Xabier Larrañaga Etxabe
Xabier Larrañaga graduated in Industrial Engineering in 2016 (University of Basque Country EHU) and received his MSE in Industrial Engineering specialized in Material Science in 2018 from University of Basque Country.During his bachelor of engineering (BE), he joined the Formula Student Bizkaia Team and worked in design, fabrication and modelling of fibre-reinforced polymers. Moreover, he studied the thermal recycling of CFRP materials in his BE final project. In his MSE in Industrial Engineering he had the chance to study the fatigue behaviour in steel and cast iron gears in Fagor Arrasate S.Coop., where he worked afterwards as member of the mechanical design department until 2019. He has joined Polymat for her PhD studies on February 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Jose Ramon Sarasua and Dr. Ester Zuza.
Xabier Larrañaga is currently working on a PhD research project within the Science and Engineering of Polymeric Biomaterials research group of Prof. Jose Ramon Sarasua. The research project focuses on the study of segmental dynamics of high toughness polylactide based composites and the development of such systems towards 3D printable orthopaedic medical devices.
Publicaciones
Gold Nanorods as Effective Modulators of Shape Memory Behavior in Physiological Conditions of PLA/PEG Blends
X. Larranaga, S. Bittinger, U. Aizarna-Lopetegui, R. Schonlein, B. Rodriguez, J.R. Sarasua, E. Zuza and D. Jimenez de Aberasturi
Piezoelectric polylactic acid-based biomaterials: Fundamentals, challenges and opportunities in medical device design
R. Schonlein, P. Bhattarai, M. Raef, X. Larranaga, A. Poudel, M. Biggs, R. Aguirresarobe and J. Ugartemendia
Polylactide, Polycaprolactone, and Rice Husk—Biocomposites for Biomedical and Packaging Applications
A. Amin, X. Larranaga, A. Mohamed, S. Metwally, M. Sultan, S. Loutfy, E. Nashy and M. Abdel Raouf
The Combined Effects of Optical Purity, Chain Orientation, Crystallinity, and Dynamic Mechanical Activation as Means to Obtain Highly Piezoelectric Polylactide Materials
R. Schönlein, X. Larrañaga, M. Azkune, Y. Li, G. Liu, A.J. Müller, R. Aguirresarobe and J. Ugartemendia
Enhanced Piezoelectric Properties of Poly(L-lactide) Nanocomposite Microfiber Scaffolds Due to Polydopamine-Coating of Barium Titanate Nanoparticles
R. Schönlein, X. Larrañaga, A. Panfilo, Y. Li, A. Larrañaga, G. Liu, A.J. Müller, R. Aguirresarobe and J. Ugartemendia
Role of Inorganic Fillers on the Physical Aging and Toughness Loss of PLLA/BaSO4 Composites
X. Larrañaga, J.R. Sarasua and E. Zuza
