BBT researchers and the CIEFMA achieve a project to study phase transformations in zirconium in the ALBA synchrotron

Three researchers from the BBT and CIEFMA research groups carried out the project "In-situ microstructural effects and transformability of 3Y-ZrO2 specimens superficially modified at different annealing temperatures: from room temperature to 900 ºC" at ALBA Synchrotron in Cerdanyola del Vallès .

On January 25th, Dr. Carles Mas-Moruno of the Research Group of Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering (BBT), Dr. Joan Josep Roa of the Center for Structural Integrity, Reliability and Micromechanics of Materials (CIEFMA) and Joaquim Minguela (BBT-CIEFMA) performed an experiment on the famous ALBA synchrotron, in Cerdanyola del Vallès.

The experiment "In-situ microstructural effects and transformability of 3Y-ZrO2 specimens superficially modified at different annealing temperatures: from room temperature to 900 ºC" was carried out on line BL04 - MSPD of powder diffraction. The main objective of this experiment is the characterization of the microstructural changes that occur from ambient temperature to 900ºC, in zirconium trimmed and degraded hydrothermal.

The experiment is part of the Joaquim Minguela PhD project: "Micromechanics and cell instructive properties of superficially modified zirconia-based materials", a collaboration between BBT and CIEFMA, with the support of the Center for Research in Science and Multi-scale Engineering in Barcelona.