The IC2MP
The Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers (IC2MP) [Poitiers Institute of Environmental and Materials Chemistry] is a multidisciplinary joint research unit (UMR) of the University of Poitiers and the CNRS (INC and INSU) in the fields of chemistry and geosciences of the surface (UMR 7285). Created in 2012, it results from the merger of four Unités Mixtes de Recherche (LACCO, LCME, SRSN and HYDRASA) historically present in Poitiers for more than 40 years. It has about 260 members (about 100 researchers and research teachers and about 50 permanent technical staff, and around 110 non-permanent staff, including 90 PhD students).
Since its creation, the IC2MP has developed a scientific policy around sustainable chemistry by integrating in particular (1) the synthesis of molecules and materials according to energy and atom-saving processes and (2) their interactions with natural environments (reactivity, transfer, bioaccumulation, persistence, etc.) This chemistry-geoscience allows the IC2MP to integrate environmental issues on a wide area of the value chain of a process by integrating in a global way all the steps of a process of transformation of a chemical compound and to be able to propose solutions The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Science and Technology, Science and Technology, Design and Environmental Implications. Research focuses on resources (carbon, water, natural molecules), their transformations and their interactions with natural environments. Particular emphasis is placed on the concept reactivity in terms of processes: catalysis, catalytic materials, innovative synthesis methods, reactive mechanisms, low temperature activation, and in terms of interaction with natural environments or synthesis: dynamics of the transfer of molecules and contaminants, identification of degradation processes, transformation/elimination of micropollutants or by-products.