ANNUAL REPORT 2011 - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia

Funding Institution: Comunidad de Madrid.Main Researcher: Enrique Lomba (Main researcher IEM: Tiberio A. Ezquerra Sanz).Duration: 2009-2011.Objectives:Visualización y simulación de la influencia del plegado macromolecular en la formación de cristalespoliméricos y en la funcionalidad de proteínas.Code or Reference: MAT2009-12364.Funding Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.Main Researcher: Javier Martínez de Salazar Bascuñana.Duration: January 2010-December 2012.Objectives: This project is focussed on the determination of the role of the macromolecular folding in the formationof polymer single crystals and co-crystallisation of linear and branched macromolecules, and also on theconformational changes in proteins as a consequence of the interaction with ligands.Fundamentos de la nanoestructuración volúmica y superficial de copolímeros en bloque.Code or Reference: MAT2008-03232/NAM.Funding Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.Main Researcher: Aurora Nogales.Duration: January 2009-December 2011.Objetives: Study of of the fundaments that determine volume and surface nanostructuration in block copolymers.Propiedades viscoelásticas de sistemas poliméricos nanoestructurados mediante nanoindentaciónCode or Reference: FIS2010-18069.Funding Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.Main Researcher: Fernando Ania García.Duration: 1 st January 2011- 31 st December 2013.Objectives: The study of finite size effects on the physical properties of nanostructural polymer systems such as: thinfilms, polymer composites and copolymers. The micromechanical properties derived from nanoindentation will becompared to the values associated to the bulk.Estudio de la microestructura de nanocomposites basados en materiales poliméricos modificados medianteextrusión reactiva.Code or Reference: A/027399/09.Funding Inatitution: AECID-PCI (MAEC).Modalidad Mediterráneo.Main researcher: María Esperanza Cagiao Escohotado.Duration: January 2010-January 2011.Objectives: Study of thermoplastics polymers reversibly crosslinked by reactive extrusion in the molten state.Entrecruzamiento reversible de polímeros termoplásticos aplicado a la obtención de sus nanocompuestos conarcilla. Utilidad de este método para la preparación de mezclas de polímeros incompatibles.Code or reference: C/032183/10.Funding Institution: AECID-PCI (MAEC).Modalidad Mediterráneo.Main researcher: María Esperanza Cagiao Escohotado.Duration: January 2011-January 2012.Objectives: Preparation of nanocomposites of clay with thermoplastics polymers reversibly crosslinked by reactiveextrusion in one step. Application of this method to the preparation of blends of incompatible polymers.Nanocompuestos basados en polímeros termoplásticos reversiblemente entrecruzados. Propiedadesdieléctricas.Code or referente: I-COOP0123.Funding Institution: Programa “CSIC para el desarrollo”, CSIC.Main researcher: María Esperanza Cagiao Escohotado.Duration: 1 st July 2011-30 th June 2013.Objectives: Study of the dielectric properties of nanocomposites based on reversibly crosslinked thermoplasticpolymers (PET, PEN, PMMA and PVDF) with different additives: clay, graphite, etc.Nanostructuring polymers in one and two dimensions.Code or Reference: II-20100103 EC.Funding Institution: Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor, DESY HASYLAB, Hamburg (Germany).Main Researcher: Mari Cruz García Gutiérrez.Duration: June 2010-June 2012.86