Projects and Patents

Main Projects

Name of the project: Singular capillary flows of complex liquids: fundamentals and applications (PID2022-140951OB-C22)
 
Entity of realization: Universidad de Extremadura
 
Main researchers: María Guadalupe Cabezas Martín and José María Montanero Fernández
 
Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain)
 
Start-end date: 01/09/2023 – 01/09/2026

Name of the project: Microfluidic techniques for the production and manipulation of materials in Biotechnology (PID2019-108278RB-C32)

Entity of realization: Universidad de Extremadura

Main researchers: Emilio José Vega Rodríguez and José María Montanero Fernández

Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain)

Start-end date: 01/06/2020 – 31/05/2023

Name of the project: Study of the production and control of microfluidic structures. Applications in medicine and biotechnology (DPI2016-78887-C3-2-R)

Entity of realization: Universidad de Extremadura

Main researcher: José María Montanero Fernández

Funding entity: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain)

Start-end date: 01/01/2017 – 12/31/2019

Name of the project: Key facilitator technologies for health, energy and manufacturing (DPI2013-46485-C3-2-R)

Entity of realization: Universidad de Extremadura

Main researcher: José María Montanero Fernández

Funding entity: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain)

Start-end date: 01/01/2014 – 12/31/2016

Name of the project: Advanced control and multidisciplinary technological applications

of multiphase flows in the micro/nano-scale (DPI2010-21103-C04-04)

Entity of realization: University of Extremadura

Main researcher: Jose María Montanero Fernández

Funding entity: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)

Start-end date: 01/01/2011 – 12/31/2013

Name of the project: Japanese and european space research experiment on marangoni instabilities (JEREMI)

Entity of realization: Universidad de Extremadura and others

Main researcher: Satoshi Matsumoto

Funding entity: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan)

Start-end date: 01/01/2008 – 31/12/2012

Name of the project: Study and design of applications, methods, physics, and design of devices for the generation of capillary jets and mass production of particles, aerosols, and micro and nanometric foams (DPI2007-63559)

Entity of realization: Universidad de Extremadura and others

Main researcher: Alfonso Miguel Gañán Calvo

Funding entity: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)

Start-end date: 01/10/2007 – 30/09/2010

Name of the project: Theoretical and experimental study of the dynamics of liquid bridges under simulated microgravity conditions (ESP2003-02859)

Entity of realization: Universidad de Extremadura

Main researcher: José María Montanero Fernández

Funding entity: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)

Start-end date: 01/12/2003 – 30/11/2006

Patents

Title registered industrial property: Dispositivo para eyección de líquido (“Liquid ejection device”)
 
Inventors/authors/obtainers: P. López-García; A. M. Gañán-Calvo; D.
Fernández-Martínez; E. J. Vega; J. M. Montanero
 
Entity holder of rights: Universidad de Sevilla
 
Nº of application: 202530220
 
Country of inscription: Spain
 
Date of register: 14/03/2025
Title registered industrial property: Método y dispositivo para la focalización gaseosa de fluidos transónica de chorros débilmente viscoelásticos (“Method and device for the gaseous focusing of transonic fluids of weakly viscoelastic jets”)
 
Inventors/authors/obtainers: M. G. Cabezas; E. J. Vega;
J. M. Montanero; A. Rubio-González; A. M. Gañán-Calvo; F. J. Galindo-Rosales
 
Entity holder of rights: Universidad de Extremadura
 
Nº of application: 202230313
 
Country of inscription: Spain
 
Date of register: 06/04/2022

Title registered industrial property: Producción de chorros capilares viscoelásticos mediante enfocamiento gaseoso (“The production of viscoelastic capillary jets with gaseous flow focusing”)

Inventors/authors/obtainers: A. M. Gañán-Calvo; J. M. Montanero; E. J. Vega; A. Ponce-Torres

Entity holder of rights: Universidad de Sevilla

Nº of application: 201531844

Country of inscription: Spain

Date of register: 18/12/2015

Title registered industrial property: Método y dispositivos para la producción de micro- y nano-burbujas (“Method and devices for the production of micro and nanobubbles”)

Inventors/authors/obtainers: A. M. Gañán-Calvo; M. A. Herrada; J. M. Montanero

Entity holder of rights: Universidad de Sevilla

Nº of application: 201300494

Country of inscription: Spain

Date of register: 10/05/2013

Title registered industrial property: Procedimiento y dispositivo para microfabricación y microsoldadura (“Procedure and device for microfabrication and micro-welding”)

Inventors/authors/obtainers: M. G. Cabezas; E. J. Vega; J. M. Montanero; M. A. Herrada; A. M. Gañán-Calvo

Entity holder of rights: Universidad de Extremadura

Nº of application: 201200170

Country of inscription: Spain

Date of register: 22/12/2012