General information
Reference : UMR5253-GHIDAV-006
Nombre de Postes : 1
Workplace : MONTPELLIER
Date of publication : Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Type of Contract : FTC Scientist
Contract Period : 12 months
Expected date of employment : 1 March 2023
Proportion of work : Full time
Remuneration : Between 2833€ and 3257€ euros gross per month
Desired level of education : PhD
Experience required : Indifferent
Missions
A first collaboration with the Charles Gerhardt Institute allowed Biomanity to develop its generic SAP, with an absorption capacity of about 60 g of water per g of SAP. The synthesis strategy set up allowed the generation of a generic SAP and could be reproduced in the scale-up phase up to about 1kg. The objective of this new mission is to optimize this generic SAP
Activities
- Increase of molecular weight polymers
- Copolymerizations
- Optimization of different post-crosslinking routes
-Set up a larger scale synthesis pathway for industrialization.
Skills
The candidate should have a PhD in polymer chemistry with a good knowledge of biobased polymers.
Work Context
This work will be performed in collaboration with Biomanity company. Biomanity is a social economy company that develops disruptive innovations contributing to the objectives of the ecological transition. Biomanity has developed a super-absorbent polymer from renewable resources, to effectively replace petrochemicals used in agriculture and the environment. The objective is to create a universal agricultural tool, easy to use, allowing to cultivate under water stress while controlling water and fertilizers, 2 resources in the process of becoming scarce and sources of pollution for fertilizers.At the end of the post-doctorate, Biomanity wishes to hire the candidate in order to constitute the team of its future internalized research laboratory on polymers and biobased materials.
Constraints and risks
This work will be done in restricted area depending on the "Protection of technical and scientific potentiel". Thus, according to regulation, candidate venue must be authorized by MESR authority
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