Who has never observed the self-organisation of a bunch of sand on a vibrating plate to form geometric figures ? The computational physicists of the “Crystalline Materials under Stress” group in Cemes have transposed this principle at the...

The "DiNaMo" UHV Factory equipment has been specially designed for the elaboration under UHV of the 5 levels of interconnection necessary to exchange information with a single molecule or nanoobject. The DUF project was supported by the following...

Peapods are peculiar nano-objects discovered in 1998 (see next image) upon a joint CEMES/University-of-Pennsylvania work (Smith et al., Nature 1998). They are made of a single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) whose the inner cavity is filled with...