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Controlling materials has become a major challenge for the manufacture and processing of products. The Basse Normandie Scientific Teams have special skills and expertise in the following fields:
	Polymers and composites
	Metallic and ceramic materials
	Processing plastics
	Materials for electronic components
	Catalysis
The Teams
They are broken down into:
	One, a scientific team, headed by Professor Raveau, based mainly Caen and working at 5 laboratories with 200 people. All the scientists are organised within a 'Materials' Centre National de Recherche Technologique (CNRT Matériaux, national centre for technological research) boasting four areas of skills and expertise: - Materials for electronics - Catalytic materials - Polymer materials
	A technology centre at Alençon organised around the Institut Supérieur de Plasturgie d'Alençon (ISPA, the Alençon higher institute of plastic processing) with 12 people
Equipments
A complementary range of equipment for image acquisition in a small space enables a comprehensive approach to materials:
	TEM, transmission electron microscopy (5 machines)
	X-rays
	MRI
	y Camera
	Positron emission tomographer
	Scanning electron microscope (3 machines)
	Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
	Confocal microscope
	Contrast phase microscope (IDS 10000)
	Photon emission microscope (Phemos 1000)
	FIB (Focus Ion Bean)
And processing equipment:
	Substrates for wafer deposit using cathode sputtering (3 machines)
	Sintering furnaces (7 including 4 CA sintering furnaces)
	Uniaxial pressurised sintering furnace
	Mixing and grinding equipment (4 machines)
Methods
Activities focus on three fields:
	Research and development of new materials with special magnetic and electric properties, and their processing. This research relies on three technologies: - High temperature synthesis - Ceramic sintering (standard sintering and microwave technology) - Development of wafers (cathode sputtering, laser ablation, molecular beam epitaxy)
	Study of nanostructures for nanotechnologies (with a focus on electronic nanotechnologies) using high-resolution electronic microscopy
	Catalysis technologies
	Study of polymers and applying the research to polymer processing
Contacts
For general technological or scientific information
	Mr. Bernard RAVEAU ISMRA - CRISMAT Tél : 33 (0)2 31 45 26 16 - Fax : 33 (0)2 31 95 16 00 raveau@ismra.fr
For economic or industrial information
	Normandie Développement 57 avenue de Bretagne - BP 1083 76173 Rouen Cedex 1 - France Tel : 33 (0)2 35 03 06 04 - Fax : 33 (0)2 35 03 07 86 ndrouen@normandydev.com
For international information
	AFII (French Agency for International Investments) - www.afii.fr