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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
Laser-printing of 2D/3D Copper structures for plastic electronics – COPPRINT
The objective of the COPPRINT project is to design, realize and validate with an industrial partner a digital laser printing system for interconnexion in microelectronics. Such applications are currently achieved by inkjet technology by printing metallic nanoparticles inks. Improving the performance
RELIAble ThermoElectric Generators – RELIATEG
The thermoelectric technology enables the direct conversion from heat into electrical energy or vice-versa. New opening markets can be found from the recovery of waste heat, for instance in the field of transport, while contributing both to the reduction of fuel consumption and of greenhouse gas emi
Monge-Ampère and Computational Geometry – MAGA
The (real) Monge-Ampère equation is a fully nonlinear elliptic equation with a strong geometric nature. It can indeed be used, following Minkowski, to recover a convex hypersurface from the knowledge of its Gaussian curvature. This equation also plays a central role in the theory of optimal transpor
Supply chain design with an environmental performance-sensitive demand – CONCLuDE
The environmental performance of products has become a competitive factor for companies and an important purchasing criterion for customers. However, this environmental performance depends on logistical decisions such as the location/allocation of production sites, the choice of suppliers, the selec
