1. Centre for Materials Research (C2MA)
G. LE SAOUT

2. MINES-TELECOM 10 GRADUATE SCHOOLS : 6 MINES AND 4 TÉLÉCOM
Palaiseau-Saclay
Paris
Evry
Fontainebleau
Brest
Rennes
Pau
Toulouse
Saint-Etienne
Alès
Nimes
Albi
Gardanne
Nantes
Douai
10 GRADUATE SCHOOLS : 6 MINES AND 4 TÉLÉCOM
Mines Albi-Carmaux - Albi, Saint-Dié
Mines Alès - Alès, Montpellier, Nimes, Pau
Mines Douai - Douai
Mines Nantes - Nantes
Mines ParisTech - Paris, Palaiseau-Saclay, Evry, Fontainebleau, Sophia Antipolis
Mines Saint-Etienne - Saint-Etienne, Gardanne
Télécom Bretagne - Brest, Rennes, Toulouse
Télécom Ecole de Management - Evry, Palaiseau-Saclay, Paris
Télécom ParisTech - Paris, Sophia Antipolis
Télécom SudParis - Evry
Lille
Nancy
Sophia Antipolis
2 SUBSIDIARY SCHOOLS
Eurecom - Sophia Antipolis
Télécom Lille1 - Lille
1 STRATEGIC PARTNER SCHOOL
Mines Nancy - Nancy, Saint-Dié
Saint-Dié
11 ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS
ENSEEIHT - Toulouse
Enseirb-Matmeca - Bordeaux
ENSG - Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy
ENSIIE - Evry
ESIGELEC - Rouen
Grenoble Ecole de Management - Grenoble
IFMA - Clermont-Ferrand
Sup’Com Tunis - Tunis
Télécom Nancy - Villers-lès-Nancy
Télécom Physique Strasbourg - Strasbourg
Télécom Saint-Etienne - Saint-Etienne
Bordeaux
Strasbourg
Rouen
Clermont-Ferrand
Tunis
Montpellier
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3. INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
10 schools
2 subsidiary schools
2 strategic partners
11 associated schools
12,555 students
1,725 PhD students
+4000 graduates per year
Including over 2,500 engineers
8% engineering degrees issued in France
32 % foreign students
38 % grant holders
4, 800 staff members
2 Carnot Institutes
€121 M research- generated income per year
Near 100 business start- ups per year at the schools’ incubators
Total 2012 Figures excluding associated schools
and Mines Nancy (Université de Lorraine)
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4. ÉCOLE DES MINES D’ALÈS
The main site
Teaching and education, Research and innovation, Technology transfer to industry
800 students
of which 80 are PhD students
300 people staff
> 40 partnerships with foreign universities
The students campus
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5. + GRADUATE SCHOOL One year of general engineering
Two years of specialisation within one of our Graduate School departments:
4 departments
5 Job Specific
Management Modules
Civil Engineering with the following electives:
Engineering and construction
Mineral resources and exploitation management
Eco-innovation Conception and Advanced Materials Engineering with the following electives:
Mechanic and mechatronic conception
Eco-Innovation and advanced materials
Environmental Engineering and Risk Management with the following electives:
Environment
Industrial Risks and Security
Natural Risks
Complex Systems Engineering with the following electives:  
Conception and management of production systems
Conception and management of complex systems
Conception and Management of information systems
Mechatronics/ command systems
Information and Communications Technology and Health
Organisation
Quality Management
Engineering, leadership and Innovation
Commercial Engineering
Business Management
Management of Complex Projects +
Bac: Abitur (Germany), A-Levels (UK), Gaokao (China), High School Diploma (USA), Vestibular (Brazil), Bachillerato (Spain)
+ Nuclear Option
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6. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME
80 exchange agreements with partner universities abroad
200+ students currently based abroad
150
Incoming international exchange students
Programme Monier,
spécialité Génie civil : École des Mines
d’Alès/Université de Weimar (Allemagne)/ Polytechnique Barcelone (Espagne), accessible en 3e année d’études
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7. CAREER DESTINATIONS 2011 (Survey 2012- Graduation year 2011)
17 % based abroad
Average gross starting salary: €39,430
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8. Centre for Computer and Production Engineering: LGI2P
RESEARCH
108 projects developed
82 publications
16 theses supervised
THREE research institutes
Centre for Materials Research: C2MA
Centre for Industrial Environment and Industrial and Natural Risks: LGEI
Centre for Computer and Production Engineering: LGI2P
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9. CENTRE FOR MATERIALS- C2MA
Head: Prof. José Marie LOPEZ CUESTA
Staff / 2013
90 persons
Professors 7
Research staff (doctors and lecturers) 22
Engineers and technicians 16
Administrative staff 5
PhDs- Post doc 40
Start up  companies 4
exemple of start up company: INNOBAT, they realise window frames made from renewable ressources as fibers (for example unused bamboo) and epoxy, the aim is to have good mechanical and thermal properties and to replace PVC (bad mechanical properties) and aluminium (bad thermal properties),
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10. CENTRE FOR MATERIALS- C2MA
Head: Prof. José Marie LOPEZ CUESTA
MPA
Advanced Polymer Materials
MGC
Civil Engineering Materials
RIME
Material- Environment interactions
Prof. Anne BERGERET
Prof. Éric
GARCIA-DIAZ
Prof. Valérie
DESAUZIERS
Life Cycle of Materials
The three main research areas in the lab are in the field of material science. Every material has a life cycle. We study the raw form, how is processed, and how is made into a finished product. At some point the material reaches the end of its life and is disposed of.
