Multiple interpenetrated networks are very tough and break in a quite different way than simple #elastomers. Find out on @PNAS our new insights by mapping the development of molecular damage prior to #fracture initiation.

L’équipe su @SIMM_Lab présente quatre oraux au Colloque des Journées de l’Adhésion 2024 à Obernai, ainsi qu’un cours sur la rupture des polymères à la Formation associée. C’est aussi l’occasion des retrouvailles avec ses anciens membres.

Pour la Fête de la Science, Victoria, Wei, Emma et Lea animent l’atelier "matière molle" du @SIMM_Lab: des futurs scientifiques ont pu découvrir le rôle des polymères dans la fabrication des billes d’alginate et comment les super-adsorbants capturent l’eau dans les couches.

Who else than a Frenchie to explain what is behind the vinaigrette ? Learn about emulsion science with Théo Merland in the last E=M6 TV show ! Watch for free during next week: 6play.fr/e-m6-p_854/tomates-…

« I love the French! Did you know that they've invented mayonnaise? » says Jack Sparrow! In the latest @SIMM_Lab TV Show on E=M6, Theo Merland shows how to make a good mayonnaise or what’s the perfect cooking of a hard-boiled egg. Watch on 6play.fr/ Date: 26/11

Yet another EM6 TV show by @SIMM_Lab. Etienne Barthel demonstrated capilarity and talked about how plume and ball pens work. And also how to unclog the pen and how to bet your pants dirty with it! You can access the replay for free for newt few days on: 6play.fr/e-m6-p_854

@SIMM_Lab goes to DEPOS31 in Aglet ! 1 keynote, 7 lectures, 1 poster ! Great time ! Great polymer science ! And some surfing in the ocean !

We finely tuned polymer-nanoparticle adhesion to reinforce model hybrid hydrogels. RMN unveils the adsorption mechanisms of poly(dimethylacrylamide) versus poly(acrylamide) on silica nanoparticles. Our latest paper (@SIMM_Lab @imp5223) on Macromolecules pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…

Can you blow large bubbles with a chewing gum? Looks easy… yet… POP! It breaks too early! It needs some practice! How about using some physics from soft adhesives? Check our latest TV show on E=M6 on the free M6 replay channel (date 03/09/23 at 20h25): 6play.fr/e-m6-p_854/redecouv…

How much load can we hold with an adhesive? And how long can it hold? We provide some useful hints by measuring the evolution of the stress distribution during the viscoelastic creep of the joint. Now online on: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

It's happening now (2 to 5 PM). Come participating to the 3rd day of the online meeting of the MECAMAT Polymer Mechanics Group co-organized by Alba Marcellan @SIMM_Lab

A forest of tiny sticky fibrils when peeling a tape? You saw this somewhere… Any practical consequence? Now there is one! A great thanks to Steven Abbott who has developed an App to play with our model to link peel and tack performances of PSAs lnkd.in/eqwAzQrQ

Can you make art from physical experiments? Come and see yourself tonight at 6:30 PM @ESPCI_Paris the performance "Shapes of Emergence" from Baudouin Sainyves (@UChicago) and Severine Atis (@InstitutPprime, @CNRS, Poitiers). More information on: espgg.org/Quand-la-Physique-…