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The activities of the Mat'éco team aim to contribute to the development of materials and technologies that are more respectful of the environment and favour the ecological and energy transition towards a sustainable development of the industrial and transport sectors. The aim is to contribute to the objective of carbon neutrality of the continent by 2050 in order to limit global warming and climate change.
Mat'éco's expertise and activities focus on new generations of sustainable high-performance composite materials and on materials and systems for hydrogen storage. In addition to the usual organic matrix and continuous reinforcement composites, the team is focusing on reinforcements from annual plants and biosourced polymer matrices. The interest in these materials lies both in the high mechanical performances they present and in the low environmental impact that can be obtained thanks to their recyclable and/or renewable character.
In the field of energy applications, in particular hydrogen storage, the team's work concerns the study of the thermomechanical behavior of materials used as storage media, such as intermetallics forming reversible hydrides, or structural materials, constituting the envelope of the storage tank, including more traditional composite materials (glass and carbon fibers, epoxy resin), but also polymeric and metallic materials and their behavior under complex stresses 
One of the originalities and strengths of the team lies in the diversity and complementarity of the skills and tools developed at the scales investigated (from micro to structural) to achieve these ambitions.