Université de Mons (UMons)
Bât. Materia Nova, Parc Initialis, Avenue Copernic
7000 Mons
BELGIUM
The University of Mons is a one-hundred-year-old institution that comprises seven faculties; its student enrolment is around 5000. UMONS has a strong tradition in fundamental and applied materials research. In particular, research on polymer and organic materials is carried out within the Centre for Innovation and Research on MAterials and Polymers (CIRMAP), with activities ranging from modeling and design, synthesis, characterization, thin film patterning and materials processing.
The Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials at the UMons is a research group of ~ 30 scientists. Their activities deal mainly with theoretical investigations of the structural, electronic, and optical properties of novel organic conjugated compounds with promising characteristics for exploitation in electronics, optoelectronics, and photonic devices and of electronic processes at organic/organic and metal/organic interfaces. Available in-house is a computing facility fully dedicated to theoretical calculations based on quantum-chemical, solid state physics, and molecular modeling methods. Over the past decade, MONS has participated in more than ten EU projects in the field of organic electronics, in particular the NAIMO project from which ONE-P is built and was among the partnership that was awarded the 2003 Descartes Prize of the European Union.
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The group participates in ONE-P, “to establish theoretical modelling as a standard characterization tool in material sciences”
