[1] Charles Sadron was appointed director until he left for Orléans in 1967 to create a new laboratory, the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire.

[2] In 1985, through the integration of the research laboratories of Ecole d'Application des Hauts Polymères (School for Application of High Polymers), the Centre de Recherche sur les Macromolécules was renamed Institut Charles Sadron.

The Institut Charles Sadron is a multidisciplinary laboratory performing research at the interface of chemistry, physics and material sciences.

In 2011, it was composed of about: The research activity covers the fields of polymer chemistry, supramolecular engineering, physico-chemistry of materials and soft matter physics.

This results in differences in physico-chemical and mechanical or structuration properties, which are still not perfectly understood and necessitate theoretical investigations and the use of simulation programs to complete the experimental observations.

This approach needs converging efforts in organic synthesis and physico-chemistry in order to understand the thermodynamic and kinetic phenomena which allow self-assembly and self-organization of functional systems.

Dr. Bernard Lotz received the 1973 prize of the French polymer group for his pioneering work on the structure of silk (shared with Dr. A. Brack from Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire Orléans).