Andres Diaz Lantada

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

A new set of manufacturing technologies has emerged in the past decades to address market requirements in a customized way and to provide support for research tasks that require prototypes. These new techniques and technologies are usually referred to as rapid prototyping and manufacturing technologies, and they allow prototypes to be produced in a...

This study presents the concept of ‘‘Engineering Education 5.0’’, a future educational paradigm linked to a vision of engineering education characterized by a need for continuous evolution, as a consequence of a challenging quest for a more sustainable and caring future. In a way, this forthcoming evolution emanates from very relevant advances in e...

This book focuses on the challenges and potentials of open source and collaborative design approaches and strategies in the biomedical field. It provides a comprehensive set of good practices and methods for making these safe, innovative and certifiable biomedical devices reach patients and provide successful solutions to healthcare issues. The cha...

Engineered living materials (ELMs) are the most relevant contemporary revolution in materials science and engineering and aim to outperform current examples of ''smart,'' active, or multifunctional materials, enabling countless industrial and societal applications. The ''living'' materials facilitate unique properties, including autonomy , intellig...

This study explores the potential of laser-induced graphene (LIG) as a conductive, biocompatible material for musculoskeletal tissue engineering applications. Using laser irradiation, polyimide (PI) substrates were transformed into highly graphitic,...

This research investigates the effects of electrical and geometric parameters in an electro‐hydrodynamic (EHD) plasma system using atmospheric non‐thermal plasma (ANTP) generated by corona discharge. Focusing on ionic wind generation and the production of reactive species (ozone and nitrogen dioxide), the study systematically varies discharge polar...

The utilisation of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) for nitinol alloys has garnered significant interest, owing to its capability to achieve a 4D response through the shape memory (SME) and superelastic (SE) effects. In this work, Ti-rich and Ni-rich nitinol parts have been additively manufactured by LPBF on Ti substrates to study their microstructur...

An innovative approach for metal electroforming is presented, exemplified with proof-of-concept geometries and illustrated with an industrial application. The proposed production chain hybridizes 3D polymer printing and nickel electroplating for the design-controlled forming of metals within fused deposition modelled contours or patterns, which pro...

This study presents a versatile ontology for describing all kinds of smart or stimuli-responsive 4D printed material systems and structures. The different components of the ontology, namely: initial geometry and shape, shape-morphing principle(s), triggering stimuli, intermediate/final geometry and shape, 4D material and printing or additive manufa...

Manufacturing technology has been refined and described for the fabrication of honeycomb-based bioresorbable networks for temporal bone replacement applications. Two novel techniques, digital light processing and investment casting, were utilized to produce customized, shape-optimized cellular constructs with additional orifices promoting tissue in...

Virtual prototyping combined with additive manufacturing technologies are opening new horizons in healthcare and biomimetic medical device personalisation is becoming feasible and competitive. Finite element-based optimisation combined with metallic additive manufacturing has already demonstrated the physical prototyping of interesting topologies f...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressively reshaping the way that researchers design and study highly complex systems. In this perspective, we introduce an engineering design methodology aimed at fostering creativity through “constructive dialogues with a generative AI” and exemplify its potential through a set of methodically developed case stu...

Three-dimensional (3D) printing of hybrid scaffolds with material gradients, combining soft and hard phases, is an appealing frontier in additive manufacturing. However, most 3D printers are limited to either three-axis or mono-material capabilities, rendering them unsuitable for fabricating hybrid scaffolds. Additionally, printing on curved surfac...

In tissue engineering, the pivotal role of scaffolds is underscored, serving as key elements to emulate the native extracellular matrix. These scaffolds must provide structural integrity and support and supply electrical, mechanical, and chemical cues for cell and tissue growth. Notably, electrical conductivity plays a crucial role when dealing wit...

Additive and lithographic manufacturing technologies using photopolymerisation provide a powerful tool for fabricating multiscale structures, which is especially interesting for biomimetic scaffolds and biointerfaces. However, most resins are tailored to one particular fabrication technology, showing drawbacks for versatile use. Hence, we used a re...

Bioinspired design and manufacturing strategies are enabling radical innovations in healthcare and medical devices. The complex, functionally graded, fractal, multifunctional geometries and structures of nature are inspiring for conceiving highly transformative biomedical engineering solutions, but highly challenging to replicate. Decades (if not c...

This innovative study introduces a comprehensive methodology to simulate the two-dimensional degradation of biodegradable materials, a crucial aspect in biodevice design. Several PVA specimens of diverse shapes were created, and their degradation was computationally modelled using cellular automaton. Deterministic and probabilistic transition rules...

