Topics
Orientationally Disordered Phases and the Glassy State
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- Thermodynamic, Structural and Dynamic (Dielectric relaxation) characterization.
- Experimental and via Molecular Dynamics (MD) determination of excess properties of binary mixtures in disordered phases.
- Effect of compositional disorder in the glass transition for pure compounds and molecular alloys with orientationally disordered phases.
- Short-range order in the liquid and orientationally disordered phases by means of X-ray and neutron diffraction.
- Configurational entropy determination from excess thermodynamic properties in ODIC phases, and influence of the dynamic properties in the glass transition.
- Determination of dielectric constant and characteristic relaxation parameters by means of dielectric spectroscopy.
Fullerene C60
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- Characterization of the C60 hexagonal phases.
- Characterization of solvates from a thermodynamic and structural point of view.
- Determination of the tensot of isobaric thermal expansion with analysis of the maxima and minima deformation directions and the relation with the intermolecular interactions.
Polymorphism of drugs
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- Characterization of the polymorphism of active principles.
- Determination of the thermodynamic stability domains as a function of pressure and temperature.
- Construction of theoretical and experimental determination of pressure-temperature and pressure-density-temperature phase diagrams.
Metallic glasses and nanocrystalline alloys
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- Kinetics of primary crystallization.
- Microstructural development in nucleation and growth transformations.
- Improvement of mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses.
Ancient materials
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