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Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation

Director : Catherine Bessada

Email : Catherine.bessada@cnrs‐orleans.fr

Address : 1D, avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orléans cedex 2

Research topics :

  • Transparent (Glass) Ceramics & Refractory Ceramics

Contact information : Jacques Poirier

Jacques.poirier@univ-orleans.fr        

  • Oxide glasses : glass forming, crystallization - Mathieu Allix
  • Refractory Materials : design and corrosion – Emmanuel de Bilbao

  • Materials & Resonance : Conception, Characterization & Applications

Contact information: Michaël Deschamps

michael.deschamps@univ-orleans.fr

  • Order and Desorder in Materials : an NMR Approach - Franck Fayon
  • Structure and Dynamics : Materials for Energy and Molten Salts - Michaël Deschamps
  • High Resolution Solid State and High Temperature NMR - Pierre Florian
  • Nanoporous Materials for Energy and Environment - Conchi O. Ania

          

  • Defects, Impurities, Radiotracers : Properties, Materials, Imaging

Contact information: Marie France Barthe

Marie-France.barthenrs-orleans.fr     

  • Nuclear Materials - Marie France Barthe
  • Materials for Electronics - Esidor Ntsoenzok
  • Isotopic and Radioactive tracers for Imaging - Isidro Da Silva

   

  • Optics & thermics of Materials

Contact information: Patrick Simon

Patrick.simon@cnrs-orleans.fr    

  • Radiative and Transport Properties of Materials - Domingos De Sousa Meneses
  • Disorder and Optical Properties - Patrick Simon

       

  • Particle Beams Platform

Contact information: Thierry Sauvage

sauvage@cnrs-orleans.fr

  • Application of Ion Beams - Thierry Sauvage
  • Accelerators Service - Thierry Sauvage

       

  • NMR Platform

Contact information: Pierre Florian

pierre.florian@cnrs-orleans.fr

 

  • High Temperature Platform

Contact information: Emmanuel Véron

Emmanuel.veron@cnrs-orleans.fr

Exceptional facilities :

  • Typical High Temperature aerodynamic leviation experimental setup
  • High Temperature environmental microscope
  • Experimental setting for aerodynamic levitation combined with XRay synchrotron or neutron sources
  • High temperature NMR setup associating CO2 laser heating and crucible or levitation device. Membre du TGIR RMN THC ‐ FR3050 (TGIR RMN)
  • Infra Red & High Temperature emission Spectrometer
  • Extreme conditions analysis devoted Raman Spectrometers
  • Accélérateurs : Cyclotron, Van de Graaff, Positons (EMIR network)

Financial support programmes :

  • European funding, National funding : ANR, Regional funding, Industrial funding

Latest news

Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust is 31st May 2025

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of July 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st May 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before August 2025.

Mar 13, 2025
12th March - International Day of Ceramics!

Dear Ceramic Community,

We are pleased to announce that March 12, 2025, marks the first-ever International Day of Ceramics!

Mar 12, 2025

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