Nanoparticles and hybrids

Once synthesized, the organic or hybrid systems must be characterized, structurally and functionally. The structural characterization is performed using a variety of thechniques such as : electron microscopies (TEM, SEM), near field microscopies (AFM, STM, MFM), x-ray scattering, neutron diffusion,….

The functional characterization is performed using the most relevant technique with regards to the properties of the material : optics, magnetometry, electron transport,…

Research Activities

Nanostructures

Mesomorphes dendrimers in main channels

Magnetism of hybrid systems

Dendrimers and hybrids

Fullerenes and applications

Inser photo team

Team Members

PhD student, Organic Materials (DMO)antoine.bagard@ipcms.unistra.fr
Tél: +33(0)3 88 10 70 91Bureau: 1030
Senior Researcher, Organic Materials (DMO)Bertrand.Donnio@ipcms.unistra.fr
Tél: +33(0)3 88 10 70 56Bureau: 2035
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Postdoctoral fellow, Organic Materials (DMO)xavier.henning@ipcms.unistra.fr
Tél: /Bureau: 2037
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Senior Researcher, Organic Materials (DMO)norbert.hoffmann@ipcms.unistra.fr
Tél: +33(0)3 88 10 71 54Bureau: 2027
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Assistant professor, Organic Materials (DMO)Mircea.Rastei@ipcms.unistra.fr
Tél: +33(0)3 88 10 70 43Bureau: 2042
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Recent publications :

