Laboratory news
Camille Courtine, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on a photosensitive hydrogel
Camille carried out her research in the IDeAS team at the Softmat laboratory. On 10th February, she defended her thesis entitled: "Macro and supramolecular hydrogels responsive to visible light" In...
Qilin Zou, PhD student at Softmat, has defended his thesis on the development of core-shell nanoparticles as contrast agents for bioimaging
Qilin carried out his research between the IDeAS team at the Softmat laboratory and CEMES. On 28th January, he defended his thesis entitled: “Lanthanide-doped inorganic luminescent nanoparticles:...
Sara Gouardères, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on electroporation
Sara carried out her research in the IDeAS team at the Softmat laboratory. On 17th December, she defended her thesis entitled: "Cellular and tissue responses of human skin to the application of an...
Clémence Nadal, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on a biomaterial by colloidal self-assembly
Clémence carried out her research in the P3R team at the IMRCP laboratory, in collaboration with the laboratory CIRIMAT. On 16th of December, she defended her thesis entitled: "Elaboration of a...
Nadiia Yakovenko, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on micro- and nanoplastic pollution in the environment
Nadiia carried out her research in the BIBAC and SMODD teams at the IMRCP laboratory. On 9th December, she defended her thesis entitled: "Study of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in the...
Fang Yin, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on multi-responsive copolymers
Fang carried out her research in the IDeAS team at the Softmat laboratory. On 2nd December, she defended her thesis entitled: "Multi-responsive copolymers: effect of composition and/or structure on...
PlastiGar: microplastic pollution and contamination of organisms in the Garonne River
Researchers from the SMODD team at the Softmat laboratory, in collaboration with their partners at the EDB laboratory, have quantified microplastic pollution in the waters and sediments of the...
Aline Reis de Carvalho, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on microplastic pollution in the Garonne river
Aline carried out her research in the SMODD team at the Softmat laboratory, in collaboration with the laboratory EDB. On 27th October, she defended her thesis entitled: "patio-temporal monitoring of...
New and promising opportunities for treating skin fibrosis
Collagen, the main component of the skin’s extracellular matrix, can cause a pathological condition if it is in excess. Applying an electric field to the skin affects collagen pathways, temporarily...
Laure Gibot, researcher at Softmat, won the ICT Young Investigator Award 2021
For this year 2021, the laboratory council of the Institut de Chimie de Toulouse has awarded its annual prize to Laure Gibot, a researcher in the IDeAS team since 2018, particularly appreciating her...
Aurélie Monié, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on « clean label » ways to make food products
Aurélie carried out her research in the SMODD team at the Softmat laboratory. On March 25th, she defended her thesis entitled: "Enzymatic lipolysis of triglycerides to make food products in the...
Ranime Jebbawi, PhD student at Softmat, has defended her thesis on the therapeutic potential of a dendrimer for the treatment of psoriasis
Ranime carried out her research in the SMODD team at the Softmat laboratory. On February 12th, she defended her thesis entitled: "Assessment and optimization of the therapeutic potential of an...