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Project "Neuraxe"

This website presents various works dealing with the self-assembly of small amphiphilic saccharidic molecules. Industrially produced molecules such as sucrose esters self-assemble into nanometric micelles, while sugar amides such as alkylaldonamides can self-assemble into long micrometric and even millimeter-sized fibers. The aim of this website is to show the diversity of self-assembling structures, preparation methods and applications for these molecules. These compounds, based on bricks of natural origin linked together by ester and amide bonds, are designed to be biocompatible and easily degradable.

COLLABORATORS

IMRCP, Toulouse, France (chemistry, gelling molecules and gels properties):

  • Juliette FITREMANN – project coordinator – Research Gate
  • Anaïs CHALARD
  • Delphine BORDIGNON
  • Barbara LONETTI

TONIC, Toulouse, France (biology, neurosciences)

  • Laurence VAYSSE
  • Isabelle LOUBINOUX
  • Carla CIRILLO

LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France (microfluidics, 3D printing)

  • Pierre JOSEPH
  • Laurent MALAQUIN
  • Sandrine SOULEILLE

Innov’Orga (custom synthesis company)

The gelling molecule N-heptyl-D-galactonamide can be purchased from Innov’Orga on request.

Sucrose esters

The sucrose esters pages are presenting two highlights on these industrial emulsifiers for food and cosmetics. One page deals with the Hydrophilic Lipophilic Balance of sucrose esters blends and another one illustrates a green chemistry approach for synthetizing these molecules. This work has been performed in a former joint laboratory between CNRS and Béghin-Say in Villeurbanne (France).

OUR PARTNERS

Involved academic and research institutions

cnrs
UT3
inserm
CHUToulouse
ANR

Involved academic laboratories

IMRCP
TONIC
LAAS

OTHERS PARTNERS

innovorga
TRI
CMEAB
fermat
ICT
EU