iMMC in pictures

April 30, 2024

iMMC in pictures

Dragon's breath

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

April 30, 2024

iMMC in pictures

The iron nest

This image was captured using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The general context of the research was to study the use of iron as an efficient, CO2-free energy carrier, and in particular...

April 30, 2024

iMMC in pictures

The complexity of human locomotion

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

April 30, 2024

iMMC in pictures

Birth of a mechanism

Here is a picture of an external hip prosthesis utilizing a double parallelogram mechanism designed for hip disarticulation amputees. This prosthesis was entirely designed, machined, and assembled...

April 30, 2024

iMMC in pictures

Ethiopian H2O-Pyramid

This image is the result of SEM analysis conducted on crystal composed of mixed salts. The crystal is recovered from groundwater sources of Ethiopia using reverse osmosis and membrane...

April 30, 2024

iMMC in pictures

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. This specific zone located in the...

December 06, 2023

iMMC in pictures

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? The erosive action of water...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Unveiling the tempestuous mixing above a heated porous...

This image illustrates vertical temperature gradients during turbulent convection within a mixed pure-fluid/porous domain. The porous region, shown as a white parallelepiped at the base of the...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

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. Each blade produces a vortex tube that is shed from its tip, giving...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Atomic Dumbbells

We often use dumbbells to strengthen our muscles. Mg2Si particles composed of dumbbells can also significantly strengthen metallic alloys. The image shows beautiful arrangement of Mg and Si atoms...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

No Plan(et) B

The main objective of this study was to create an innovative iron-based material for bioresorbable stent implants. What you see here is an SEM image of a meticulously polished pure iron sample...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Indium islands

Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) is used to deposit continuous thin films with thickness in the hundreds of nanometers range. For some metals with low melting temperature, deposition proceeds in...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Breaking waves

This is an optical microscopy image of a crack propagating left to right in a 1.5mm thick high strength steel sheet. This "wave" pattern, known as crack tip flipping, is the result of an...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

The MAX-cave

Fracture surface of a MAX-phase ceramic inclusion made of Ti2AlC embedded in a copper matrix, as observed using scanning electron microscopy. © Marie-Stéphane Colla

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

The ghost of the crystal cave

This image comes from SEM fractography of sintered iron oxides powders. The general context of the research was to study the use of iron as an efficient, CO2-free energy carrier, and in particular...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Coherence in chaos

The flow in the mixing chamber of a supersonic ejector generates two mixing layers between the driving supersonic flow and the entrained subsonic flow. It is those highly turbulent mixing layers...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Kites: from kid’s play to green energy

Airborne wind energy systems gather energy from the wind using a kite (rigid or soft wing) that pulls on a cable. The cable is connected to the ground and unwinds from a drum, that drives a...

November 09, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Dancing vortices

Instantaneous dimensionless vorticity field of a sinusoidally oscillating cylinder in a flow at Re = 500. The numerical simulation has been performed with the weak coupling method developed by P....

October 23, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Khaleesi Crystals

Knowing about crystal formation of organic compounds is knowing about pathways to improve the patient’s life. The crystal shape and size impact drug aspects such as flowability, compatibility,...

October 19, 2023

iMMC in pictures

Ni-cely Agglomerated

The picture is extracted from a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) observing a Ni-BaH2 powder catalyst, which I am researching on for the application of ammonia production using metal hydrides...

October 19, 2023

iMMC in pictures