All type I and about 10% of Type II diabetic patients require lifelong insulin supplementation. But insulin aggregation into amyloid fibers is a restricting factor to the development of embedded insulin delivery devices.

Life homochirality consists in the exclusive production of homochiral molecular building blocks for the fabrication of biological polymers.

With the advent of "Gigafactory" to produce European made batteries, there is a need to create new battery technologies that will enable the large-scale development of the electric vehicle and storage application.

Soft tissue connects, surrounds or supports internal organs and bones. They exhibit a large variety of microstructures and mechanical properties, which vary from organ to organ and according to patho-physiological condi...

The poro-active nature of biological tissues participates to the active coupling of mechanical and biochemical cues. Such coupling can ultimately convey distant signals and determine cell and tissue fate.

The exceptional mechanical properties of living tissues stem from their complex and multi-composite molecular structures organized hierarchically in space.

The energy of saline gradients, such as fresh water and sea water, is an alternative energy source with an enormous potential estimated to 1 TW world-wide. However this alternative energy is still largely unsued, as its ...

Transport of fluids at small scale in biological organisms is achieved by active microstructures.

Recycling without polluting is one of the biggest challenges that chemistry faces today. Regarding metals, recycling involves highly polluting liquid-liquid extraction processes, thus requiring innovative systems in this...

Vacuoles are compartments delimited by a membrane and filled with water and ions. They play a crucial role in regulating the cellular turgor pressure of plants. This internship will reproduce in-silico vacuole networks.

Electrolytes at solid interfaces play a major role in supercapacitors, batteries, fuel cells, but also for harvesting the "blue energy" of saline gradients.

Microfluidic chips are unique systems to investigate the mechanical history of cells, from their growth to their death.

The objective of this internship is to contribute to the development of a diagnostic tool intended to eventually replace biopsies, long and invasive procedures.

The detection of contamination at very low concentration is a major axis of analytical sciences. In this regards DNA is a very exciting material.

This summer, the concentration of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere reached 419 ppm, i.e. a 50% excess compared to the pre-industrial era. Air/liquid interfaces stabilized by surface-active molecules open new strategies for ...

Biomaterials based on nanofibers of polysaccharides, such as cellulose or chitin, are proposed for the generation of electrical charges by friction.

Periodic mesoporous organosilica nanoparticles (nanoPMOs), obtained by the hydrolysis-condensation of bridged organo-bis(triethoxysilanes) have found promising application for drug delivery, but have only scarcely been d...

Scanning-Electron-Microcopy image of small composite composed by semiconductor quantum dots attached to gold nanoparticles.

In plants the pressure of sap can be negative down to -190 bars during dry weather.

Model surface of Gram-negative bacteria for the study of lipid-protein interactions.

Osmotic energy can be harvested by controlling the mixing of solutions of different salt concentration. We propose to use superhydrophobic mesoporous media for this purpose.

A study the cold denaturation of proteins by means of physical methods as neutron scattering experiments, calorimetry, densitometry and others. Internship at the Institute Laue Langevin.