Bernadette Charleux
French chemist
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| Intro | French chemist | ||||||
| Places | France | ||||||
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| Birth | 1964 | ||||||
| Age | 61 years | ||||||
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Biography
Bernadette Charleux is a French polymer chemist. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France since 2009. Since 2012, she is the Deputy Vice-President of Research and Development at Saint-Gobain.
Scientific work
Bernadette Charleux first worked on emulsion polymerization, which led to the creation of new materials : functional latexes, amphiphilic copolymers, etc… before turning to pioneering research on Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization in aqueous media. More recently, she has worked on the creation of nano-objects via the self-assembly of macromolecules.
This work has led to numerous patents.
Prizes and distinctions
- Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2013)
- CNRS Silver Medal (2012)
- The Prix Grammaticakis-Neuman of the French Academy of Sciences (2011)
- Société chimique de France Prize, Materials, polymers, and elastomers division (2000)
- CNRS Bronze Medal (1997)