Florent Pawula, Appointed Associate Professor
We are very pleased to welcome Florent Pawula as an associate professor at Nantes University in the Faculty of Science and Technology. After completing his PhD at CRISMAT (Laboratory of Crystallography and Materials Science, UMR [...]
Visit by students from the Nantes University Institute of Technology (IUT), Materials Science and Engineering
We were pleased to welcome students from theNantes University Institute of Technology (IUT), who are in their second year of the Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering, with a specialization in "Materials Characterization and [...]
Ilana Bidon, winner of the Young EFC Best Oral Presentation Award at EUROCORR 2026
Congratulations to Ilana Bidon, a doctoral student in our lab, who won the Young EFC Best Oral Presentation Award, which is given to young researchers! She is advised by Pascal Paillard and Laurent Couturier, faculty [...]
New Photo Exhibition at the IMN!
To mark the start of the academic year, the IMN is presenting a new photo exhibition in the heart of the campus of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Nantes. Through [...]
NextEnergy
What if a material's history mattered more than its composition! A joint publication by the ISCR-Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, the IMN, and the ILL —the Institut Laue Langevin—and the Catalysis and Solid-State Chemistry [...]
15th Franco-Japanese Symposium on Lithium-Ion Batteries
From September 1 to 3, we were pleased to host the 15th Franco-Japanese Symposium on lithium-ion batteries and next-generation storage systems, which brought together nearly 80 researchers, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows from both countries. [...]







