The third edition of IMP Days will be dedicated to Soft Polymer Networks and Gels, a major topic in Soft Matter involving chemistry, physico-chemistry and physics. These materials include various families of elastomers, hydro-, organo-, eutecto- and ionogels. They are synthetized and processed through a large variety of chemical and physico-chemical strategies. Such multiscale materials exhibit intrinsically complex (time dependent and/or stimuli-responsive) behavior, that requires specific characterization methods. Sustainability and end of life are current key concerns in the field.
Soft Polymer Networks as well as Chemical and Physical Gels cover a wealth of applications answering many of today’s challenges in transportation, energy, agriculture, food-, cosmetic-, pharmaceutic- industries, advanced bio-medical devices and others. Discipline scientifique :