Suzanne Lafon received the PhD prize for the Graduate School of Physics – Université Paris-Saclay, for her work on: “Liquid/solid interfacial rheology : from numerical simulations to experiments“, defended on November 10, 2023.
During her PhD, Suzanne Lafon studied the dynamics of liquids near solid surfaces. In her work, molecular dynamics allowed to probe the friction Lennard-Jones fluids on a model wall as the liquid becomes supercooled. Then, the slip and friction of polymer solutions on ideal substrate combining rheology, photobleaching techniques and neutron reflectivity is also studied, with a focus on the dynamics of polymer chains near the wall, as the chains are cooled down near their glass transition temperature.
For this work, she is awarded by the 2024 PhD prize of the Graduate School of Physics of the Université Paris-Saclay. Her PhD was supervised by Alexis Chennevière (LLB/MMB– UMR CEA-CNRS) and Frédéric Restagno (LPS-Orsay).
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