Al-Li alloys for aerospace applications
- Partner: Constellium
- Type of partnership: long-term research partnership (25 years)
- Structuring projects : ANR, CIFRE grants
- Equipments: X-rays (laboratory and synchrotron), electron microscopy, calorimetry
- Development and optimization of hardening nanometric phase precipitation in Al-Li and then Al-Cu-Li AIRWARE® alloys, optimization of mechanical properties
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Metal additive manufacturing
- Partners: Polyshape, ONERA, Airbus
- Structuring projects: ANR
- Equipments: EBM, X-ray tomography
- Creation of "tailor-made" materials with new functionalities: controlled surface relief, cellular or lattice structures, volume porosity gradients.
Surface treatment
- Partners: SILTRONIX (PME), ACERDE, HUTCHINSON
- Structuring projects: Carnot Energies du Futur, ANR, projet européen
- Equipements : CVD, ALD
- Surface functionalization, ceramic coatings (CVD), multilayers.
Crystal growth
- Partners: OSEO, Ferropem, SNC, Solapure (start-up)
- Structuring projects: ANR
- Equipements: plasma pilot for silicon purification, continuous casting in cold crucible, Kyropoulos drawing
- Understanding silicon purification mechanisms, single-crystal processing and crystal defect analysis.