Science at UM [S03-ep28]: A new recyclable material made at UM
This week in Science at UM Sylvain Caillol, researcher at the Charles Gerhardt Institute in Montpellier, talks to us about a new material that could revolutionize the plastics industry. In the second part of the program, we return to Cemipai with Aymeric Neyret, who talks to us about exotic viruses. Finally, Jean-Louis Respaud, a researcher at Licem, presents the Market Law Day symposium. A program co-produced with Divergence FM and broadcast every Wednesday at 6 p.m. on 93.9.
To kick off this week, I'd like to pose a little riddle. What do a skateboard, a wind turbine blade, certain types of industrial flooring, an airplane, and even costume jewelry have in common?
- Common feature number 1: they are made of composite plastic. As their name suggests, composite materials are made up of at least two different types of material. In the case of plastics, this usually, but not exclusively, involves epoxy resin combined with fiberglass.
- Common point number 2: composite plastics perform better than non-composite plastics.
- Common point number 3: Unlike plastics, they are not recyclable.
- Common point number 4: they focus all the attention of our guest of the day, who has taken on an immense challenge. To transform their common point number 3 into common point number 5.
Plastics, and more specifically thermosetting epoxy resins, are now recyclable.
With us in the studio is Sylvain Caillol, a researcher at ICGM, the Charles Gerhardt Montpellier Institute, whose work was published on April 12 in the prestigious journal Science.
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In the second part of the program, we return to Cemipai, the center for infectious disease studies and anti-infective pharmacology, still in the company of Sébastien Lyonnais, accompanied this week by virologist Aymeric Neyret.
Our guest for the last three minutes is Jean-Louis Respaud, lecturer in private law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, director of the Master 2 program in Private Economic Law, and researcher at Licem. He is organizing the Market Law Day symposium on June 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Faculty of Law and Political Science.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Reporting and editing: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Production: Tom Chevalier / Alice Rollet
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