SPECIFIC POLYMERS (www.specificpolymers.fr, 2003, Castries, FRANCE) is a SME with 13 employees acting as R&D service provider and scale up producer in the field of functional monomers & polymers with high specificity. The company was created to meet the need of international high tech industrial groups in terms of specifically designed monomers, oligomers and polymers. The main goal of the innovative product developed by SPECIFIC POLYMERS is, in close collaboration with the customers, to validate proof of concepts. In other words, SPECIFIC POLYMERS propose R&D services for academic laboratories and R&D departments of high tech industrial groups. In almost 15 years, SPECIFIC POLYMERS developed the synthesis of more than 10 000 functional building blocks, monomers and polymers and is now working with more than 500 customers and partners in more than 35 countries worldwide. Monomers and polymers provided by SPECIFIC POLYMERS are used for a very wide range of applications such as surface finishing (glass, metal, metal oxides, nanoparticles, plastics), construction industry, aeronautic, automotive (paint, tyres, sealant, gaskets), pharmaceutical industry, cosmetics, optoelectronic, optic, water treatment, metal extraction, energy (fuel cells, solar cells or lithium batteries).