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Researchers from INAC and the Warsaw University of Technology have synthesized a polymer that spins when immersed in a solution. The material, made from a polyaniline-derived polymer, is stable at ambient temperature. The spin remains moderate (S=2), but marks a first for a linear polymer. And, given the polymer’s current tangled-chain structure, there’s ample room […] >>

Docea Power’s decision to set up a joint lab with Leti turned out to be a smart one! Three years into the collaboration, the company has validated modelling capabilities for the heat performance of 2D and 3D multicore circuits and applied them to two real-life cases. The margin of error is less than 5%, a […] >>

A five-person film crew spent a day in Leti’s clean rooms in October making a video on how block copolymers—compounds developed by Arkema—are used in a new nanolithography process. The video was commissioned by Arkema, which also runs a joint laboratory with Leti. It is part of a series of eight-minute videos (available on YouTube) […] >>

Fluoptics raised €2 million from business angels in September, which it will use to market its Fluobeam® system for several clinical applications in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The Fluobeam® fluorescence imaging system already has the CE marking for medical devices and should get FDA approval in early 2014; approval is pending in several […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma signed up a new corporate partner this fall: Altran France. Altran is a leading global innovation consulting and advanced engineering firm, with €742 million of revenue and 9,000 employees in 2012 (including 2,200 hired that year). It has a large presence in southeastern France, especially in Lyon, Grenoble, and Pierrelatte. The […] >>