Our main objective is to bring together all the players in materials science and nanotechnology on the Aix-Marseille site

AMUtech’s ambition is to lead and coordinate Aix-Marseille’s strengths in materials sciences and nanotechnology by developing collaborations between partner research units, strengthening the link between training and research, stepping up the development of shared platforms and boosting the site’s attractiveness and socio-economic development.

The institute is based on the synergy of the skills and resources of the site’s physics and chemistry research units involved in the study of materials and nanotechnologies. The aim is to harness the properties of matter at the nanometric scale for developing new materials at the meso- and macroscopic scales, with particular focus on intelligent materials and optronics. The institute is resolutely multidisciplinary, conducting initiatives to consider and study the economic and societal challenges of nanotechnologies.