Ana Santana, project partner and PhD student from the Spanish National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM-CSIC), participated in the final of Falling Walls Lab Spain, a national contest held at the facilities of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid on May 31st, 2024.
In this event, 15 researchers and entrepreneurs from different disciplines who are developing a project, a business model, a social initiative or a research programme presented their ideas to the jury within three minutes. The winner of the contest will represent Spain in the Falling Walls grand final in Berlin (Germany) on November 7th, 2024.
Ana Santana delivered the presentation “Breaking the wall of metal 3D printing”, where she introduced the main motivation behind the NewAIMS project, which is to provide the automotive industry with a new generation of optimized steels compatible with 3D printing, strong enough for tooling applications, and most importantly, that enables heat treatment integration during the printing process to control the in-use properties and the part’s durability.
You can watch the presentation in the video below (from 2:10’30”):
This edition of Falling Walls Lab Spain was organised by the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the Young Academy of Spain (AJdE), the Federal Republic of Germany in Spain and the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC).
