A recap of The Great Recycling Trial
On 18 June, the first ‘Tribunal for Future Generations’ (TGF), organised and hosted by students, took place at the Théâtre de la Commune in Aubervilliers. All components [...]
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About polymer recycling and the importance of discussing it: a spotlight on Agathe Navailles
Last October, at the Journées d’Études des Polymères (JEPO), Agathe Navailles was awarded the prize for the best oral presentation for her work on the recycling of [...]
Smart Materials for Sustainable Buildings (IEA -EBC)
MOFs at the heart of new prospects for sustainable buildings: an article co-authored by Christian Serre, Scientific Director of DIM MaTerRE, has just been published in the [...]
Breakthrough materials win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday 8 October to Japanese researcher Susumu Kitagawa, American researcher Richard Robson and Jordanian-Saudi-American researcher Omar Yaghi ‘for the [...]
MembranAir: capturing indoor air pollution
Discover the MembranAir project, funded by DIM MaTerRE. In this video (turn on youtube subtitles), Tarik Aaboub, a postdoctoral researcher at IMAP (Institut des Matériaux Poreux de [...]
Understanding the effect of droughts on buildings better
2022 was still marked by an exceptional drought. The total cost of claims on buildings amounts to 2.9 billion euros. In addition, there are significant impacts on [...]
Printing constructions?
Given the environmental emergency, growing needs and the shortage of labor, the construction industry needs to reinvent itself. Digital technology, 3D printing, robotization, new materials and design [...]
Construction 4.0: A technical revolution underway
Confronted with immense technical and environmental challenges, the construction industry, which has long remained on the sidelines of robotization and the digital revolution, has begun its transformation. [...]
What is thixotropy of suspensions?
In this new “One month, one lab” video, Julie Goyon and Anaël Lemaître, researcher at the Navier Laboratory, present their research work on the physics and physical [...]
The deployment of hydrogen in France and in the territories
For 4 years, Elise Muller, PhD student at the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (2019-2022), was interested in the deployment of hydrogen, as a vector of the [...]
What is 3D concrete printing, about ?
In this new “One month, one lab” video, Romain Mesnil, structural engineer at the Navier laboratory, presents a new process that appeared around fifteen years ago: 3D [...]
What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it?
“Buildings are bad news for the climate — but they don’t have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption [...]