Amorphous Materials for Innovative Functional Structures

Amorphous materials are synthetic or natural materials widely used in a large number of applications. For these materials, the industrial and technological development has often preceded scientific concerns in terms of characterization, structure-property relationship and modelling of the behavior and their life cycle. Currently, the science of glasses is a field rich in developments, with numerous technological impacts in industrial sectors such as the transportation, civil engineering, medical, agri-food... This course offers a deepening of the knowledge on the specificities of these materials and on their applications. External speakers will be present and a visit to a plastic bottle recycling centre will be organised.

• The amorphous state: origins of order and disorder...
• Manufacturing processes.
• Networks and crystallization phenomena.
• Characterization methods: thermal analysis, X-ray, infrared...
• Structure and rheological behavior.
• Functional properties: optics, shape memory, damping, thermal insulation, electrical conduction and innovative applications in various industrial sectors.
• Life cycle, characterization and recyclability of a packaging (example of a soda bottle).