Shape-morphing smart medical devices constitute a current research trend and are bound to transform healthcare thanks to the improved interactions with the human body they enable. 4D printing technologies facilitate the development of such devices and start to provide innovative solutions like minimally invasive surgical tools and devices, ergonomi...

Articular cartilage is a soft tissue lining the ends of the long bones in our joints. Even minor lesions in articular cartilage (AC) can cause underlying bone damage creating an osteochondral (OC) defect. OC defects can cause pain, impaired mobility and can develop osteoarthritis (OA). OA is a disease that affects nearly 10% of the population world...

The integration of additive manufacturing technologies with the pyrolysis of polymeric precursors enables the design‐controlled fabrication of architected 3D pyrolytic carbon (PyC) structures with complex architectural details. Despite great promise, their use in cellular interaction remains unexplored. This study pioneers the utilization of microa...

Even minor lesions in articular cartilage (AC) can cause underlying bone damage creating an osteochondral (OC) defect. OC defects can cause pain, impaired mobility and can develop to osteoarthritis (OA). OA is a disease that affects nearly 10% of the population worldwide [1] , and represents a significant economic burden to patients and society [2]...

Engineered living materials (ELMs) combine living and non-living entities. Their associated ethical concerns must be addressed to promote safety, promote sustainability, and regulate societal impacts. This article identifies key ethical and safety issues by reflecting on fundamental ethical principles. It further discusses a future ethical roadmap...

It has been shown that surface microtexturing is useful for improving lubrication. It offers strong reductions in the friction coefficient under operation conditions which compromise the maintenance of full film lubrication. To study the influence of texturing in the reduction of the friction coefficient, an Artificial Intelligence algorithm will b...

Adaptable technologies capable of reducing contaminants in enclosed spaces are needed. The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of current systems forcing the adoption of extreme measures, causing a significant socioeconomic impact. Electrohydrodynamic devices are proposed as a competitive solution that allows obtaining a high degr...

Emergent technologies are frequently demonized due to the fear of the unknown. The doubts and alarms are more often than not sparked by their own developers, in a secret wish to become the masters of such fears, and thereby increase their control and influence upon laymen. The story is as old as the use of fire by the sorcerers guiding most ancient...

Additive micro/nano‐manufacturing of polymeric precursors combining with a subsequent pyrolysis step enables the design‐controlled fabrication of micro/nano‐architected 3D pyrolytic carbon structures with complex architectural details. Pyrolysis results in a significant geometrical shrinkage of the pyrolytic carbon structure, leading to a structura...

El presente libro contempla una revisión bibliográfica exhaustiva sobre las estrategias y técnicas didácticas que se pueden aplicar en la formación en ingeniería, tanto en el aula como fuera de ella, en función de los paradigmas educativos históricamente más relevantes y las tendencias más recientes. Según las distintas estratégicas y técnicas y en...

Since the dawn of additive manufacturing technologies in the 1980s and 90s, now commonly named 3D printing, the possibility of processing raw materials into freeform designed objects with unprecedented shape complexity opened new avenues for the development of medical devices. Indeed, the geometries of nature and the human body are extremely multif...

The design of personalized medical devices, which are adapted to the patient's needs, starts from a digital model created from the advanced use of clinical imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography. However, this methodology has several sources of error related to the medical imaging acquisition, segmentation and...

The graded nature of human tissues asks for functional scaffolds with gradients of properties capable of biomimetically repairing injured or deteriorated tissues. These functionally graded tissue engineering scaffolds are of special relevance for promoting the personalized treatment of articular pathologies and osteochondral defects and, despite th...

Currently, the most usual treatment for coronary artery disease is the use of stents, which are produced with standard dimensions and shapes and the surgeon selects the one that best fits the patient’s anatomy. Due to this treatment, likelihood of restenosis might reach 40%. Additionally, thrombi formation is an important risk for these patients th...

The concept of 4D printing refers to the ability of a 3D printed material or device to change shape in a predefined manner controlled from the design stage. Currently, 4D printing research is performed by employing various additive technologies and materials, whose special design features or functional properties allow for these shape transformatio...

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic, 2019 marked the 100th anniversary of the school and manifesto of the Bauhaus. Now that life is slowly returning to normal, it may be a good moment to celebrate one of the most transformative educational initiatives ever, with the motivation of developing a model that could also transform BME.

Tissue engineering as a field may benefit from progressively implementing and spreading the use of standards, conceived to support the repeatability, replicability and efficient comparing of research results among experts in the field worldwide. Considering that scaffolds play a fundamental role in many tissue engineering strategies, it would be in...

Interest in the development of electro-fluid-dynamic devices (EFDs) based on corona discharge is growing due to their advantages and applicability across different industrial sectors. On the one hand, their performance as forced convection motors, in terms of weight, volume, and absence of noise and moving parts, make them competitive against tradi...

