With its renewal, the Labex iMUST completes its support for the development of interdisciplinary and collaborative physical-chemical-engineering research on the Lyon site with a new component, aimed at supporting initiatives with high application potential resulting from the fundamental work of iMUST member teams.
In this context, we propose a new action to support seed projects whose objective is to validate, on a fundamental level, disruptive concepts with a strong application potential beyond the duration of the project supported by iMUST.
The chosen format is that of an internship at the Master's level, for a maximum duration of 6 months, carried out in a team member of iMUST.
TESTIMONIAL Funded Intership in 2020/2021 IMP - Tom Salignat
Matthieu Fumagalli:
The funding of an innovation internship by the iMust labex in spring 2021 was the opportunity to develop a first generation of nanocellulose-based electrolyte membranes in the IMP laboratory, based on the results of a thesis that had just been completed. The internship work focused on the synthesis of additives and their association with nanocelluloses to obtain a series of hybrid electrolyte membranes with adjustable mechanical and ionic properties. These promising results will be followed up by the evaluation of the performance of these materials as separators in electrochemical devices for energy conversion.