Sustainable engineering: materials and systems for sustainable energy and industrial production
Engineering in the broad sense and the development of technologies is one of the primary vocations of INSA. Since its creation, INSA Rennes has participated in the development of new materials and structures. It integrates into a global approach combining ethics and uses, the environmental issues of sustainability of industrial and energy production methods and techniques.
Our research teams, within the research units, work on major current and future societal projects. The objective is in particular to work in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Research topics include:
- Advanced materials, energy autonomous systems and sensors
- Networked energies: management, storage, conversion
- Reliability, risks and multi-criteria evaluation
- Emerging generic materials and technologies for renewable energy production
- Buildings and industrial installations in energy transition
- Reliable materials, products and processes that respect the environment and health
- Environments, water resources and sustainable processes: observations, modeling
- Natural, industrial risks and legal dimensions
- Eco-design, Management, recovery and circularity of polluted materials and waste: engineering and economics
- Territorial planning, landscape, climatology, urban: engineering, economics, law and sociology
- Thermal, sustainability of structures and intelligent housing
- Lightening, reliability and functionalization of materials, components and structures
- Sustainable and inclusive mobility, transport systems, fleets, supply chain and simulation
- Infrastructure, communication, ambient and embedded intelligence, reconstruction of the environment
- Multi-scale modeling and user interactions: environment, civil engineering
Our researchers are active in scientific research,
here is some of their work
Tagging materials: an answer to the issue of recyclability? | Controlling the nucleation and growth kinetics of lead halide perovskite quantum dots Jacky Even, Professor at INSA Rennes (Institut FOTON - UMR CNRS 6082, CNRS, INSA Rennes, Université de Rennes), publishes in the journal Science his research work on the formation and quantum properties of nanocrystals based on perovskites for the emission of light. . > Read more  |
Hydrogen is going green thanks to III-V semiconductors | Eco-friendly concrete made from marine sediments |
Jacky EVEN (Institut FOTON-UMR CNRS 6082)
is "Highly Cited Researchers 2022"
Every year, Web-of-Science (© Clarivate Analytics) recognizes the world's most influential researchers, particularly those who have been cited most often by their peers over the past decade. In 2022, more than 6,900 researchers from 70 countries/regions were recognized.
For the 4th consecutive year, Jacky Even is among the researchers identified as having an exceptional influence in the “interdisciplinarities” category, which is attested by his scientific production with numerous articles which rank among the 1% most cited (by scientific field and per year), in web of ScienceTM.