Carbon fiber is an integral part of many leading industries (aerospace, automotive, wind power). This structural material is renowned for its mechanical performance and unrivalled lightness. But...
The recent work on supramolecular hydrogels in the IDeAS team has led to the development of a new method for spinning these hydrogels. It makes it possible to form continuous threads of hydrogel...
Thanks to a spectroscopy technique originally developed for materials science, water is becoming an original way of monitoring the biological response of cells to a specific stress, such as exposure...
Several researchers in the P3R team have contributed in a review article entitled "Vitrimer composites: current state and future challenges" and published in 2022 by one of the journals of the Royal...
Nanocomposites have many applications in our daily lives, but their use requires manufacturing processes that are both efficient and safe for the environment and the operator. Anne-Françoise...
3D printing is currently undergoing very strong development for the design of objects with complex openwork shapes. However, this technology has some limitations for biocompatible hydrogels of very...
Microplastics enter plankton aggregates, which are then ingested by fish and move up the food chain. Scientists from several teams (BIBAC, IDeAS and SMODD) at the Softmat laboratory, LAAS and TBI...
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...
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...
How does plastic packaging waste degrade in the ocean?This is the question addressed in recent work on the degradation of polyethylene during prolonged exposure to a marine environment. This...
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the laboratories Softmat, ToNIC and LAAS has developed a hydrogel that can grow, develop and differentiate neural stem cells. This biomaterial could...
How does a drop of oil behave when placed on water? Most often it spreads. But its chemical properties can also cause it to change the surface of the water at a later date, resulting in unexpected...
