Research in the nanosciences in France

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Major research organizations Competitiveness clusters - http://competitivite.gouv.fr 6 centers of competence in the nanosciences, C’Nano were established in 2004. The C’Nano centers count on a network of firms and institutions of higher education to support their work on technological innovations needed by industry. • Lyonbiopôle: Lyonbiopôle is developing products and services around miniaturized intelligent solutions (micro-nanotechnologies and embedded intelligence software) for industry. http://www.lyonbiopole.com • Minalogic: located in Grenoble, Minalogic also offers miniaturized intelligent solutions (micro-nanotechnologies and embedded intelligence software) for industry. http://www.minalogic.com • Microtechniques: located in Besançon, Microtechniques is built around technology know-how derived from, among other things, watchmaking. Its products are relevant to chip cards, telephones, remote broadcast relays, parameters, satellites, pacemakers, gears, control panels, and aircraft and automobile engines. http://www.polemicrotechniques.fr • POPSUD (optics and photonics): located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, POPSUD specializes in complex optical and imaging systems designed for demanding environments. http://www.popsud.org • S2E2 (electrical energy systems and sciences): serving the Centre-Limousin regions, the S2E2 cluster performs work at every stage of the electrical energy value chain. http://www.s2e2.fr • SCS (secure communication solutions): operating in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, the SCS competitiveness cluster targets equipment and software for transmitting, exchanging, and processing data securely and reliably. http://www.pole-scs.org Thematic advanced research networks (known as RTRAs) http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr>Stratégie et organisation RTRAs are made up of research laboratories pursuing a shared strategy toward a common scientific objective. Three of France’s 13 RTRAs deal with aspects of the nanosciences: - Grenoble nanosciences network This RTRA brings together the CNRS, the French atomic and alternative energy commission (CEA), the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, and Université Joseph Fourier in their nano-related work in quantum electronics, magnetism, photonics, materials, the life sciences, measurement and description, and modeling. http://www.fondation-nanosciences.fr - Orsay physics triangle The Orsay physics triangle brings together the laboratories of the Palaiseau-Orsay-Saclay region for work on specific themes (optics, spintronics-magnetoelectronics, nanophysics) that benefit from the use of very large research instruments like the Soleil particle accelerator, the neutron reactor at the Léon Brillouin national laboratory for neutron diffusion), or the high-powered lasers at the intense laser laboratory (LULI) on the campus of the École Polytechnique, the wave and acoustic laboratory (LOA) in Palaiseau), and the CEA. The Orsay physics triangle is the home base of French researcher Albert Fert, winner of the 2007 Nobel prize in physics. http://triangledelaphysique.fr - CIRFC (The Strasbourg international center for research at the frontiers of chemistry) Founded by Université de Strasbourg, the CNRS, the BASF companies (world leaders in chemistry), and Bruker (high-tech instrumentation), CIRFC is a multidisciplinary center that grapples with all aspects of chemistry at the interface with physics, materials, and biology. http://www.icfrc.fr Institut Carnot - http://www.instituts-carnot.eu The Carnot label is awarded to public research bodies that combine basic research with an active policy of research partnerships with the world outside academia. Of the three Carnot Institutes working in the nanotechnologies, two—LAAS and CEA/LETI—have already been mentioned. The third is STAR (science and technology for research applications), located in the Aix-Marseille university complex. STAR consists of 12 research laboratories affiliated with the university and the CNRS that are engaged in R&D (Research and Development) projects on industry-relevant topics such as energy, transportation, electronics, aeronautics, the environment, and health. http://www.instituts-carnot.eu/fr/star 2