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E. de Domingo, G. Garcia, E. Tritto, B. Donnio, A. Shah, D.P. Singh, S. Coco, Self-assembly and ambipolar charge transport in columnar phases of polynuclear gold isocyano-triphenylene complexes, Journal of Materials Chemistry C Early access (2025). https://doi.org/10.1039/d5tc00575b.
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L. Fortier, C. Lefebvre, N. Hoffmann, Red light excitation: illuminating photocatalysis in a new spectrum., Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 21 (2025) 296–326. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.21.22.
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X. Henning, L. Schlur, L. Wendling, T. Fix, S. Colis, A. Dinia, M. Alexe, M.V. Rastei, Interfacial photovoltaic effects in ferroelectric \mathrmBi_2\mathrmFeCrO_6 thin films, Physical Review Materials 9 (2025) 024403. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.9.024403.
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X. Wu, H. Lin, X.-Y. Bai, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, K.-Q. Zhao, B. Donnio, Design and mesomorphism of a triskelion shape-persistent HBC-TP hybrid: 2,8,14-tris(triphenylen-2-yl)hexabenzocoronene, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 13 (2025) 7678–7685. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5tc00141b.
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Y. Chen, J. He, H. Lin, H.-F. Wang, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, K.-Q. Zhao, B. Donnio, Efficient synthesis of fluorinated triphenylenes with enhanced arene-perfluoroarene interactions in columnar mesophases, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 20 (2024) 3263–3273. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.20.270.
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A.A. Diaa, N. El-Mahallawy, M. Shoeib, F. Mouillard, T. Ferté, P. Masson, A. Carradò, Biodegradable PMMA coated Zn-Mg alloy with bimodal grain structure for orthopedic applications - A promising alternative., Bioactive Materials 39 (2024) 479–491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2024.05.031.
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X. Henning, K. Alhada-Lahbabi, D. Deleruyelle, B. Gautier, L. Schlur, T. Fix, S. Colis, A. Dinia, M.V. Rastei, Oxygen vacancy effects on polarization switching of ferroelectric Bi2FeCrO6 thin films, Physical Review Materials 8 (2024) 054416. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.054416.
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N. Hoffmann, M.A.G. Fernandez, A. Desvals, C. Lefebvre, C. Michelin, M. Latrache, Photochemical reactions of biomass derived platform chemicals, Frontiers in Chemistry 12 (2024) 1485354. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2024.1485354.
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M. Le Dot, M.A.G. Fernandez, A. Langovist, B. Charriere, P. Gerard, F. Dumur, N. Hoffmann, J. Lalevee, New monomers or co-monomers based on the alkoxyfuranone Scaffold: Toward new alternatives to Petroleum-Based structures, European Polymer Journal 215 (2024) 113259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2024.113259.
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C.-Y. Zeng, W.-J. Deng, K.-Q. Zhao, C. Redshaw, B. Donnio, Phenanthrothiophene-Triazine Star-Shaped Discotic Liquid Crystals: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Stimuli-Responsive Fluorescence Properties, Chemistry-a European Journal (2024) e202400296. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202400296.
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C. Zeng, H. Wang, B.-Q. Wang, P. Hu, K.-Q. Zhao, B. Donnio, Dual-State Fluorescence in Some Salicylaldehyde-triphenylene Discotic Liquid Crystal Derivatives Induced by Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer, Chemistry of Materials 36 (2024) 7306–7316. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01213.
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K.-L. Zhang, W.-H. Yu, K.-Q. Zhao, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, B. Donnio, Mesomorphism Modulation of Perfluorinated Janus Triphenylenes by Inhomogeneous Chain Substitution Patterns, Chemistry-an Asian Journal 19 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202301080.
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V. Conejo-Rodriguez, B. Donnio, B. Heinrich, R. Termine, A. Golemme, P. Espinet, Mesogenic [Rh(L)(4)](A) complexes form mesophases with Rh-I center dot center dot center dot Rh-I-containing and triphenylene-discotic segregated columns. Effect of Rh-I center dot center dot center dot Rh-I interactions and A(-) = [Au(CN)(2)](-) on hole mobility, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 11 (2023) 1435–1447. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2tc02272a.
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C. Cretu, E. Popa, G. Di Maio, A. Candreva, I. Buta, A. Visan, M. La Deda, B. Donnio, E.I. Szerb, Bimetallic liquid crystal blends based on structurally related 3d-metal coordination complexes., Chemical Communications 59 (2023) 10616–10619. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc02930a.
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A.A. Diaa, N. El-Mahallawy, M. Shoeib, N. Lallemand, F. Mouillard, P. Masson, A. Carradò, Effect of Mg Addition and PMMA Coating on the Biodegradation Behaviour of Extruded Zn Material., Materials 16 (2023) 707. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16020707.
