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Organisation

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-25-0735  

Direction

DRF

Thesis topic details

Category

Condensed Matter Physics, chemistry, nanosciences

Thesis topics

Alternatives to perfluorinated compounds for water-repellent and oil-repellent treatments of textiles used for NRBC personal body protection

Contract

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Job description

Finding alternatives to fluorinated compounds (PFAS) involves very diverse application areas. Among them, the treatment of technical textiles to make them water- and oil-repellent is a major challenge for manufacturing protective clothing against both aqueous and oily contaminants. Our laboratory is developing such alternatives by covalently grafting molecules onto fibers selected from those already used for technical textiles. The thesis will focus on experimental work with two components. The first component will consist of improving and qualifying, at a semi-industrial level, the water- and oil-repellent properties already obtained and qualified according to current standards (water and oil droplet sliding, slow impregnation of oil droplets) using our nanometric chemical coatings. The second component will be dedicated to optimizing the weave structure, in conjunction with the chemical treatment, to determine the optimal weave based on the desired properties. The work will be carried out in close contact with a technical textile manufacturer and with ENSAIT in Roubaix.

University / doctoral school

Sciences pour l’Ingénieur (SPI)
Lille I

Thesis topic location

Site

Saclay

Requester

Position start date

01/11/2025

Person to be contacted by the applicant

FAJOLLES Christophe christophe.fajolles@cea.fr
CEA
DSM/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
CEA/Saclay
IRAMIS/UMR3299 NIMBE/LIONS
Bât.125 Pce 9
91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex
01 69 08 99 60

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

BOUSSU François fboussu@gmail.com
ENSAIT

ENSAIT - Université de Lille
2 Allée Louise et Victor Champier
59100 Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France
33 626883959

En savoir plus

https://iramis-devwp.extra.cea.fr/nimbe/lions/pisp/christophe-fajolles/
https://iramis.cea.fr/nimbe/lions/