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Beatriz Merillas Valero, PhD student of CellMat Laboratory, wins the First Prize for the Best Oral Presentation from Early Career Researchers in a competition between the different students who presented in the «Spanish-Portuguese Industry-Academia Aerogel Meeting”, 1-2 March 2021 in Coimbra, Portugal.
This meeting is organized by AERoGELS COST Action (https://cost-aerogels.eu), the Chemical Process Engineering and Forest Products Research Centre (University of Coimbra, Portugal), the I+D Farma research group (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Flucomp (Asociación de Expertos en Fluidos Comprimidos, Spain).

Researchers from CellMat develop a process to produce transparent nanocellular polymers without the need of a post-processing. They open the door to their possible use in several industrial applications.

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Beatriz Merillas Valero, PhD student of CellMat Laboratory, wins the second prize for the Best Poster Presentation from Early Career Researchers in a competition between the different students who presented a poster in the International Conference on Aerogels for Biomedical and Environmental Applications in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The PhD student of CellMat Laboratory Beatriz Merillas is currently investigating about the production of aerogels. This is a new research line in CellMat. Aerogels are ultra low-density materials with excellent properties for many applications, including a great thermal insulation capability. Recently, Beatriz Merillas received a prize in the contest 3 Minute Thesis (organized by the University of Valladolid) as a result of her work in this interesting topic.

News published in the journal El Mundo.

Eduardo López González, researcher at CellMat Laboratory, presented his PhD thesis entitled “Analysis of the composition-structure-properties relationship of open-cell polyolefin-based foams with tailored levels of gas phase tortuosity” on 20th November 2019. This thesis was supervised by Prof. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Pérez and Dr. Cristina Saiz Arroyo and is part of the CellMat Laboratory research activities about polyolefin foams.

The thesis received Excellent-Cum Laude calification.

Mercedes Santiago Calvo, researcher at CellMat Laboratory, presented her PhD thesis entitled “Synthesis, foaming kinetics and physical properties of cellular nanocomposites based on rigid polyurethane” on 7th November 2019. This thesis was supervised by Prof. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Pérez and Prof. Fernando Villafañe González and is part of the CellMat Laboratory research activities about polyurethane foams.

The thesis received Excellent-Cum Laude calification.

CellMat celebrates 20 years since its foundation in 1999. Over these two decades, CellMat has published more than 230 papers in international journals. Besides, 31 PhD students have presented their thesis in CellMat Laboratory up to 2019. As a result of these activities and the continuous efforts of the CellMat team, nowadays CellMat is one of the reference laboratories in the field of foams all over the world.

To celebrate this achievement, the CellMat team visited a wine cellar in Peñafiel (Valladolid) and had a traditional Castile lunch in this beautiful village.

Beatriz Merillas Valero, PhD student at CellMat Laboratory, was one of the winners of the event Three Minutes Thesis of the University of Valladolid in the year 2019. She presented the work entitled «Air bricks to build the future» («Ladrillos de aire para construir el futuro»).

Judith Martín de León, researcher at CellMat Laboratory, presented her PhD thesis entitled “Understanding the Production Process of Nanocellular Polymers Based on PMMA Driven by a Homogeneous Nucleation” on 4th October 2019. This thesis was supervised by Prof. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Pérez and is part of the CellMat Laboratory research activities about nanocellular polymers.

The thesis received Excellent-Cum Laude calification.

A paper presented by a CellMat team was recognized with the Best Paper Award in the FOAMS 2019 Conference in Valladolid, Spain. The paper was presented in the conference by Victoria Bernardo García, with Judith Martín de León, Javier Pinto Sanz and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Pérez as coauthors.