Thank you all, organizers and visitors, for making this years' Science Festival a succes !
This year at the Fête de la Science, ITI HiFunMat reimagined its booth “Materials of the Future” around the national theme: Intelligence.
Visitors explored the world of intelligent materials. Those that we develop in our laborotories... but also those that are already part of our everyday lives. The composition of such materials — often involving macromolecules and polymers — was illustrated using beads and chains.
Participants were also invited to experiment with intelligent materials by creating their own photo-reactive bracelets or manipulating ferrofluids with magnets.
Of course, when it comes to “intelligence,” artificial intelligence is never far behind. Visitors put their perception to the test in our quiz “AI or not AI”, where they tried to distinguish real microscopy images from those generated by ChatGPT.
Finally, just like last year, participants could solve our puzzles to recreate the materials of the future.
We would like to thank all the volonteers for the organisation and animation of the booth, the Médiathèque Malraux for welcoming us, the Jardin des Sciences and the University of Strasbourg for the organisation of the Fete de la Science, as well as INSERM Est and the CNRS for their support. But above all, thank you Morgane for the organisation !
