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APP 2023 "Materials, Health, and Measurements: at the Heart of Nuclear Challenges"
This call focuses on the following themes:
- Alteration of materials in components and structures.
- New nuclear techniques for health.
- Sensors and metrology.
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Focus on a Partner: LE STUDIUM
Since its creation in 1996 by Prof. Paul Vigny, LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies aims to encourage international scientific exchanges in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
Update from the Instrument Park Working Group
- The inventory of laboratory equipment that will be accessible in the MATEX park is almost complete.
- We are currently working on the structure of the website through which partners will submit their requests.
- The instrumental park has once again received support from the Orléans metropolis this year, which has decided to fund an upgrade to the SAXS tool amounting to €100,000.
Update from the Working Group on the Future CARNOT Institute
A working group was established in March 2022 for the implementation of a Carnot Institute based on MATEX, with the following initial objectives:
· Define the roadmap and the means to implement it.
· Exchange experiences in the "Carnot" domain.
· Prioritize and schedule various actions to be implemented.
By the end of this year, the geographical and thematic scope of the future Carnot Institute will be outlined.
Focus on an Industrial Partner: MBDA
MBDA is an industrial company in the aerospace and defense industry, being a European leader in the design of missiles and missile systems.
Focus on a Laboratory: CEMHTI
Extreme Conditions and Materials: High Temperature and Irradiation
This laboratory aims to understand the physico-chemical properties of materials under extreme conditions, based on a better description of their atomic-scale structures, both in the solid and molten states.