Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid

Address:

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC-UAM), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid

Country:

Spain

Website:

http://www.icmm.csic.es/eng/sciact/index.html

Organisation type:

Academic

Storage activities:

research into photopolymerisable glass for holographic data storage

Profile:

The Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM) is an institute of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (Spanish National Research Council) at the Autonoma University of Madrid (UAM), that belongs to the Area of Science and Technology of Materials – one of the eight Areas in which the CSIC divides its research activities.

The mission of ICMM is to create new fundamental and applied knowledge in materials with a high added value, their processing and their transfer to the productive sectors at local, national and European scales (the true value of materials is in their use), the training of new professionals in the field of Materials and the dissemination of the scientific knowledge.

In the Department of Materials for Information Technologies, the objective is the development of new, knowledge-based materials and heterostructures for applications in information technologies: computer memories, sensors and actuators, and magnetoelectronic and optoelectronic devices. Equally important, the research is aimed at the improvement of existing fundamental knowledge on the preparation processes and the structure, properties and mechanisms present in these materials. Given their direct impact on applications, the transfer of this knowledge to industry is contemplated as a general objective.

In the Department of Photonic Materials, our main goal is to develop new materials and structures and explore (improve) new properties and functionalities in the field of photonics. Optical materials and photonic components serve as the basis for systems building at different levels of complexity. In most cases, they perform a key function and dictate the performance of these systems. Novel emerging materials such as low dimensional or nano-scale semiconductors (II-VI, silicon, germanium), organic materials, hybrid organic-inorganic materials, non-linear optical materials, optically active coatings, self organized materials, artificial or metamaterials (subwavelength-structured materials), in particular photonic crystals or negative index materials.

In the Department of Biomaterials and Bioinspired Materials, objectives include:

  • Preparation of uniform nanoparticulated systems by various techniques, preparation of stable colloids in water and other solvents, and application of the magnetic colloidal systems as contrast agents for MRI, hyperthermia and drug delivery.
  • The development of composite materials with new or improved properties than the ones obtained by the materials fabricated following the classical mixture rule. In this regard, the simultaneous control of the different-size (micro and nanoscale), morphology and distribution of the multiple components will be used as main tool to bring together disagreeing properties, to introduce new ones and to establish synergistic relationships between them.
  • Use of bioinspired routes for preparation of hierarchical and functional materials with applications in biotechnology and biomaterials. In particular, we are interested in the development of well suited multifuntional and structured materials for tissue regeneration.

Email:

(Director)

Tel:

+34-913349001

Fax:

+34-913720623