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Highly sensitive scanning probes for nanoscale thermal microscopy – TIPTOP
The TIPTOP project is a 4-year collaborative project aiming at developing a new resistive SThM probe for nanoscale quantitative thermal measurement, demonstrating the capabilities of the new technique on application-oriented micro and nanostructured materials and systems, developing an optimized tec
One dimensional spin-quantum transport in molecular wires – MQwires
Current industrially exploited technologies for the fabrication of nanoscale devices and further improvements of new kind of consumer electronics are based on the down-scaling of conventional semi-conductor technology. The inclusion of organic materials is so far limited to the optimization of mater
Band Gap Engineering of Titanium dioxide nanotubes for solar Energy conversion – BAGETE
Solar energy is amongst the most attractive renewable energies. However, due to its diffuse and fluctuating nature, producing a stable flow of energy from the sun remains a challenge. To overcome this problem, the project aims to develop materials for a photo-electrochemical process (PEC) allowing t
Robust scheduling with budgeted processing times – ROBUST
Scheduling is a very wide topic in combinatorial optimization with applications ranging from production and manufacturing systems to transportation and logistics systems. Stated generally, the objective of scheduling is to allocate optimally scarce resources to activities over time. More specificall
Nanofluidic Energy Conversion with (re)Active suRfaces – NECtAR
Water desalination and sustainable energy harvesting are among the greatest challenges of our society, and nanofluidics offers promising solutions to address them. Nanofluidic energy conversion systems rely on electrokinetic (EK) effects, which couple different types of transport (hydrodynamic, elec
Novel active inline mixer for yield stress fluids: from fundamental science to industrial processing optimization – NaiMYS
An experimental and numerical study of a novel active online mixing and heat transfer device for yield stress fluids encountered in food industry is proposed. Simple dimensional arguments indicate that, by reducing the effective length of the active mixer, one gains quadratically in the energy neede
The role of Urban Educative Cultures on children’s behavior change about their daily mobility and urban lifestyle. Collection and spatiotemporal analysis of individual tracks location-based and enriched semantically – MOBIKIDS
The MOBI'KIDS program aims to understand the conditions of children's daily mobility and their relationship to the city spaces in a context of changing lifestyles and encouraged alternative modes of travel spurred by the «city demotorization ». The goal is also to study how children's mobility and s
Bioinspired chitosan cardiac patches: assemblies with the secretome of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for cardiac tissue regeneration – MYOCHITO
Myocardial infarction is one of the most deadly cardiovascular diseases in the world and in France, and is considered as one of the major pathologies of the 21st century. It occurs when the heart is no longer sufficiently supplied with oxygen by the blood, causing the death of the damaged cells. Ven
Photosynthesis Regulation and cyanobacterial biofuel production – ReCyFuel
Due to the global Earth warming arising from increasing atmospheric levels of CO2 and to the decrease of fossil fuel supply, one of the biggest challenges of our modern society is to design new methods to generate renewable, sustainable and clean energy. In the recent years, the use of cyanobacter
Development of atmospheric plasma Enhanced SPatial ATomiC layer deposition (SALD) for application to silicon Heterojunction solar cells – DESPATCH
Si solar cells are the main photovoltaic technology being used nowadays. While efficiencies reached are approaching the theoretic maximum, cost is still an issue to be fully competitive with fossil fuels. A new technology called Silicon Heterojunction Solar (HET) Cells has been developed in which th
