Resin

Resin Resins are formulated systems with highly dynamic, often multi-phase, reactive, and unstable behaviors. Whether thermosetting, thermoplastic, UV-reactive, or hybrid, their transformation involves coupled physical and chemical phenomena that determine both their processability and their final functional performance. At RHEONIS, we work on the analysis, characterization, and...

Powder

Powder: Measurement, formulation, innovation, industrialization Powders, aggregates, and powdery or compacted materials exhibit behaviors that are highly sensitive to their physicochemical, mechanical, environmental, and dynamic properties. In industrial processes, they are at the heart of critical issues: flow, dosing, mixing, compaction, transport, agglomeration, drying, adhesion, etc. At RHEONIS, we implement advanced expertise...

Pasty

Pasty Pasty materials play an essential role in many industrial sectors. Neither liquid nor solid, they are characterized by an intermediate consistency and unique mechanical behaviors: plastic deformation, high viscosity, slow flow, and adhesion to surfaces. Their control is crucial to guarantee the quality, shaping, and performance of...

Solid semi-solid foam

Semi-solid & Solid Foam Semi-solid and solid foams are complex materials characterized by a multi-phase structure where a gas phase is trapped in a continuous liquid, gel, or solid matrix. They combine lightness, texture, and functional properties sought after in many industrial fields. At Rheonis, we support your foam projects –...

Liquid foam

Liquid Foam: Measurement, Formulation, R&D, Innovation, Industrialization Liquid foams are complex systems formed of gas bubbles dispersed in a liquid. Widely used in many industrial sectors – food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials – they play an essential role due to their texture, stability, visual appearance, and functional performance. Fragile...

Microcapsule – Microsphere | Measurement – ​​Formulation – Innovation – Industrialization

Microcapsules and Microspheres: Understanding, Measuring, and Controlling Microcapsules and microspheres are of diverse interest to industries, with encapsulation often being used to solubilize, protect, and transport active ingredients or molecules of particular interest. At Rheonis, we support manufacturers in the characterization, optimization, and control of microcapsules and microspheres, combining multi-physical expertise and methods...

Complex liquid

Complex Liquids: Understanding, Measuring, and Controlling Complex liquids—suspensions, emulsions, gels, and colloidal solutions—display often nonlinear and multi-physical behaviors. Their handling and performance depend on parameters such as viscosity, stability, structuring, and phase interactions. At Rheonis, we support manufacturers in characterizing, optimizing, and...

Plastic film

Plastic films: measure, innovate, industrialize Plastic films play a crucial role in many industrial sectors: packaging, agriculture, construction, electronics, medical... Their quality, functionality and durability are based on rigorous control of mechanical, thermal and surface properties, often subject to complex usage constraints (stretching, folding, environmental conditions, chemical interactions). Rheonis...

Emulsion | Measurement – ​​Formulation – Innovation – Industrialization

Emulsions: Measuring, Understanding, and Optimizing Emulsions are complex liquid systems composed of two immiscible phases (oil/water, water/oil) stabilized by emulsifying agents. They are widely used in the following sectors: Cosmetics: creams, lotions, serums, liquid makeup. Pharmaceuticals: oral suspensions, topical creams, injectable emulsions. Food: sauces, margarines, fortified drinks, etc.

Compact – Tablet | Measurement – ​​Formulation – Innovation – Industrialization

Compacts and Tablets: Measure, Understand, and Optimize Compacts and tablets are essential solid forms in many industrial sectors. Their performance depends on the quality of the powders, the compaction processes, and the mechanical stability of the finished products. Whether in pharmaceuticals (medicinal tablets), cosmetics (compacted powders), or the food industry,...

suspension concentrate

Concentrated suspensions Concentrated suspensions (or slurries) are common states of extracted natural materials (drilling muds, treatment muds, etc.), sometimes also of certain industrial preparations (food industry, etc.). The sensitivity of concentrated suspensions The behavior of concentrated suspensions sometimes poses critical difficulties in the process, due to their tendency to settling/sedimentation, their complex rheology, etc.

Fiber

Fibers: understanding, measuring and controlling complex materials Fibers, whether plant-based (flax, hemp, cotton, jute, etc.), animal-based (wool, silk), mineral-based (glass, carbon) or synthetic (polyester, polyamide), play a key role in the structure and performance of materials and formulations. They provide mechanical strength, elasticity, absorption, texturizing and even specific functionalities to the final products....