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K. Kaneko, A. Mandai, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, T. Hanasaki, Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of “side-on” hybrid liquid crystalline silsesquioxanes., Soft Matter 19 (2023) 9115. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm00801k.
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L. Lin, X. Peng, E. Voirin, B. Donnio, M.V. Rastei, B. Vileno, J.-L. Gallani, Influence of the Crystallinity of Silver Nanoparticles on Their Magnetic Properties, Helvetica Chimica Acta 106 (2023) e202200165. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202200165.
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H.-M. Pan, J. He, W.-H. Yu, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, K.-Q. Zhao, B. Donnio, 2-Aryl-1,3,4-trifluoro-6,7,10,11-tetrakis(alkoxy)triphenylene: a remarkable and highly inclusive mesomorphic platform, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 11 (2023) 14695–14704. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3tc02569a.
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X. Peng, L. Lin, L. Stuttge, M. Rousseau, T. Sauvage, E. Voirin, B. Donnio, M. Rastei V., J.-L. Gallani, Role of lattice defects on the magnetism of gold nanoparticles irradiated with neutrons, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 587 (2023) 171249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171249.
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Zeng Chongyang, Hu Ping, Wang Biqin, Fang Wenyan, Zhao Keqing, B. Donnio, Star-shaped Triphenylene-triazine Multi-stimuli Responsive Discotic Liquid Crystals: Synthesis, Properties and Applications, Acta Chimica Sinica 81 (2023) 469–479. https://doi.org/10.6023/A23010006.
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Q. Zeng, S. Liu, H. Lin, K.-X. Zhao, X.-Y. Bai, K.-Q. Zhao, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, B. Donnio, Pyrene-Fused Poly-Aromatic Regioisomers: Synthesis, Columnar Mesomorphism, and Optical Properties., Molecules 28 (2023) 1721. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28041721.
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M.-M. Zhou, J. He, H.-M. Pan, Q. Zeng, H. Lin, K.-Q. Zhao, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, B. Donnio, Induction and Stabilization of Columnar Mesophases in Fluorinated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Arene-Perfluoroarene Interactions., Chemistry-a European Journal (2023) e202301829. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301829.
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A.A. Andelescu, S. Ilies (b Motoc), C. Cretu, E. Popa, S. Marinescu, B. Heinrich, F. Manea, S. Negrea, B. Donnio, E. Szerb I., Pentacoordinated Liquid Crystalline Zn(II) Complex Organized in Smectic Mesophase: Synthesis, Structural and Electrochemical Properties, Applied Sciences-Basel 12 (2022) 8306. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12168306.
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C. Burel, O. Ibrahim, E. Marino, H. Bharti, C.B. Murray, B. Donnio, Z. Fakhraai, R. Dreyfus, Tunable Plasmonic Microcapsules with Embedded Noble Metal Nanoparticles for Optical Microsensing, ACS Applied Nano Materials 5 (2022) 2828–2838. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c04542.
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W.-J. Deng, S. Liu, H. Lin, K.-X. Zhao, X.-Y. Bai, K.-Q. Zhao, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, H. Monobe, B. Donnio, Ditriphenylenothiophene butterfly-shape liquid crystals. The influence of polyarene core topology on self-organization, fluorescence and photoconductivity, New Journal of Chemistry 46 (2022) 7936–7949. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2nj00655c.
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M. La Deda, G. Di Maio, A. Candreva, B. Heinrich, A.-A. Andelescu, E. Popa, E. Voirin, V. Badea, M. Amati, B. Donnio, E. Szerb I., Very intense polarized emission in self-assembled room temperature metallomesogens based on Zn(ii) coordination complexes: an experimental and computational study, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10 (2022) 115–125. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1tc05059a.
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O. Laghzali, G.S. Nayak, F. Mouillard, P. Masson, G. Pourroy, H. Palkowski, A. Carradò, Designing maxillofacial prostheses for bone reconstruction: an overview, Emerging Materials Research 11 (2022) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.21.00138.
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H. Lin, Q.-B. Lv, H.-F. Wang, K.-Q. Zhao, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, Organic dyads and triads based on the triphenylene-rylenediimide couple: Molecular design, self-organization, and photo-physical properties, Dyes and Pigments 197 (2022) 109911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2021.109911.
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H. Lin, K.-X. Zhao, M. Jing, X.-H. Long, K.-Q. Zhao, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, P. Lei, Q.-D. Zeng, B. Donnio, Synthesis, self-assembly and optical properties of some rigid pi-bridged triphenylene dimers, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10 (2022) 14453–14470. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2tc02441a.
