Gören, A.; Costa, C. M.; Tamaño Machiavello, María Noel; Cintora-Juarez, D.; Nunes-Pereira, J.; Tirado, J.L.; Silva, M. M.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(Elsevier, 2015-11-01)
Porous polymer membranes based on poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)/poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers, P(VDF-TrFE)/PEO, are prepared through elimination (from partial to total) of PEO, leading to interconnected ...
Lopes, A. C.; Caparros, C.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Neves, I. C.; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(Elsevier, 2012-10-01)
Poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, based composites with increasing NaY zeolite content up to 32 wt.% have been processed by solvent casting and melt crystallization. Depending on the melting temperature of the polymer, the ...
Panadero, Juan Alberto; Vikingsson, Line Karina Alva; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Sencadas, Vitor Joao Gomes Da Silva; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(Elsevier, 2013-12)
Tissue engineering applications rely on scaffolds that during its service life, either for in-vivo or in vitro applications, are under loading. The variation of the mechanical condition of the scaffold is strongly relevant ...
Tamaño-Machiavello, María Noel; Bracke, Benjamin; Costa, C.M.; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu; Sabater i Serra, Roser; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís(Wiley, 2016-03-15)
Polymer blend membranes have been obtained
consisting of a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic polymers distributed
in co-continuous phases. In order to obtain stable
membranes in aqueous environments, the hydrophilic phase ...
Correia, Daniela M.; Ribeiro, Clarisse; Sencadas, Vitor Joao Gomes Da Silva; Botelho, G.; Carabineiro, S.A.C.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(Elsevier, 2015-08)
Electrospun poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) fiber mats find applications in an increasing number of areas, such as battery separators, filtration and detection membranes, due to their excellent properties. However, there ...
Costa, Carlos M.; Nunes-Pereira, J.; Rodrigues, L.C.; Silva, M.M.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(Elsevier, 2013-01-15)
Polymer blends based on poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)/poly(ethylene oxide), P(VDFTrFE)/PEO
for Li-ion battery separator applications have been prepared through solvent casting technique.
The microstructure, ...
Cell supports based on electroactive materials, that generate electrical signal variations as a response to mechanical deformations and vice-versa, are gaining increasing attention for tissue engineering applications. In ...
California, António; Cardoso, Vanessa F.; Costa, Carlos M.; Sencadas, Vitor; Botelho, Gabriela; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(Elsevier, 2011)
Ferroelectric macroporous poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) membranes have been produced by isothermal crystallization from the solution at different temperatures starting from different diluted solutions of the ...
Ribeiro, Clarisse; Sencadas, Vitor Joao Gomes Da Silva; Miguel Costa, Carlos; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(National Institute for Materials Science, 2011)
[EN] Biodegradable poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) microfibers were prepared by electrospinning by varying the applied potential, solution flow rate and collector conditions. PLLA fibers with smoothly oriented and random ...
[EN] Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) electrospun membranes were obtained by electrospinning and
characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermal analysis. The polymer
membranes showed a random fiber distribution ...
Cerqueira Barros, Sandra; Alves da Silva, Ana; Barbosa Costa, Diana; Costa, Carlos M; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu; Tamano Maciavello, M.N.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Sentanin, Franciani; Pawlicka, Agnieszka; Silva, Maria Manuela(Springer, 2015-06)
Hydrogels are high water content materials prepared by polymer crosslinking that are able to release active species, such as therapeutic, antibacterial, antiperspirant and moisturising agents, and fragrances. In recent ...