Jean-François Gérard

GERARD_Jean-FrançoisFull Professor
CHEM, PHYS, PHYSICO, STERHEO, DEFI
Membership: INSA de Lyon
Location: INSA Lyon

Polymer / Surfaces / interfaces / Blends / Nanomaterials

Research themes/centers of interest

  • Soft matter
  • Polymer networks, hydrogels, supramolecular polymers and interfaces, wettability, colloidal suspensions such as bitumens
  • Nanostructured polymers and nanostructuration processes
  • Nanocomposites, hybrid organic inorganic nanomaterials, (nano)microphase separation phenomena including RIPS – (nano)blends-, polymer confinement, nanostructuration (oxo-clusters, ionic liquids, nanoparticles, etc)
  • Surfaces, interfaces and interphases / Multiphase polymer materials
  • Polymer surfaces, superhydrophobic coatings, adhesion processes in multiphasic materials, i.e. polymer blends, coatings, composites (particle-based, fiber-based)
  • Polymer-based composite materials
  • Interfacial phenomena (fiber sizing, micromechanics), processing – reactive or non-reactive-
  • Polymer processing
  • Electrospinning, rotomolding, 3D printing (FDM, SLA), coatings, recycling