Presentation

Laboratory FAST (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques) is a CNRS research laboratory (UMR 7608), associated with University Paris-Saclay.

Research areas

Head: H. Auradou

Focus on a project

Adhesion of soft polymers

S. Berland, P.-P. Cortet

Collaboration: C. Poulard (LPS), P. Roger and H. Salmi (ICCMO)

We investigate experimentally the adhesion of ribbons of viscoelastic polymer, and in particular the fundamental relation between their adhesion level, the rheology of the adhesive and the interfacial properties of the substrate. To reveal the fundamental mechanisms of energy dissipation driving the adhesion, we use micro-textured substrates and control their surface properties by chemical processes.

A. Duigou-Majumdar, P.-P. Cortet, C. Poulard, Soft Matter 18 5857 (2022) [PDF]

Other experiments in this research area

Neil Ribe honoured by EGU

The EGU (European Geosciences Union) has awarded the Augustus Love Medal to our colleague Neil Ribe for his outstanding contributions to Earth sciences.

He will be celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2025, which will be held from 27 April – 2 May in Vienna.