Javier de Abajo Gonzalez

Research Professor
Department of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry
Institute of Polymer Science and Technology
C/Juan de la Cierva 3, Madrid 28006
Spain

Tel.: +34-91-5622900 ext 290
Fax: +34-91-5644853
deabajo@ictp.csic.es

Born in 1942 in Valladolid, Javier de Abajo is currently Research Professor (1991) and Head of the Department of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP), belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid.
He received his Ph.D. at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1971). After his Ph.D., he gained a position at the ICTP as assistant researcher (1971). Since then, he has been involved in numerous research projects mainly devoted to the preparation of monomers and condensation polymers. In addition to various aspects of synthetic chemistry, his current research interests include the design and synthesis of new types of molecular architectures based on aromatic polyamides and polyimides to control the influence of the chemical composition on their properties, and to evaluate them in various fields (heat resistance, gas separation, water purification, and solar cells flexible substrates).
Having published over 150 papers and 15 patents, Prof. de Abajo has attained a solid reputation in these fields. More than 20 Ph.D. students and Post-Docs have received training in the group under his supervision. Prof. de Abajo has maintained effective collaboration with national, European and North American groups of excellence. He has been visiting scientist at the University of Stuttgart (A. von Humboldt fellow), Koln, Hamburg and North Carolina (NCSU, Raleigh). He has coordinated numerous National Projects and he has participated in three projects of the EU.
Prof. de Abajo has acted as chief researcher in 15 projects financed by national industrial circles through R+D projects with various companies. He has got research contracts with several national and multinational enterprises, Tremasa, Plastiform, Aicar, Acciona-Pridesa, among others.

The five most cited papers

Synthesis and characterization of novel polyimides with bulky pendant groups D. Ayala, J. de Abajo, A.E. Lozano, J.G. de la Campa Journal of Polymer Science, Part A, Polymer Chemistry, 1999, 6, 805-814 Cited 67 times

Synthesis and characterization of new soluble aromatic polyamides based on 4-(1-adamantyl)-1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene J. Espeso, J.G. de la Campa, A.E. Lozano, J. de Abajo Journal of Polymer Science, Part A, Polymer Chemistry, 2000, 38, 1014-1023 Cited 49 times

LC-polyimides: 5. Poly(ester-imide)s derived from N-(4-carboxyphenyl)trimellitimide and α,ω-dihydroxyalkanes H.R. Kricheldorf, G. Schwarz, J. de Abajo, J.G. de la Campa Polymer, 1991, 32, 942-949 Cited 43 times

Layer structures. 2. Influence of spacers on chain packing and phase transitions of poly(ester-imide)s derived from N-(4-carboxyphenyl)trimellitimide H.R. Kricheldorf, G. Schwarz, Berghahn, J. de Abajo, J.G. de la Campa Macromolecules, 1994, 27, 2540-2547 Cited 42 times

Synthesis and characterization of aromatic polyamides containing alkylphthalimido pendent groups E. Ferrero, J.F. Espeso, J.G. de la Campa, J.G. de Abajo, A.E. Lozano Journal of Polymer Science, Part A, Polymer Chemistry, 2002, 40, 3711-3724 Cited 40 times