Group members
Lionel Santinacci received a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) in 2002. His thesis has been carried out successively at EPFL (1998-2000) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg (2000-2002) under the supervision of Prof. Patrik Schmuki. His Ph.D. work involved the AFM-scratching induced surface electrochemical nanostructuring. During this time, he also performed surface modifications of III-V semiconductors by anodic processes (oxide and porous layers) in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada. Perfect for when you want to use just one icon as a vector on the desktop or in your own icon workflow.He performed post-doctoral studies on Li-polymer batteries by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy at Aix-Marseille University (2002-2003). In 2003, he joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) as non-tenured assistant professor to investigate the localized corrosion of Cu single crystal by in situ AFM (2003-2004). In 2004, he got a CNRS researcher position at the Lavoisier's Institute of the University of Versailles to continue the work on the anodic surface structuring of III-V materials such as InP in both aqueous and non-aqueous electrolyte. The porous layers exhibiting modified physical properties have been grown and characterized by electrochemical and optical methods.
In 2009, he moved to the Center for Interdisciplinary Nanoscience of Marseille (CINaM). There, he works on electrochemically grown one-dimensional nanostructures such as TiO2 nanotubes and Al2O3 nanoporous membranes. In the present project, these nanostructures are functionalized by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for energy production and storage.
Clémence Badie, PhD student (2019-2022).
Metallic Nanoclusters Embedded in Nitride Nanolaminates for Efficient Gas Separation Membranes.Clémence performed her BSc at Univ. Montpellier and spent one year at Ruhr-University Bochum (D). Then, she graduated from Aix-marseille University in Material Science and she started her PhD on separative membranes synthesis in collaboration with Dr. M. Bechelany of the IEM (Univ. Montpellier-CNRS) .
Last publications:
R. Prithu, C. Badie, J.-B. Claude, A. Barulin, A. Moreau, J. Lumeau, M. Abbarchi, L. Santinacci, J. Wenger*
Preventing Corrosion of Aluminum Metal with Nanometer-Thick Films of Al2O3 Capped with TiO2 for Ultraviolet Plasmonics ACS Applied Nano Materials 4, 7199 (2021)
B. Chatelain, A. El Barraj, C. Badie, L. Santinacci, C. Barth*
Collective amplification of nearby nanoparticles in the Coulomb blockade restricted charging of a single nanoparticle New J. Phys. accepted (2021)
Vyshnav Kannampalli, PhD student (2021-2024).
Synthesis of a new Family of Catalysts for Solar Fuel Production.Vyshnav performed a dual BSc/MSc in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research of Bhopal (India). During his Master degree, he worked on Black TiO2: from microspheres to the nanoparticles through their interaction with catechol derivatives.
Former group members
Graduate students
Dr Loïc Assaud, PhD student (2010-2013)Now Assistant Professor at Univ. Paris Saclay (F).
Dr Kristina Pitzschel, Post-Doc (2011-2012)
Now Research assistant at the Deutsches Museum, Munich (D).
Dr Maïssa Barr, PhD student (2013-2016).
Now Early-career Investigator at University of Erlangen (D).
Dr Maïmouna Diouf, PhD student (2015-2019).
Now Post-doc Fellow at Cranfield University (UK).
Dr Maxime Dufond, PhD student (2016-2019).
Now R&D Team Leader at Nexdot, Paris (F).
Undergraduate students
Philippe Delaye, Master student from ENSCIACET, Toulouse (2013).Coordinator of Information/Communication Systems, Ministry of Defense.
Ms Vanessa Hinterberger, Master student from University of Erlangen (2015).
Ms Inas El Bouzidi, Master student from Aix-Marseille University (2015).
Dr. Arthur Dupuy, Master Student from Polytech Marseille (2015).
Now researcher at Fraunhofer Institut (D).
Ms Héloïse Orihuel, Bachelor student from Aix-Marseille University (2017).
Mr. Pierre Mesnil, Master Student from Aix-Marseille University (2020).
MRS Boston, 2019. From left to right: A. Dupuy (Univ. Sherbrooke), M. Barr (Uni. Erlangen), L. Santinacci, S. Stauss (Tohoku Univ.)
