Carreño-Morelli, Efraín — NanoScienceWorks

Efraín Carreño-Morelli

Position	Department / Business Unit
Professor of Materials Technology	Design & Materials Unit
Institution	Disciplines
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Sion	Nanomaterials
City	State / Provence
Sion 2
Country	Website
Switzerland
Fax
41 027 606 88 15

Powder Metallurgy, Composite Materials, Ceramic Materials and Surface Technology.

Efraín Carreño-Morelli, Professor of Materials Technology, was born in 1966 in Córdoba (

Argentina

) and he has a dual argentinian-italian citizenship. He graduated in 1989 from the National University of Córdoba with a M.Sc. in Physics. Then, he moved to the Atomic Centre of Bariloche to pursue a Ph.D. Thesis on the subject "Metallurgical properties of Al-Mg-Si alloys subjected to neutron irradiation and thermomechanical treatments", which he submitted in 1994. The same year, working with the oil industry in Patagonia, he developed a monitoring system to evaluate the operation condition of oil pumping units. Arriving at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL in 1995, he was a research assistant in the Physics Department, where he performed investigations on the processing and damping behaviour of metal matrix composites, dislocation dynamics in ordered intermetallic compounds, and anelastic properties of aluminium alloys. In 2000 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Materials Testing and Research EMPA in Thun, where he was a project manager working in the development of metal matrix composites.
Dr. Carreño-Morelli assumed in 2001 his present position with the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Sion (Design & Materials Unit). He currently teaches in several courses of materials science and engineering, including Powder Metallurgy, Composite Materials, Ceramic Materials and Surface Technology. His research interests are in the field of powder metallurgy, metal injection molding, mechanical alloying, processing of metal-ceramic composites and solid free-form fabrication techniques. His activities in Nanotechnology are related to the development of metal-nanotube composites.

Education

M.Sc. Physics, National University of Córdoba; Ph.D., Atomic Centre of Bariloche

Important Articles

Metal injection molding of agar-steel feedstocks, 2004; Carbon Nanotube: Metal Matrix Composites, 2004; Tiny tubes boost for metal matrix composites, 2004; Quantifying thermo-mechanical fatigue of light-metal matrix composites by mechanical spectroscopy, 2004; High performance very low frequency forced pendulum, 2004.

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