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endika · May 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The month 12 meeting of the CHOPIN project was hosted by CIDETEC during March 2019. The event was attended by representatives of the various members of the consortium, with Jesús Palenzuela, representing CIDETEC, acting as the organiser and keynote speaker.

During the course of the meeting the activities of the different working groups were reviewed, with special attention being paid to the results achieved by WP3, dedicated to the development and characterisation of coatings with omniphobic properties for application in coatings with low adherence to insects for the preservation of laminar flow in aeronautics.

The CHOPIN project is aimed at developing long-lasting hydrophobic coatings that can be applied to micro-perforated surfaces normally used for resistance reduction, as well as validating the technology and coating process for mitigating insect contamination under realistic conditions.

The next face-to-face meeting of the consortium will be held in September 2019, at the VKI (Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics) centre in Saint-Genesius-Rode (Belgium).

endika · May 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The seminar, co-organised by CIDETEC Surface Engineering and Fischer, was aimed mainly at managers in the areas of quality, laboratories, production, process engineering, etc. and its purpose was to familiarise the industry with the instrumental methods of surface characterisation and the main factors for a correct evaluation of surface properties at an industrial level.

The programme included presentations by leading experts on topics such as electromagnetic methods, X-ray fluorescence, micro-hardness, scratch test, terahertz radiation and colour and gloss in coatings.

After the presentation by the experts, the attendees were given the opportunity to analyse samples in situ and to take part in the demonstrations of the equipment provided by Fischer.

endika · May 21, 2019 · Leave a Comment

On 14 May, a group studying for a Masters in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Navarra visited the CIDETEC Nanomedicine centre.

One of the subjects included in this master’s degree is Nanotechnology and Biomedical Engineering, taught by María Blanco, a professor at the University of Navarra, with the assistance of CIC nanoGUNE researchers Alexander Bittner and Mato Knez as guest lecturers.

During their visit, the students were given information on the main lines of research currently being carried out at CIDETEC Nanomedicine and learned first-hand about the equipment and systems installed at the centre.

endika · May 20, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The meeting held during the 24th month of the ECOXY project took place in Karlsruhe on 14- 5 May. The meeting took place at the Fraunhofer ICT centre, where the project participants reviewed the progress of the project over the last six months (M19-M24), the main results obtained and the next steps to be taken. Each WP leader explained the progress and results of their work package with the help of the participants involved in each of them.

CIDETEC was represented by Sarah Montes and Aratz Genua, who described both the technical and financial progress of the WP1 (Project management) work package.

The next meeting of the consortium will take place in November 2019 at AITIIP’s premises in Zaragoza.

endika · May 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The 3^rd General Assembly (GA) was organized together with the Review Meeting (RM) on the 9-10^th of April 2019, at the Delegation of the Basque Country to the European Union in Brussels.

It was the right chance to overview what we did till M18 and think of the next steps. At the moment (M18) iModBatt already fulfilled one of the most critical milestones of the project, which is the closure of the BP overall design. Some fine tuning is still pending, but the no-return point has been already crossed, so just minor changes are feasible. This is due to the fact that the components of the several dummy modules, real modules and packs have to be purchased in order to be in time to assemble, test and validate the proposed BP design.

Therefore, the GA was defined so that highlights of each WP were defined by WP leaders and then, every open or undefined topic to close the BP design was discussed. Main issues were related to the module & BP and thermal system coupling as well as the integration of the BP into the Renault vehicle. On the second day, the RM, with our Project Officer, Mr. David Guedj was organized. WP leaders presented the achieved goals during the first half of the project and after a fruitful exchange of views between WP leaders, the coordinator and the project officer, the event was closed.

CIDETEC is very grateful to the Basque Government, since they gave us the opportunity to use their delegation in Brussels to hold this meeting.

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