Bernadette Charleux

Bernadette Charleux is a French polymer chemist. She is a member of the Academia Europaea[1] and a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France since 2009.[2] Since 2012, she is the Deputy Vice-President of Research and Development at Saint-Gobain.[1]

Bernadette Charleux
Nationality	French
Scientific career
Fields	Polymer Chemistry
Institutions	CNRS Saint-Gobain
Doctoral advisor	Christian Pichot

Scientific work

Bernadette Charleux first worked on emulsion polymerization, which led to the creation of new materials : functional latexes, amphiphilic copolymers, etc… before turning to pioneering research on Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization in aqueous media. More recently, she has worked on the creation of nano-objects via the self-assembly of macromolecules.[3]

This work has led to numerous patents.[4]

Prizes and distinctions

• Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2013)[5]
• CNRS Silver Medal (2012)[6]
• The Prix Grammaticakis-Neuman of the French Academy of Sciences (2011)[7]
• Société chimique de France Prize, Materials, polymers, and elastomers division (2000)[8]
• CNRS Bronze Medal (1997)[1]

Notes and references

1. "Academy of Europe Charleux Bernadette". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
2. "Bernadette Charleux" (in French). Institut universitaire de France. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
3. Charleux, Bernadette; Delaittre, Guillaume; Rieger, Jutta; d'Agosto, Franck (2012). "Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly: From Soluble Macromolecules to Block Copolymer Nano-Objects in One Step". Macromolecules. ACS. 45 (17): 6753–6765. doi:10.1021/ma300713f.
4. Bernadette Charleux - Quand la chimie des polymères conduit à l’innovation Archived 2016-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, CNRS, 2012.
5. "Décret du 29 mars 2013 portant promotion et nomination" (in French). Légifrance. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
6. "CNRS Silver Medals for 2012". CNRS. Archived from the original on 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
7. "Prix Grammaticakis-Neuman/General/Scientific Prizes and Awards". International Center for Scientific Research. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
8. "Les Prix des Divisions" (in French). Société chimique de France. Retrieved 2019-05-03.