Philippe Mendels is the Grand Prix Scientifique Laureate for 2022 of the Charles Defforey Foundation – Institut de France for his leadership of the SQM team that led to the …
In the quest for new materials, one can either explore the collections of a natural sciences museum in order to see what Nature offers, or synthetize them from our ideas …
Researchers have synthesized crystals of elongated gold bipyramids and have described their optimal packing in three-dimensional assemblies. This result, at the crossroads of chemistry and geometry, offers prospects for the …
Currently only amateur astronomers observe Mars in a global and continuous way when the planet is closer to the Earth (“opposition”). A part of these enthusiasts has been aggregated to …
The 33rd European Crystallographic Meeting will be held at the recently refurbished Music Conservatory and Congress Centre in Versailles, close to Paris, between 23rd and 27th of August 2022. Both …
Recent time-resolved diffraction techniques allow the dynamic study of matter with unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution [1], typically on time scales as short as a few hundred femtoseconds. Such study has become …
On February 16, 2022, Liliane Léger was awarded the Prix d’Honneur of the French Polymer Group (GFP) by Gustavo Luengo, its president. The GFP Honorary Prize has been awarded annually …
Amongst the many extraordinary properties of graphene, its giant diamagnetic response at zero doping, predicted in the 1950s, had to this day not been measured directly. By controlling the doping …
The combined measurement of the absorption and emission of a material allows access to information such as doping, homogeneity etc. They are usually obtained with purely optical techniques, which limits …
What do a barcode scanner, a photovoltaic array and a highlighter and a tree leaf have in common? Come and visit the exhibition “Light Effects” at the Ubac Gallery of …
