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Prof. J.J. Pireaux
Institute: FUNDP, Namur
Role in nano2hybrids project: Project coordinator
Ph.D. in Physics, Professor and Director of the LISE laboratory and director of the physics Department at Namur University, Belgium.
Editor of “Journal of Electron spectroscopy and Related Phenomena”, (co)editor of 16 books and proceedings, (co)author of more than 300 publications, including 8 book chapters, more than 50 invited presentations at international conferences and schools.
Research interests:
Characterization with photoelectron spectroscopy, surface treatment and filmdeposition of organic / polymer materials
Homepages:
in French: http://www.fundp.ac.be/facultes/sciences/departements/physique/recherche/centres/lise/
in English: http://www.fundp.ac.be/facultes/sciences/departements/physique/recherche/centres/lise/page_view/en/presentationlongue.html
The LISE expertise:
The “Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopies Electroniques” (or LISE) at the University of Namur has a 30+ year experience in physical chemistry of solid materials surfaces and interfaces, through in-house development of interfacial materials and their characterization by electron, ion and optical spectroscopies. More precisely, surfaces and interfaces involving polymers, organic layers, metals(oxides), fullerenes and carbon nanotubes are studied nowadays. The major objectives of the team lead by Profs. JJ. Pireaux and L. Houssiau are the understanding and development of analytical tools and their application to understand and characterize surfaces and interfaces of technologically important materials via their elemental, chemical, molecular compositions and structural/order properties.
Characterized by a multi-techniques and interdisciplinary approach, the LISE strategy (better analyzing, understanding, and optimizing) teams up physicists, chemists and engineers working with 4 XPS, 1 UPS and 1 HREELS spectrometers and one recently-installed ToF –SIMS. The scientific achievements are capitalized in 650+ refereed publications. Following its participations to 9 EU research contracts in the 90’s, LISE has been recently partner the PAMELA, ENBAC, CEZIRENCAT and CUHKO EU projects, and is now involved in the STORING MATTER and NANOBEAMS (NoE) projects. At the local level, it actually works within the Belgian “Center of Excellence”-PAI V ‘Quantum Size Effects in Nano-structured Materials”, and is also actively implied into 5 other interuniversity research contracts concerning organic polymer, carbon nanotubes and metal(oxide) interfaces. Total staff is currently 17 persons (6 permanent, 4 PhD students, 7 post-docs), without counting master students.
Key contribution to the Nano2Hybrids project:
LISE and Prof. Pireaux ’s expertise in relation with the present project stems from more than 35 publications on the building up and characterization of metal-polymer interfaces, and numerous contributions on (doped) fullerenes, on master and Ph.D. theses directly in the field of RF-plasma cleaning, functionalization and thin film deposition, and three running contracts on the use of cold plasma treatment to modify and tailor properties of metal, polymer and carbon nanotube surfaces. On the last subject and directly in relation with the actual proposal, three papers and more than 20 conference presentations have been prepared: participants #1-3 and 4 are already collaborating within the Nanobeams network of Excellence, constituting an already integrated multidisciplinary research group, capitalizing on spectroscopies and modelling; partners 1-4 and 6 apply these expertises on carbon nanotubes and gas sensors since a few years. LISE contribution will cover the building (by RF-plasma) and control in vacuo of the metal cluster –CNT interfaces, and the study of the metal diffusion and coalescence with high resolution characterization, using X-ray and Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopies, Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and IR, UV-Vis spectroscopies. The effort requested for the scientific part of this project is 36 person-months which will be complemented with internal support by one permanent scientist; as for the management, the Co-ordinator Assistant staff will be composed of a to-be-hired part time person, working with a permanent staff person.
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How nano2hybrids began... |
Jean Jacques describes how he cooked up the idea for nano2hybrids in three hours on a train! |
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Difficult nanotechnology decisions |
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How does a real science project cope with unexpected problems? Here the nano2hybrids team have to make some tough choices about metal nanoparticles in their gas detectors |
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4.28pm, Monday 25th May 2009
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We got it !! |
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12.24pm, Thursday 26th Jun 2008
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The three plasmas are working ! |
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10.10am, Friday 6th Jun 2008
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A science story begins... |
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10.01am, Thursday 5th Jun 2008
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