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G.S. Nayak, A. Carradò, P. Masson, G. Pourroy, F. Mouillard, V. Migonney, C. Falentin-Daudre, C. Pereira, H. Palkowski, Trends in Metal-Based Composite Biomaterials for Hard Tissue Applications, JOM 74 (2022) 102–125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04992-5.
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S. Negrea, A.A. Andelescu, S. Ilies B Motoc, C. Cretu, L. Cseh, M. Rastei, B. Donnio, E.I. Szerb, F. Manea, Design of Nanostructured Hybrid Electrodes Based on a Liquid Crystalline Zn(II) Coordination Complex-Carbon Nanotubes Composition for the Specific Electrochemical Sensing of Uric Acid., Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 12 (2022) 4215. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12234215.
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J.-D. Peltier, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, O.A. Ibraikulov, T. Heiser, N. Leclerc, J. Rault-Berthelot, C. Poriel, Dispiroacridine-indacenobisthiophene positional isomers: impact of the bridge on the physicochemical properties, Materials Chemistry Frontiers 6 (2022) 225–236. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1qm01393a.
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C. Pereira, J.-S. Baumann, P. Masson, G. Pourroy, A. Carradò, V. Migonney, C. Falentin-Daudre, Double Functionalization for the Design of Innovative Craniofacial Prostheses, JOM 74 (2022) 87–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04997-0.
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M.D. Pichois, X. Henning, M.A. Hurier, M. Vomir, A. Barsella, L. Mager, B. Donnio, J.-L. Gallani, M.V. Rastei, Photovoltaic and photothermal effects induced by visible laser radiation in atomic force microscopy probes., Ultramicroscopy 241 (2022) 113601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2022.113601.
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M. Rosati, A. Acocella, A. Pizzi, G. Turtu, G. Neri, N. Demitri, Nonappa, G. Raffaini, B. Donnio, F. Zerbetto, F.B. Bombelli, G. Cavallo, P. Metrangolo, Janus-Type Dendrimers Based on Highly Branched Fluorinated Chains with Tunable Self-Assembly and F-19 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Properties br, Macromolecules 55 (2022) 2486–2496. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00129.
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P.K. Bhowmik, J.J. Koh, D. King, H. Han, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, D. Zaton, A. Martinez-Felipe, Dicationic stilbazolium salts: Structural, thermal, optical, and ionic conduction properties, Journal of Molecular Liquids 341 (2021) 117311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117311.
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T. Fix, G. Schmerber, J.-L. Rehspringer, M.V. Rastei, S. Roques, J. Bartringer, A. Slaoui, Insights on hexagonal TbMnO3 for optoelectronic applications: From powders to thin films, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 883 (2021) 160922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.160922.
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J.-F. Hang, H. Lin, K.-Q. Zhao, P. Hu, B.-Q. Wang, H. Monobe, C. Zhu, B. Donnio, Butterfly Mesogens Based on Carbazole, Fluorene or Fluorenone: Mesomorphous, Gelling, Photophysical, and Photoconductive Properties, European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2021) 1989–2002. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202100108.
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C. Iacovita, R. Dudric, M. Vomir, O. Ersen, B. Donnio, J.-L. Gallani, M. Rastei V., Imaging Large Iron-Oxide Nanoparticle Clusters by Field-Dependent Magnetic Force Microscopy, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125 (2021) 24001–24010. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c05426.
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A.A. Knyazev, M.E. Karyakin, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, Y.G. Galyametdinov, A facile approach for the creation of heteroionic lanthanidomesogens-containing uniform films with enhanced luminescence efficiency, Dyes and Pigments 187 (2021) 109050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2020.109050.
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F. Lucas, N. McIntosh, E. Jacques, C. Lebreton, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, O. Jeannin, J. Rault-Berthelot, C. Quinton, J. Cornil, C. Poriel, [4]Cyclo-N-alkyl-2,7-carbazoles: Influence of the Alkyl Chain Length on the Structural, Electronic, and Charge Transport Properties, Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (2021) 8804–8820. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c03240.
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T. Ma, Y.-J. Zhong, H.-F. Wang, K.-Q. Zhao, B.-Q. Wang, P. Hu, H. Monobe, B. Donnio, Butterfly-like Shape Liquid Crystals Based Fused-Thiophene as Unidimensional Ambipolar Organic Semiconductors with High Mobility, Chemistry-an Asian Journal 16 (2021) 1106–1117. https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202100173.
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G.S. Nayak, F. Mouillard, P. Masson, G. Pourroy, H. Palkowski, A. Carradò, Adhesion Behavior of Ti-PMMA-Ti Sandwiches for Biomedical Applications, JOM 74 (2021) 96–101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04995-2.
