Materials Science and Chemistry

Dr Alain DEMOURGUES is working at ICMCB-CNRS-UPR9048 since october 1993 as Research Fellow. He became Research Director at CNRS in october 2008. He received IBM-France award in 1993 (Young scientist in Materials Science) and SFC (Société Française de Chimie) award in 2003 (Solid State Chemistry division). He is consulting scientist since 1998 at RHODIA-SOLVAY in the field of Solid State Chemistry, Redox and opto-electronic properties. He contributes to 128 publications (h-index 23) and 9 patents and gave 39 invited conference and 30 in international symposia. He was in charge of 20 industrial contracts and directed 19 PhD students. He is in charge of fluorine chemistry/inorganic fluorides unit (CNRS platform ‘Fluomat’) and cross functional axis related to exploratory solid state chemistry. He organized as chairman, the 14th European Symposium on Solid State Chemistry (14th ECSSC) in Bordeaux. He was invited as a Keynote speaker in July 2016 at the Gordon Research Conference (Solid State Chemistry Division)

His research topics concern Solid State Chemistry: inorganic syntheses and compositions, structural features and UV-Visible-NIR absorption and redox properties

Prof. Tenne received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1976). After a post-doc in Battelle, Geneva (1976-1979) he joined the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot (Israel) where he became a full professor in 1995. The pioneering role of Prof. Tenne in 2D nanostructure research is well recognized. His work is often alongside people like Kroto, Smalley, Iijima, Geim, Novoselov and even Pauling, see for example Inorganics 2, 556 (2014); Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 177 (2015) and Chem. Comm. 50, 12360 (2014). He received numerous awards and recognitions including the MRS Medal (2005), Rothschild Prize (2015) and the Israel Chemical Society Gold Medal (2016). He is a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences; Academia Europaea (2011) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Materials Research Society.

Following the discovery of carbon fullerenes and carbon nanotubes Prof. Tenne discovered inorganic nanotubes (INT) and fullerene-like nanoparticles (IF) of WS2 and MoS2 (Nature 1992, 1993; Science 1995). He showed that nanoparticles of layered compounds, like MoS2, suffer fundamental instability akin to graphite nanoparticles, transforming into seamless (closed-cage) nanostructures. Recently numerous new nanotubes, including those from ternary “misfit” compounds, like PbS-TaS2 and CaCoO2-CoO2, covering many elements of the periodic table, were reported by him. Following intensive work he showed that these materials are superior solid lubricants (Nature 1997), which are now used commercially as additives to various lubricants with sales of app. 5,000 tones this year (2016). Furthermore, adding up to 2% IF and more so INT of WS2 (MoS2) to various polymers, metal alloys and concrete led to substantial enhancement in their strength; fracture toughness and thermal stability. Large number of applications is foreseen for these nanocomposites, from aerospace, automotive industry medical technologies to tissue engineering.

Elena Voloshina received her PhD in Chemistry in 2001 (Rostov State University, Russia). She was a postdoctoral research associate at RWTH Aachen University, at the Max Planck Institute for the physics of complex systems in Dresden and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2014 she has been leading a junior research group at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. She has a broad experience in the development and application of theoretical techniques for investigation of the electronic structure of a wide range of systems. She has co-authored more than 70 publications in peer reviewed journals. For further details, see: https://voloshinablog.wordpress.com

Computational materials science, Solid-state physics, Quantum chemistry of solids, Surface science; Electronic and magnetic structure of complex materials; Theoretical spectroscopy of solids, surfaces and interfaces; 2D crystals and their heterostructures; Graphene-metal interfaces

Mona Tréguer-Delapierre received a B.S. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Orsay, Paris Sud in 1996, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Orsay, Paris XI, under J.Belloni in 1999. She has received an award from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris for her PhD thesis. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA) with Dan Meisel, she joined the faculty as Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Bordeaux 1, in 2000. Her current interest involves the synthesis of metal nanoparticles, mainly gold and silver, with size and shape control and therefore with desired optical properties. Furthermore, her research is also focused on the surface modification and assembly of the nanoparticles to improve their versatility.

Our research in the group “Chemistry of Nanomaterials” is basically focused on the synthesis, characterization and applications of nanoparticles. The morphology control in the nanostructure is one of our favorite topics because of the spectacular effects that small changes in the shape of nanoparticles have on a variety of physical (optical, magnetic, electronic...) properties of the material. Colloidal synthesis has proven extremely useful to prepare a wide variety of nanoparticles with tight control of size and shape. Still, much of the knowledge in this area is empirical and no general rules can be provided for a rational nanomaterial design. We are particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms involved in nanoparticle growth, which determine the final size and shape. Though eminently fundamental, this research is required for the design of nanoparticle materials with tailored properties that can be used for practical applications. Examples of nanoparticles developed in the group with various morphologies are shown below.

Professor González-Benito received his Ph.D. in Chemical-Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid and got the position at the University Carlos III of Madrid, UC3M, as a professor in 2003. He carried out several pre and postdoctoral research stays in very prestigious centers around the world, Institute of Chemistry and Biology Technology of University Nova de Lisbon (Portugal); Institute of Materials Chemistry of the Tampere University of Technology (Finland); Macromolecular Science Department of Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio); Department of the University of California Santa Barbara and The National Institute of Standards and technology (Gaithersburg, Mariland USA) among others. Nowadays he is the head of the Group `Polymer Composite Materials and Interphases, having published more than 70 papers about polymers and polymer composites in reputed journals. He was Director of the Ph.D. program in Materials Science and Engineering of the University Carlos III of Madrid from 2006 to 2013.