Metamaterials are engineered materials conceived and designed to achieve very special or even unique physical properties, which depend on the designed micro or nanostructures, more than on the chemical composition of the raw materials employed for their fabrication. Normally metamaterials are made of periodic repetitions of unit cells or Boolean co...

The German Language is well known for its capacity to express complex ideas and transformative processes in a single word. The German term “ Biologiesierung ” refers to the integration of the principles of nature and biological systems into a field of study. The term emerged in connection with economics [1] and is often translated in English as...

Important Lessons Can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, which after more than two years of worldwide suffering is still among us. First, we now better understand that global health concerns cannot be tackled and solved individually and verify that the dream for universal health care is far from being fulfilled. Besides, biomedical technologies...

Supporting the expansion of best practices in Biomedical Engineering (BME) can facilitate pathway toward the providing universal health coverage and more equitable and accessible healthcare technologies, especially in low- and middle-income (LMI) settings. These best practices can act as drivers of change and may involve scientific-technological is...

Project-based learning has importantly helped to transform engineering education over the last decades, as it has been increasingly applied worldwide, as a fundamental methodology for shifting to student-centered engineering programmes. To enlighten the transition from Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0, and from Engineering Education 4.0 to Engineering E...

In this study, authors explore the application of modelling and Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) for creating and testing materials with interlocking structures aimed to reduce the stress concentration along the edges of a typical lap joint. The effectiveness of this approach is discussed by means of modelling and experimental validation of joint...

Auxetic metamaterials are characterized by a negative Poisson ratio (NPR) and display an unexpected property of lateral expansion when stretched and densification when compressed. Auxetic properties can be achieved by designing special microstructures, hence their classification as metamaterials, and can be manufactured with varied raw materials an...

Engineering products benefit from the application of systematic design methodologies during their development processes, as these methodologies help to achieve time- and cost-effective solutions with enhanced functionalities, increased safety and improved reliability. Recent trends, including open innovation, collaborative engineering and the “make...

Safe performance is essential for any medical technology and its assurance a requirement for reaching market and, hence, making societal impacts. Consequently, a wide set of methodologies, techniques and international standards propose strategies for detecting and minimizing design, manufacturing and operational risks and deal with the analysis and...

So much lifesaving medical technology exists in the world, yet so little of it benefits under-resourced communities. Purchase price is only one barrier. The World Health Organization found nearly three quarters of devices provided by industrialized countries are not used when they reach under-resourced communities. Most medical devices and diagnost...

The biomechanical performance of hip prostheses is often suboptimal, which leads to problems such as strain shielding, bone resorption and implant loosening, affecting the long-term viability of these implants for articular repair. Different studies have highlighted the interest of short stems for preserving bone stock and minimizing shielding, hen...

Open-source medical devices (OSMDs) have the potential to reshape medical industry and to rethink our approach to healthcare, advancing towards universal health coverage by means of a more equitable access to technologies for good health and well-being. Pioneering examples have demonstrated that open-source medical devices can reach patients in rem...

Open-source medical devices (OSMDs) have emerged with the potential to transform the biomedical industry towards healthcare technology equity, in connection with the desired universal healthcare coverage. This change of paradigm clearly synergizes with several of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and contributes to empower healthcar...

Creativity deals with efficient problem-solving and is deeply rooted in engineering practice and principles, as engineers have faced complex challenges since the dawn of technological development. Creativity promotion techniques have been searched for and generated along the centuries, in parallel with a progressive process of rapprochement to comp...

Open-source medical devices (OSMDs) have emerged, thanks to progresses in computer-aided design, simulation, and manufacturing (CAD-CAE-CAM) software resources, to advances in manufacturing technologies, including the advent of flexible production systems and additive manufacturing, and to improvements in medical imaging technologies and in related...

Successful medical technologies rely on adequately detecting unsolved or partially solved socially relevant medical challenges or needs. Identifying such needs in a precise way and specifying the medical device requirements constitute the planning stage, which is fundamental for the success of any engineering products, processes or systems under de...

Medical technology has transformed the practice of medicine and patient care, with a wide set of relevant breakthroughs achieved during the last decades. However, in many cases, medical technology is developed in secrecy, and patients’ or medical professionals’ needs are considered as a minor part of the decision-making process, instead of being dr...

Bioengineering teaching has limitations in developing countries due to the inaccessibility of expensive technology like scanners and commercial software, which holds back progress in the biomedical area because of a lack of resources. In this work, a new methodology is presented with the aim of obtaining a 3D model of body part by open-source softw...

