Macromolecular Engineering — Green Processes & CO₂

Our research is mainly focused on the preparation of biocompatible and biodegradable polymers presenting complex architectures.

Specific initiators, living/controlled polymerisation procedures, quantitative organic transformations and novel monomers are prepared and used in our group for the construction of complex materials — including cyclic, star-shaped, dendrimer-like-star and hyperbranched architectures.

For the sake of greening chemistry, our approach relies on a biomimetic inspiration from Nature. By corollary, the activation of carbon dioxide to enable its use as a synthon or as a participating polymerisation molecule is a central interest of the group.