Jean-François Gérard
Full 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