Publications de Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

Additive-Enhanced PAX Polyesters for Industrial Processing and Increased Longevity

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Method for preparing an acetal-protected sugar

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

Method for preparing an acetal-protected sugar involving the step of reacting a diol group of a sugar selected from the group consisting of an aldopentose and an aldohexose with one or two compounds of formula (Ia) and/or (Ib) in the presence of a homogeno ...

2025

Performance polyamides built on a sustainable carbohydrate core

François Maréchal, Véronique Michaud, Jeremy Luterbacher, Holger Frauenrath, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

Sustainably producing plastics with performance properties across a variety of materials chemistries is a major challenge-especially considering that most performance materials use aromatic precursors that are still difficult to source sustainably. Here we ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Poly(butylene xylosediglyoxylate) via Compounding Strategies

Véronique Michaud, Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou, Adrien Julien Demongeot

Producing high-performance materials from renewable carbon at high efficiency and ensuring a sustainable end-of-life scenario can notably reduce the CO2 footprint of the plastics industry. A recent example of such a material is poly(butylene xylosediglyoxy ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Sustainable polyesters via direct functionalization of lignocellulosic sugars

François Maréchal, Harm-Anton Klok, Véronique Michaud, Jeremy Luterbacher, Yves Leterrier, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou, Adrien Julien Demongeot, Graham Reid Dick, Christèle Rayroud, Thibault Rambert

The development of sustainable plastics from abundant renewable feedstocks has been limited by the complexity and efficiency of their production, as well as their lack of competitive material properties. Here we demonstrate the direct transformation of the ...

2022