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Jaime Gabriel Trazo, recipient of the Enzo Ferroni Award (ECIS, 2024)
On September 6th 2024, Jaime Gabriel Trazo has been awarded of the Enzo Ferroni Award for Best Oral Presentation in the young researchers category during the 38th Conference of the …
Pascale Launois, recipient of the André Guinier Prize 2024
Pascale Launois, CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides d’Orsay, has been awarded the “André Guinier” prize by the Association Française de Cristallographie. The Association Française de …
Droplet levitation for self-assembly of liquid crystals
Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides have studied the self-assembly of liquid-crystal particles inside a droplet when the latter evaporates within an acoustic levitator. The resulting structures formed …
GFA Young investigator prize awarded to Erwan Paineau
On May 17, Erwan Paineau was awarded the young researcher prize by the French clay group at its annual conference in Grenoble. Erwan was rewarded for the excellence and originality …
Guiding nanoparticle assembly into complex structures
Researchers have developed a new method to introduce controlled disorder intro crystals of anisotropic gold nanoparticles. This result, at the crossroad between chemistry and engineering, offers prospects for the synthesis …
Colloidal phase behavior of high aspect ratio clay nanotubes in symmetric and asymmetric electrolytes
Imogolite nanotubes (INTs) are unique anisometric particles with monodisperse nanometric diameters while the aspect ratio can be controlled by the synthesis conditions. It thus appears as an interesting model system …
Some examples of quasiperiodic tilings obtained with a simple grid method
There are different methods, which generate quasiperiodic tilings. In a recent study, researchers from the MATRIX team propose a new method based on grids of regular tessellations of the plane …
Measurement of NMR diffusion coefficients to characterize complex materials at the nanometric scales
Gradient Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (PFG-NMR) allows to measure the diffusion coefficients of molecular and macromolecular species. The probed scales correspond to the nanometric and micrometric domains found in ‘nano’ …
Magneto-electric hysteresis effect in multiferroic GdMn2O5
Multiferroic compounds are widely studied for their magnetoelectric coupling, enabling polarization, for example, to be manipulated using a magnetic field. A new electronic state has just been discovered in the …