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Delphine Marris-Morini, Professor at Université Paris-Saclay and C2N, awarded the CNRS 2026 Silver Medal.

Delphine Marris-Morini is a Professor at Paris Saclay University since 2015. Her research interests at the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies covered first high speed and efficient silicon photonics devices for telecom applications. Since 2009 she developed a new …

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C2N announces its new Management Board

We welcome the new management team of C2N and wish them every success in their mission. Arnaud Bournel, Director of the Laboratory Béatrice Dagens, Deputy Director Rémy Braive, Deputy Director Cynthia Vallerand, Secretary General Sandrine Bouvy, Executive Assistant …

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Extreme longitudinal thermal conductivity and non-diffusive heat transport in isotopic hBN

Researchers from C2N and collaborators at Neel lab., MPQ lab, L2C lab. and Kansas university report record thermal transport properties in isotopically purified hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a two-dimensional insulating material of major interest for thermal dissipation and thermal …

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Listening to the Nanopores : Smart Nanomaterials Use Humidity to "Tune" Hypersound Like a Guitar String

What if humidity could act as a control knob for hypersound ? Researchers have shown that nanometer-scale pores in thin films can “sense” moisture in the air and dynamically change how they trap sound, turning ordinary water vapor into …

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C2N Highlights 2025 : a year in review

Here is our Highlights 2025 report. This booklet presents an overview of the activities carried out and the research conducted within the laboratory. It also highlights the key institutional and scientific moments of 2025. These highlights once again demonstrate C2N’s …

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