The CIRIMAT is a mixed research unit associated with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
It was created in 1999, resulting from the grouping of three university laboratories of the “material engineering” pole in Toulouse: the "Chemistry of the Inorganic and Energy Materials " laboratory and the "Physics of Polymers" laboratory belonging to the Paul Sabatier University (UPS) and the "Interfaces and Materials" laboratory of the Polytechnic National Institute of Toulouse (INPT). The National Platform of Spark Plasma Sintering of CNRS (PNF2) is also part of CIRIMAT.
CIRIMAT gathers 99 permanent staffs including 63 researchers and professors and more than 80 nonpermanent (post-doc, PhD, Master, CDD...), that is to say a total staff of approximately 180 people.
This potential is located on the scientific campus of Toulouse-Rangueil.
Skills and know how to make
Design, modelling, elaboration, shaping, physical properties in use, durability of materials:
Powders, nanomaterials, nanocomposites, Multifunctional layers, protective coatings, surface treatment, Microstructure-mechanics coupling under rigorous environment,Physics of polymers and organic composites materials.
Main markets
- Transport (aeronautic, spatial, terrestrial),
- Energy (storage and conversion, nuclear),
- Electronics,
- Environment (corrosion, supported catalysts),
- Health technologies (biomaterials, tissue engineering…)
Key points of the CIRIMAT Carnot institute
A range of skills in science and engineering of materials, more specifically in chemistry
of materials (elaboration, reactivity), a multidisciplinary culture, a potential of training
through research, an opening towards various socioeconomic sectors convenient to future
interactions with the other Carnot institutes (micro- and nano-electronics, mechanics,
materials for energy and environment and health technologies).
Research groups of the CIRIMAT
- Nanocomposites and Carbon Nanotubes
- Phosphates, Pharmacotechnics, Biomaterials
- Mixed Valence Oxides
- Coating and Surface Treatments
- Surfaces: Reactivity, Protection
- Mechanics, Microstructure, Oxidation
- Polymers Physics
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