Microstructures/Processes/Properties/Applications
TRANSVERSE ENVIRONNEMENTAL PROBLEMATICS
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11. C2MA- MPA- Advanced Polymer Materials
Eco-Materials and life cycle
Jean Charles BENEZET
Answer to sustainable development
(polymers from renewable ressources)
Thermal damage and fire retardant and resisting materials
Laurent FERRY
To improve burning behavior properties of polymers through “green” flame retardant materials
Understand mechanisms and relationship between microstructure/ burning behavior
Multiscale approach of mechanics behavior in relation with morphology, microstructure and process
aging degradation modeling under mechanical and environmental constraints
Mechanics behavior and service life
Patrick IENNY
Compatible and functionalized surfaces and interfaces
Anne BERGERET
Understand and control surfaces and interfaces modifications in heterophase systems
Biopolymers- conditioning and interface
Éric GUIBAL
Interactions biopolymer- metallic ions (elaboration of new materials
Biopolymers for liquid or solid encapsulation
Biodegradation
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12. C2MA- MPA- Advanced Polymer Materials
waste sorting using near IR (ADEME REDEMPTIR , FUI TRIPLE )
Biocomposites
(ADEME BIOBAT, INNOBAT )
Improvement of flame retardancy of PMMA, combination of nanoparticles and phosphonated compound
(thesis H. Vahabi )
PMMA
MMA-MAPC1
MMA-MANP2C3
Mechanical hydrothermal aging degradation of biocomposites (PLA/ flax fibers)
(thesis A. Regazzi )
Polylactic acid or polylactide (PLA) is a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester derived from renewable resources, such as corn starch (in the United States), tapioca roots, chips or starch (mostly in Asia), or sugarcane (in the rest of the world).
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13. C2MA- MPA- Advanced Polymer Materials
Functionalized surfaces of natural fibers
(thèse ADEME J. Acera Fernandez , thèse G. Dorez )
Greffage de composés silane sur des fibres de lin
Silver/chitosan/cellulose fibers foam composites: From synthesis to antibacterial properties
Polylactic acid or polylactide (PLA) is a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester derived from renewable resources, such as corn starch (in the United States), tapioca roots, chips or starch (mostly in Asia), or sug
arcane (in the rest of the world).
Silane is an inorganic compound with chemical formula SiH4. It is a colourless, flammable gas with a sharp, repulsive smell, somewhat similar to that of acetic acid. Silane is of practical interest as a precursor to silicon metal.
Chitosan is a biopolymer obtained by the deacetylation of chitin, one of the most abundant polysaccharide in Nature
Guibal, E., S. Cambe, S. Bayle, J.-M. Taulemesse and T. Vincent (2013). Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 393,
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14. C2MA- MGC- Civil Engineering Materials
to develop metrologic tools for the characterization of suspensions to:
- characterize organo-mineral interactions at the interfaces and to investigate the organization of the suspension at the mesoscale level (agglomerates)
- correlate these informations to physicochemical stability and rheological behaviors of suspensions
Dispersion and stability of suspension
Nathalie Azema
building materials and eco materials
The aim is to contribute to sustainable development in the fiel of construction materials.
