IRCER is structured around strong points that constitute its core business and contribute to the visibility of the laboratory. The multidisciplinarity between materials science and process engineering, as well as the combination of fundamental and applied approaches, aims at understanding, characterizing, controlling, modeling the various processes that lead to the obtaining of an object or a deposit with one or more properties for a given use. Beyond IRCER's capacity to innovate, the valorization of results to the socio-economic world is also inscribed in its genes.
The multidisciplinary approach brings together, in four complementary research areas, teams of researchers and teacher-researchers from various scientific backgrounds (chemistry, physics, mechanics).
The development of innovative ceramics means controlling the arrangement of entities from the atom to the object to generate new or improved properties, whether crystalline or amorphous materials. The characterization of these arrangements requires the use of very high resolution analytical tools. These tools are, for the most part, combined with numerical simulations and synthesis of (nano)model materials in order to better understand the structure/property relationships.
The development of innovative processes, a stated objective of IRCER, is based on the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of the shaping of massive materials or layers and their consolidation, with the aim of achieving improved properties or specific functions. The panel of studied and potentially hybridized processes is very wide: physical deposition processes by plasmas and/or lasers, sol-gel processes, 2D/3D digital printing, unconventional sintering processes, etc.
The logic "material + process => product" induces, in the field of structural materials as in that of functional materials, numerous collaborations with industrial actors concerned by the production of parts or components, or with designers involved in the technologies using these materials (energy, information and communication technologies (ICT), health, mechanics, transport, transformation of raw materials...).
Significant material resources are implemented to develop and characterize materials at different scales, and to study various relevant chemical and physical properties in relation to the targeted properties. This is a major strategic asset for IRCER's research themes at the fundamental level. Other projects carried out within the framework of national and international partnerships stimulated by prospects of industrial exploitation also benefit from the performance of the vast dedicated technical platform.
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