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On the cover of Macromolecules

The article “The Soap Opera of Metal Catalysis in Epoxy-Acid Vitrimers” by D. Ciardi et al. has been selected for the cover illustration of volume 58-7 of Macromolecules.

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ESPCI highlights the article by Paolo Edera et al.
Congratulations to Paolo Edera, Stefano Aime, and Michel Cloître for their article "Mechanical Tuning of Residual Stress, Memory, and Aging in Soft Glassy Materials featured on the ESPCI Paris website -SPL

Pasty materials have the ability to retain the memory of their past mechanical history. This mechanical memory can have consequences on implementation, durability, and the determination of properties. By applying a carefully chosen periodic deformation, it is possible to erase this memory.
Paolo Edera, Stefano Aime, and Michel Cloître, in collaboration with the University of Texas, show how matter can learn and forget.

Link to the news on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/espci/

New "Docteur
Pierre Marquaille, a PhD student at C3M, has just successfully defended his thesis! Pierre worked with Sophie Norvez and Laurent Corté on the formation and study of thermosensitive hydrogels for three-dimensional cell culture.
Congratulations to him!

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Thesis prize and best poster at GFP24

At the 52nd national symposium of the GFP, Diego Ciardi, a doctoral student at C3M, was awarded the thesis prize for his work on the reactive processing of ethylene copolymers. Paolo Edera, a postdoctoral researcher, received the award for best poster. Congratulations to both of them!

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Talent Technique award of the SCF IdF
Thomas Aubineau, Engineer at C3M, received the “Talents Techniques 2024” award from the Ile de France section of the SCF for his overall work. He will present his work at the Talents de la Chimie event on June 14 at Sorbonne University

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Award for best presentation and best poster at the National Colloquium of the GPF
At the 51st National Colloquium of the GPF, Pierre Marquaille won the award for best presentation for his talk entitled “Chitosan grafted with fibronectin as a building unit for bioactive thermosensitive hydrogels” and Clément Desvaux won the award for best poster for his work entitled “Triazine-based degenerate exchange: a novel chemistry for the design of vitrimers.”

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Best Poster Award at the Nanopol Conference
At the Nanopol Conference Nanostructured Polymers: from precision synthesis to physical properties, Louanne Pommier received the Best Poster Award for her presentation entitled: “Sol/gel transition of a thermosensitive macroporous hydrogel.”
The prize, sponsored by the journal Reactions, was presented to her by the conference’s Scientific Committee.

PC Focus 2023
During the Doctoral Chronicles of the day PC Focus,, Arnaud Chaub was ranked first by the jury (and also by the public) for his presentation entitled “Study of gels, baby-style.”

The Jury Prize was presented to him by Costantino Creton, Scientific Director of ESPCI-Paris.

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How airbags work?
Thomas gave us the chemical explanation on E=M6!
The violent decomposition of sodium azide (NaN3) contained in the system when heated causes the rapid formation of a large quantity of nitrogen, an inert gas that inflates the airbag.
Watch it (again) on 6play.fr