Polymer interfaces in multiphase (micro and nanophases) materials using a variety of microscopic imaging methods and fluorescence based methods. Researching lines: i) Thermoplastic nanocomposite materials with especial electrical properties and ii) Thermoplastic nanocomposite materials with antibacterial activity. Characterization of polymers and composite materials; use of fluorescent probes and labels to monitor physico-chemical changes at a molecular scale; atomic force microscopy; structural, dynamics and ageing phenomena studies in polymer based materials.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratory in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1975. He is the author and co-author of over 400 publications. His research interests are in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Renewable Energy Systems, and Nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of sixteen professional engineering societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has been the recipient of many honors and awards.

Materials Genome; Nanoparticles and their Synthesis; Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulations of Engineered Materials; Energy Harvesting Materials; Nanomechanics, Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics.

Dr. Yuyuan Zhao is Reader in Materials Engineering at the School of Engineering, the University of Liverpool, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He serves on the Editorial Board of Powder Metallurgy, the official journal of the European Powder Metallurgy Association. He obtained his BEng and MSc degrees from Dalian University of Technology, and DPhil from Oxford University. He worked as a Lecturer at Dalian University of Technology and a Research Fellow at Birmingham University before he joined Liverpool University as a Lecturer. He pioneered the Sintering and Dissolution Process (SDP) for manufacturing porous aluminium and further invented the Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) process, which has been commercialised for mass production of porous metals. He has published over 85 papers in the processing, characterisation and modelling of particulate, porous and composite materials.

Manufacture of porous metals and syntactic foams by powder metallurgy routes and characterisation of their mechanical; Thermal; Acoustic and electrochemical properties.

Vladimir Lee received his MSc degree in chemistry from the Far–Eastern State University (Vladivostok) in 1982, and PhD degree in organic chemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow) in 1987. After a couple of PD stays at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, Korea) in 1996 and at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in 1997, he is working at the University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan) currently holding a Lecturer position. He has been visiting professor at the several universities in Germany, France and Japan. He has authored over 110 papers in the peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters, and a monograph. He has about 200 presentations at the international and national conferences.

low-coordinate derivatives of the main group elements: carbene analogues, cations, free radicals, anions, multiply-bonded derivatives, highly strained small rings, as well as their transition metal complexes.

Annabelle Bertin studied organic and inorganic chemistry at the University of Versailles (UVSQ), then specializing in chemistry and physico-chemistry of polymers at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, receiving a master degree in 2004. In 2007, she completed her PhD in chemistry at the University of Strasbourg (ULP) / Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials of Strasbourg (IPCMS), France, on the topic of dendron-based materials for biomedical applications. Afterwards, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Colloid Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, where she worked on bioinspired polymers and composite materials. She then joined for one year the team of Prof. Percec at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), USA, where her research topic dealt with self-assembly of Janus dendrimers based on carbohydrates and amino acids as drug delivery systems. In 2011, she joined the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow and became the same year project leader in the division “Polymers in Life Sciences and Nanotechnology”. Since 2012 she is assistant professor in organic polymer chemistry at the Free University Berlin in the department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy and group leader of the research group "PolyNanotechBiomed" at BAM, in the department 6.0 Materials Protection and Surface Technologies.

Her main research interests are dendrons-based macromolecular and supramolecular architectures for biomedical applications (Focus: organic chemistry and physical chemistry of soft nanoparticles) and polymer-based (nano)composites for application in materials science such as sensing and mechanically reinforced composites (Focus: polymer chemistry, inorganic nanoparticle synthesis and materials science). The latest topic led her to develop novel thermoresponsive upper critical solution temperature (UCST)-type polymers. Another of her recent lines of research is hybrid organic-inorganic copolymers.

Family name : Jakubowski First name : Norbert Date of Birth : 11.02.1953 Professional address: Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing BAM D-12489 Berlin Richard-Willstaetter-Str. 11 Telephone Number : 0049-030-8104-1110 FAX Number : 0049-03-8104-1117 Studies and Diplomas: 1974 – 1977: “University of Essen”: BSc 1977 – 1981: “University of Essen”: MSc 1987 –1991 : Thesis at the “University of Hohenheim”: Ph.D. Professional Experience: 1981 – 1982 : Scientific consultant of the „Gesellschaft der Förderer des Deutschen Energiezentrums (Society of the Promotion of a German Energy Centre)“ 1982 until 2009: Senior scientist at the ISAS - Institute for Analytical Sciences, Dortmund, Germany 2009 until now : Head of division “Inorganic Trace Analysis” at the BAM - Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany Awards : 2005: Zimmer International Scholar given by the University of Cincinnati, USA 2006: Waters Symposium Prize: Pioneers in ICP-MS, Pittcon 2006, Orlando, USA 2013: European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry, Krakow, Poland Boards and Committees: “Advisory Board” Member of the following journals: The Analyst, Journal of Metallomics

Analytical Chemistry with special interest in development of instruments, methods and problem-orientated procedures based on elemental mass spectrometry of solid and soft materials. Key Words: Speciation of P, Pt, Sn, Gd, Cd; metalloproteins, antibodies, bioconjugation by use of metals; analytical characterization of nanoparticles and their interaction with single biological cells, bioimaging of tissues by use of LA-ICP-MS.