Chemistry
The Chemistry Service was created in 2013 to meet the demand of all LPS research groups. It currently consists of an engineer and is spread over two laboratories with a …
Electronics Instrumentation
History : The Electronics and Instrumentation department was created in 2002 to respond to the growing demand for instrumentation in all the laboratory’s research groups. In 2011 the department acquired …
Soft Matter Characterization and Confocal Microscopy
SoMaC & CoMic is a platform that offers services and equipments dedicated to the characterization of soft matter and complex physical-biological interfaces. The devices and techniques are varied: rheology (Anton …
Local structure and dynamics of dense colloidal systems – 2020 Saint-Gobain prize
Glasses are ubiquitous materials present in our daily life. They originate from the dynamical arrest of a fluid. If a fluid is cooled down or compressed sufficiently rapidly, it avoids …
Novel Electronic States of Matter
Both experimental and theoretical studies are concerned with quantum and strongly interacting systems. Coupling lattice, spin, charge and orbital interactions leads to unique properties of new materials, which are regularly …
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (CNRS gold medallist in 1980, Nobel prize in physics in 1991) has introduced new trends in the laboratory. Initially centred on surface and interface effects in superconductors, …
André Guinier
AAndré Guinier and his followers have introduced, using original techniques involving small-angle X-ray scattering and large-angle X-ray diffuse scattering, methods for a fine analysis of organisation and local order in …
Raimond Castaing
Raimond Castaing (CNRS gold medallist in 1975), inventor of the electron microprobe utilising X-ray secondary emission from a PhD subject given by André Guinier, and his followers, have developed new …
Jacques Friedel
Jacques Friedel (CNRS gold medallist in 1970) and his followers have been pioneers in studying electronic structures in metals and alloys, then in spin glasses and surfaces. These early works …
Physical phenomena in Reduced Dimensions
This axis deals with “nanoscience” considered in a broad sense. Phenomena are studied from the point of view of fundamental properties when the dimensions of an object become as small …