UMR 7345
Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires
The "Physics of Ionic and Molecular Interactions" laboratory (PIIM), is a joint Research Unit (UMR in French) between the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University located in Marseille. It brings together physicists and physico-chemists who study diluted media such as gases, plasmas, ion, atom and/or molecule beams, as well as their interactions with matter. The work of its researchers aims to understand the physical phenomena in these media in order to analyse and characterise matter.
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Honoris Causa - Pr. Richard W. Lee
Richard W. Lee, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, a long-term partner of the PIIM laboratory has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Aix-Marseille University by President Eric Berton.
New Era, New Xenes !
Interest in elemental two-dimensional materials beyond graphene (called Xenes), that exhibit unique and potential game-changing properties, and promise tantalizing applications, has ignited after the successful experimental realization of silicene1 in 2012 by Prof. Guy Le Lay* and his co-workers. Since then, the "Growth and properties of silicene" has been the first "Hot research front" in Condensed Matter Physics2, launching a new Postgraphene Era, which has culminated with the first realization of Plumbene3 with Prof. Junji Yuhara, Nagoya University, in 2019.
*Emeritus Professor, Plasma-Surface Group