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M.D. Pichois, M.A. Hurier, M. Vomir, A. Barsella, B. Donnio, J.-L. Gallani, M.V. Rastei, Photothermal Plasmonic Actuation of Micromechanical Cantilever Beams, Physical Review Applied 15 (2021) 034020. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.034020.
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A.F. Suleymanova, Y.A. Yakovleva, O.S. Eltsov, A.O. Lantushenko, M.P. Evstigneev, B. Donnio, B. Heinrich, V.N. Kozhevnikov, Comparative analysis of self-aggregation of liquid crystalline Pt(II) complexes in solution and in neat films, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 938 (2021) 121750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2021.121750.
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V. Vergnat, B. Heinrich, M. Rawiso, R. Muller, G. Pourroy, P. Masson, Iron Oxide/Polymer Core-Shell Nanomaterials with Star-like Behavior, Nanomaterials 11 (2021) 2453. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11092453.
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M. Vignolo, G. Bovone, M. Capra, F. Loria, C. Bernini, B. Vileno, L. Mager, B. Donnio, M. Rastei V., J.-L. Gallani, Magnetism: Another Idiosyncrasy of Boron?, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2021) 1224–1229. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202001075.
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S. Wendels, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, L. Averous, Green and controlled synthesis of short diol oligomers from polyhydroxyalkanoate to develop fully biobased thermoplastics, European Polymer Journal 153 (2021) 110531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2021.110531.
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A.-A. Andelescu, B. Heinrich, M.A. Spirache, E. Voirin, M. La Deda, G. Di Maio, E.I. Szerb, B. Donnio, O. Costisor, Playing with Pt-II and Zn-II Coordination to Obtain Luminescent Metallomesogens, Chemistry-a European Journal 26 (2020) 4850–4860. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000124.
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A. Barsella, M.A. Hurier, M.D. Pichois, M. Vomir, H. Hasan, L. Mager, B. Donnio, J.-L. Gallani, M.V. Rastei, Photonic Excitation of a Micromechanical Cantilever in Electrostatic Fields, Physical Review Letters 125 (2020) 254301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.254301.
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C. Burel, A. Teolis, A. Alsayed, C.B. Murray, B. Donnio, R. Dreyfus, Plasmonic Elastic Capsules as Colorimetric Reversible pH-Microsensors, Small 16 (2020) 1903897. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201903897.
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A.D. Craciun, B. Donnio, J.-L. Gallani, M.V. Rastei, High-resolution manipulation of gold nanorods with an atomic force microscope, Nanotechnology 31 (2020) 085302. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab5404.
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J. Dai, K.-Q. Zhao, B.-Q. Wang, P. Hu, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, Liquid crystal ionic self-assembly and anion-selective photoluminescence in discotic azatriphenylenes, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8 (2020) 4215–4225. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc05829j.
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S.-P. Do, A. Missaoui, A. Coati, D. Coursault, H. Jeridi, A. Resta, N. Goubet, M.M. Wojcik, A. Choux, S. Royer, E. Briand, B. Donnio, J.L. Gallani, B. Pansu, E. Lhuillier, Y. Garreau, D. Babonneau, M. Goldmann, D. Constantin, B. Gallas, B. Croset, E. Lacaze, From Chains to Monolayers: Nanoparticle Assembly Driven by Smectic Topological Defects, Nano Letters 20 (2020) 1598–1606. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04347.
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C. Iacovita, J. Hurst, G. Manfredi, P.-A. Hervieux, B. Donnio, J.-L. Gallani, M.V. Rastei, Magnetic force fields of isolated small nanoparticle clusters, Nanoscale 12 (2020) 1842–1851. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR08634J.
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O. Kovalenko, M. Vomir, B. Donnio, J.-L. Gallani, M.V. Rastei, Chiromagnetoptics of Au and Ag Nanoparticulate Systems, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124 (2020) 21722–21729. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06496.
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N.O. Pena, D. Ihiawakrim, V. Ball, S. Stanescu, M. Rastei, C. Sanchez, D. Portehault, O. Ersen, Correlative Microscopy Insight on Electrodeposited Ultrathin Graphite Oxide Films, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (2020) 9117–9122. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02482.
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K.-K. Tremblay-Parrado, C. Bordin, S. Nicholls, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, L. Averous, Renewable and Responsive Cross-Linked Systems Based on Polyurethane Backbones from Clickable Biobased Bismaleimide Architecture, Macromolecules 53 (2020) 5869–5880. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01115.
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Y.-J. Zhong, K.-Q. Zhao, B.-Q. Wang, P. Hu, H. Monobe, B. Heinrich, B. Donnio, 2-Phenylbenzothiophene-based liquid crystalline semiconductors, Dyes and Pigments 173 (2020) 107964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.107964.

Nanostructures

Magnetism of hybrid systems

Fullerenes and applications

Dendrimers and hybrids

Mesomorphes dendrimers in main channels