Smart-fluids develops and proposes devices based on the properties of new liquid materials featuring simultaneously magnetic properties and high electrical conductivity. This novel class of fluids appears as twice more "intelligent" as compared to standard ferrofluids. Exploiting the properties of these fluids is the start point opening towards a wide field of applications.

This project originates from the French Laboratory "LI2C" (Liquides Ioniques et Interfaces Chargées, UMR CNRS - UPMC - ESPCI *). This Lab was able to associate multiple and complementary competencies among the researchers together with a great expertise in the synthesis and in the knowledge of magnetic fluids (ferrofluids). A specific study was started several years ago by a team of researchers of the Lab, leading to a different mode in the elaboration of magnetic and conducting fluids by introducing new concepts in this synthesis. Following this approach, the fluids produced under theses specific conditions show unprecedented characteristics as compared to the materials issued from other equips working in such a field during the last decades (NASA, General Electric, academic research).

* UMR : Research Unit,  CNRS:  National Center for Scientific Research , UPMC : University  Pierre et Marie Curie,  ESPCI : High School of Physics and Chemistry .

• 2006 : publication of an article in l' Usine Nouvelle : "les ferrofluides conducteurs bouleversent l'électrotechnique" (Conductive ferrofluids drastically change electrotechnics), under the heading "Pour décrypter une technologie émergente" (Understanding emerging technologies). N° 2994, 26/01/2006
• november 2005 : the project wins the special prize of the jury at the "Innovation Awards of the City of Paris" 
  
• october 2005 : the project is selected to receive help and fundings from the incubator Agoranov
• june 2005 : the projet gets funding and award from the "6th award of the french national agency for innovative startup companies".