Equipe: Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces

Team Permanent members: Romain Bernard, Yves Borensztein, Hervé Cruguel, Geoffroy Prévot Supported metallic nanoparticles have a prominent place in the field of catalysis. Haruta’s discovery showing that Au nanoparticles catalytic activity exceptionally improves when...

Team Permanent members: Emmanuelle Lacaze, Sébastien Royer, Michel Goldmann, Emmanuel Lhuillier We use dedicated liquid crystal topological defects to confine nanoparticles in 1 Dimension (using liquid crystal smectic dislocations) or in 2 Dimensions (using ribbon-like...

Team Permanent member: Olivier Pluchery Past PhD: Louis Caillard (14-nov-2014). Grafted organic monolayers for single electron transport and for quantum dot solar cells Gold nanoparticles serve as ultra-small electron dispensers and make possible the control...

Team Permanent member: Olivier Pluchery Past PhD: Samuel Peillon (26 Oct 2020). Influence of electrostatic effects linked to radioactivity on adhesion forces and on the suspension of metallic particles Adhesion of nanoparticles and dust...

Team Permanent members: Emmanuel Lhuillier, Yoann Prado PhD student: Huichen Zang The group is involved in the design of optoelectronics devices using nanocrystals as active materials. To do so, we grow a broad range...

Team Permanent members: Romain Bernard, Hervé Cruguel, Geoffroy Prévot, Sébastien Royer, Nadine Witkowski The objective of the “Lames” project  is to develop a sputtering process compatible with lamellar layers of transition metal dichalcogenides, and...

Team Permanent members: Emmanuel Lhuillier, Yoann Prado, Hervé Cruguel Beyond graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) assembly into stack of 2D material, a key benefit of 2D atomically thin material is their ability to...

Team Permanent members: Romain Bernard, Yves Borensztein, Hervé Cruguel, Geoffroy Prévot, Sébastien Royer 2D-Xenes (where X = Si, Ge, Sn…) are a class of two-dimensional materials from the group IVA that possess electronic properties...

Team Permanent members: Sylvie Spagnoli, Marie-Claude Fauré, Michel Goldmann PhD Student: Maria Kandyli   Significant research activities are currently devoted to the development of biological and chemical sensors using molecular films made of diacetylene...

Team Permanent members: Michel Goldmann PhD student: Alexia Bintintzanos Graphene and ionic liquids are intensively studied, respectively as electrolyte and as electrode materials, for the development of supercapacitors. In this framework, the characterization between...