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Overview
The activities of the MAT'ECO team aim to contribute to the development of materials and technologies that are more environmentally friendly and that support the ecological and energy transition of the industrial and transportation sectors. In this way, the team contributes to the continent’s carbon neutrality objective by 2050, which seeks to limit global warming and climate disruption.
MAT'ECO’s expertise and activities focus on new sustainable generations of high-performance composite materials, as well as materials and systems for hydrogen storage. Beyond conventional organic-matrix composites reinforced with continuous fibers, the team pays particular attention to reinforcements derived from annual plants and to bio-based polymer matrices. These materials are of interest both because of their high mechanical performance and because of the low environmental impact that can be achieved through their recyclable and/or renewable nature.
In the field of energy applications, particularly hydrogen storage, the team’s work concerns both the study of the thermomechanical behavior of materials used as storage media—such as intermetallic compounds forming reversible hydrides—and structural materials constituting the storage tank envelope. These include more traditional composite materials (glass and carbon fibers, epoxy resin), as well as polymeric and metallic materials and their behavior under complex loading conditions.
One of the team’s distinctive features and strengths lies in the diversity and complementarity of the skills and tools developed across the investigated scales (from the microscale to the structural scale) to achieve these ambitions.
