Current members

Current Ph D students

Jingwen ZHAO , PhD student since october 2014, Advising: Tetsuharu Narita, Costantino Creton

Mechanical properties and fracture of dual crosslink gels with physical and chemical crosslinks

Yinjun CHEN , PhD student since october 2015, Advising: Costantino Creton

Incorporation of mechanophores in soft elastic materials for the study of fracture mechanisms

Francisco CEDANO-SERRANO, PhD student since april 2016, Advising: Costantino Creton, Yvette Tran and Dominique Hourdet. Funding by ITN BIOSMART

Adhesion of hydrogels in immersed conditions

Mehdi VAHDATI , PhD student since september 2016, Advisor: Dominique Hourdet, Guylaine Ducouret and Costantino Creton. Funding by ITN BIOSMART

Injectable hydrogles to make viscoelatsic adhesives

Valentine HERVIO , PhD student since october 2016, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by Zodiac Aerosafety Systems

Self-Adhesion and Self- Healing of Polar uncrosslinked elastomers

Ludovic FEIGE , PhD student since october 2016, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by DSM (The Netherlands)

New materials based on multiple network chemistry

Juliette SLOOTMAN , PhD student since october 2016, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH

Mechanochemistry to unveil the fracture mechanisms of soft multiple network elastomers

Louis DEBERTRAND , PhD student since october 2017, Advisor: Tetsuharu Narita et Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH

Fracture of dual network hydrogels : influence of dynamics on bond scission

Giorgia SCETTA , PhD student since october 2017, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by the LRCCP (Ivry sur Seine)

Fatigue crack propagation in thermoplastic polyurethanes

Post-docs

Helen MINSKY , post-doc since april 2017, Advisor: Matteo Ciccotti et Costantino Creton. Funded by 3M (USA)

Shear failure of pressure-sensitive-adhesives

Gabriel SANOJA , post-doc since april 2017, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH

Synthesis and applications of mechanosensitive molecules to investigate bond scission

Artem KOVALENKO , post-doc since october 2017, Advisor: Alba Marcellan et Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH

Fracture mechanisms of model nanocomposites

Josh YEH , post-doc since september 2017, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH

Analysis of crack propagation and molecular damage at crack tips by optical methods

Xavier MORELLE , post-doc since october 2017, Advisor: Matteo Ciccotti et Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH

Optical techniques to study soft materials deformation and damage