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16 September 2026

The Birth of Crystals in Solution at Submillisecond Time Scales: Spinodal Decomposition into a transient Viscoelastic Reactant-Rich Liquid

new publication of Thomas Philippe-Journal of the American Chemical Society
Understanding crystallization from solution is essential to natural and industrial processes. In contrast to the (…)

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16 June 2026

Accreditation to supervise research - Thomas Philippe

On June 12, 2026, Thomas Philippe successfully defended his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), entitled Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transitions: Bulk and Interfacial Phase Separation. (…)

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1 June 2026

Visit of Tamas Pusztai at PMC

From june 1st through 24th Tamas Pusztai will be at PMC as a visitng scientist, financed by the DER of Ecole polytechnique. Tamas works at the Wigner Research Center for Physics in Budapest (…)

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29 April 2026

PMC takes part in JMC2026

The nucleation and growth mechanisms at play during the synthesis of nanoparticles by physical or chemical processes do not strongly differ. Moreover, the nanoparticle reactivity towards an (…)

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19 January 2026

Nonclassical Nucleation Pathways in Condensation

When vapor nucleates into liquid, the critical droplets break a key assumption of classical nucleation theory (CNT). CNT assumes that critical droplets have the same density as the final liquid—an (…)

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Upcoming events

Future seminars

Thursday october the 15th at 11am in PMC seminar room: Christian Roubert (PMC) (…)

Past seminars

Thursday october the 8th at 2pm in amphithéatre Faure: Maxime Hantute (PMC) Phd Defence: (…)