"Since its creation in 1985, the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO) has been focusing its academic research in Polymer Science on the mechanisms of polymerization and macromolecular engineering.

While these two domains still represent a huge part of our activity, important projects are now oriented towards the design of functional high value-added polymers and the study of their macroscopic properties for target applications, in particular in the domains of life sciences, energy and technology.

The understanding of these properties requires that a correlation between the various scales of materials -from the molecular level, nano or mesoscopic, up to the macroscopic- be established.

Based on the concepts of soft matter and materials science, this research uses the most modern tools of physico-chemistry available (scattering, rheology, microscopy, etc.).

Polymer science as it is investigated at LCPO is thus at the interface of several sciences: molecular chemistry, physics of soft matter and engineering processes."