Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites

Dr. Marc Poncot has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials at ENSMN, Universite de Lorraine since 2010. His research activities are primarily focused on the physics, mechanics, and plasticity of materials. He has authored or co-authored 37 publications in international refereed journals and has 2 patents to his credit. He has supported 7 PhD Thesis (+4 in progress) and has participated as jury in 3 PhD Thesis and 1 HDR. He has delivered 15 keynote lectures as an invited speaker at international conferences. He is manager of the CNRS National Researchers Group PolyNano2 (consisting of around 56 French research teams).

He is an elected member of the board of the M4 division, a member of the evaluation committee of calls for Projects Grande Region Young Researchers, and Project Leader of the Task "Steel/Polymer Composites? of the Work Package "Innovative Materials? of the Labex DAMAS 2 (2021-2028). Dr. David Chapron has been an Associate Professor at LMOPS, Universite de Lorraine since 2010. His current research interests include in-situ Raman spectroscopy, optical sensors, semi-crystalline polymers, and ferroelectric crystals. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 publications in international refereed journals and 2 book chapters and has supervised 7 PhD students. He is the team lead for "Spectroscopy of Complex Materials" at LMOPS and is scientific coordinator of the Spectroscopy platform of LMOPS, ERASMUS+ coordinator with UCLM University (Spain). He is an elected member of the board for the M4 division, organizer of 2 national scientific conferences, and an active reviewer for several international journals including the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Optical Materials, and the European Physical Journal. Prof. Isabelle Royaud has been a university lecturer in polymer physics and polymer science since 1990. In 2011, she joined the University of Lorraine, France after beginning her career at the University of Lyon. Since 2011 she has been a Professor at the EEIGM : European School of Material Science and Engineering, Nancy, France and has been a Researcher at the Institut Jean Lamour UMR CNRS 7198 Nancy, France. Her research interest includes polymer physic properties for synthetic polymers and biopolymers, relations between architecture/morphology and mechanical, electrical, vibrational properties of polymer and multimaterials, influence of ageing and morphology on molecular mobility and relaxational phenomena in polymer materials, molecular mobility at the interfaces of nanostructured systems, and in situ monitoring of plastic deformation in polymers at different scales using vibrational techniques, videometric tensile test, synchrotron radiation and broadband dielectric analysis. Dr. Sabu Thomas (Ph.D.) is the Director of the School of Energy Materials, School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He received his Ph. D. in 1987 in Polymer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, and a member of the American Chemical Society. He has been ranked no.1 in India about the number of publications (most productive scientists). Prof. Thomas's research group specialized areas of polymers which includes Polymer blends, Fiber filled polymer composites, Particulate-filled polymer composites and their morphological characterization, Ageing and degradation, Pervaporation phenomena, sorption and diffusion, Interpenetrating polymer systems, Recyclability and reuse of waste plastics and rubbers, Elastomer cross-linking, Dual porous nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering, etc. Prof. Thomas's research group has extensive exchange programs with different industries, research, and academic institutions all over the world and is performing world-class collaborative research in various fields. Professors Centre is equipped with various sophisticated instruments and has established state-of-the-art experimental facilities which cater to the needs of researchers within the country and abroad. His H Index- 133, Google Citations- 86424, Number of Publications- 1300, and Books-160.