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Description
A few examples of experimental studies of soft matter systems will be presented to illustrate some aspects of the personal and scientific journey of Isabelle Grillo. I have met Isabelle for the first time almost twenty-five years ago in the Bombannes school, and since then a combination of geographic coincidence, common scientific topics – from surfactant systems to polymer nanocomposites -, and a shared interest in a technique, neutron scattering, made us walk some steps of this journey together. While the extra-ordinary structure of many of the systems Isabelle took interest in will be presented by world-leading experts in this symposium, my presentation will shortly highlight vesicular structures, and then bridge the gap between PhD work supervised by us on nanocomposites to our current understanding of the structure of such nanomaterials.
