UMR IATE

Missions

The Joint Research Unit Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies (UMR IATE) has the overall objective of contributing to the improvement of knowledge about the functions of plant products and their constituents to increase their performance both for human consumption that non-food items.

Research themes

All the research activities of the UMR is grouped under five key complementary.

These areas are multi-disciplinary and multi scales. The first lines relate to processing of Agricultural Resources (physical, biotechnology and physicochemical), the separation of structures with native generation of agro-polymers or functional molecules to their assembly and / or their functionalization with development of complex structures. This will strengthen or better express the functionality of components or control the transfer of materials and bio-materials, matrices and / or couples Product packaging. A final axis, transverse, is dedicated to the development of databases and methodologies for modeling and integration of knowledge and reasoning.