Doctoral departments and Research laboratories Chemistry and physics • Carnot-Pasteur - ED 554 - http://ed-carnot-pasteur.u-bourgogne.fr Affiliated with doctoral department 554 at Université de Dijon, the UTINAM institute (specializing in space, transportation, interfaces, nanostructures, the atmosphere and environment, and molecules) is organized into five teams: structured materials and surfaces; nanoparticles, contaminants, and membranes; theoretical physics and astrophysics; spectroscopy, planetology, atmospheres, clathrates, and the environment; and sonochemistry and surface reactivity. http://www.utinam.cnrs.fr • EMMA (mechanical energy and materials) - ED 409 - http://www.emma.uhp-nancy.fr The scientific domains covered by EMMA at Université de Lorraine in Nancy and Metz are mechanics, energy, matter and materials, materials development processes, component manufacturing processes, and mechanical and energy systems. Affiliated with EMMA, the Institut Jean Lamour (IJL) conducts research on three themes: emerging materials, nanosciences, and nanotechnologies; theoretical physics and modeling; and hot plasma physics. http://www.ijl.nancy-universite.fr • LP2N (digital photonics and nanosciences laboratory) - (UMR 5298) LP2N, a joint research unit of the CNRS and Université Bordeaux, and the Optical Institute Graduate School, studies photons and nanosystems (optical and quantum phenomena at microscopic scale), matter waves, atomic lasers, and microsystems (optical phenomena that also use atoms). http://www.lp2n.institutoptique.fr • 3MPL (Matter, molecules, and materials in the Pays de Loire) - ED 500 - http://www.univ-lemans.fr>Recherche>Formation doctorale Affiliated with 3MPL at Université du Maine Le Mans, the IMN (Jean Rouxel materials institute) is a joint research unit of the CNRS and Université de Nantes that carries out research on three themes: nanostructures, nanocomposites (nanowires, nanoparticles, etc.), and their applications (such as transparent electrodes, special artificial glasses, OLEDs); nano-bio-systems (and hybrid nano-bio-systems); complex materials with nonconventional electronic properties (such as insulator–metal transitions induced by an electric field). http://www.cnrsimn.fr • PHAST (Lyon physics and astrophysics) - ED 52 - http://phd-physics.universite-lyon.fr This doctoral department at the Université de Lyon covers the fields of astrophysics, subatomic physics, optics and lasers, optical and optoelectronic materials, the nanosciences and nanomaterials, and nonlinear physics, as well as the interfaces between physics and health and physics and biology. Affiliated with the department is PMCN (the laboratory of condensed matter physics and nanostructures), which studies and develops solid materials and soft matter. http://www-lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr • Physics and chemistry of materials - ED 397 - http://www.ed397.upmc.fr The main research themes of this doctoral department at Université Pierre et Marie Curie are reactive materials, catalysis, organic-inorganic hybrids, functional materials (optics, magnetism, biomaterials), polymers, nanostructures (nanomagnetism, spintronics), and the mesoscopic physics of granulars, aggregates, and surfaces. Affiliated with doctoral department 397 is the INSP (Paris nanosciences institute), which performs basic nanoscience research focused on optoelectronics, telecommunications, the earth and environmental sciences, catalysis, and medical diagnostics. http://www.insp.jussieu.fr • P2MC (particle and condensed matter physics) - ED 389 - http://www.ed389.upmc.fr This doctoral department of physics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie explores the nanosciences, particularly through the study of plasmonics and metallic nanostructures. • Physics in the Paris region - ED 107 - http://www.phys.ens.fr/Ecole.Doctorale/ This doctoral department at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris pursues research on the manipulation and use of unique microscopic objects (such as atoms, molecules, quantum boxes), condensed matter at small sizes, and nanophysics. • Physics and sciences of matter - ED 352 - http://ed352.sciences.univmed.fr The research fields covered by this doctoral department at Aix-Marseille Université are astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, theoretical physics, mathematical physics, optics, photonics, hot plasmas, lasers, materials science, condensed matter, and the nanosciences and their relation to biophysics. Affiliated with doctoral department 352 is CINaM (Marseille interdisciplinary center for nanoscience), which performs research in six areas: molecular engineering and functional materials, nanomaterials and reactivity, punctual sources and waves, the science and technology of nano-objects, and digital theory and simulation. http://www.cinam.univ-mrs.fr 3
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