25/3/2025
Self-assemblying defects to fabricate antifogging antireflective metasurfaces! Out now in Advanced Optical Materials. Well done Fanny and Cristina! have a look here
06/01/2025
New paper accepted in Advanced Functional Materials !
“A Homeostatic Photonic Device integrating Vapor-Regulated Thermo-Optical Feedback Mechanisms“. Congratulations Caroline!
20/5/2024
MOFs are promising candidates for temperature-driven adsorption applications but how the rate at which temperature is varied affects these processes? Hajar introduces “cyclic ellipsometry” to explore sorption kinetics in MOFs. Out in Chem Comm
30/1/2024
Crack formation typically results in random patterns. Our new doctor, Fanny Thorimbert, used plasmonic absorbers and light to program the self-assembly and propagation of cracks in colloidal films.
Check the article in Nature Communications
14/8/2023
New paper out in Chemistry of Materials! Congratulats Maria and teams for this work on photonics pigments autonomously regulating IR light as function of the temperature!
7/9/2022
Macro and Mesoporous Materials made of High Entropy Alloy Nanocrystals! Congratulations Maria for this work published in ACS Nano!
12/7/2022
How spontaneous order emerges from disorder?
Mateusz and Fanny and co-workers introduce a simple patterning method based on self-ordering of periodic cracks in nanoporous inorganic films. New paper out in Advanced Materials!
26/5/2022
Glad to have been nominated member of the IUF starting from october 2022.
https://www.iufrance.fr/detail-de-lactualite/297.html
https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/12-nominations-liuf
14/4/2022
Thanks CNRS for the great honor!
https://www.cnrs.fr/personne/medailles-de-bronze-2022
https://sciences.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/marco-faustini-lcmcp-medaille-de-bronze-cnrs-2022
17/2/2022
Vulgarization article (in french) just published in Actualité Chimique.
How to harness cracks to obtain functional materials –> here the link
6/9/2021
New paper out in Advanced Materials! This is Civan’s work on Metal-Organic Framework Photonic Balls used as local Photo-Thermal Probes.
24/6/2021
Happy to share our collaborative work on the origin of the high electrochemical activity of pseudo-amorphous Ir oxides just published in Nature Communications
10/6/2021
Honored to be a co-recipient of the Award from the “Chimie-Physique” Division of the French Chemistry and Physics Societies!!
https://divchimiephysique.wixsite.com/sitedcp/prix-jeune-chercheur
18/2/2021
New paper out in Nano Letters! Maxime introduces Oxide Assisted Chemical Etching to fabricate silicon nanowires.
26/10/2020
Patterning MOFs at smaller scales / News and Views in Nature Materials
A comment on the original article from R. Ameloot and coworkers: Here the link
1/7/2020
The plasmonic dancefloor! Our article featured in the cover of Nanoscale
4/6/2020
In this article in JSST I review some of our latest work on sol-gel and Metal Organic Frameworks materials to control structural colors.
19/5/2020
New paper out in PNAS. Collagen materials are usually opaque. We show that transparency can be found in a narrow region of the collagen phase diagram. Collaborative work led by N. Nassif! here the link
30/4/2020
Using water vapor as thermometer. Zeinab used in situ ellipsometry to probe plasmonic heating in core shell gold nanorods/porous shell colloidal films. Paper published in Nanoscale, here the link
22/11/2019
Davide’s paper on sol-gel nanofluidic reactos accepted in ChemNanoMat “Ionic diffusion, nanoparticle formation and trapping within sol‐gel made Pillared Planar Nanochannels in a simple microfluidic device.
20/10/2019
Using polymers as templating and reducing agents to make metallic porous microsphere stable at high temperature. Mateuzs’s paper out in Materials Horizons
29/8/2019
Honored to receive the Donald Ulrich Award from the International Sol-Gel Society at the 2019 Sol-Gel conference in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Here the official ISGS announcement.
5/8/2019
New paper out in Nature Energy. Light trapping in GaAs ultrathin solar cells with a nanoimprinted sol-gel TiO2/Ag mirror.
