Jacques Livage (born 26 October 1938 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French chemist holding the chair of condensed matter chemistry at the Collège de France and a member of the Académie des sciences.
[1] In 1960, he obtained an engineering degree from the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris where he also obtained a doctorate.
[2] Jacques Livage is a pioneer in the field of soft chemistry.
In particular, he has developed sol-gel processes to obtain original materials that are inaccessible through the traditional channels of inorganic chemistry.
His work aims in particular to copy biomineralisation processes, which are natural processes that make it possible to obtain glass-type materials under particularly mild conditions compared to conventional production processes.