Equipe: Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces

In our environment, we find many types of lamellar materials, from lamellar polymers to superimposed biological membranes and smectic liquid crystal materials. They are all governed by the same free energy expression, which generally...

Analysing nanoparticles with optical microscopy is a challenge: indeed, those nanoparticles are 10 times smaller than the theoretical resolution of any microscope, the diffraction limit. This limit is around 300 nm in our case....

The morphological transition from disordered or irregular solidification microstructures to regular shapes in partially faceted eutectic alloys is an important phenomenon in the metallurgy of industrial alloys (e.g., aluminum-based). For a better understanding of...

Today, nanocrystals are establishing themselves as a versatile solution for the manufacture of next-generation of optoelectronic devices such as LEDs, photodetectors and photovoltaic cells. Recent work even suggests that ordered assemblies of nanoparticles, known...