Catherine Boussard-Plédel

1997 : PhD in Chemistry, University of Rennes 1 : Les verres du sytème B-O-F – Etude structurale – Verres moussants

• Elaboration of new glassy materials for infrared transmission 
• Development of new synthesis methods and purification techniques (coll. University of Arizona and Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances of the Russian Academy of Sciences of Nizhny Novgorod)
• Thermal analysis (DSC,TMA, viscosity), IR spectroscopy, refractive index, electrical properties
• Waveguide elaboration (multimode and single mode optical fibers)
• Development of fiberoptics sensors for IR analysis
• Development of applications in the biomedical, spatial and environment fields (collaborations and contracts with INSERM, CHU Rennes, ADEME, IFREMER, BRGM, IFP, ESA, TNO, Politecnico di Torino)
• Development of new materials for thermoeletricity

• Glasses
• Infrared
• Chalcogenide
• Fibers
• Sensors

• Fluorescence mechanism in Tm3+-singly-doped and Tm3+-Ho3+- doubly-doped Indium based fluoride glasses.
  A. Brenier, C. Pedrini, B. Moine, J. L. Adam, C. Plédel
  Physical Review B 1990, 41, 5364-5371

• The structure of a boron oxyfluoride glass, an inorganic cross-linked chain polymer
  C. Boussard-Plédel, M. Le Floch, G. Fonteneau, J. Lucas, S. Sinbandhit, J. Shao, C.A. Angell, J. Emery and J.Y. Buzaré
  J. Non-Cryst. Solids 1997, 209, 247

• Chalcogen based glasses for IR fiber chemical sensors.
  S. Hocdé, C. Boussard-Plédel, G. Fonteneau, J. Lucas
  Solid State Sciences 2001, 3(3), 279

• Development of far-infrared-transmitting Te based glasses suitable for carbon dioxide detection and space optics.
  A. Wilhelm, C. Boussard-Plédel, Q. Coulombier, J. Lucas, B. Bureau, P. Lucas
  Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 3796-3800

• Chalcogenide glasses, preparation, properties and applications.
  Ed, J.L Adam, X.H. Zhang,
  Woodhead Publishing Limited, Chapter 12 2014, 381-410