+ LMI – Multi-materials and Interfaces

LMI is a Materials Sciences and Technologies Laboratory. Our research teams carry out
and produce innovative designs, syntheses, characterisations and models of molecules,
materials and assemblies intended for applications in the Health, Energy and Environment sectors.

• 35 researchers and teacher-researchers
• 25 PhD students
• 12 post-doctoral students
• 6 engineers and technicians
• 50 international publications /year
• 40 conferences/year
• 3 patents /year
• TO €1.2 M

See its technological skills

ADAPTED KNOWHOW

On the basis of a problem submitted by an industrial partner, we can help them to specify their needs, draw up detailed specifications and appropriate verification procedures, propose and select solutions, define a work plan together, help choose the best-placed additional partners, draw up the most adapted contractual relations, and perform and have performed all the operations defined together until the performances targeted are obtained. 

• Thermal / Thermodynamic Measures and Modelling: ATG, ATD and DSC analyses, GC and GPC coupling, Phase Equilibria
  Metallurgy, Nuclear Engineering, Oil Industry
• Semiconductor epitaxy: High temperature epitaxy from 300 to 1,600°C
  Electronics, Optoelectronics, Optics
• Molecular chemistry: Syntheses, Crystallisation, Determination of Atomic Structures, Functional characterisation – especially magnetic, Syntheses of materials
  Health, Sensors, Optics
• Micro-technologies / Ultra-thin layers / Coatings: surface treatments, deposits of thin layers, chemical and plasma etching, collaboration with the AMPERE and INL laboratories
  Electronics, Optoelectronics, Optics, Domestic utensils
• Materials for Dental repairs: Syntheses, Mechanical and Biological Characterisation, Cell cultures, Toxicity tests, Validations and pre-clinical and clinical monitoring
  Odontology
• Metal/ceramic composites and assemblies: Syntheses/ Assemblies/ High temperature treatment; Structural, chemical and mechanical characterisation; Modelling; Stabilities studies / Interface reactivity
  Aeronautics, Automobiles
• Monocrystalline technology and applications: (Cristal Innov platform) Crystallogenesis, Crystal formation
  Electronics, Optoelectronics, Optics           

TECHNICAL RESOURCES

Main facilities 

• Synthesis reactors
• CVD and ALD/ALE reactors
• Furnaces
• Spectrometers, etc.

Simulation software

• CALPHAD
• AUTOCAD, etc.

Platforms 

• Thermal analyses
• X-ray diffraction
• Electronic microscopy ( Ctµ / UCBL )
• Magnetometry
• 3D printing, etc.

REPUTATION & DISTINCTIONS