Nanomaterials and Corrosion

Affiliated Research areas

• Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
• Products and Processes Engineering
• Chemical engineering, technical chemistry
• The Human Mind and Its Complexity

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

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Summary

- Corrosion in our daily life: Corrosion in our daily lives. The effects of corrosion in our daily lives are both direct, in that corrosion affects the useful service lives of our possessions, and indirect, in that producers and suppliers of good and services incur corrosion costs, which they pass on to consumers. Knowing the causes of industrial degradation is very important to the companies in order to decrease their costs
- Electrochemical characterization of new biomaterials: The biomaterials must satisfy intrinsically related properties as biocompatibility, mechanical strength and principally corrosion resistance. The deterioration of the alloys used in surgical implants is the result of the combination of electrochemical and mechanical mechanisms. Medical devices implanted in the human body are exposed to the action of biological fluids, which can eventually cause corrosion, and this may affect the body tissue by the change in pH and the release of metallic ions. At the same time, the body movements and its own weight impose dynamic loads promoting friction and mechanical fatigue
- Advanced technologies in thin films: A thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer to several micrometers in thickness. The controlled synthesis of such materials as thin films is a critical step in many applications, ranging from optical coatings and solar cells to drug delivery. We mainly deal with thin film deposition using various techniques and characterization for specific applications, such as solar cell components, new metamaterials or medical devices.
- Mechanical evaluation of the new biomaterials: The evaluation of the mechanical properties of biomaterials is an important issue in many fields of medicine. We focus our work on tensile/compressive properties, shear/torsion properties, bending properties and hardness. Also is focuses on the elastic and viscoelastic properties of "soft" tissues and their corresponding artificial materials (i.e. polymers).