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The French government has selected four Irig joint research units to receive Equipex grants. What does this mean for Irig? Our success rate has never been higher. We really have done exceptionally well. The grants will finance equipment that is crucial to programs in Irig’s key research areas. Investments will include the beamlines at ESRF, […] >>

Jean-Emmanuel Broquin, who is in charge of tech transfer and partnerships at IMEP-LaHC, arrived in Finland in mid-May for a six-month stay at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. An expert in integrated photonics, Jean-Emmanuel will work on the 3D hybridization of glass, silicon, and III-V technologies. His other activities will include attending scientific […] >>

Over his career, Vincent Favre-Nicolin, a UGA faculty member who conducts research at ESRF, has developed open-source software applications that are widely used by crystallographers. L’Association française de cristallographie, France’s learned society for crystallographers, will give Vincent its biannual André-Guinier Award on July 2.   The Fox software Vincent developed in the 2000s, which uses powder […] >>

CEA-Leti is coordinating the European MeM-Scales project, which kicked off in early April. The focus? Neuromorphic chips capable of learning on several time scales. These brain-inspired chips can learn simultaneously at millisecond intervals (axon transmission), at second intervals (spoken language), or at much longer intervals (motor skills). The nine-partner project consortium is working on autonomous […] >>

Dynamic nuclear polarization, or DNP, can make solid-state NMR several times more sensitive. Researchers at Irig have been developing the technique to gain new insights into the surface chemistry of cellulose nanofibrils onto which an active molecule had been grafted. They were able to distinguish between adsorption and covalent grafting, which allowed them to quantify […] >>