Quality technical education on healthcare technologies is still inaccessible to young adults in low-resource settings due to high costs, low-tech environments, and gaps in learning materials. The online and open-source collaborative Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology intends to introduce early-career engineers into the development of healthca...

Atmospheric corona discharge devices are being studied as innovative systems for cooling, sterilization, and propulsion, in several industrial fields, from robotics to medical devices, from drones to space applications. However, their industrial scale implementation still requires additional understanding of several complex phenomena, such as corro...

Higher education in general greatly benefits from face-to-face interactions between students and professors, for making the educational experience more effective, efficient and human. In the particular case of engineering education, the fundamental relevance of hands-on activities, of practical tasks in workshops and laboratories and of employing s...

COVID-19 has caused and continues to cause many changes in the way people around the world live. This study analyzes how COVID-19 and the adopted emergency remote teaching (ERT) methods have influenced university education, focusing on their impacts on project-based learning (PBL) methods. For this purpose, a comparative study is made between stude...

This Panel seeks to generate a discussion space around the question "How do we teach in Engineering? and specifically which are the most appropriate teaching-learning techniques that engineering educators use, based on different educational paradigms. This academic and practical discussion will be undertaken under the perspective established in the...

Engineered living materials (ELMs) are the most relevant contemporary revolution in materials science and engineering. These ELMs aim to outperform current examples of "smart", active or multifunctional materials, enabling countless industrial and societal applications. The "living" materials facilitate unique properties, including autonomy, intell...

Carbon materials constitute a growing family of high‐performance materials immersed in ongoing scientific technological revolutions. Their biochemical properties are interesting for a wide set of healthcare applications and their biomechanical performance, which can be modulated to mimic most human tissues, make them remarkable candidates for tissu...

Design requirements for different mechanical metamaterials, porous constructions and lattice structures, employed as tissue engineering scaffolds, lead to multi-objective optimizations, due to the complex mechanical features of the biological tissues and structures they should mimic. In some cases, the use of conventional design and simulation meth...

There is a growing interest in educational innovation in universities at a global level, as a tool designed to create strategic changes in order to improve quality. This study evaluates the global improvement in universities as a result of educational innovation governance, as a pillar of the so-called world-class research universities and as a too...

Atmospheric corona discharge devices are being studied as innovative systems for cooling, sterilization and propulsion, in several industrial fields, from robotics to medical devices, from drones to space applications. However, their industrial scale implementation still requires additional understanding of several complex phenomena, such as corros...

Multiscale 3D carbon architectures are of particular interest in tissue engineering applications, as these structures may allow for three-dimensional cell colonization essential for tissue growth. In this work, carbon fiber/microlattice hybrid architectures are introduced as innovative multi-scale scaffolds for tissue engineering. The microlattice...

The present work focuses on studying and demonstrating the potential benefits of non-planar printing, as compared to conventional 3D printing, in terms of improved eco-impacts. To this end, a case study of a medical or ergonomic device, which may benefit from non-planar printing in different ways, is completely developed and manufactured employing...

Lifelong learning plays a fundamental role for all engineering professionals, including engineering educators, as the working context is now international and rapidly changing. The training and professional development of engineering educators are hence of vital importance for letting universities serve society. In this study, the main challenges f...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful set of tools for engineering innovative materials. However, the AI-aided design of materials textures has not yet been researched in depth. In order to explore the potentials of AI for discovering innovative biointerfaces and engineering materials surfaces, especially for biomedical application...

This study deals with the laser stereolithography manufacturing feasibility of copper-nickel nanowire-loaded photosensitive resins. The addition of nanowires resulted in a novel resin suitable for additive manufacturing technologies based on layer-by-layer photopolymerization. The pure and nanowire-loaded resin samples were 3D printed in a similar...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already starting to transform the way engineering systems are conceived, designed and managed, helping to maximize the chances of successfully achieving their goals. Engineering science, technology and research clearly benefit from AI and engineering educators should be able to make students aware of its potentials,...

Introducción: Las infecciones del tracto urinario (ITU) presentan una elevada prevalencia en el ámbito comunitario. Un rápido diagnóstico microbiológico es esencial para asegurar una terapia adecuada y efectiva. Objetivo: Evaluar un kit de antibiograma rápido (KAR®) en formato point-of-care para la detección rápida de ITU y sensibilidad antimicrob...

Resumen Introducción: Las infecciones del tracto urinario (ITU) presentan una elevada prevalencia en el ámbito comunitario. Un rápido diagnós-tico microbiológico es esencial para asegurar una terapia adecuada y efectiva. Objetivo: Evaluar un kit de antibiograma rápido (KAR ®) en formato point-of-care para la detección rápida de ITU y sensibilidad a...