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MECHAnized NANOmachines for two-photon activation – MECHANANO
The proposed research program is a multi-faceted study of multifunctional mechanized nanoparticles. It is a collaborative effort between ICGM, UR1 and UCLA and combines the expertise of the French groups (2-photon photochemistry and photophysics and organic/inorganic mesoporous materials) with that
Giant piezoresistance in silicon structures for microsystems – PIGE
Piezoresistance (PZR), the change of electrical resistivity with an externally applied mechanical stress, is well known and was first measured in silicon almost 60 years ago. In addition to revealing details of the band structure, PZR is exploited in a number of diverse stress sensing applications.
Towards generation of new luminescent and multifunctional hybrid nanoparticles for bioimaging and biosensing – HYBIOTAG
Progress in biomedical imaging depends on the development of probes that combine low toxicity with high sensitivity, resolution, and stability. Toward that end, a new class of highly fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles with narrow size distributions and enhanced photostability, known as C do
Active Nanoplateforms for PhotoDynamic Therapy – PDTX
Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a malignant tumor of the brain, is one of the most challenging problems. Surgery remains the basic treatment in which the bulk of the tumor is removed and the peripheral infiltrating part is the target of supplementary treatments. Despite advances in neuro
Multimodal functionalized carbon nanotube/iron oxide nanoparticle hybrids for imaging and therapeutic applications – NANOTHER
The continuous growing of Nanotechnology has brought to challenging innovations in medicine revolutionizing the field of therapy, in particular the delivery of biologically active compounds and the local treatments of diseases. The main input of today’s Nanotechnology in the biomedical field is that
Carbon nanotube photocathodes for stationary CT scaners – Nanoscanner
Classical computed tomography scanners incorporate a rotating ring or “gantry” which holds the X-ray source and the X-ray sensors. They exhibit a high resolution but are large, heavy and are characterised by a low throughput. Using multiple X-ray sources, low cost, stationary (gantry free) and effic
Mesocosm network for Environmental Nanotechnology Risk Assessment – MESONNET
The potential diversity of nanomaterials is staggering, with countless variations in size, shape, surface chemistry, chemical composition, coatings and composites. Our project responds to the challenge of relating a vast array of nanomaterial properties to their potential environmental exposure, bio
Integrated resonators for multicolor infrared photodetection – INTREPID
The study of optical properties of metal nanostructures has been significantly increasing during the last decade, a field known as plasmonics, motivated by interesting properties such optical filtering and concentration of light. The development of this expertise is especially relevant to infrared i
Functionalized graphene sheets: Application in hybrid C-MOS electronics – Grafonics
The Grafonics project proposes to control the opening of the band gap of graphene by functionalizing its surface as well as to characterize the resulting electrical properties. For the purpose of these studies the modified graphene will be integrated in suited devices (transistor like configuration
Carbon Nanotube AFM tips for biotechnology – BIONANOTIP
Biosensors are bioanalytical and biomedical devices aimed at measuring precisely the quantity and/or the function of a target molecular complex (ligand-receptor). Nanobiotechnology aims at developing more reliable devices with an increasing sensitivity, robustness, and a decreasing cost. A key step
Accurate Measurement of Orientation and Strain in nanostructures – AMOS
The AMOS project is constructed around three mature diffraction techniques (micro-Laue-X-ray diffraction, EBSD and NBED) that can measure simultaneously orientation, phase and strain in submicronic structures. Recent developments - only achieved by a few laboratories in the world and especially by
THERMAL FEMTOSECOND PHENOMENA AND METROLOGY – PHEMTO
The main goal of this project is to develop a new instrument to fulfill an urgent need in the field of thermal characterization at short space and time scales. This will permit, for the first time, to locally characterize thermal conduction in nanomaterials at sub-micron spatial and sub-picosecond t
Perpendicular Anisotropy Materials for High-Density Non-volatile Magnetic Memory Cells – PATHOS
The project aims at building the knowledge to fabricate perpendicular anisotropy magnetic tunnel junctions, and more generally the realization of perpendicular anisotropy layers for use as magnetic tunnel junction electrodes or perpendicular spin polarisers. The integration of perpendicular anisotro
Bistable nanoparticles for thermal imaging at a high spatial and temporal resolution – THERMOSPIN
This fundamental research project aims at developing thermal nanocharacterization techniques with a high spatial and temporal resolution based on the use of bistable nanostructured molecular materials with predictable and controllable physical properties. This bistability is accompanied by a spectac
QUAntum Simulations and Assessment of NanOdeVice Architectures – QUASANOVA
During more than four decades, the scaling of the transistors induced an improvement of their performances. However, it is unanimously recognized that new architectures will be necessary to reach gate length of the order of 10 nm as planned in the next generations of transistors. In this context, th
Processable intelligEnt Colloids for MucoSal Drug Delivery – PECSDDeli
The project aims at developing a mucosal drug delivery nano system simple to administer and to manufacture, based on safe, biodegradable and biocompatible polysaccharides. So the two major objectives of this project are : i) to design a green and scalable process of manufacturing colloidal delivery
Non Photochemical Light Induced Nanoscale Nucleation. Control of Crystalline Material Polymorphism: Application to Pharmaceutical Drugs – NPLIN-4-Drug
Studying polymorphism of pharmaceutical compounds is a growing field of activity. This is due, on one hand, to the economic pressure of the pharmaceutical industry and on the other hand, to the more important awareness of the polymorphism (or pseudo-polymorphism) consequences on the medicament prope
Periodic nanostructures imprinted on polymers for electromagnetic applications – N-POEM
The aim of N-POEM proposal is to design, fabricate and characterize emerging periodic nanostructures for three electromagnetic and optical functionalities: microwave regime absorption, filtering and antireflecting. These materials are based on strongly coupled periodic structures composed of sub-mic
Micro glucose fuel cell on porous silicon with abiotic and bio inspired catalysts – GLUCOPAC
GLUCOPAC aims at developing a glucose micro fuel cell. The glucose fuel cells seem very promising: glucose is an energy source which is natural and abundant. Sony recently demonstrated the potential of the glucose fuel cells for nomad applications such as walkman, showing a 300cm3 system that could
Nano-magnetic sensors applied to non-destructive evaluation – CANOE
Industries undergo today a strong pressure to reinforce the reliability and the safety of the products, while improving their productivity. To take up this challenge, they use non destructive testings (NDT) methods which gather processes ready to provide information on the health of a part without d
Nanophotonics Based Optical Trapping – BalTrap
A new concept of nanophotonic devices is proposed in this project, opening the way to the production of a wide range of innovative 3D Micro-Nano-Photonic device structures: as an illustration of the potential of our approach, it is further proposed the demonstration of very efficient optical nano-tw
Single crystal dielectric thin films for integrated capacitors – MOCA
The MOCA project is dedicated to the study of thin films single crystals from the perovskite family obtained on Silicon substrate by epitaxial routes. The materials developed will be Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) with Zr/Ti=52/48 and (Ba,Sr)TiO3 (BST) with Ba/Sr=70/30. Three different deposition techniques will