| Biography of D. Fruchart, Laboratory of Crystallography CNRS, Grenoble, France |
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§ Daniel FRUCHART born 10-02-1944 at 62190 Ecquedecques, France married, 2 children § Studies Master in Pure & Fundamental Mathematics 1967 Lille Master in Physics & Crystallography 1969 Grenoble Ph D Thesis 1971 Grenoble Doctor thesis 1976 Grenoble Jurees : Prof. L. Néel, R. Pauthenet, E.F. Bertaut, J.C. Joubert, J. Labbé, M. Pouchard
§ Professional situation : Director of Research at CNRS - 1st class 1995 § Professional address Laboratoire de Cristallographie du CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Tel : +33 (0)4 76 88 11 43; Fax : +33 (0)4 76 88 10 38; E-Mail : fruchart@grenoble.cnrs.fr
DISTINCTION § Award of the French Division of Mineral Chemistry and Metallurgy (1986) Award Bétancourt-Perronet - Development of French-Spanish Scientific Research (2002)
RESPONSABILITIES in supervision and communication § Courses on "Metal Hydrides" French Summer School on "Neutron Scattering applied to Metallurgy" (1981). § Associate Professor, Oregon State University (1983). § Training on Crystallography at Institut National Polytechnique, Grenoble (1980-1984). § VII International Conference on Compounds of Transition Elements Grenoble, France (VII CICSET): General Secretary of the Conference (1982). § Head of the French-Spanish European Laboratory MANES (1995-1999). § Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the European School HERCULES “Sciences and Techniques of Large Array Instruments” (Neutron and Synchrotron, Diffusion and Spectroscopy) since 1994. § Courses on Magnetism French-Romanian Summer School on "Hard Magnet Materials" (1999). § Organization of 3 Courses sessions on Induction Melting Techniques in CNRS (2000 to 2003). § Courses on Magnetism at the North Western Institute in X’ian, China on "Fundamental Magnetism to Hard Magnet Materials" (2004). § Supervision of more than 20 theses. § More than 70 personalities and Post-Doc visitors (since 1980).
RESPONSABILITIES in research management § Responsible of a research group « Intermetallics et Interstitials » at Laboratoire de Cristallographie of CNRS (since 1982). 8 permanent staffs (*), 1 post doct, 3 PhD, 2 engineer/technician * 5 CNRS (4 Chemistry Dept. + 1 Physics Dept.) et 3 researcher/prof. (3 Physics Dept. of the University J. Fourier, Grenoble)
CONTRACTS § Responsible for more than 25 R & D contracts, with industrial, institutional and international partners (since 1977) – Hydrogen Storage – Magnet technologies – Others. § Contract French-Swedish ATP Hydrogen (Grenoble-Uppsala): Co-responsable français (1978). § Responsible of the French group of the HYSTORY European consortium on Reversible Hydrogen Storage on light Materials, with 8 industrial and institutional European partners.
PATENTS § Patent EP, USA, Japon, n° EP 85 401 230.9 (1985), ext. USA, Japan etc. "Nouveaux hydrures de terre rare/fer/bore et terre rare/cobalt/bore magnétiques…" § Patent EP, ext. USA et Japon, n° EP 90 06-206 (1991). "Nouveaux composés de granulométrie homogène réduite à hautes propriétés magnétiques" § Patent on "Forged alloys for bonded magnets" with the Rhône-Poulenc Co (1998), ext. Japan. § Patent on "Neutralisation of very large amounts of sodium" (1999). § Patent on "Thin layers deposits and ion implantation by microwave assisted plasma techniques" (2004)
CONTRIBUTION TO BOOKS § Application de la Diffraction Neutronique à la Métallurgie Editor CEA-SFM, "Hydrogen in Metals" (1982) p. 415 to 445 § Volume 19, groupe III Part 2, LANDOLT-BöRNSTEIN "The Metal Perovskites", (1987) p. 186 to 253 § Contribution to the volume of Encyclopedia for Material Sciences and Techniques dedicated to "Neutron Scattering Studies On Hard Magnets" 9 pages (2000). § Hydrogen Treatment of Materials "Structural Investigations on Metal Hydrides", Int. Ass. for Hydrogen Energy publ., (2001) 327-352. § Hydrogen Treatment of Materials "Kinetics and Some General Features of Hydrogen Induced Diffusive Phases Transformations in Nd2Fe14B Type Alloys" Int. Ass. for Hydrogen Energy publ., (2001) p. 367-390. § Recent Research Developments in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials : “Exchange Forces and Magneto-crystalline Anisotropy in RFe12-xMxZy Compounds" Transworld Research Network Ed., 35 pages (2003).
