Overview

Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES)

UPR CNRS 8011
Director: Etienne Snoeck
CEMES-CNRS
29 rue Jeanne Marvig
BP 94347
F - 31055 Toulouse Cedex 4
Tél: +33 (0)5.62.25.78.00
labocemes@cemes.fr
Website : http://www.cemes.fr/

The laboratory at a glance

CEMES currently hosts nearly 200 people including 36 CNRS full-time researchers and 31 University lecturers.

Specific features in NEXT

• Multidisciplinarity: Materials science, nanosciences, physics and chemistry,
• Expertise in electron holography and in situ experiments,
• Controlled manipulation of matter "atom per atom",
• Experimental facilities to manufacture and image nano-objects (TEM electron microscopes, near-field microscopes STM, AFM, spectrometers, clean rooms, etc.),
• Industrial relationships and technology transfer.

Research areas of the laboratory

Manufacture, understand, model and manipulate matter at the atomic scale.

In CEMES, physicists and chemists invent (nano) materials and molecules of desired properties and integrate them into demonstrating devices.

CEMES mostly aims at:

• establishing the link between the atomic structure/composition and the physical properties of (nano)materials,
• designing, synthesizing and studying the first prototypes of molecular nano-machines,
• inventing and/or developing new instruments and techniques able to study these “objects” at the pertinent scales (space and time).

At CEMES, scientific research is developed within three large groups gathering 20-30 permanent researchers each:

• the "Crystalline Materials under Stress" (MC2) group,
• the "Nanomaterials" (nMAT) group,
• the "Nanosciences" (GNS) group.

Four platforms support the scientific activities: Nanocharacterization, Nanofabrication, Engineering and Support.

Projects