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Michel Barsoum (Drexel University, Pennsylvania): « I hope to spend more time in Grenoble in the coming years » You are known worldwide for your work on materials, particularly MAX phases. What brought you to Grenoble for three months? In materials science, to gain real understanding of a material you need large single crystals. The […] >>

Just two years after it was founded, Aryballe Technologies has raised €2.6 million in fresh capital from five investors, including the CEA. The influx of funds will pay for industrial scale-up of the company’s product—a portable, universal odor detector—and the start-up of manufacturing operations in early 2017. The new investors were won over by the […] >>

The sixth CEA Sustainable Mobility Days, to be held on September 23–24 at MINATEC, will coincide this year with the 60th anniversary of CEA Grenoble. Friday’s program will be targeting companies and government agencies, with the 2nd national conference on mobility planning (French Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal is invited) and talks on various innovative-mobility topics. […] >>

MINATEC’s weekly brown-bag lunch talks are more popular than ever! Since 2008, the talks have brought in more than 80,000 attendees, with an average of 270 people each week over the past three years. The 300th Midi MINATEC will be held in September. The talks are free of charge and sandwiches are on the house. […] >>

The SOI Industry Consortium, which counts among its members around twenty large companies and universities from around the globe, will be moving into offices on the MINATEC campus before summer. The members of the consortium, which include Soitec, STMicroelectronics, GlobalFoundries, Leti, and UC Berkeley, will soon have a neutral meeting point and independent address. The […] >>