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Employment (6)

Laboratoire Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères: Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR

2020-03-02 to present | Post-doctoral scholar
Employment
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Xavier Morelle

ESPCI ParisTech: Paris, Ile de France, FR

2017-10-01 to 2019-12-31 | Post-doctoral researcher (Soft Matter Science and Engineering Laboratory)
Employment
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Xavier Morelle

Harvard University - School of Engineering and Applied Science: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

2017-01-01 to 2017-08-31 | Post-doctoral researcher on Hydrogels Mechanics (Harvard University/SEAS/Kavli Institute for BionanoScience/Suo group)
Employment
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Xavier Morelle

Belgian American Educational Foundation: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

2016-01-01 to 2016-12-31 | Post-doctoral fellow (Harvard University/SEAS/Kavli Institute for BionanoScience/Suo group)
Employment
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Xavier Morelle

Université Catholique de Louvain Unité d'Ingénierie des Matériaux et des Procédés: Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

2015-10-01 to 2015-12-15 | Chercheur doctorant en composites (UCL/iMMC/IMAP)
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Xavier Morelle

Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS: Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

2011-01-10 to 2015-09-31 | Aspirant FNRS (UCL/iMMC/IMAP )
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Xavier Morelle

Education and qualifications (3)

Université Catholique de Louvain Unité d'Ingénierie des Matériaux et des Procédés: Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

2011-10-01 to 2015-12-16 | Docteur en sciences de l'ingénieur (UCL/iMMC/IMAP)
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Xavier Morelle

Université Catholique de Louvain Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

2006-09-15 to 2011-06-30 | Ingénieur Civil (Sciences des Matériaux)
Education
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Xavier Morelle

Eindhoven University of Technology: Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL

2010-09-01 to 2011-02-01 | Erasmus student exchange (Polymer mechanics and chemistry)
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Xavier Morelle

Works (19)

3D fluorescent mapping of invisible molecular damage after cavitation in hydrogen exposed elastomers

Soft Matter
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Xavier P. Morelle; Gabriel E. Sanoja; Sylvie Castagnet; Costantino Creton
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Why is mechanical fatigue different from toughness in elastomers? The role of damage by polymer chain scission

Science Advances
2021-10-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Gabriel E. Sanoja; Xavier P. Morelle; Jean Comtet; C. Joshua Yeh; Matteo Ciccotti; Costantino Creton
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Anti-icing propylene-glycol materials

Extreme Mechanics Letters
2021-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Xi Yao; Baohong Chen; Xavier P. Morelle; Zhigang Suo
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Why is Mechanical Fatigue Different from Toughness in Elastomers? The Role of Damage by Polymer Chain Scission

2021-02-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Gabriel Sanoja; Xavier P. Morelle; Jean Comtet; C. Joshua Yeh; Matteo Ciccotti; Costantino Creton
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Why is Mechanical Fatigue Different from Toughness in Elastomers? The Role of Damage by Polymer Chain Scission

2021-02-10 | Other
Contributors: Gabriel Sanoja; Xavier P. Morelle; Jean Comtet; C. Joshua Yeh; Matteo Ciccotti; Costantino Creton
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Why is Mechanical Fatigue Different from Toughness in Elastomers? The Role of Damage by Polymer Chain Scission

2021-02-05 | Other
Contributors: Gabriel Sanoja; Xavier P. Morelle; Jean Comtet; C. Joshua Yeh; Matteo Ciccotti; Costantino Creton
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Flaw‐Insensitive Hydrogels under Static and Cyclic Loads

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
2019-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1022-1336
Part of ISSN: 1521-3927
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Xavier Morelle

On a unique fracture micromechanism for highly cross-linked epoxy resins

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2019-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-5096
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Xavier Morelle

Fatigue fracture of nearly elastic hydrogels

Soft Matter
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Enrui Zhang; Ruobing Bai; Xavier P. Morelle; Zhigang Suo
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Highly Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels below Water Freezing Temperature

Advanced Materials
2018-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Xavier P. Morelle; Widusha R. Illeperuma; Kevin Tian; Ruobing Bai; Zhigang Suo; Joost J. Vlassak
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Unveiling the nanoscale heterogeneity controlled deformation of thermosets

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2018-08-18 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-5096
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Xavier Morelle

A Transparent Membrane for Active Noise Cancelation

Advanced Functional Materials
2018-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1616-301X
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Xavier Morelle

Fatigue Fracture of Self-Recovery Hydrogels

ACS Macro Letters
2018-03-20 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2161-1653
Part of ISSN: 2161-1653
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Xavier Morelle

Localized Deformation in Plastic Liquids on Elastomers

Journal of Applied Mechanics
2017-10-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0021-8936
Part of ISSN: 1528-9036
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Xavier Morelle

Fatigue fracture of tough hydrogels

Extreme Mechanics Letters
2017-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Ruobing Bai; Quansan Yang; Jingda Tang; Xavier P. Morelle; Joost Vlassak; Zhigang Suo
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Mechanical characterization and modeling of the deformation and failure of the highly crosslinked RTM6 epoxy resin

Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials
2017-01-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1385-2000
Part of ISSN: 1573-2738
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Xavier Morelle

A large strain hyperelastic viscoelastic-viscoplastic-damage constitutive model based on a multi-mechanism non-local damage continuum for amorphous glassy polymers

International Journal of Solids and Structures
2016-06-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0020-7683
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Xavier Morelle

Micro-mechanics based pressure dependent failure model for highly cross-linked epoxy resins

Engineering Fracture Mechanics
2016-03-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0013-7944
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Xavier Morelle

Curing dependent spatial heterogeneity of mechanical response in epoxy resins revealed by atomic force microscopy

Polymer
2015-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Amir Bahrami; Xavier Morelle; Lê Duy Hông Minh; Thomas Pardoen; Christian Bailly; Bernard Nysten
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Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS applied polymer materials. (1)
Review activity for ACS macro letters. (1)
Review activity for Engineering fracture mechanics. (2)
Review activity for Macromolecules. (1)