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</form> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="item"> <a href="/materiais/en/presentation/" title="Presentation" target="_self" class=""> Presentation </a> </div> </div> <div id="slideshow_wrapper"> <div id="slideshow"> <div class="slide"> <img src="/fotos/destaques/foto_1_1717045694558d498ed59c4.png" alt="" /> </div> </div> <div id="paginacaoHomepage"> <ul> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="departamento_destaque"> <div id="departamento"> <h2>Materials Department</h2> <div class="detalhes"> <div class="texto"> The Materials Department (DM) develops R&D&I activities in the areas as follows: characterisation, performance, development and application of building materials, in particular concrete and its components, hydraulic mortars, bituminous binders, plastics, composites of a polymeric matrix, organic coatings, metals, rock and ceramics; study of the degradation and conservation of materials in the built patrimony, particularly those integrated in the historical 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