Excited to share that our review paper, published in Chemosensors (MDPI), has been featured as the cover article! :-D This review highlights the potential of diagnosing cancers and other diseases through analyzing body-emitted volatiles (volatolome), offering a rapid, non-invasive approach via olfactory health fingerprints. It examines the challenges in achieving this vision and the innovations needed, [...]

Christmas Lunch with Smart group members – dec 2024
We had an unforgettable Christmas lunch with our group members! It was a heartwarming celebration filled with laughter, delicious food, and the joy of togetherness

PhD Defense Thibaud Bedjiah !!
Milestone Achieved! We are thrilled to share that Thibaud Bedjiah has successfully defended his PhD dissertation today! This journey has been a remarkable blend of challenges, learning, and growth, and he is incredibly grateful for the support and encouragement he received along the way. Warm thank you to advisor, and committee members, for their insights [...]

Welcome Laetitia !! New SPG Member
Glad to welcome Laëtitia PIPAUD as Engineer in the Smart Plastics Group with the ambition to analyse the variation of volatiles emitted during fruit juice processing, using a nanoComposite transducer based e-nose ! Committed and curious, Laëtitia graduated in 2022 as a chemical engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Mulhouse (68). She [...]

!! Save the date !! Seminar (9am to 11pm) June 19th 2024 – Grunlan Melissa & Grunlan Jaime from Texas A&M University
Pr. Melissa GRUNLAN and Pr. Jaime GRUNLAN from Texas A&M will give 2 seminars @IRDL Smart Plastics Group room CR204 on the 19th of June 2024 at 9pm. See abstracts on the link Lecture: Amphiphilic Silicones with Modern Utility for Marine and Medical Applications Melissa A. Grunlan, Ph.D. Melissa Grunlan is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas [...]

Welcome Salimata !! New SPG Member
Curious, committed and dynamic by nature, Salimata graduated in 2023 with a Master’s degree in Chemistry, specialising in molecular chemistry and physical chemistry, from the University of Lorraine (54). She then turned to scientific research and is currently working as an IGE in the ‘Smart Plastics’ group at IRDL CNRS 6027 in Lorient. Her research [...]

Welcome Rajesh ! New SPG member
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr Rajesh Kumar BHEEMA as a post-doc researcher in our group to manage and carry out research work in the frame of HIT project related to medical application and AUB Project related to the development of Sensors for industrial drinks application. He successfully completed his Ph.D at Birla Institute [...]

Available online – Review on Sensor Array-Based Analytical Technologies for Quality Control of Food and Beverages

Exciting topics and research by Prof. Andris Šutka !!
So fortunate to host Prof. Andris Šutka at our Research Seminar !! Very interesting theoretical and experimental Research results presented in his lecture !It is great to learn and know more about triboelectric materials for energy harvesting, material parameters to improve performance, the effect of mechanical properties, roughness, thermal history of the polymers used. Find [...]

SPG in Canada / McGill University/ MC2, CQMF, Sherbrooke University
Such a great pleasure to meet Petr Fiurasek at McGill University ! as well as Armand Soldera at Sherbrooke University ! A great occasion to visit MC2 McGill Chemistry Characterization with Petr ! The McGill Chemistry Characterization (MC²) facility comprises six major laboratories: Microscopy and Imaging, Mass Spectrometry, Materials Characterization, McGill Magnetic Resonance Facilities (MMRF / FRMM), Thermal Analysis [...]