Current members

Current Ph D students

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

Victoria WALTZ , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Costantino Creton and Jutta Rieger. Thesis funded by the ERC CHEMECH

Mechanics of elastomers filled with deformable particles

Yuanyuan WEI , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Tetsuharu Narita and Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by a CSC fellowship.

Dynamics, Fracture and Deformation of ultra-soft gels made from Sacran

Zuxiang XU , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Yvette Tran, Dominique Hourdet and Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by a CSC fellowship.

Adhésion of biological gels underwater

Jianzhu JU , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Tetsuharu narita et Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by the ITN DODYNET

Detection of fracture at the molecular scale of elastomers with double crosslinking dynamics

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

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

Noushin HASANABADI , post-doc since january 2019, Advisor: Costantino Creton, Jutta Rieger and François Stoffelbach. Funded by BASF

Optical techniques to study damage in soft adhesives in shear