • Marianella and Mario gave a WebinarsAEMAC on Self-healing of composites materials and Materiales Compuestos en dispositivos electrónicos, respectively.
  • Marianella was recently interviewed at a radio station to talk about the benefits of self-healing materials.
  • Marianella wrote a summary of the self-healing project we are working on under the blog "Science to take away" from CSIC in collaboration with the newspaper 20 minutos.
  • SIGNUS (a non-profit organization devoted to giving value to end-of-life tires) posted a contribution from Marianella on self-healing elastomers.
  • The collaborative work of Miguel and Luca (University of Perugia) have caught the attention of Chemours and has been highlighted in C&EN magazine. You can read the original article here
  • Women in STEM, Marianella was interviewed for national television as part of the #EllassonCSIC and the Women in Science day. You can watch her here
  • Javier took part in the 24h channel program Lab24 focussed on "Polímeros del futuro". You can watch him here along with several of our colleagues of the institute.

Most cited/popular articles

Saúl's review on the evolution of self-healing elastomers in Materials Horizon is one of the most popular of 2020 and has received the Editor's 2020 Outstanding Review Award.

Marianella's article on the performance of natural rubber/graphene nanocomposites in Composite Science and Technology is one of the most cited since 2012.

Mario's article comparing filler percolation and mechanical properties of graphene and carbon nanotubes filled epoxy nanocomposites in European Polymer Journal is one of the most cited since 2012.

Congrats!

International Eramus Mundus

Javier is module leader of the International Course Erasmus Mundus “Materials Science” academic joint venture of the Universidad A Coruña and the Universidad of Cambridge

CSIC research assets

The Madrid's delegation of CSIC has identified Raquel as a researcher with relevant activity in her field of research among all the Institutes based in Madrid.

Articles within the 1% of papers in Materials Science

The quality and interest of our work is internationally recognised and several of our papers are within the top 1% of the Material Science field based on a highly cited threshold for publication year elaborated by Clarivate Analytics.

Thank you!

Yuhu!

Our work, and that of our collaborator Prof. Tiberio Ezquerra, was recognised in the Technology Watch Report of the non pneumatic rubber sector carried out by ASICE

Talgo's Award

Miguel Ángel and Raquel were awarded one of the most prestigious prizes of the Spanish technological sector, the Talgo’s Award for Technological Innovations for their work on self-extinguishing nanocomposite foams. The prize was awarded in a ceremony that took place at CSIC headquarters