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April 03 2017
Leti unveils new website
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Leti’s new website went online in early March for the institute’s 50th anniversary, which was in 2017. The new site promotes Leti’s pioneering spirit and showcases the institute’s research activities through a variety of multimedia content, from scientific reports to demonstrator presentations. The site is well-organized by topic and has its own search engine. The […] >>
April 03 2017
Lancey Energy Storage introduces the smart radiator
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This fall, Lancey Energy Storage, a startup housed at Phelma’s MINATEC location, installed around a hundred of its smart radiators for field testing. The radiators are equipped with lithium batteries connected to a communicating meter to store energy during off -peak hours for use during peak demand. The technology behind the radiators is protected by […] >>
April 03 2017
EEA Club: A Grenoble congress with a European flavor
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The 57th annual congress of the EEA Club will be held on June 8 and 9 at Phelma’s MINATEC campus location. The event will bring together professors and researchers in the fields of electronics, electrotechnics, automatics, and signal and image processing. This year’s theme is EU projects in research and education, and a variety of […] >>
April 03 2017
A Chair of Excellence for MAX phases
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Michel Barsoum of Drexel University’s (Philadelphia) Materials Science and Engineering Department has just been appointed to the Grenoble-Alpes University-Fondation Nanosciences Chair of Excellence to pursue his research on MAX phases. Barsoum will create two-dimensional systems from a new family of composites, MXenes. MXenes, which offer some extraordinary properties, are obtained by etching a MAX phase […] >>
April 03 2017
CEA one of the world’s most innovative publicly-funded research organizations
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The Reuters-Clarivate Analytics “Top 25 Global Innovators – Government” ranking was published on March 1. And the CEA is at the top of the list. The CEA pulled ahead of Germany’s Fraunhofer Society and Max Planck Society, ranking first in Europe. In terms of the global ranking, the CEA came in second, just after the […] >>