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Javier Gómez-Sánchez

Graduate in Aerospace Engineering (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), postgraduate in the Master in Composite Materials (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and in the Master in Materials Processing Technologies (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos).

With experience in the manufacture of composite materials for the aerospace industry during an internship at the Fundación para la Investigación, Desarrollo y Aplicación de los Materiales Compuestos (FIDAMC, Airbus Group), where he was part of a project involving the design, analysis, simulation, and manufacture of a carbon fiber wing for a drone with a four-meter wingspan. In addition, he worked for Airbus Defence and Space on the A330 MRTT flight operations support program.

He is currently a predoctoral researcher in the Doctoral Program in Industrial Technologies, focusing his thesis on Materials Science and Engineering, particularly composite materials. His main research line is based on the development of sustainable multifunctional composite materials with bio-based epoxy matrices. The multifunctionality of these materials includes recycling, reprocessing and repairing capabilities, provided using thermosetting polymers with Covalent Adaptable Networks (CANs). These polymers, so-called vitrimers in recent bibliography, are based on dynamic covalent bonds that can change their topology through thermally activated reactions, combining the properties of both thermosets and thermoplastics: at high temperatures they can flow and be reshaped like thermoplastics, while at low temperatures they behave like traditional thermosets. These capabilities can be activated by resistive heating through the Joule effect by incorporating carbon nanotubes in the matrix. This also permits the detection of strain fields and damage among the material, thus providing Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) capabilities. During the PhD, he has completed two international stays, one at the Institut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice (France), and another at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin (Italy).

In addition, he participates as a researcher in two national projects and in an R&D project with the company Patentes Talgo.

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Keywords:

Composites; Vitrimers; Self-healing