Design of high-added value, innovative,
functional and biosourced materials
Target markets
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Green Printed Electronics
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Nano-electronics
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Health
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Transport
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Biosensors
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Packaging
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Plastics
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Food processing
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Building…
A different thinking in Green
Carbon chemistry…
The PolyNat Institute aims to develop
biosourced materials, from laboratory to
industrial production, based on leading-
edge research as well as scientific
expertise in the key fields of:
production and conversion processing
functionalized biosourced materials:
design of industrial eco-processes,
glyco-nano-objects and self-assembly
nano-organized thin glycofilms for
electronic applications,
natural polymers and colloids science,
micro-nano-rheology, multi-scale
approaches of heterogeneous mediums,
transformation of biomass for
technological purposes: physics of fibrous
structures, complex biomimetic
organization of the plant wall.
Towards an innovative green
engineering…
Five research centers from Grenoble
have joined in an industrial research
partnership, strongly related to
key world economic sectors in
order to further develop:
the understanding of the
organization of natural fibers:
cellulose nanocrystals, nanofibers
and microfibers (CNC, CNF, CMF),
glycopolymers engineering
(“ surfactants “ based on oligo
and polysaccharides) at nano and
micro scales : new architectures/
applications to functional materials,
design processes of high-added
value functional materials,
the understanding of structure-
property relationships at different scales:
thermo-hygro-mechanical behavior.
www.polynat.eu
The PolyNat Carnot Institute is devoted to the design,
production and application of high-added value, functional
materials, either « hybrid » (partly derived from fossils and
natural ressources), or totally « biosourced », by taking
advantage of the self-assembly of elementary bricks
(oligo and polysaccharides, glycopolymers, nanocrystals
and cellulose fiber), at micro and nano scales.