Equipments

The SIMM Mechanical Platform is open for any mechanical characterization from liquid to solid materials.

This platform is equipped with rheometers, dynamic mechanical analyzers, tensile devices and several prototypes unique to the laboratory. Shared with the Institut des Matériaux de Paris Centre, it is accessible to the academic and industrial scientific research community in the framework of collaborative projects or expertises.

The diversity of our equipment enables us to characterize a very wide variety of materials in soft matter, ranging from viscoelastic fluids to very stiff polymer glasses and including polymer gels, yield stress fluids, colloidal supsensions and pastes, soft adhesives, elastomers etc..

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Last publications

Thermally Triggered Injectable Underwater Adhesives
VAHDATI M., DUCOURET G., CRETON C., HOURDET D.
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Wiley-VCH Verlag, pp.1900653 (2020)

Bio-based glyco-bolaamphiphile forms a temperature-responsive hydrogel with tunable elastic properties
BACCILE N., VAN RENTERGHEM L., LE GRIEL P., DUCOURET G., BRENNICH M., CRISTIGLIO V., ROELANTS S. L. K. W., SOETAERT W.
Soft Matter, Royal Society of Chemistry, 14 (38), 7859 – 7872 (2018)

Effect of the Strength of Stickers on Rheology and Adhesion of Supramolecular Center-Functionalized Polyisobutenes [Periodical]
CALLIES X., RESSOUCHE E., FONTENEAU C., DUCOURET G., PENSEC S., BOUTEILLER L., CRETON C.
Langmuir, 34, 42, 12625-12634 (2018)

Re-Interpretation of Old Master practices through optical and rheological investigation: the presence of calcite
DE VIGUERIE L., GLANVILLE H., DUCOURET G., JACQUEMOT P., DANG P., WALTER Ph.
Comptes Rendus Physique, Elsevier Masson (2018)

Cold and Hot Gelling of Alginate-graft-PNIPAM : A Schizophrenic Behavior Induced by Potassium Salts
GUO H., de MAGALHAES GONCALVES M., DUCOURET G., and HOURDET D.
Biomacromolecules 19, 576-587 (2018)

Shear thinning in non-Brownian suspensions
CHATTE G., COMTET J., NIGUES A., BOCQUET L., SIRIA A., DUCOURET G., LEQUEUX F., LENOIR N., OVARLEZ G. COLIN A.
Soft Matter, 14, 6,879-893 (2018)

Tuning the rheological properties of an ammonium methacrylate copolymer for the design of adhesives suitable for transdermal patches
QUARONI G., GENNARI C., CILURZO F., DUCOURET G., CRETON C., MINGHETTI P.
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 111, Pages 238-246 (2018)