Surfaces and Polymers – S&P
Welcome to the web page of the Surfaces & Polymers research group at CEMEF, Mines Paris - PSL.
Our research is devoted to experiments and modeling of surfaces and polymers, from formulation to tribology, physics, chemical physics, and mechanics.
Our objectives are:
- to understand, characterize and model the mechanical behavior of polymers and composites from solid to rubbery states
- to advance the fundamental knowledge on the structure and properties of polymers to develop innovative functional materials for health and environment
- to develop microscopic approaches of surface or interface interactions with its environment to control system durability: optimization of materials’ surface, surface treatment, coating, and lubrication.
On going PhD projects
- Judith Bellon: Improvement of low impact PV modules through a hybrid experimental/numerical strategy (with CSM)
- Geoffroy Bouillet: Thermal and tribological modelling of cold rolling processes of aluminium alloys
- Hiba Bouras: Bio-based porous materials for bones regeneration
- Walid Djedaa: Characterization and modeling of the Bauschinger effect relaxation, recovery, and mechanical behavior of a Martensitic steel (with CSM/MSR)
- Eleni Effraimopoulou: Thermal super-insulating bio-aerogels for energy saving (with PERSEE)
- Cynthia El Hajj : Thermal and tribological modeling of cold rolling processes for stainless steel alloys
- Mekki Gaddacha-Guizani: Propagation of cracks in 3D at a CMO/CMO interface at the mesoscopic scale
- Loris Gelas: From solution to aerogel: understanding of cellulose transformations to control material properties
- Tianqi Huang: Characterization and modeling of the mechanical behavior of PE-vitrimers for application in pressurized piping
- Veronika Khodyrieva: Understanding and preventing toxic Non-Intentionally Added Substances (NIAS) formation in commonly used plastic parts
- Antoine Leccia: Modeling of co-rolling of uranium-bearing plates for research reactors in materials science and nuclear medicine (with CSM)
- Anes Marir: Thermal and tribological modeling of the pilgering process for tube forming (with CSM)
- Adam Nassif: Investigation of lubrication solutions for e-mobility, including cold spray coatings and metal-oxide nanoparticles
- Zhengyuan Peng: On the effect of stray electric current interaction with e-vehicle lubricant formulations
- Lais Taguchi Possari: Upcycling orange agro-industrial side-streams into porous materials as carriers for phase change materials
- Carla Vincent: Composite hydrogels for dual drug delivery
- Zhongfeng Xu:Multi-scale study of the selective laser sintering (SLS) process of polymers: from characterization to numerical modelling
- Sujie Yu: 3D printing of gels and aerogels for biomedical applications