Lecture

Antibodies in the development of immunological tests for in vitro diagnosis. Application in the context of infectious diseases and biological warfare agents (antibiotic resistance, COVID, EBOLA, mad cow, monkey pox ...).

Atom Probe Tomography (APT) enables access to compositional, morphological and structural information from microstructural features at the atomic scale. This information is especially important on neutron-irradiated material to characterize chemical composition variations around point defect clusters or grain boundaries.

The ever increasing power of digital computers and the maturity of atomistic simulation tools based on first principles calculations and molecular mechanics provide a unique opportunity to design new materials for engineering applications in silico. The main limitation is often found in the need to deal with much larger length scales and longer time scales than those allowed by atomistic simulations and, thus, novel strategies are required.