The Polymer Engineering Group of ICTP was created in the late eighties, in the midst of the global environmental crisis and the role of plastic materials in the context of the economic, industrial, social and political sectors, from whose interactions derives the complexity that characterizes the binomial materials and economy. The extreme versatility of materials based in whole or in part on organic polymers explains why the research activity of the already consolidated GIP from the nineties onwards was configured under the heading of heterogeneous materials based on polymers. The GIP, committed to the Principles of Sustainable Development (Ecobalance), raised its research activity according to a double aspect: Academic and Applied, as a consequence of the difficulties of scaling operations in polymer engineering, due to the binomial processing/properties characteristic of the aforementioned materials. In the absence of full control over the nanometric domain of those interfaces, the GIP maintains a Top-Down approach, applying advanced statistical techniques of quantitative research and statistical design of experiments to analytical techniques and simulation tools, both of processes and of increasingly powerful macromolecular domains, to correlate the emerging morphologies of the real-time processing operations of the aforementioned materials, with their properties.
Main publications
García-Martínez, J.-M.; Collar, E.P. Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials. Polymers 2021, 13, 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13010086
Leonés, A.; Peponi, L.; García-Martínez, J.-M.; Collar, E. P. Compositional Influence on the Morphology and Thermal Properties of Woven Non-Woven Mats of PLA/OLA/MgO Electrospun Fibers. Polymers 2022, 14, 2092. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14102092
García-Martínez, J.-M.; Collar, E.P. The Variance of the Polypropylene Relaxation Temperature in iPP/a-PP-pPBMA/Mica Composites. J. Compos. Sci. 2022, 6, 57, https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs6020057
García-Martínez, J.-M.; Collar, E.P. Polymers and the Environment: Some Current Feature Trends. Polymers 2023, 15, 2093, https://doi.org/0.3390/polym15092093
García-Martínez, J.-M.; P. Collar, E. Polymer Waste-Based Highly Efficient Maleated Interfacial Modifier in iPP/SCF Composites—Some Notes on the Role of Processing in Their Thermal and Dynamic Mechanical Properties. Polymers 2023, 15, 1527. https:// doi.org/10.3390/polym15061527
Main projects
CTM2013-48887-C2-2R
I. Responsable: Félix Antonio López Gómez
Formando Parte del Equipo Investigador
"Reciclado de Fibras de Carbono mediante Pirólisis para el refuerzo de nuevos Composites de Carbono".
2014-2017
82.000 €
MAT 2013-47902-C2-1-R
I. Responsable: Marta Fernández García
Formando Parte del Equipo Investigador
"Materiales Poliméricos antimicrobianos para la prevención de enfermedades infecciosas"
2014-2017
60.500 €
MAT2017-88123-P
I. responsable: L. Peponi
Formando Parte del Equipo Investigador
ESTUDIO DE NUEVOS MATERIALES INTELIGENTES BASADOS EN NANOCOMPUESTOS POLIMERICOS MULTIFUNCIONALES CON MEMORIA DE FORMA
2018-2021
60.500 €
PID2021-123753NB-C31
I. responsables: L. Peponi, D.López GarcIa
Formando Parte del Equipo Investigador
HACIA EL DISEÑO DE MATERIALES POLIMERICOS REFORZADOS A LA CARTA INTELIGENTES Y MULTIFUNCIONALES BASADOS EN LA ECONOMIA CIRCULAR MEDIANTE ELECTROHILADO E IMPRESION 3D
2022-2025
169.400 €