General information
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
Thèse
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/