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iMMC in pictures

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Through the "iMMC in pictures" gallery, we want to showcase our scientific and technical work from a less conventional angle, and reveal the beauty and mystery of the images we capture every day.

iMMC in pictures

  • 30 April 2024
    Dragon's breath
    Spraying lycopod powder onto a flame during the Spring Science Festival. © Hervé Delafontaine
  • 30 April 2024
    The iron nest
    This image was captured using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).
  • 30 April 2024
    The complexity of human locomotion
    Snapshots of an amputee walking while wearing the ELSA prosthesis developed in iMMC. © François Heremans
  • 30 April 2024
    Birth of a mechanism
    Here is a picture of an external hip prosthesis utilizing a double parallelogram mechanism designed for hip disarticulation amputees.
  • 30 April 2024
    Ethiopian H2O-Pyramid
    This image is the result of SEM analysis conducted on crystal composed of mixed salts.
  • 30 April 2024
    Cloud factory
    Picture taken during a field trip in Kerlingarfjöll in Iceland (July 2023) to study the alteration of volcanic soils and rocks and their links to landslides.
  • 6 December 2023
    The Battle of Earth and water
    The photo illustrates the power of the flow (fast transient flow) through a dike when a breach or channel forms through the dike. What is the origin of this breach?
  • 9 November 2023
    Unveiling the tempestuous mixing above a heated porous matrix
    This image illustrates vertical temperature gradients during turbulent convection within a mixed pure-fluid/porous domain.
  • 9 November 2023
    The swirl of air behind a wind turbine
    This image depicts the vorticity magnitude in the wake of a large wind turbine operating in realistic turbulent wind conditions.
  • 9 November 2023
    Atomic Dumbbells
    We often use dumbbells to strengthen our muscles. Mg2Si particles composed of dumbbells can also significantly strengthen metallic alloys.