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Clinatec now has a lower-extremity exoskeleton for paraplegia. The Rex Rehab is capable of providing the balance necessary for walking on its own. It was designed by a New Zealand-based firm and funded by the CEA-Grenoble Disability Commission. It is the first device of its kind to be tested in Europe. Three Grenoble patients suffering […] >>

The Master’s in Micro- and Nanotechnology just turned ten! And 120 students, faculty, and alumni gathered at Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school on January 31 to celebrate. The international program is offered jointly by Politecnico di Torino, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, and Grenoble Institute of Technology. Each year, around 40 students from around […] >>

Researchers from INAC and Liten achieved a 30% increase in the current produced by an equivalent surface of platinum when they replaced a fuel-cell’s usual platinum-coated carbon electrode with a carpet made by bonding platinum nanotubes to the proton-exchange membrane. The structure, made using CVD, is covered with a fine layer of proton-conducting polymer. The […] >>

LMGP is pleased to be hosting Hironori Yamazoe, a researcher from the University of Tsukuba on sabbatical in Grenoble since mid-March. Yamazoe is an expert in microtechniques used to selectively deposit proteins on biomaterials—a process that could be used to build musculoskeletal tissue. And on July 1st, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Amy Wagoner-Johnson […] >>

That an electrical field induces deformation in piezoelectric materials is well known—and the opposite is also true. However, the mechanisms underlying this deformation remain unexplained. Researchers at Leti have just characterized the mechanism for lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films. They took in operando measurements using the Nanocharacterization Platform’s X-ray diffraction equipment, which is suitable […] >>