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Forms resulting from impacts are ubiquitous in our environment. From the star shaped pattern of cracks on broken windows to meteorite impact craters, these structures are often a rich source of information about the properties of the bodies themselves and their cohesion or on the conditions of impac

Task 1: «Colloidal lead chalcogenide nanocrystals: synthesis, surface properties, & nanocrystal morphologies«. Objectives: to perform size-tunable synthesis for high quality colloidal nanocrystals; to be able to use ligand exchange methods to modify nanocrystal surfaces Task 2: «Optical and structu

The main objective of the project is the bonded joints prognosis, and the interphases comprehension before and after ageing, and regarding the existing tools - - - Adhesives and sealants are widely used in many industrial applications, such as in aerospace, automotive and electrical industries. Th

Reliability, energetic performances and productivity can be improved using communicating sensors. Although sensors and wireless communication devices are available, energy autonomy remains the major deadlock regarding their management. The energy harvesting approach has been developed for a decad

The present proposal is based on the idea that the technique of acoustic signals analyses could be extremely useful in the domain of polymers and especially concerning plasticity and rupture. Indeed, this technique is classically used to characterise fracture mechanisms of composites, metals or cera

Our understanding of oil and aqueous foam interactions is only partial and so far, it is limited to foam stability using thermodynamic concepts such as entering coefficients and disjunction pressure. Yet, less is known on the ingestion mechanism of oil by the foam, on the transport and dispersion

The FORCE (Flows Of Red blood CElls) project aims at performing numerical simulations of flows with red blood cells. While numerical simulations of blood flows have developed tremendously over the last years, blood modeling is not an advanced field. Indeed, blood is a complex fluid, basically compo

Dusty (or complex) plasmas are ionised gases containing solid dust particles with sizes ranging from nanometre to millimetre. These media are of great interest for astrophysics (comet tails, planetary atmospheres) and for industry where dust particles are usually fatal for the processes in microelec

The main objectives of this project are as follow: - The development of a transport model including physical mechanisms like polarization, recombination and diffusion; - The understanding of the conditions where some particular phenomena are observed experimentally - The validation of the transpo

Magnetized plasma transport plays a key role not only in hot fusion plasmas but also in low-temperature plasma sources operating at low pressure, in which magnetic fields are used to limit charged particle losses to the walls and/or obtain special kinds of energy coupling. Such plasma sources are wi

Improved estimation of the anti corrosion polymer coating durability The objectives are double: - Revealing of the influence of the epoxy film structure about its physico-chemical and mechanical properties, and about the absorption parameters. - Better understanding of the unfilled polymer coati

The goal of this project is to develop the experimental and theoretical knowledge necessary to build a modeling of chemo-mechanical couplings at the micrometer scale. Because of their extremely high surface/volume ratio, MEMS devices and thin film materials are particularly subjected to the conseque

The fast expansion in the use of mobile electronic devices has lead to an increasing demand of energy storage micro-device of appropirate size. The high power and extended lifetime of electrochemical capacitors, miniaturized to a microscopic scale, could satisfy a variety of micro-power demands and

Over the past decade, the field of “Lab-on-a-Chip” has gained in maturity. This term applies to miniaturised devices which integrate the full sequence of analyses, from the raw sample to the result reading. Lab-on-a-Chip design touches on an incredibly diverse number of analytical chemistry applicat

The “Laboratoire de Génie Chimique” has made a decisive answer to the problem of the cathode. This innovation on the cathodic process could be the solution to saving MFC technology. However locks persist and scientific knowledge on fundamental processes are not yet understood. The final objective is

A number of processes of the food engineering or construction industries include a mixing step aiming at homogenizing viscous fluids or granular pastes. The initial ingredients of such processes bear in general different physical or chemical natures – as in the case of grains and a liquid –, This pr

The objective of the project is to create a new research group aiming at developing an original route for the fabrication of wide bandgap optoelectronic devices: non- and semi-polar III-Nitrides (GaN and its alloys) integrated on non- and semi-polar II-Oxides (ZnO and its alloys). Indeed, although

The present project aims at developing innovative experimental techniques to perform 3D elastic probing of heterogeneous media at a submicron scale by exploiting the high frequency acoustic field radiated by a nanoparticle (NP). This project will therefore allow getting insight into local elastic ch

The project aims at investigating the diverse mechanisms governing the deformation of polynanocrystals, including grain boundary migration, grain rotation accompanying dislocation emission/absorption, grain growth driven by triple junction motion, etc... In this aim, a dynamic nano-mechanical model,