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Bio-physicochemistry of tropical clouds at Maïdo (La Réunion Island): processes and impacts on secondary organic aerosols formation – BIO-MAIDO
The objective of the BIO-MAIDO program is to better understand the chemical and biological multiphase mechanisms controlling the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOA). Uncertainties on the processes of formation and transformation of atmospheric organic aerosols need to be lifted to understa
Molecular Characterization of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Membranes for Gas Separation under Harsh Conditions – MOLHYB
Gas separation by dense polymer membranes is a very promising alternative to the cryogenic distillation or adsorption separation processes due to its much lower energy costs. This is critical for chemical industries, where the separation of mixtures accounts for over 50% of the energy costs. In addi
Hybrid tools for non-destructive evaluation and monitoring of infrastructures: optimized management for their durability – OHMIGOD
Structural health monitoring is a crucial issue for infrastructure managers and owners in different fields such as transport and energy civil engineering and buildings. Around the world, almost 15,000 infrastructures are in a degraded or even critical condition. At present, infrastructure managers r
Programed genetic transformation: Staphylococcus aureus as a new model organism – GenTranSa
Areas of active research in this field include the regulation of competence, the evolutionary function of competence (genome plasticity, antibiotic resistance spreading) and the mechanisms of exogenous DNA natural transformation (transport and processing). In this project, I propose to investigate a
Microscale spatiotemporal investigation of multi-species electroactive biofilms using optical microfluidic platform – MICROBE
The MICROBE research project is a fundamental scientific project in which we plan to clarify at the microscopic level a whole host of grey areas concerning the fundamental processes and mechanisms responsible for the formation and evolution of electroactive biofilms on the surface of electrodes. Key
Osmotic Stress on chip: an innovative tool to screen complex fluids at the nanoliter scale – OSMOCHIP
Solvay is facing today with an increasing demand for studying new formulations with limited environmental footprints and for a wide range of applications. The elaboration of their phase diagram is simple but tedious, since it consists in mixing chemicals by hand or using labscale mixing apparatus, a
Gas-liquid plasma micro-reactors for future chemistry – PLAS4CHEM
The long term objective of the project is to develop a new tool able to perform chemical reactions of industrial interest without catalysts and without solvents, using reactive species (radicals, excited neutrals, metastables, photons…) generated in gas phase by plasma discharges at room temperature
Three terminal tandem HEterojunction on interdigitated back contacts SIlicon Solar cell – THESIS
This new 3-terminal solar cell technology eliminates the constraint of photocurrent matching for the two cells making up the 2-terminal tandem cell, without the need for a tunnel junction. It also facilitates access to the different contacts of the upper and lower cells without the need for etching
Mega Array of Microphones for the Identification of Environmental aeroacoustic Sources – MAMIES
The objective of the MAMIES project is to develop a new methodology for identifying aeroacoustic sources in wind tunnels. This type of sources, resulting from the interaction of a flow and an obstacle, is at the origin of noise emissions in the environment, for example for transport or certain noise
Thermoelectric antimonides for high temperature applications – HIGHTHERM
Main issues and general objectives are to demonstrate that rare earth antimonides have high thermoelectric figure of merit at high temperature and that they are stable enough at these temperatures (1000°C and higher) so that they could be use for making p-type thermoelectric legs that could be coupl
