Fernande Da Cruz-Boisson

Research engineer
Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire
Membership : CNRS
Location : INSA Lyon

NMR / Polymers / chemistry / microstructure / dynamics

Research themes/centers of interest

Characterization of polymers by solution and solid-state high resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Training and supervision of Ph-D students on the NMR aspects of their research related to polymer science. List of non-exhaustive topics currently investigated:

• Analysis of stereo and regio-selectivity in homopolymers.
• Analysis of sequence distribution of monomer units in copolymers, determination of reactivity ratios and contribution to the elucidation of polymerization mechanisms.
• Analysis of branching, structure defects and chemical modification of polymers.
• Microstructure and functionality investigations of industrial polymers involved in the implementation of materials with controlled architecture.
• Investigation of catalytic mechanisms involved in bulk, solution or reactive extrusion polymerization reactions.
• Studies of the dynamics of polymer chains in materials or in solution.
• Self-diffusion measurements on polymers, copolymers, grafted polymers or formulations.

Major publications

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116428
• https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c02801
• https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b02620
• https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.9b00312
• https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA12719C

Brief CV

Dr. F. Da Cruz-Boisson was graduated in 1997 from the University Paris XI, Orsay, France. From 1998 to 2001, she worked as a research engineer first at C2P2/UMR 5265 Laboratory in Villeurbanne, France and then at Rhodia Silicones Research Center in Saint Fons, France in the fields of catalytic hydrogenolysis of polyolefins, miniemulsion radical polymerisation and chemical modification of polysiloxanes. She joined the CNRS in 2002 as a research engineer to work on the characterization of polymers by liquid Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. She is now at the Polymer Material Engineering Laboratory/UMR5223 in Villeurbanne, France as a fellow of the NMR polymer platform of the Chemistry Institute of Lyon. Her activities are mainly dedicated to the training and supervision of Ph-D students on the NMR aspects of their research related to polymer science.