Published on 05/02/2015
The new Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) installed at the Common Technological Resources Consortium (CMTC), was inaugurated on Monday 19 January in the presence of Yves Bréchet, Director of the Laboratory of Excellence, CEMAM, and its supervisory authorities.There were about 150 people in the Besson amphitheatre of the Phelma Campus to have answered the invitation of CEMAM’s director to inaugurate the brand new TEM-FEG. This item of equipment was purchased by the Labex CEMAM* in partnership with the Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), the Institut Carnot Energie du Futur and the company NanoMEGAS, specialised in scientific instrumentation. “The TEM is everything but a dead piece of equipment,” emphasised Yves Bréchet in his opening speech. “On the contrary, it’s an instrument that’s used to build tools that allow us to control materials.” Given that the CEMAM’s role is to design, produce and characterise “hybrid materials” in which it is necessary to master the microstructures