Cosmetic Victories 2021 Winner Profile: Self-Assembled Microgel Films
Six finalists were chosen in February 2021 and winners were announced in March. In this interview, we profile bio-inspired microgels; more particularly, the spontaneous formation of self-assembled microgel films (SAMF), as described here by Laurent Billon, Ph.D. These bio-inspired microgels won the academic prize in the 2021 Cosmetic Victories competition. What is your innovation? How is it used? The Institut des Sciences Analytiques et de Physico-Chimie pour l'Environnement et les Matériaux (IPREM) worked on a generation of bio-inspired microgels, opening the door to applications for co...