Master in Chemistry of Materials / EUREkA
Bordeaux, France
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 400 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The program takes place within our research community, composed of 8 labs and having their unique areas of specialization. Our training covers a wide range of subjects pertaining to materials and their applications (e.g., energy, recycling, biomaterials, etc.).
Our teams and partners hold diverse and complementary expertise. Crossdisciplinary technological approaches and biomaterials are used to address either specific matters or global issues. Regarding energy materials, for instance, the combination of skills in physical and chemical characterization, elaboration, and electrochemistry enables a better grasp of the issue. Also, note that a system approach allows us to cover TRLs from 1 to 5.
Strengths
- Doctoral students develop skills based on the wide range of topics relating to the materials studied on the Bordeaux campus: e.g., inorganic materials, colloids, polymers, hybrid and composite materials, etc.
- Privileged network of 8 research laboratories with complementary areas of specialization.
- Cutting-edge technologies dedicated to the characterization and development of materials (e.g., clean room, SPS, HR TEM, etc.).
- A strong dynamic of cross-disciplinary research and learning environment, providing students and Ph.D. candidates with the opportunity to work with not only physicists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists, but also various philosophers of science and other researchers in the humanities.
Curriculum
First Year
Teaching is divided into two semesters, amounting to 36 and 33 ECTS respectively.
Semester 1
- Chemical bonding (6 ECTS)
- Elaboration of materials from inorganic to polymers (6 ECTS)
- Chemistry of materials taught by international visiting professors (6 ECTS)
- Project with an entrepreneurship angle in a UBx laboratory (6 ECTS)
Two optional courses must also be chosen from the 8 below (6 ECTS each):
- Chemical/structural analysis of solids
- Nanosciences & living chemistry
- Organic and organometallic chemistry
- Chemistry and physics of polymers
- Statistical thermodynamics
- Solid-surfaces analysis
- Introduction to polymers and colloïds science
- Sustainability
Semester 2
- Project: from materials to devices (3 ECTS)
- Industrial seminars (3 ECTS)
- Internship of 3 to 4 months (3 ECTS)
- Batteries and alternative energies taught by international visiting professors (6 ECTS)
- Additives manufacturing (from polymers to ceramics) taught by international visiting professors (6 ECTS)
Two optional courses must also be chosen from the 8 below (6 ECTS each):
- Materials dismantling & recycling
- Solid state physics
- Chemistry and sustainable development
- Catalysis
- Organic nano-sciences
- Mechanical behaviors
- Macromolecular chemistry
- Advanced organic chemistry
Second year
Semester 1
Customized program with three tracks (Inorganic, Colloids, or Polymers)
Two courses to be chosen from the three below (all taught by visiting professors)
- UB Grad’s Polymers (Bioinspired Polymer) (6 ECTS)
- UB Grad’s Hybrids & Colloids (6 ECTS)
- UB Grad’s Inorganic (6 ECTS)
A research project (1st chapter of thesis) must also be completed (3 ECTS)
Three to four optional courses must also be chosen from the 15 below (6 ECTS each)
- Innovative & composite materials
- Heterochemistry
- Synthesis strategies
- Applied nanosciences
- Energy communication info
- Magnetic & dielectric properties
- Photonics lasers imaging
- Self-assembly of surfactants and polymers
- Large scale facilities
- Hybrid and Nanomaterials
- Molecular simulation
- Colloidal stability
- Functional molecules
- Functional polymers
- Macromolecular engineering
Semester 2
- Internship for 6 months (30 ECTS)
- One course may be taken (taken from Semester 2 of year 1 or from the doctoral school offer)
Program Outcome
- Doctoral students develop skills based on the wide range of topics relating to the materials studied on the Bordeaux campus: e.g., inorganic materials, colloids, polymers, hybrid and composite materials, etc.
- Privileged network of 8 research laboratories with complementary areas of specialization.
- Cutting-edge technologies dedicated to the characterization and development of materials (e.g., clean room, SPS, HR TEM, etc.).
- A strong dynamic of cross-disciplinary research and learning environment, providing students and Ph.D. candidates with the opportunity to work with not only physicists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists, but also various philosophers of science and other researchers in the humanities.
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