Centre inter universitaire de recherche et d'ingénierie des matériaux (CIRIMAT)

http://cirimat.ensiacet.fr/

CIRIMAT

Head :
Head : Dr Francis Maury (CNRS, INPT)
Francis.Maury@ensiacet.fr

Human resources

Ministry of Education :
67 staff : 37 teachers-researchers, 5 contract researchers, 6 engineers, 12 technicians, 3 contract technicians, 4 administrative staff.

CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) :
24 staff : 11 researchers, 2 associate researchers, 6 engineers, 5 technicians, 2 administrative staff.

Students :
44 PhD students, 35 trainees.

Annual budget 

Budget except wages and facilities : approximately 1 M Euros

Research subject areas

Interfaces and Materials (F. Maury)
Inorganic and Energetic Materials Chemistry (A. Rouset)
Polymer Physics (C. Lacabanne)

Themes

Corrosion and Protection : Nadine Pebere
Materials in Thin Layers : Constantin Vahlas
Phase Transformation : Daniel Monceau
Physico-chemistry of Phosphates : Christian Rey
Mixed-valency Oxide : Philippe Tailhades
Nanocomposites and Carbon Nanotubes : Christophe Laurent
Surface Covering and Treatment : Lucien Aries
Polymer Behaviour Laws : Philippe Demont
Polymer Properties and Structures : Alain Bernes

Industrial partnerships

Scientific partnerships

ADEME	Aerospatiale	Albi Media Manufacturing
ALSTOM	ANVAR	Axon
Bollore	CEA	Cereco
CNES	Dexter	ECIA-Faure
EDF	Elf-Atochem	Etex
Fiat	Fortech	Framatome
Laborelec	LETI	Map Aero
Mecaprotec	Merck	Messier-Buggati
New-ATG	NTT	Nuevo-Pignone
ONERA	Pierre Fabre	Pont-à-Mousson
Ratier Figeac	Rhodia	SAFT
Sanofi Synthélabo	Schering-Plough	Shell
SNAM	SNECMA;	Sochata
Sollac	SPTA	Teknimed
Thomson PC	Turbomeca-SNECMA	Toyota
Valeo

International collaborations

LGC	LGE	LPST
CPAT	CEMES	LAAS
LCC	CESR (Toulouse)	ENIT (Tarbes)
CRPP (Bordeaux)	LGMP	LTPCM (Grenoble)
LCI-ESPCI,	LPLE	ENSMP (Paris)
GDPC	LCA (Montpellier)	LPS (Orsay)
CRMD (Orléans)	LCSM (Nancy)	LCI (Clermont-Ferrand)
EMAC (Albi)	ENSMA (Poitiers)	ENSMSE (Saint-Etienne)
ENSMN	Ecole des Mines de Nancy

Institutes and organizations

Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore)
Hanoï ( Vietnam)
NTT (Japan)
NCSR Demokritos (Greece)
Harris Semi Conductors (Ireland)
Harvard Medical School ( Boston)
CINVESTAV Mexico
Weizmann Institute (Israël)
MEBSP European Network ( Cambridge, Stuttgart, Lisbon, Stockholm, Aachen)

Universities
Pittsburgh (USA)
Moscow and Novosibirsk (Russia)
Oxford (UK)
Toronto (Canada)
California at Davis (USA)
Gand (Belgium)
EPF Lausanne (Switzerland) Helsinki (Finland)
Kenitra and Rabat (Morocco) Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)
Rio de Janeiro and Porto University of New South Wales ( Australia)
Allegre (Brazil)

Key Words

Structure materials	Durability	Oxidation
Corrosion	Super-alloys	Ceramics
Materials with magnetic and magneto-optic properties	Biomaterials	Carbon nanotubes
Polymers	Composites	Soft chemistry
Thin layers	Surface covering and	Relaxation in polymers
Treatment

Head :
Head : Dr Francis Maury (CNRS, INPT)
Francis.Maury@ensiacet.fr