Research at CRPP has historically been based on the physical chemistry of soft matter. It is available and combined today with materials science and biotechnology.
A multidisciplinary laboratory
Research at the Paul Pascal Research Center is based on a strong, historical base in the physico-chemistry of soft matter, used in materials science and biotechnology. Our research is mainly experimental. Many fundamental questions are asked and explored in CRPP research projects, and this also regularly leads to advances in applications, partnerships with industry and notable developments.
The strength of CRPP lies in a chain of multidisciplinary skills that allows the generation of new materials or systems from the basic building blocks, the molecules, to their assembly, their shaping and the characterization of their properties. For this, the laboratory brings together synthetic chemists, biochemists, physical chemists, in particular specialists in colloidal assemblies, and physicists. Thus, all scales of matter are taken into account in the laboratory projects.
The laboratory also has a strong technical support, thanks to highly qualified technical staff and a large instrumentation park, which the laboratory also opens up to the outside thanks to a characterization platform.
… Open to the outside
The CRPP has always developed partnerships with the outside world, through collaborative projects with the French and international scientific community. He is also very active on the Bordeaux site. The CRPP has been involved since 2010 in labex (Amadeus, Laphia) and idex programs linked to the future investment plan.
Openness is also reflected in numerous partnerships with the socio-economic world and strong support from the Nouvelle Aquitaine Region. The teams have always developed collaborations with manufacturers, in the form of research contracts with large groups or SMEs / SMIs. Several startups from the CRPP have emerged in recent years.
To facilitate industrial partnerships, the laboratory also has a technology transfer cell : TransForm. Its mission is to develop or maintain relations between the CRPP and the industrial community. To do this, it has various tools that allow companies to benefit from the know-how and skills of the laboratory: advices, services and training. It provides companies with privileged access to all of the laboratory’s expertise, including a soft matter characterization platform. Our laboratory therefore fits naturally into its ecosystem and plays an important role there, thanks to its recognized scientific expertise, its collaborations and the investment of all of its staff.
Cécile Zakri, Head of CRPP