Dn the aisles of Eureka Park, at the CES in Las Vegas, where 1,500 start-ups have a stand at the Venetian Resort exhibition center, there is no shortage of innovations. However, one of them – French – attracts attention.
By the size of its product already, since it looks like a gigabyte black computer almost two meters high and 200 kilograms. But also by his promise. Ablascan, that’s its name, is a microscope doped with artificial intelligence, which identifies the atoms of materials that pass under its laser at the speed of light.
When the laser helps to better understand the material… Illustration imagined in Lyon at #ces2025 pic.twitter.com/Sv8ykqgrNN
— Guillaume Grallet (@guillaumgrallet) https://twitter.com/guillaumgrallet/status/1877190820475892092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Coming from the Lumière-Matière Institute, a joint research unit of the Claude-Bernard University of Lyon and the CNRS, this technology “will make it possible to reveal in 15 minutes what takes three days to be analyzed in the laboratory with the techniques conventional ones used today, explains Florian Trichard, doctor in chemistry and founder of Ablatom, the deeptech start-up behind this invention. We will identify almost instantly the atoms and chemical elements that are invisible to us in matter.”
Revealing matter through light
The start-up owes this speed to LIBS laser technology (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, or laser-induced plasma spectrometry). “The principle is […] Read more
