iMMC in pictures

Through the "iMMC in pictures" gallery, we want to showcase our scientific and technical work from a less conventional angle, and reveal the beauty and mystery of the images we capture every day.

30 April 2024

Dragon's breath

Spraying lycopod powder onto a flame during the Spring Science Festival. © Hervé Delafontaine
30 April 2024

The iron nest

This image was captured using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).
30 April 2024

The complexity of human locomotion

Snapshots of an amputee walking while wearing the ELSA prosthesis developed in iMMC. © François Heremans
30 April 2024

Birth of a mechanism

Here is a picture of an external hip prosthesis utilizing a double parallelogram mechanism designed for hip disarticulation amputees.
30 April 2024

Ethiopian H2O-Pyramid

This image is the result of SEM analysis conducted on crystal composed of mixed salts.
30 April 2024

Cloud factory

Picture taken during a field trip in Kerlingarfjöll in Iceland (July 2023) to study the alteration of volcanic soils and rocks and their links to landslides.
6 December 2023

The Battle of Earth and water

The photo illustrates the power of the flow (fast transient flow) through a dike when a breach or channel forms through the dike. What is the origin of this breach?
9 November 2023

Unveiling the tempestuous mixing above a heated porous matrix

This image illustrates vertical temperature gradients during turbulent convection within a mixed pure-fluid/porous domain.
9 November 2023

The swirl of air behind a wind turbine

This image depicts the vorticity magnitude in the wake of a large wind turbine operating in realistic turbulent wind conditions.
9 November 2023

Atomic Dumbbells

We often use dumbbells to strengthen our muscles. Mg2Si particles composed of dumbbells can also significantly strengthen metallic alloys.

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