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This year’s EDF Pulse Science and Electricity Award went to Grenoble Institute of Technology faculty member Renaud Bouchet for his research on a promising new solid-electrolyte lithium battery. The international award comes with a €150,000 grant that will be used to finance two additional researchers for the project*. The new battery is expected to be […] >>

INAC’s L_Sim intensive calculation team has just won its third Bull-Joseph Fourier Award in six years! L_Sim researcher Ivan Duchemin and Xavier Blase from Institut Néel won the award for their work parallelizing a code that describes the light absorption and emission mechanisms of the organic molecules used in objects like smartphone displays. Until now, […] >>

The IRT Nanoelec education program will soon be putting an original educational video online. The short animated video aims to teach non-specialists about nanoelectronics and its applications. The video’s attractive visuals and irreverent tone are intended to resonate with the high-school and college set, highlighting the nanoelectronics research taking place in Grenoble and sparking interest […] >>

This year, Nano@school, which gives high-school students an introduction to nanoscience research, is offering seven workshops—including two that are totally new. The Sensors and Microsystems workshop will be held at the CIME Nanotech lab of the same name. Students will be exposed to the sensor and measurement chain concepts covered in the high-school science and […] >>

For the first time ever, the MINATEC Science Fair, held during France’s national Science Week, will welcome elementary-school students. On Thursday, October 9, five elementary-school classes will come to the Science Fair, discovering booths with activities designed just for them. As always, the goal is to spark interest in science from the earliest possible age. […] >>