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 [...]

Pr. Melissa GRUNLAN and Dr. Jaime GRUNLAN from Texas A&M will give 2 seminars @IRDL Smart Plastics Group room CR204 on the 6th of June 2024 at 9pm. See Lectures abstracts below:   Lecture: Title pending Melissa A. Grunlan, Ph.D.  Melissa Grunlan is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University(TAMU) and Holder of the Charles [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Prof. Andris Šutka received his Ph. D. in chemical engineering sciences in 2012 at Riga Technical University (RTU) in Latvia after conducting research on transition metal oxide nanoparticle physical and chemical properties. His main scope of interests during the Ph.D. studies covered defect chemistry of metal oxides, chemical oxide semiconductor gas sensors and photocatalysts. After obtaining his Ph.D., he [...]

  POST-DOC POSITION – full details also available in pdf format Topic: Development of nanocomposite vapour sensors for fruit juice degradation monitoring The “Smart Plastics” research group belongs to the « Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme » (IRDL CNRS 6027), at the « Université de Bretagne Sud » (UBS) is offering a 18 months funded post-doc position in [...]

Journal of Composites Science is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of composites published monthly online by MDPI. Journal of Composites Science sponsors the 2022 International Symposium on Polymer Nanocomposites (ISPN2022) is organized by the French scientific network GDR PolyNano 2 and the IRDL institute (Institut de Recherche Dupuy de [...]