Enhancing Mechanical Properties in Injectable Nanocomposite Hydrogels through Dynamic Covalent Bonding at the Polymer-Nanoparticle Interface   Bruno F. Urbano Departamento de Polímeros, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Concepción, Edmundo Larenas 129, Concepción, Chile. Email:   The incorporation of nanoparticles into hydrogels to form nanocomposite hydrogels (NCgels) has emerged as a promising approach for…

Thursday September 11 at 2:00 pm (Paris time),Room Holwek,building C, 1st floor, 10 rue Vauquelin, ESPCI,at LPEM in hybrid format:  Local probing of transverse thermoelectric effects in meso- and nano scale devices by Pascal Gehring, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Solid-state cooling devices offer compact, quiet, reliable, and environmentally friendly solutions, which currently rely on conventional…

Antoine MONIER (LOF, Bordeaux) for a SIMM seminar next week Thursday September 11 at 2 pm in Amphi Charpak, "Osmotic driven phenomena: towards local tree-on-a-chip observations". Sap circulation in vascular plants are governed by passive mechanisms exploited by the trees. Crude sap, composed of water, is transported in the xylem vessels, from roots to leaves by…

Thursday September 18 at 2:00 pm (Paris time), Room Boreau, building C, 2nd floor, 10 rue Vauquelin, ESPCI, at LPEM in hybrid format:  A minimal description of strange metals by Simone Fratini, Intitut Néel, Grenoble  After reviewing recent exact numerical results on the transport and optical response of the t-J and Hubbard models, I will introduce a phenomenological theory…

Le laboratoire C3M aura le plaisir d'accueillir la Professeure Arthi Jayaraman de l'université du Delaware (États-Unis) les 22, 23 et 24 septembre prochains. Arthi donnera une conférence intitulée "Machine learning based analyses and interpretation of structural characterization data from soft materials" le lundi 22/09 à 14h00 dans l'amphithéâtre Boreau de l’ESPCI Paris - PSL.  Machine learning based analyses and…