National research programme Light matter interaction (LUMA)
Innovating with light to transform materials and living organisms
Omnipresent in our natural and technological surroundings, light is a scientific lever whose potential remains largely untapped. The LUMA research programme aims to explore and exploit its unique properties to observe, manipulate, and shape physical, chemical, and biological systems.
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By bringing together researchers in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, health, the environment, and heritage, LUMA develops projects with interdisciplinary synergies as drivers of a new science, combining theory and experimentation. This programme addresses key scientific challenges: developing smart photoscience, innovating in green technologies, and designing innovative approaches to protection through light. Among the objectives: mastering the interactions between light and matter at extremely tiny scales of time and space, developing green technologies for energy and industry, designing
new photoactive materials, and using light to preserve health and the environment.
The research conducted will pave the way for numerous applications: materials for optics, photoactivated catalysis of high-value-added derivatives, ultra-sensitive sensors, diagnostic tools and medical therapies using light, and solar energy conversion and storage technologies. LUMA relies on interdisciplinary collaboration and its network of cuttingedge infrastructure to develop science in this major strategic field.
For more information
- Physics to conquer the infinitesimally brief, article in CNRS News (01/24/24)
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