Micro Nano Bio Technologies

Department mnbt

The MNBT department is dedicated to the development of innovative materials, technologies, and devices with the aim of addressing crucial societal challenges. Our research efforts combine both fundamental and applied approaches, with a focus on the fields of health, environment, and digital technology. We increasingly prioritize evaluating and minimizing the environmental impact of our research topics as well as our research practices.

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Anne Hemeryck

Presentation

The Micro Nano Bio (MNBT) department, comprising approximately 100 members, including thirty-five faculty researchers and researchers, and around forty doctoral students, is dedicated to the development of innovative technologies. These efforts aim to address major societal challenges, particularly in the fields of health, environment, and digital technology. Our research approach encompasses the development, structuring, integration, and modeling of various types of nanomaterials and nano-objects, ranging from semiconductors to organic, living, and polymer materials. This process extends to the functional integration of these elements into innovative devices and complex systems. We are also committed to assessing and minimizing the environmental impact of our research subjects and practices, highlighting our growing concern for sustainability.

The scientific activities of the MNBT department rely on state-of-the-art technological resources grouped within three platforms at LAAS-CNRS: the micro and nanotechnology platform, the characterization platform, and the design platform.

Challenges, themes, and research objectives

Our research endeavors aim to address current societal challenges in health/biology, the environment, and the digital society. Each challenge is broken down into research themes guiding the department's activities and research objectives through a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach. Three research themes are identified:

Technologies for Digital: synthesis and modeling of advanced materials nanoelectronics, quantum and spintronics, physical sensors, organic electronics, silicon MEMS, environmentally friendly processes
Technologies for Health: Diagnosis and repair of living organisms, Environmental impact on health, Drugs/Pharmacology, Microfluidic and/or biomimetic devices, Predictive atomistic models for biology, MEMS Biomedical, Electromagnetic fields in complex environments, micro physiologic organs on chip
Technologies for Environment : Environmental Monitoring (Water quality, Air quality), Toxicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic waves, Agriculture - animal welfare, Bio-sourced and/or biodegradable materials, Life cycle analysis at the observable scale

For each theme, research objectives are defined that cut across MNBT department teams.

AREAS OF

RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

We conduct research to address societal challenges in health, environment, and digital society. Each challenge is broken down into research themes that guide the department's research activities through a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach.

Energy

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Health and Environment

Industry of the Future

Space

DISCIPLINARY FIELDS

COVERED IN OUR DEPARTMENT

Micro and Nano Systems

DEPARTMENT TEAMS

The MNBT department is structured into 7 research teams.

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Laurent Malaquin

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Katia Grenier

The scientific context of the team focuses on the interaction and exploitation of electromagnetic fields with complex environments.

mpn

Sébastien Plissard

The MPN team has a transversal research activity ranging from the synthesis of new materials with unique properties, through their shaping at nanoscale and finally to the fabrication of innovative nanodevices. Research themes include dopant engineering for nanoelectronics, advanced materials …

mems

Christian Bergaud

The MEMS team develops strategies to enhance the performance, reliability, and integration of MEMS devices. New functionalities and transduction mechanisms based on nanomaterials, biomaterials, and polymer technologies are also explored for applications in instrumentation, the environment, and healthcare.

Puce microfluidique pour caractériser les propriétés mécaniques et fluidiques d'agrégats cellulaires / Microfluidic chip to characterize mechanical and fluidic properties of cell assemblies

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Pierre Joseph

MILE team addresses biophysics-related scientific questions thanks to microfluidic technologies. We focus on the interplay between permeability, mechanical properties, and biological activity of tissues and cells. Applications range from the role of mechanics in cancer to filtration, and cell sorting …

Microcapteur électrochimique en phase liquide - ElecCell

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Jérôme Launay

Our team studies and develops microsystems dedicated to environmental analysis in liquid phase and gas phase, based on expertise in different transduction modes, on the shaping and integration of materials, and on the instrumental chain allowing the implementation of sensors.

Marie Brut

The M3 team develops original and predictive atomic-scale models to understand the properties of matter. The goal is to support experiments, guide and control technological processes, enhance material performance, and contribute to innovation.

Latest publications

2024

Journal articles

Georges Saliba, Thierry Camps, Vincent Raimbault, Lucien Baldas. Fabrication of high-frequency microfluidic oscillators with integrated thermal instrumentation. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical , 2024, 365, pp.114844. ⟨10.1016/j.sna.2023.114844⟩. ⟨hal-04317919⟩

Abhishek Kumar, Jonas Müller, Sylvain Pelloquin, Aurélie Lecestre, Guilhem Larrieu. Logic Gates Based on 3D Vertical Junctionless Gate-All-Around Transistors with Reliable Multilevel Contact Engineering. Nano Letters, 2024, 24 (26), pp.7825-7832. ⟨10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04180⟩. ⟨hal-03600982⟩

Anne Hémeryck. Vers de nouvelles technologies spatiales résistantes : les avancées de simulation pour l'électronique durcie face aux radiations. Le petit illustré, regards croisés de chercheur.es, 2024, 51, pp.48. ⟨hal-04558181⟩

Thomas Perros, Anaïs Biquet-Bisquert, Zacchari Ben Meriem, Morgan Delarue, Pierre Joseph, et al.. Mechanical characterization of regenerating Hydra tissue spheres. Biophysical Journal, 2024, 123 (13), pp.1792-1803. ⟨10.1016/j.bpj.2024.05.022⟩. ⟨hal-04668523⟩

Zhiyong Zheng, Simon Grall, Soo Hyeon Kim, Arnaud Chovin, Nicolas Clement, et al.. Activationless Electron Transfer of Redox-DNA in Electrochemical Nanogaps. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146 (9), pp.6094-6103. ⟨10.1021/jacs.3c13532⟩. ⟨hal-04628486⟩

Chiara Rossi, Jonas Müller, Peter Pichler, Paweł Piotr Michałowski, Guilhem Larrieu. TCAD modeling and simulation of self-limiting oxide growth and boron segregation during vertical silicon nanowire processing. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2024, 174, pp.108217. ⟨10.1016/j.mssp.2024.108217⟩. ⟨hal-04639888⟩

Rajat Gujrati, Ali Kassem, Cédric Ayela, Fabrice Mathieu, Liviu Nicu, et al.. Transfer of III-nitride epitaxial layers onto pre-patterned silicon substrates for the simple fabrication of free-standing MEMS. Applied Physics Letters, 2024, 124 (10), pp.104102. ⟨10.1063/5.0191772⟩. ⟨hal-04495378⟩

Anne Calvel, Olivia Peytral-Rieu, Marie-Pierre Rols, David Dubuc, Katia Grenier. Extension to In Situ Single-Cell Electroporation of a Microwave Biosensor. IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, 2024, 34 (6), pp.849 - 852. ⟨10.1109/lmwt.2024.3391213⟩. ⟨hal-04651131⟩

Nicolas Mallet, Jonas Müller, Julien Pezard, Fuccio Cristiano, Raghda Makarem, et al.. Metallic Nanoalloys on Vertical GaAs Nanowires: Growth Mechanisms and Shape Control of Ni-GaAs Compounds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16 (2), pp.2449-2456. ⟨10.1021/acsami.3c09689⟩. ⟨hal-04639884⟩