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The building sector represents 44% of the energy consumption in France. It is responsible of more than 123 million tonnes of C02 emissions, making it one of the key areas of the energy transition. At the same time, the increasing pollution of the air in urban areas, especially airborne particles, se

Energy storage today is governed by two main systems: batteries and supercapacitors. Supercapacitors store less energy density than batteries but more power. This project aims to increase the amount of energy stored by supercapacitors. The stored energy density depends mainly on the operating voltag

The project main objective is to explore the possibility to embed a matrix of sensors on a textile substrate, permeable to airflow and flexible (compared to rigid grid). This multi-sensory flexible structure should improve the sensitivity and selectivity (cartography) of volatile organic compounds (

1 – Geophysics and Remote Sensing Data Mining: Use of decadal-scale time series of seismic, deformation, gas, thermal and electrical resistivity data acquired by ground- and satellite-based sensors, to constrain levels of activity and relations with volcanic processes. 2 – Application of Deep Le

The main goal of CARDIF project is the development of gas sensors based on new functionalized inks that will interact with specific chemicals species and will be read by transduction at radiofrequency wavelength. The heart of the project is to develop functionalized inks for different chemical speci

MONIDAS project aims at developing the DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) technology to monitor seismic, volcanic and landslide natural hazards. DAS sensors use standard telecommunication optical fibers and measure the longitudinal strain of the cable in the acoustic range (0.1 to 1kHz). A single

The TEMPO project takes place in the frame of water resources polluted by effluents/wastewaters containing non-biodegradable organic compounds. Attention will be focused on the treatment of effluents from the pharmaceutical industry, hydrocarbon effluents from the petrochemical industry, landfill le

The project is structured in 4 parts: (1) the development of 100 cm2 nanostructured Fe2O3 photoanodes decorated with Ni-Metal nanocatalysts for efficient solar energy conversion (UV-Vis) with photocurrents above 5 mA/cm2 in the presence of urea in urine (0.33 M). (2) the development of an efficien

To what extent does environmental magnetism enable relevant bio-monitoring of air pollution to fine particles in urban and peri-urban areas? Can the integration of citizens from a metrology on bio-sensors up to the construction of an action plan serve as a lever on the political decisions that conce

Black carbon (BC) contributes to global warming by absorbing sunlight. Current global climate models systematically underpredict the atmospheric aerosol absorption by a factor of three when compared to observations, which is often attributed to the underestimation of BC emissions [Bond et al. 2004,

The community was recently warned about the notion of microplastics and a fortiori nanoplastics (NPs) to concentrate pollutants acquired from the surrounding environment and potentially released them into organism as bioavailable contaminants. Nevertheless, the knowledge of the factors influencing t

Grasslands and forests are the two main terrestrial ecosystems limiting global warming due to their high capability to store carbon. Sap flows play a critical role by absorbing water and mineral salts used for transpiration and photosynthesis (xylem) and transporting the photosynthate carbons (phloe

In recent years, evidence has accumulated for the presence and activity of fungal communities in a wide variety of aquatic habitats. While numerous studies have provided evidence for metabolically active marine fungi, the extent to which they make a significant contribution to biogeochemical cycling

Too often, the existing tsunami warning systems cannot provide the direct tsunami measurements necessary for reliable (multi-point), local field (coasts less than two hours from the source) and global coverage warning. This is mainly due to the limited number of monitoring stations in the oceans. Th