Contributions of the different constituents of the concrete (aggregate- ITZ-paste):
to the meso scale assemblage
to the mechanical properties of fresh and hardened concrete
Cement and concrete materials
Gwenn Le Saout
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15. C2MA- MGC- Civil Engineering Materials
Determination of dispersion indices – correlation with rheological behavior of cement pastes
C. Autier, N. Azéma, J.-M. Taulemesse, L. Clerc, Powder
Technology, in-press
supernatant
sediment
Suspension area
Clarification front
Sediment front
The effect of limestone aggregate porosity on ITZ
Tien Dung Nguyen, G. Le Saout, P. Devillers, E. Garcia Diaz
to be submitted
source: Tien Dung Nguyen, 2012
limestone
cement paste
Use of rice husks in lightweight concrete for building envelope
PhD Morgan Chabannes (MGC- MPA)
Lignosulfate for future concrete, Consortium with Borregaard (Norway) and Universities of Chalmers, Sheffield, Melbourne, SINTEF, NTNU
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16. C2MA- MGC- Civil Engineering Materials
Determining the water aborption of recycled aggregates
Thang Le, G. Le Saout, S. Rémond, E. Garcia Diaz
Numerical modeling of concrete: biphasic approach
R. Sassine, E. Malachanne, E. Garcia-Diaz, F. Dubois, A-S Caro Bretelle
Compacity
aggregate
Aggregate modulus
(Gpa)
Eexp (Gpa)
Enum (Gpa)
12,50%
430A
4,3 30 29
520S
6,5 33
750S 20 34
45,00% 22
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17. C2MA- Material Environment Interactions
- trace analysis of contaminants at the interface materials/air, reactivity
- transfer of contaminants from materials to the environment, impact
interactive materials: nano, microcomposites, photocalyst (decontamination)
Sanitary-environment characteristics
characterization without contact with materials
impact of the environment on the visual aspect of solid surface (UV, humidity, pollution…)
modelisation of optical and tactile behavior of materials
Psycho-sensorial properties
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic chemicals that have a high vapour pressure at ordinary, room-temperature conditions. Their high vapour pressure results from a low boiling point, which causes large numbers of molecules to evaporate or sublimate from the liquid or solid form of the compound and enter the surrounding air. An example is formaldehyde, with a boiling point of –19 °C (–2 °F), slowly exiting paint and getting into the air.
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18. C2MA- Material Environment Interactions
VOCs emitted by construction materials : impacts on indoor air quality
Thesis Delphine Bourdin:
Partners: Université de Pau (LaTEP), Nobatek
Tools to predict optical and tactile behavior of car interior parts as a function of composition and process
Thesis Caterina Passaro
Partners: Renault, EMSE
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19. C2MA- research infrastructure
Elaborations of materials
fully-equipped polymer processing laboratory (extrusion, mixing, injection molding, compression molding, pressing, pelleting, grinding…)
fully-equipped civil engineering laboratory (concrete mixers, …)
Characterization of materials
- laser granulometer
- zeta meter
- rheometer
- mercury intrusion porosimeter (MIP)
- permeability measuring instrument
- thermal analysis (TGA coupled with IR, DTA, DSC, TMA)
- laser conductometer
- cone calorimeter- coupled with infrared spectroscopy (IR)
- pyrolysis combustion flow calorimeter (PCFC)- coupled with IR
- pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometer (PyGCMS)
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20. C2MA- research infrastructure
Characterization of materials
gas chromatography
solid phase micro extraction (SPME)
X- ray diffractometer (XRD), HT in situ measurements
environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM)
spectroradiometer
mechanical testing machine for static and dynamic measurements
Access to the analycal platerform:
- University of Montpellier 2 and ENSCM (TEM, NMR, AFM…)
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21. C2MA- 2012 thesis 73 projects 38 thesis dont 4 CIFRE 3 ADEME
Some partners :
Acome, Aluminium Péchiney, Areva, Bluestar silicones, CEA, CEMEX, ERDF, Fédération Française du Bâtiment, Pellenc ST, St Gobain…
thesis
38 thesis
dont
4 CIFRE
3 ADEME
thesis / HdR : 3,2
Turnover based on contract in 2012
13 doctoral schools
Réseau des Ecoles des Mines (Paris, St Etienne, Nancy)
Université de Montpellier 2
Universités de Haute Alsace , Lille, Pau, Lyon1, Nantes
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22. C2MA- Scientific events
National Summer school « vieillissement des polymères et réaction au feu » 
Mèze, Septembre (sous l’égide de la SCF et de MoDeSt)
DEPOS (DEformation des Polymères Solides)
Colloque francophone, Avril 2014, La Grande Motte
Matériaux 2014
Colloque national multisessions sur les matériaux
Novembre 2014, Montpellier (Corum)
Eurofillers et Polymer Blends
International conferences on filler modification and polymer blends
April 2015, Montpellier (Corum)
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23. Thanks for your attention
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