Compact – Tablet | Measurement – ​​R&D – Formulation – Industrialization

Compacts and Tablets: Measure, Understand, and Optimize Compacts and tablets are essential solid forms in many industrial sectors. Their performance depends on the quality of the powders, the compaction processes, and the mechanical stability of the finished products. Whether in pharmaceuticals (medicinal tablets), cosmetics (compacted powders), or the food industry,...

microcapsule

Microcapsule / Microsphere Microcapsules and microspheres present various interests for industries, encapsulation often being intended to solubilize, protect, transport assets or molecules of particular interest. Often made up of hydrocolloids (alginate, xanthan, etc.), microcapsules, their formulation, their manufacture and their application raise different questions of physical behavior. The sensitivity of microcapsules and microspheres Different processes...

Complex fluid

Complex fluid Complex fluid is often called liquids containing macromolecules or colloidal or more complex structures (low-concentrate polymer solutions, biological liquids, micellar water, micro-algae solutions, etc.). Unlike conventional liquids, these fluids, due to the presence of macromolecules, organelles or others, generally exhibit singular behaviors influencing...

Resin

Resin Resins are one of the most common industrial substances, used as the main constituent of parts shaped by various thermomechanical processes (extrusion, molding, injection, etc.), as an interface or filler product or as a matrix for composites. . Whether thermoplastic or thermosetting, synthetic or biosourced, recyclable or not, the formulation, industrialization and application of...

Semi-solid and solid foam

Semi-solid & solid foam Semi-solid (or semi-rigid) and solid foams are a commonly sought-after state in many industrial sectors, from the food industry to construction and the automotive industry. Food-grade foams are good examples of semi-solid foams; bread, sponges or synthetic foams (polyurethane, polypropylene,...) good examples of solid foams....

Wax-based products

Wax-based products: understanding, mastering, innovating Waxes are materials with complex behaviors, at the crossroads of solids and fluids, widely used in the cosmetics, pharmaceutical, food, packaging, and materials chemistry sectors. Mastering them is a challenge: sensitive thermal properties, multiple phase transitions, interactions with other ingredients, processability, etc.

Powder

Powders Ingredients for manufacturers of consumer products (cosmetics, agri-food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), finished products for the extractive and primary processing industries, powders constitute one of the main physical states of industrial materials. Although widely used in all sectors, the behavior of powders still poses many operational difficulties, from R&D to application,...

Gel & Gelling agent

Gels & Gelling agents Gelled products are common in many industries (agri-food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, but also in specialty industrial sectors such as lubricants and greases). Gelling agents, such as xanthan, alginate, guar, pectin, carob, are sometimes also used as simple thickeners or viscosifiers. Control the sensitivity of gels La...

Pasty

Pasty The term "pasty" evasively qualifies the state of materials and products with more or less "soft" textures and behaviors that are generally difficult to flow. In terms of physical behavior, "pastes" generally have non-Newtonian properties (see our Viscosity, Rheology and Confusion article), semi-solid type mechanical strength and properties...

Liquid foam

Liquid foams Liquid foam is a state of industrial materials in cosmetics or hygiene products, but also sometimes a more or less undesirable state appearing in mixing tanks, dosing machines or other injectors. Today, the basic trend of solid cosmetics is fueling a need to better control the formation of liquid foams....

SKIN

Skin Many dermo-cosmetic or pharmaceutical products are applied on or in the skin, with various aims. Whether for the formulation of products, the design of application devices or the understanding of interactions, physical properties at the macroscopic scale (mechanical, rheological, tribological, etc.) play a role that is sometimes crucial and often underestimated. valued. Master the...

Film

Flexible films The manufacture and application of films, particularly plastic ones, is an important industrial technical challenge, motivated in particular by the search for options that are more respectful of the environment. The sensitivity of the films to the conditions of implementation In addition to the questions of formulation, the various processes of forming or application of the films (extrusion-blow molding, coating, co-rolling, welding, etc.) raise...

Emulsion | Measurement – ​​R&D – Formulation – Industrialization

Emulsions: Measuring, Understanding, and Optimizing Emulsions are complex liquid systems composed of two immiscible phases (oil/water, water/oil) stabilized by emulsifying agents. They are widely used in the following sectors: Cosmetics: creams, lotions, serums, liquid makeup. Pharmaceuticals: oral suspensions, topical creams, injectable emulsions. Food: sauces, margarines, fortified drinks, etc.