22/2/2019
Presenting the Sol-Gel of Noble Metals at Collége de France, Symposium ” From nanoporous to macroporous materials: synthesis, properties, applications”
The video (in French) here:
18/1/2019
Retrospective article on our implication on technological transfer by SATTLutech
http://www.sattlutech.com/evenements/retrospective-trophees-lutech-marcofaustini/
3/12/2018
How to design better Ir-based catalystsfor OER?
By engineering the architecture and porosity at different scales!
First work on the “sol-gel” of noble metals in Advanced Energy Materials ! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aenm.201802136
A collaborative study between LCMCP, Univ Strasbourg, Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Montpellier, Ecole Polytechnique, greatly coordinated by Jennifer Peron
26/7/2018
I’m very honored to be one of the grantees of an ERC STARTING GRANT for the TEMPORE project aiming at reproduce life-like properties into artificial materials.
PhDs and Post-DOC positions will be available soon…
04/06/2018
Olivier Dalstein receives the YNSECT award for his PhD thesis work on Photonic MOF Sensors!
Very proud of him!
https://jtc2018idf.sciencesconf.org
2/4/2018
Out-of-equilibrium Nanowetting
After more than two years, our work on water condensation and shaping of nano droplets is out in ACS Nano. Great collaboration with AMU University, C2N, INSA Lyon and Itodys.
Have a look here: M. Faustini et al ACS Nano 2018
20/3/2018
“Retrospective” article on the History of Hybrid Materials published in Advanced Functional Materials here the link
A very long, but instructive, bibliographical research work along the centuries, outstanding scientists and the synthetic procedures.
Take-home message: also in material’s science, Rome wasn’t built in a day…
Here a first glance of the “as accepted” article
a wink to Back to the Future…
20/2/2018
Pushing the resolution limit of nanofabrication with soft-chemistry with A. Cattoni and D. Mailly at C2N;
paper accepted in Microelectronic Engineering
2/2/2018
Maxime is joining the team. He will work on the synthesis of porous “metallic” materials made by sol-gel of noble metals. Welcome!
31/1/2018
Sol-Gel for tandem solar cells!
POST-DOC position opening now!
with C2N-CNRS
26/1/2018
Pleased to present our latest works at the SCAN Paris Diderot. Thanks to the organizers for the opportunity.
08/12/2017
Observing iridium sol-gel based materials at 800°C. Great in-situ experiment at Samba XAS beam line, Synchrotron Soleil
16/11/2017
After 3 years together, Olivier and Guillaume are doctors! Very proud of them.
22/9/2017
Olivier’s article on Evaporation-directed Crack Patterning of MOFs colloidal gels accepted in Angewandte Chemie!
Thanks to our collaborators in IMAP, ILV and LISE.
how to make photonic devices out of cracks…
3/7/2017
Nice discussion and team’s photo with Prof. K. Kuroda, the inventor of mesoporous materials, a giant in material’s chemistry
28/6/2017
“Soft chemistry meets Soft lithography”: a lecture at the C’nano International School of Nanoscience 2017
24/5/2017
Guillaume N. received the Graduate Student Award at E-MRS 2017 for his work on dew formation on sol-gel films. Congratulations!
https://www.european-mrs.com/sites/default/files/pdf/gsa_2017.pdf
11/4/2017
Ronghua’s paper on “Invisible” Photoactive Coatings accepted in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.7b02233
Our essay on Sol-gel Derived Functional Coatings for Optics is finally out. Great job Guillaume and Davide. Have a look here.
General strategy to tune optical properties of coating by sol-gel chemistry
29/1/2017
POST-DOC position available!
One 12 months post-doctoral position opening starting from January 2017!
Project “Emergences” Sorbonne University: Themo-plasmonics on nanoporous films
Do no hesitate to contact me for more information!
27/1/2017
“Lutech Trophy” for technological transfer!
for the development of the project AQUASCREEN and GLASSPRINT. What a honor!
21/11/2016
27/7/2016
Congratulation Olivier for winning the best poster award delivered by the International Sol-Gel Society for his work on photonic sensing
http://www.chimie.upmc.fr/en/awards/best-poster-summer-school-berlin-2016.html
5/5/2016
Review on nano patterning by bottom-up approach
co-written with David Grosso
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631074815001277