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Dynamic polymers are made of molecular networks with transient connections, which makes then visco-elastic, self-healing and potentially recyclable. While omnipresent in biology, their synthetic counterparts have only been recently made in labs (such as vitrimers or covalent adaptable networks for instance). Due to their high energy dissipation, dynamic polymers can...

Cells are known to change their mechanical and physical properties upon maturation and disease. The ability to easily and quickly detect these changes over time is a key to early cancer prognosis or increasing the outcome of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Our team develops computational models of the cell cytoskeleton and...

Bio-printing and tissue engineering is based on the development of high precision polymers that, when seeded with cells, can drive the developement of healthy tissues and organs. These materials should therefore behave as fluids during their injection to a defect, (such as a bone fracture or a cartilage defect) but...