Research into autonomous regeneration technologies through the development of selfhealing agents and their subsequent incorporation into different materials. Development and application of protocols to evaluate, using specific testing methods, the regenerative capacity of materials, as well as the selection of the most successful technologies for sectorspecific industrial applications.
The project focuses on the technological development of industrial processes for the recovery of strategic metals from various waste streams. It involves the development of novel technologies through the treatment of selected domestic or industrial waste containing metals considered strategic, such as rare earth elements, zinc, manganese, and titanium.
The project also addresses current failures caused by corrosion phenomena in industrial plants, as well as in the automotive, transport, and aeronautics sectors. To this end, the necessary knowledge was developed to enable the incorporation of selfhealing metallic materials, extracted from waste, into existing coatings and paints used for surface treatment of steels and metal alloys, in order to mitigate corrosionrelated damage.
As a result, the project enables the generation of selfrepairing materials based on strategic metals, increasing the added value of wastebased extraction technologies by producing metallic materials with potential autonomous repair capabilities.
