Electrospun nanofibers of a copolymer consisting of polyvinylalcohol that has been crosslinked with an inorganic polymer containing phosphorus, oxygen and nitrogen only.

Dr. Pierre Bauduin

Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM) UMR 5257 (CEA/CNRS/UM2/ENSCM)- bat. 426 (Ions at active interfaces lab) BP 17171, 30207 Bagnols s/Céze cedex
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Tel: 33(0)4 66 33 9288

Expertise
Surfactants; colloids; micelles; vesicles; emulsions; lyotropic phases; solution chemistry; small angle X-ray; neutron or light scattering (SAXS, SANS SALS); Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS); ion flotation; foams; electroacoustics; Langmuir-Blodgett deposition; monolayers; zeta potential; ion separation; ion adsorption; solvent extraction.

Equipment
• Multi-angle static and dynamic light scattering goniometer ALV CGS-3 (2011)
• Densimeter and speed of sound measurement Anton Paar DSA5000, automatic viscosimeter
  AMVn Anton Paar, Vapor pressure osmometer (VPO) Knauer, refractometer Atago
• Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) - Electrophoretic mobility NanoZS Malvern (2009)
• Langmuir trough, Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer, Brewster Angle Microscope, Surface
  potential, all from KSV
• Surface tension measurements (at liquid-air and liquid/liquid interfaces): drop shape analysis
  methods (DSA100) and automatic tensiometer (K100) using the DuNouy ring technique all
  from Krüss.
• Electroscoustics (ESA) AcoustosizerIIm from Colloidal Dynamics
• Small and wide angle x-ray scattering bench (home made set-up) with Mo x-ray source
• Centrifuge Heraeus, 10,000 rpm (2010)
• Automatic titration (Metrohm, pH and conductivity cells)
• Ion flotation columns (home designed)
• Freeze-drying machine (2010)
• AFM, micro-Raman, UV-vis, NMR 400MHz (liquid and solid, Brüker), TEM, Environmental
  Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM), polarized optical microscope