PhD Materials Mechatronics and Systems Engineering

The most significative research areas of Materials Science and Engineering include nanostructured materials (metallic alloys, ceramic powders, inorganic systems from sol-gel and nanocomposites), powder metallurgy, biomaterials and biomedical technologies (also developed at the BIOtech center in Mattarello), polymeric and composite materials, materials for energy (photovoltaic, solar thermal, fuel cells, hydrogen storage), materials chemistry, high-strength glasses and ceramics, coatings and surface treatments, wear phenomena, corrosion and mechanical fatigue, degradation, experimental characterization of the mechanical behaviour and numerical modeling, atomistic modeling of materials, chemical plants, microscopy (optical, electronic and atomic force), NMR, thermal analysis, microstructural and micromechanics analysis through X-ray diffraction.