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Wetting on Real Surfaces : Dynamics and Nanoroughness – REALWET
Rain running down a car windshield, butter sloshing around a Teflon pan… Despite the ubiquity of the phenomenon, we still do not fully understand how a liquid moves over a solid surface. Real surfaces are rough, chemically heterogeneous, coated with molecular layers, or even all of the above, complicating attempts to isolate fundamental physical principles. We believe that in order to build a consistent picture of wetting dynamics one must first understand the wetting on real surfaces.
Cognition and tool-use economy. Insights from experimental, neuro- and comparative psychology – ECOTOOL
Tools offer an economy by allowing the user to reduce the various costs (e.g., time) required to accomplish a task. If we keep in mind that tool use is also a matter of behavioral economy, several questions arise. Does the human tool-use propensity reflect the human ability to excel to direct toward the most economical options? Does cumulative cultural evolution reflect the human ability to extract from tool behaviors performed by conspecifics the ones that are the most economical?
Crystallisation of seeded Silicon, impact of Light Impurities and Defects – CrySaLID
Answer to the challenge of the control of the final crystalline structure (growth from seeds, orientation selection, and parasitic grains) of the defects and of light impurities: multi-scale experiments and simulations.
Excited States of BiO-relevant systems: towards ultrafast DYnamics with conformational Resolution – ESBODYR
The experimental challenge consists in deploying novel experimental procedures (IR ns/ UV ns, IR ns/UV fs, helium droplets) in order to detect and identify bio-relevant systems from their IR spectroscopy. Then, the ultimate goal is to record a conformer-selective dynamics. The challenge for theoretical spectroscopy and dynamics of excited states of bio-relevant systems comes from the number of states of different nature which need to be described simultaneously in a balanced and accurate way.
Emerging azacalixphyrin: a novel molecular tool for science – EMA
We can thus envision for these new compounds exceptional versatility in science by analogy to porphyrins
RAFT polymers as versatile macrophotoinitiators – RAFT-POP
at the industrial scale with regard to their exceptional synthetic potential. Any proposition aiming at
Quantum-dot diode optical parametric oscillator – DOPO
transfer, the very same reasons behind the exceptional performance of the laser diode (compactness,
Algebraic and geometric domain decomposition for subsurface /groundwater flows – DEDALES
Geosciences simulations face a growing demand for increased physical fidelity. Geological storage of nuclear waste, or CO2, couples thermal, hydraulic, mechanical and chemical phenomena. The goal of the DEDALES project is to contribute to the mathematical methods, and the computing techniques, required to make those simulations feasible on the next generation of supercomputers.
Employment, Housing, Transport Infrastructure: Social Implications, Mobility and Environment – ELITISME
Impact of within family negotiation on mobility choices
Repeatability of the speciation process in butterflies: natural replicates in a suture zone system – SPECREP
How predictable is evolution? Do species respond in the same way to similar environmental pressures? The question of repeatability is crucial in evolutionary biology because it can inform on the mechanisms generating and shaping diversity and can shed light on how organisms might react in the face of future changes.
