Polycat Lab

Our group has a broad interest in polymerization catalysis, with a focus on sustainability.

We aim to make “better polymers” by developing new catalytic systems able, for example, to polymerize underexplored monomers, or to perform precise synthesis of well-defined (co)polymers.

Thus, our core expertise is in catalysis applied to polymer chemistry, including synthesis of ligands and metal complexes (early-TM, main group elements), application to ring-opening polymerization (ROP) and copolymerization (ROCOP), mechanistic studies using DFT as well as basic polymer characterization.

Our projects span all along the life cycle of plastics, from designing new monomers, investigating new catalysts as well as looking at polymers end-of-life.

For more details, don’t hesitate to look at our ongoing projects or to contact us. We are always happy to collaborate.