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In 2019, the Nano-Bio-Materials for Life team was approached by the French Rowing Federation in Nancy to assist a world champion athlete suffering from motor disorders related to carpal tunnel syndrome. The team developed two grip solutions: one eliminating constraints on the affected part of the musculoskeletal chain, and the other alleviating them. Both solutions were patented in 2022 and 2025. This work subsequently led to the writing of this article.
This article explores the biomechanical consequences of using customized ergonomic equipment for each high-level single sculler on the water. It validates an ergonomic handle designed and manufactured in Nancy in the context of high-performance sports.

This publication marks the first contribution from the "Microstructures and Stresses" group within the framework of the DIAMS project (PEPR DIADEM). It demonstrates the feasibility of studying phase transformations in combinatorial metallurgy by leveraging the "process" parameters of the design space.
This result stems from a significant collaboration between IJL, SIMAP, LEM3, and ESRF, with whom the team is developing the Long Term Partnership "CombiMet."

In this study, we propose a new model-assisted method to design patterned membranes. This solution opens up new prospects for the design of customized membranes with technical specifications tailored to each patient.

Amorphous Sm–Ni–O nanoparticles produced by laser ablation were crystallized into the perovskite phase (SmNiO3) via in situ thermal treatments in the TEM. This study demonstrated that the initial Sm/Ni stoichiometry of the nanoparticles plays an important role during crystallization, as confirmed by analysis of high-resolution TEM images and by the increase in the Ni3+/Ni2+ ratio, a clear indicator of perovskite formation-measured by EELS.

Ce travail a pour objectif ultime de concevoir un dispositif capable de surveiller en temps réel l’endommagement d’une lime endodontique par analyse acoustique, afin d’alerter le chirurgien-dentiste en cas de risque imminent de rupture et de lui signaler la nécessité d’interrompre immédiatement son utilisation. Cette approche fondée sur l’émission acoustique est appliquée pour la première fois en endodontie. Cet article présente une première proposition de critère d’alarme acoustique.

Selected as an Editor’s Pick, this article uncovers unexpected interactions between two types of instabilities in hot plasmas and demonstrates, for the first time, the capability of an advanced simulation code to accurately model these phenomena in the cylindrical SPEKTRE experiment at IJL.

This work clarifies the actual conditions under which dynamic transformation occurs in steel during hot deformation. Using synchrotron X-ray diffraction, it demonstrates that conventional methods often overestimate both the extent and the temperature range of such transformations.

This paper highlights the extreme sensitivity of the itinerant magnetism of the Fe-sublattice to the presence of Mo in the crystal lattice of HfFe2. It sheds light on the strong coupling between lattice and spin degrees of freedom in Hf1-xMoxFe2 intermetallic compounds.

The kinetics complex and mechanisms of the hot corrosion of a superalloy for aeronautical applications were determined through accurate characterizations at the nanometric scale.