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Chemistry - Materials
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Complex systems and software engineering
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Energy, Ecology, Environment
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Quality of life - Health - Food
Laboratoire de Physique de Solide
Research unit
The research activities at Laboratoire de Physique de Solide cover the following aspects: New electronic state of matter, physical phenomenas at small dimensions, soft matter and physico-bio interface. The laboratory undergoes research both theoretical and experimental on materials with outstanding properties (supraconductivity, magnetism, metal-insulating transition, etc.), These researchs are in line with industrial applications mainly in the cosmetics, food processing, petrol chemistry, medical and instrumentation sector.
Innovation themes
- Energy, Ecology, Environment
- Instrumentation, electronics, robotics and cobotics
- Complex systems and software engineering
- Smart grid
- Quality of life - Health - Food
- Biomaterials
- Chemistry - Materials
- Photonics - optical materials, application nanotechnology
- Mineral (materials, nanomaterials)
- Organic (heavy, fine)
- Therapeutic technologies (drugs, genetics, biomarkers, biomolecules, etc.)
1, rue Nicolas Appert
Bâtiment 510
91405 ORSAY
Expertises
- supraconductivity
- small size conductors
- Hall effect
- spin liquids
- ultra cold atomic gas
Nanoscience:
- nano-objects structure
- spintronic
- superfluidity
- molecular electronics
-nanophotonic
- surface and modeling/simulation
Soft matter:
- adhesion/friction of charged elastomers
- nanotubes
- liquid crystals
- foams and emulsions
- biological fibers
- biomineralisation
- DNA
Applications sectors
- Energy
- Agri-food industry
- Electronic / photonics
- Materials (Metal, Glass, Ceramic, Composite...)
- Cosmetics
Total number of employees
Number of researchers : 94
Number of doctoral students : 42
Equipment(s) open to collaboration
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) platform
- Xray Diffraction platform
- spectroscopy platform : photoemission spectroscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)
- electronic microscopy platform: cryo-electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- synthesis of materials: electronic litography, ultra high vacuum chamber (UHV)
- measurements under extreme conditions: dilution cryostate, measurements under high pressures
- measurements of physico-magnetic properties : atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), magnetic force microscopy (MFM), SQUID, rheology (volume and interface), equipment for interface study
- physico-chemical characterisation of materials (IR,DSC,Zeta,...)
- confocal microscopy
- cluster for numerical simulations
Industrial :
- rheology (volume and interface)
- variety of instruments to study interface science
- transmission electron microscopy and associated spectroscopies
- physico-chemical characterisation of materials
Keywords
Valuation offer
Projects examples
- scientific mediation http://www.supraconductivite.fr/fr/index.php
http://hebergement.u-psud.fr/supraconductivite
http://toutestquantique.fr
- on going projects: https://www.lps.u-psud.fr/spip.php?rubrique15
Industrial and scientific relations
Scientific collaborations
- France: various collaborations with local research centers (CNano) and national (GDR, METSA), partecipation on ANR national projects. the laboratory is involved as well in projects such as LABEX GANEX and LABEX PALM.
- Europe: projects Marie-Curie, european research council (ERC) Junior Starting Grant
- International: several international collaboration (USA, Japan, Geneva, Singapour, Argentina)
Private collaborations
Laboratoire de Physique de Solide has several collaborations with PME and large french, european and international groups.
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