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.Bernadette Charleux - Quand la chimie des polymères conduit à l’innovation , CNRS, 2012.
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)
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