Hybrid and nanostructured materials (HYBR)
Coordinator : Pascal ETIENNE
| Teaching Researchers (UM): CALAS Sylvie DESPETIS Florence ETIENNE Pascal FAIVRE Annelise | PhD Students : WAHEED Iman Engineers under contract (Plateform POMM): DAVID Nolan KOLEILAT Houria |
The HYBR team specializes in the physics and chemistry of materials, working across complementary domains. Their research focuses on two main themes:
Their work encompasses both fundamental research—understanding and characterizing the structure and properties of materials—and applied research, supported by numerous collaborations with academic and industrial partners. The team actively promotes the valorization of research outcomes, resulting in several patents and ongoing partnerships with SATT AxLR and the PUI of the University of Montpellier.
Since 2019, the MHN team has established a regional research and innovation platform: POMM (OptoMicrofluidic Platform of Montpellier), funded by the Occitanie Region.(https://pomm.cnrs.fr)
The MHN team has developed capabilities from material synthesis to the design of innovative devices:
- Comprehensive approach from design to fabrication of hybrid materials and glasses, ranging from ultraporous to dense structures
- Implementation and analysis of structural, textural, thermal, optical, mechanical, and surface properties
- Surface property modification: functionalization, coatings, and microstructuring
- Design of integrated optical and microfluidic devices
The MHN team can rely on numerous experimental tools:
- Fabrication: Glass melting and annealing furnaces, supercritical drying (alcohol and CO₂), plasma treatments (N₂ and O₂)
- Shaping: Liquid-phase deposition (spin-coating, dip-coating, tape casting), UV laser writing (2D and 3D)
- Characterization:
- Structural: UV, Visible, IR spectroscopy
- Textural: Gas adsorption-desorption, mercury porosimetry
- Mechanical: Tensile, compression, bending, micro/nanoindentation
- Thermal: TGA, DTA, DSC, dilatometry
- Surface: Digital microscopy, AFM, tensiometry, drop analysis
Research fields :
Recent theses :
- NASRALLAH Nour (2021-2024)
- REGAGNON Théo (2020-2023)
- CHENAIS Léna (2020-2022)
- ELIAS Jinane (2018-2021)
- FLATRES Aurélien (2017-2021)