The Soft Matter Science & Engineering laboratory is a multidisciplinary laboratory, bringing together chemists, physical chemists and physicists. We address a wide range of soft matter issues with strong industrial and societal interests but that remain challenging at a fundamental level. This includes phase separation, wetting, fracture, adhesion, and colloidal interactions. Soft matter systems are complex to apprehend because their heterogeneous, disordered and dissipative nature result in non-linear responses across several orders of magnitude of time and space. We meet this challenge through the design of dedicated experimental systems where the careful control of the chemistry allows linking microscopic molecular events to physical macroscopic properties.

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Sciences et Ingénierie de la Matière Molle

Soft Matter Sciences and Enginering - UMR 7615

10 rue Vauquelin
75231 PARIS CEDEX 05
FRANCE

  • Chair : J.B. d’Espinose
  • Steering Committee : A. Chateauminois, Y. Tran, B.Bresson
  • Administration : F. Decuq & D. Kouevi Akoe
  • Communication : A. Hakopian & M. Ciccotti
  • Information Technology : A. Hakopian
  • Safety, Health and Environment Assistant : F. Martin & M. Hanafi

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