First award for Científic@s en prácticas
The second edition of the CSIC Outreach and Citizen Science Awards has recognised six initiatives promoted by CSIC staff with the aim of bringing science closer to society. The jury,…
Introducing MEW2 Software: A Tool to Analyze MQ-NMR Experiments for Elastomers
Low-field time-domain proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an attractive and powerful tool for studying the structure and dynamics of elastomers. The existence of crosslinks and other topological constraints…
Santiago Estebaranz Pozo
Título del proyecto final de máster: Caucho desvulcanizado a partir de neumáticos fuera de uso y su aplicación en lafabricación de materiales de altas prestaciones tecnológicas
Itziar Mas Giner
Título del proyecto final de máster: Preparación de espumas hidrófilas para cultivos hidropónicos
Lathifa Rusita
3D printing has evolved into an innovative and sustainable manufacturing technique with the integration of filaments crafted from recycled materials, such as sustainable polyurethanes and end-of-life tire powder. This eco-conscious…
Omotosho Taiwo
Summary Chemical recycling of polymers is a key research way to achiveve more sustainable polymeric compounds. By means of chemical recycling is possible to make waste into new raw materials…
Xabier Martínez Arruabarrena
Summary Our daily life would be unimaginable without rubber, which has become essential in multiple objects like tires, balls, hoses, etc. All these applications came from the great characteristics and…
Tailoring/Tuning Properties of Polyester Urea-Urethanes through Hybridization with Titania Obtained Using the Sol–Gel Process
Hybrid materials have been studied because in these materials the properties of organic components, such as elasticity and biodegradability, could be combined with the properties of inorganic components, such as…
Improving the performance of biobased polyurethane dispersion by the incorporation of photo-crosslinkable coumarin
High biobased carbon content polyurethane dispersions (PUD) are a more sustainable alternative to conventional oil-derived waterborne dispersions in coatings. However, there are still many performance limitations from restricted availability of…
Síntesis, caracterización estructural de redes metal orgánicas (MOFs) y su evaluación en catálisis heterogénea de polímeros biodegradables
Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) are porous materials made up of organic binders and a metal cluster, currently attracting attention as heterogeneous catalysts in various reactions of interest. However, their application in…
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023
February 11th marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For this reason, the elastomers Group has decided to record our female scientists answering some questions related to…
Effect of gamma irradiation on the physical properties of poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) and poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) (PBSA)
PBS and PBSA were irradiated with gamma up to a 400 kGy dose. Gel content appeared at approximately 100 kGy dose with a higher gel content for PBSA. Charlesby-Pinner analysis indicated that…
Crosslinked networks in electron beam irradiated polyethylenes evaluated by proton low-field NMR spectroscopy
Effect of electron beam (EB) irradiation is analyzed in low and high density polyethylenes (LDPE and HDPE, respectively) at different doses. Parameters as important as degree of crystallinity, melting or…
Marina Montero Escrivá
Student of the Master of High Specialization of Polymers and Rubber (MAEPYC). Performing the TFM on tire rubber recycling under the direction of Zenen Zepeda Rodríguez and Juan López Valentín.…
Science week 2022
On the 11th and 17th of November, students from Colegio Sagrado Corazón Rosales and Colegio Salesianos El Pilar visited the laboratories of the Elastomers Group of the Consejo Superior de…
Poly Capsule SPM 2022
Dr. Ángel Marcos participated in Poly Cápsula called: » Manufactura Aditiva de polímeros y materiales compuestos» streamed during the XXXV Congreso de la Sociedad Polimérica de México, SPM2022 that took…
Thermally Rearranged Mixed Matrix Membranes from Copoly(o-hydroxyamide)s and Copoly(o-hydroxyamide-amide)s with a Porous Polymer Network as a Filler — A Comparison of Their Gas Separation Performances
Copoly(o-hydroxyamide)s (HPA) and copoly(o-hydroxyamide-amide)s (PAA) have been synthesized to be used as continuous phases in mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). These polymeric matrices were blended with different loads (15 and 30…
Micronized Recycle Rubber Particles Modified Multifunctional Polymer Composites: Application to Ultrasonic Materials Engineering
There is a growing interest in multifunctional composites and in the identification of novel applications for recycled materials. In this work, the design and fabrication of multiple particle-loaded polymer composites,…
Response of water-biochar interactions to physical and biochemical aging
Biochar aging may affect the interactions of biochar with water and thus its performance as soil amendment; yet the specific mechanisms underlying these effects are poorly understood. By means of FTIR,…
Supramolecular Polycaprolactone-Based Polyurethanes with Thermally Activated Shape-Memory Behavior
In this work, using supramolecular polyurethanes theories, two polycaprolactone-based polyurethanes with 2-ureido-4-[1H]-pyrimidinone (UPy) motifs capable of forming quadruple hydrogen bonds were synthetized and characterized, focusing our attention on their capability…