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Catherine Picart, a researcher at LMGP and Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma faculty member will receive one of sixteen 2016 CNRS (France’s national center for scientific research) silver medals. Ms. Picart has devoted her entire career to biomedical engineering, conducting research on cell/material interactions and cell biophysics for regenerative medicine. From 2010 to 2015 she won […] >>

Nanocharacterization Platform partners Leti, Liten, and INAC will celebrate its tenth anniversary in September. Platform employees and other stakeholders having contributed to its development will celebrate the milestone at a day-long scientific and commemorative event retracing the facility’s past and presenting its plans for the future. The platform is unlike any other facility in the […] >>

In a project for the Nano@school program, seven Grenoble high-schoolers made solar cells from fruits and vegetables. CEA-INAC Ph.D. candidate Cyril Aumaître supervised the project, in which students extracted colorants from fruit and vegetable juices (spinach, blueberries, etc.) to make Grätzel cells, then characterize and model the cells before comparing their performance. And the outcomes […] >>

Although some of MINATEC’s younger researchers may not know who he was, Professor Pierre Gentil, who died in early March at age 70, played a major role in the development of microelectronics in Grenoble, elsewhere in France, and further afield. A graduate of ENSERG, he conducted research in the area of transistor reliability and electronic […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma permanently vacated its Polygone site on Avenue des Martyrs in February and has moved into its new quarters: the Phelma 2 MINATEC buildings, which were delivered in late 2015. The move took two weeks and was no mean feat; certain exam sittings and classes had to be moved to other locations […] >>