PHILIPPE VROMAN

Group

• Research skill : Material Characterization, Materials, Mechanical Properties, Mechanical Behavior of Materials
• Assistant professor in Textile Process Engineering – Specialty Nonwovens

Research expertises

• Advanced/smart/bio-inspired nonwoven-based product innovation
  (filtration, personal care, individual protection, thermal & phonic insulation, biocomposites, fashion/clothing, architecture and interior design, medical…)
• Advanced characterization techniques for nonwoven structures via image analysis (fiber diameter distribution, fiber spatial distribution « uniformity, covering ratio, regularity », pore shape and size distribution, fiber-to-fiber contacts estimation, bicomponent fiber splitting/fracturing ratio, fiber length transfer ratio during needlepunching…)
• Design support tools for multifunctional nonwovens products and processes (Design factors relevance, operation setting spaces, global/hierarchical evaluation of prototypes…)
• Study of property/structure/fiber and structure/process/polymer relations

Links

• Publications on ResearchGate
• Thesis

• MSc. and PhD research projects
• Private and collaborative research and innovation programs
• Experimentations via CENT and CETI nonwoven platforms
• Collaborative research projects: AGROBIOTEX, ASIALINK, MEMOTI, NOTIVIR, ARCIR, NWC-X, BIOCOMPALFA, FOMOTEX, FILAIRCO, ECONIMAB
• Private PhD research programs (CIFRE) with companies (nonwoven machine manufacturer, car OEM…)
• Private developments (MSc. projects) with various companies
• Self funded innovation research via internal master and international semester projects
• Collaborations with public research laboratories/organisation: LRGP CNRS Nancy (Air filtration and gas adsorption), Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan (Meltblown), CEA/LETI Grenoble (Health and biology department), INSERM Strasbourg (Biocompatibility of biomaterials), Deakin University Australia (Biocomposites), etc.

• Process engineering: nonwovens (basics, advanced, product design)
• Industrial engineering: product innovation and design methodology, biomimicry

• Fashion green days

• Member of the Board of the French Filtration Association (SF2P)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Fluid-Particle Separation International Congress, Lyon
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Technical Textiles Conference, Izmir, Turkey