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Catherine Picart of LMGP has co-edited Layer-by-Layer Films for Biomedical Applications, published by Wiley. The 530-page multi-authored volume is intended for graduate and post-graduate students, research scientists, and industrial R&D engineers. Picart, an expert in the subject, worked with co-editors Jean-Claude Voegel of Inserm and Frank Caruso of the University of Melbourne, Australia to compile […] >>

Semicon Europa, the world’s leading microelectronics-industry trade fair, has been held every year for the past 35 years. But not once has the event taken place in Grenoble—until now. Semicon Europa 2014 will come to Grenoble’s Alpexpo expo center from October 7 to 9. And the local microelectronics community is pulling out all the stops […] >>

The second innovation marketing conference (Rencontres du Marketing de l’Innovation) will be held at MINATEC on Thursday, November 13. The first edition of the event, held in 2012, was a huge success, bringing in 350 attendees (50% from industry). This year, the CEA and Grenoble Ecole de Management will organize a new event on the […] >>

Marjolaine Allain was the first MINA-NEWS reader to spot the two “April fool’s” articles hidden in the newsletter’s April issue. Her sharp eye won her a week’s use of one of the CEA’s 30 electric vehicles. And the prize was greatly appreciated since Marjolaine ferries boxes of wafers back and forth between the 40-17 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. […] >>