This short film takes you inside one of Spain’s premier materials science research facilities – the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM). Managed by Spain’s scientific research council, the institute deals with both fundamental and applied research with a strong focus on areas that could lead to real-world applications. In the video – recorded just before the nationwide lockdown – you meet three ICMM researchers with diverse interests.
María Concepción Serrano López-Terradas is developing graphene-based implants that could be used to treat patients with spinal cord injuries. Felipe Gándara is interested in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) that could be used for gas storage. Finally, Andrés Castellanos-Gómez is designing methods for straintronics – an emerging field of electronics devices whose properties can be tuned by mechanical deformation.
Within the next couple of weeks on this website, we will also be sharing extended video interviews with all three researchers looking in more detail at their work. In the meantime, you can also take a look at the Physics World Nanotechnology Briefing, published in April 2020. This free-to-read collection celebrates how nanotechnology is playing an increasingly important role in applications as diverse as medicine, fire safety and quantum information.
