Alain Rousseau

ROUSSEAU_AlainResearch engineer
REACTeurs pilotes de polycondensation
Membership: INSA de Lyon
Location: INSA Lyon

Polycondensation / polyesters / polyamides / biobased polymers / recycling

Research themes/centers of interest

Chemist engineer from ENSCM Montpellier, I joined IMP in 2004 to work in the field of polycondensation area (polyesters, polyamides), where I am co-responsible for the polycondensation reactors (7.5L for polyesters and 1L for polyamides) and the solid-state polymerization apparatus (50L and 1L). I also co-supervise research projects related to this field of activity.

Major publications

  • Design of Semicrystalline Elastomeric Glassy Triblock Copolymers from Oligoamide-Based RAFT Agents, Chen, Senbin; Alcouffe, Pierre; Rousseau, Alain ; Gerard, Jean-Francois; Lortie, Frederic; Zhu, Jintao ; Bernard, Julien, Macromolecules (2021), 54(1), 94-104, doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02252
  • Synthesis of potentially biobased poly(hexamethylene sebacate) via reactive extrusion, Turlier, Bastien; Gimenez, Jerome; Goujard, Laurent; Rousseau, Alain; Ylla, Noellie; Bounor-Legare, Veronique; Fenouillot, Francoise Polymer (2021), 226, 123644, doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2021.123644
  • Isosorbide and Tricyclodecanedimethanol for the Synthesis of Amorphous and High Tg Partially Biobased Copolyesters, Legrand, Sylvain; Jacquel, Nicolas; Amedro, Helene; Saint-Loup, Rene; Colella, Marion; Pascault, Jean-Pierre; Fenouillot, Francoise; Rousseau, Alain, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2020), 8(40), 15199-15208, doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c04679
  • Synthesis and properties of poly(1,4-cyclohexanedimethylene-co-isosorbide terephthalate), a biobased copolyester with high performances Legrand, Sylvain; Jacquel, Nicolas; Amedro, Helene; Saint-Loup, Rene; Pascault, Jean-Pierre; Rousseau, Alain; Fenouillot, Francoise European Polymer Journal (2019), 115, 22-29,/doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2019.03.018
  • Synthesis and properties of polyamides from 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid, T. Cousin, J. Dupuy, J. Galy, A. Rousseau, Journal of Applied Polymer Science (2018) 135, 8, 45901, doi.org/10.1002/app.45901