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(speaking with a molecule)




Contact : C. Joachim,
manager of the GNS group
keywords :
single molecule, AFM, STM-UHV,
NFOM, molecular electronics,
molecular motors, interconnects


Scientific Objectives:

With 20 permanent researchers, the nanosciences and picotechnology group (GNS) consider that a single atom or a single molecule stabilised at the surface of a metal (or of an insulator) is a very complex quantum medium that it is worth to study it for itself, for its physics and its chemistry. We are settling the scientific and technological basis of the conception, of the chemical synthesis and of the physical studies of uni-molecular nano-machines able to compute, to have mechanical action, to communicate or to measure.

We are developing all the chemistry to build those nano-machines and all the modern nano-communication techniques (ultimate spectroscopy, atomic and molecular manipulation, atomic UHV nano-lithography) to be able to measure, to control and to exchange information from and to a single (and always) the same well identified molecule. We are looking for the physical and chemical limits of the machines, we are opening new ways to describe the properties of the intramolecular medium. We are also developing the technological basis for the ultimate miniaturisation of our computers and well known micro-robots.
Nanosciences group members
Christian JOACHIM, manager of the GNS group
Pierre Jouanno (Admin.)

Chemistry
STM, AFM, NFOM, Nanomanipulation, Surface
Theory

André Gourdon (DR)


Sonia Bataillé (T)
Jacques Bonvoisin (CR)
Jean-Pierre Launay (Pr)
Gwénael Rapenne (MC)
Christine Viala (AI)

Henri-Pierre Jacquot (PhD)
Gurunatha Kargal (PhD)
Amar Boudebous (Post-Doc)
Jadad Sharma (Post-Doc)

Roland Coratger (Pr)
Sébastien Gauthier (DR)

Francois Ajustron (MC)
Erik Dujardin (CR)
Olivier Guillermet (MC)
Raphael Laloo (IE)
David Martrou (CR)
Thierry Ondarçuhu (DR)
Renaud Pechou (MC)
Béatrice Pécassou (IE)
Gregory Seine (IE)

Bastien Calmettes (PhD)
Laure Fabié (PhD)
Antoine Hinaut (PhD)
Ather Mahmood (PhD)
Audrey Sanchot (PhD)
Alessio Miranda (Post-Doc)
Jun Shen (Post-Doc)
Caterina Soldano (Post-Doc)

Christian Girard (DR)


Xavier Bouju (CR)
Alfred Gold (Pr)
 Christian Joachim (DR)
Mohamed Hliwa (Pr. invité)

Nicolas Renaud (PhD)
Francisco Ample (Post-Doc)
Eeva Niemi (Post-Doc)


They have been members of NanoSciences Group in the last years:

Postdocs : Thierry Laroche, Sylvain Goudeau, Aiping Fang, Haiming Guo, Frank Thiemann, Chaitali Basu, Gonzalo Guirado, Stina Guedes, Cheng Wang, Ping Jiang, Xao Xiang Zhu, Maider Machado, Gorka Jimenez-Bueno, Abdelmjid Lahmidi, Sukhen Ghosh, Subir Sadhukhan, Navdeep Guirdhar, Andrea Secchi, Harpreet Kaurr, Anvar Bilhakhiya, Deborah Mousset, Régis Barattin, Jean-François Dayen, Nagarajan Samuthira-pandian, Olivier Guillermet, Ivan Duchemin, Sladjana Stojkovic (Post-doc), Masakatsu Ito.

PhD : Nozha Jlidat, Miguel Venegas de la Cerda, Carlos Villagomez Ojeda, Guillaume Vives, Ambar Armas, Muriel Fabre, Olivier Cacciolati, Jérôme Polesel-Maris, Alexandre Carella, Gérard Colas des Francs, Stéphane Ami, Michael Magoga, Cedric Hortholary, Elodie Sondaz.
 
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Development of new instrumentation:
  • micro clean room
  • micro cantilever interconnect
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    Partnerships:

    GNS at CEMES-CNRS part of $150 million Japanese Nanotechnology Program
    October 12, 2008

    The program involves four institutes outside of Japan which will host a satellite of the 'International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics' (MANA).
    The branch at CNRS in Toulouse will be lead by Christian JOACHIM from the departement of Nanoscience & Picotechnology and will be located in the CEMES-CNRS in Toulouse (France).
    The CNSI at UCLA, the University of Cambridge, the Georgia Institute of Technology will host the other three satellites.
    MANA is expected to create world-class research centers with global visibility and will be implemented under the supervision of a number of top scientists from Japan's National Institute for Materials Science. The 10 year, $150M program is aimed at developing innovative nanosystem & materials that contribute to sustainable development - realizing a major shift in materials research.
    International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics 'MANA' Website

     

    Europen projects in the 5th framework:

    • AMMIST : Atomic and Molecular Manipulation as a new tool for Information Storage Technologies.
    • BUN : Bottom-Up Nanomachines.
    • CHIC : Consortium for Hamiltonian Intra-molecular Computing.
    • NANOMOL : Manufacturing and Modelling of Nano-Scale Molecular Electronic Devices.
    • Phantoms : Network of Excellence On Nanoelectronics.

    PAI "Alliance" Fr-UK 2004. Chiral mesoporous silica by mineralization of cellulose nanorods colloidal suspension.

     VW foundation : Single Molecules Synthesis

    		 

    Europen projects in the 6th framework:

    • Pico-Inside : IP, coordinator : CEMES-GNS. Computing inside a single molecule using atomic scale technologies.
    • FRONTIERS : réseau d'excellence dont le but est de structurer la recherche européenne dans le domaine des nanotechnologies appliquées aux sciences de la vie.
    • NanoMan : STREP. Control, manipulation and manufacture on the 1-10nm scale using localized forces and excitations.
    • Plasmo-nano devices : NOE. The focus of the work is the utilization of surface plasmons to develop new optical interconnects and optical components.
    • NaPa : NOE. Emerging Nanopatterning methods.

     
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