News : MINATEC

Viet Nguyen is back at LMGP, a place he knows well, because he did his PhD and post-doc research there with David Munoz-Rojas. This time, however, Nguyen is a teacher, not a student. The young scientist (he is still in his 20s) is already a university professor in Hanoi. Although he is based in Vietnam, […] >>

The brown-bag lunches provided at the Midi MINATEC lunch talks no longer come with bottled water. The new measure came into force on September 20 and will eliminate 7,000 single-use plastic bottles per year! While this may seem tiny on a planetary scale, every little bit helps. To raise awareness of this environmentally-responsible initiative, 1,000 […] >>

Graphene 2020—next year’s incarnation of Europe’s leading conference on 2D materials—will take place from June 2 to 5 in Grenoble. The event is expected to bring 800 participants, mainly from research and industry, to the MINATEC campus and Europole congress center. Three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics will give plenary talks: Klaus von […] >>

Scooters are allowed on the CEA campus as part of a test that began in April 2019. The first six months—which ended in September—were a success. Not a single accident was reported, and feedback was unanimously positive. The team in charge of the CEA Mobility Plan decided to extend the test until March 31, bringing […] >>

The Pheliqs labs, which use cryogenics in their research, are moving from building C1 to building 10.05. The first sixteen cryostats were moved in June and October and are now working fine in their new home. Cryostats are fragile equipment, which makes moving them complicated. Each cryostat weighs in at around 250 kg and must […] >>