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Our group has been working for several years on fracture, or rather on crack propagation in soft materials. We developed several original methods and tools to characterize the damage taking place at the tip of a crack. In this seminar I will introduce the topic of fracture of soft materials and its important unsolved scientific questions, then present our picture of the structure of a typical crack from a materials point of view and from available characterization techniques such as optical microscopy and SEM, infrared microscopy, Small and Wide angle X-ray scattering and last but not least the incorporation of mechanoluminescent and fluorescent molecules in the materials.

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