PUBLICATIONS AND CENTRES OF INTEREST § More than 450 publications, mostly in International Journals related to:
Magnetic materials: magnetic structure determination, fundamentals and applied properties of magnetic materials (hard, soft, magneto-caloric)
Metal-Hydrogen systems: fundamentals (structure, high pressure, physical properties and applied properties (reversible, H-processings of metals)
Metallurgy: Fast forging, melt-spinning, ball-milling, very high pressure (up to 7 GPa hydrogen pressure), metallurgy under high magnetic fields (up to 10 T).
Thin deposits: MOCVD, Plasma assisted and Implantation, Magnetron sputtering.
Interstitials and intermetallic systems (synthesis and physical properties).
Neutron scattering and X-ray spectroscopy investigations (EXAFS, XANES, XMCD)
RESPONSABILITIES organisation of Conferences and Consortiums
§ LEA MANES, Laboratoire Européen Associé French-Spanish 93-01, Grenoble-Zaragoza, Co-ordinator: 1995-1997 and 1999-2001. § Consortium CEAM I (1985-1988): responsible for a research group (Europe). § Consortium CEAM II (1988-1991): responsible for a research group (Europe). § Consortium CEAM III (1991-1994): responsible for a research group (Europe).. § Consortium B-E NITROMAG (1995-1997): responsible for a research group (Europe). § Consortium B-E BIREM (1996-1998): responsable d'un groupe de recherche (Europe). § Member of the Organizing Committee of a French-Romanian Summer School "Hard Magnet Materials", European Union Sponsorship, 1999, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. § General Secretary of the: “VII International Conference on Compounds of Transition Elements”, 1982, Grenoble, France. § Organizing Committee of the “International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems” Maubuisson, 1984, France. § Organizing Committee of ICFE6 "International Conference on f-Elements", 1998, Paris, France. § Chairman of "Journées de la Diffraction Neutronique", Société Française de la Diffraction Neutronique, 1998, Batz sur Mer, France. § Chairman of the Program Committee of JEMS'01 “Joint European Magnetic Symposia”, 2001 Grenoble, France. § International Steering Committee of the "European Powder Diffraction Conference", EPDIC, 2002, Uppsala, Sweden. § Chairman of the “International Symposium on Metal Hydrogen Systems – Fundamental and Applications ", MH2002, Annecy, France. § International Steering Committee of the "European Conference on Neutron Scattering", 2003, Montpellier, France. § Co-Chairman of the "Workshop on Rare Earth Magnets" 2004, HPMA, Annecy, France § International Steering Committee de "Rare Earth International Conference", 2004, Nara, Japon. § Program Committee of JEMS’04 “Joint European Magnetic Symposia”, 2004, Dresden, Germany. § Program Committee of “E-MRS Conference on Magnetic Materials”, 2005, Warsaw, Poland.
MEMBER OF BOARD COMMITTEES § "Chairman of the Board of the Physics State Selection Committee", LURE Synchrotron, Orsay, France. § "Board of the Magnetic Structure Committee” of the Institute Laue-Langevin, RHF Grenoble, France. § "Board of the National Committee for Neutron Scattering French Affairs", CNRS-CEA, France. § "Board of the French Neutron Society" (SFN), France. § Permanent Member of International Steering Committees: "International Conference on Solid State Compounds of Transition Elements" "International Conference on Hydrogen Treatment of Materials" – Donetsk, Ukraine. "International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds" L’viv – Ukraine. "International Symposium on Metal Hydrogen Systems - Fundamental and Applications" § Board of Editors of the "International Journal for Hydrogen Energy" (1998…)
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