High Performance Materials

HIGH
PERFORMANCE MATERIALS

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Developing innovative materials that offer a better performance is a major issue for many industries. With their extensive experience in applied research and R&D partnerships, the CBC Carnot Institute teams develop new processes for the synthesis and shaping of high value-added materials.

In the high performance materials research thematic, materials adapted to the specific needs of the company are conceived and integrated into the product. These materials are endowed with defined functionalities to meet the requirements of the device into which they are placed.

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RELATED PROJECTS

EXPERTISE AND
LINES OF RESEARCH

Alloys and metallurgical processes

Alloys having a property gradient

Divers forms of oxides: stabilisation of non-stoichiometric phases

Thick and thin films

Protective/functional coatings

Nano-composites with a metallic or ceramic matrix: controlled architecture and functionalities

Carbon-based materials: graphene, nanotubes and their derivatives

Nanostructured interfaces

Shaping technologies: spark plasma sintering, additive manufacturing

Polymers containing fluorine or phosphorus

Powders, bulk ceramics, films, thin films

Resistance to oxidation and corrosion, high temperatures, mechanical stress

Magnetism and giant permittivity

Control of the purity and morphology of powders

Studies of toxicity and environmental impact

Physico-chemistry of interfaces and colloids

RESEARCH GROUPS
AND CONTACT

Macromolecular Engineering and Architectures

  • Controlled Polymerizations
  • Polymers Bearing Heteroatoms
  • Polymers, Unconventional Media, Dispersed Media and Self-Assembly
  • Polymers and Composites from Renewable Sources

 

Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier
8, rue de l’Ecole Normale
34296 Montpellier Cedex 5
France

Université de Montpellier
Place Eugène Bataillon
CC1702
34095 Montpellier Cedex 5
France

Design of Membrane Materials and Multifunctional Systems

  • Thin films, nanostructured materials, porous media
  • Molecular engineering and ceramic materials
  • Supramolecular and adaptative nanosystems

 

IEM
Université de Montpellier
Case courrier 047
Place Eugène Bataillon
34095 Montpellier cedex 5
France

Phosphates, Pharmacotechnics, Biomaterials

  • Study of biopolymer-based systems and their applications in medicine
  • Study of natural calcifications
  • Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of the calcium phosphates

 

Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier
Bâtiment CIRIMAT
118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
France

Nanocomposites and Carbon Nanotubes

  • Synthesis, functionalisation and applications of carbon nanotubes, toxicity and environmental impact
  • Development and characterization of of microstructured or achirecture-controlled metal or ceramic-matrix nanocomposites
  • Sintering technique using Spark Plasma Sintering

 

Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier
Bâtiment CIRIMAT
118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 09
France

Mechanics, Microstructure, Oxidation, Corrosion

  • Solidification, phase transitions, solid state diffusion, mechanical behavior
  • High-Temperature Oxidation and Protection
  • Corrosion: aqueous corrosion, stress corrosion cracking

 

Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier
Bâtiment CIRIMAT
118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 09
France

Mixed Valence Oxides

  • Nanoparticles or micronic powders
  • Solid-state or thick-layered ceramic, conventionally or SPS sintered
  • RF-sputtering supported and prepared thin films

 

Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier
Bâtiment CIRIMAT
118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 09
France

Surfaces: Reactivity and Protection

  • Implementation of CVD Processes
  • Characterization of coatings using conventional and specific techniques
  • Modelling of the growth stages of films

 

Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier
Bâtiment CIRIMAT
118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 09
France

Coatings and Surface Treatments

  • Synthesis and Shaping of functional materials
  • Advanced surface treatments
  • Characterization of elaborated coatings or transformed surfaces functional properties
  • Electrochemistry and physico-chemistry of interfaces

 

Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier
Bâtiment CIRIMAT
118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex 09
France

R&D EXPERTISE IN CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS AND PROCESSES

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