Physicochemistry and surface dynamics

Our scientific objectives focus on understanding small-scale systems: surfaces, interfaces, and nano-objects. We study them from their synthesis to their structural, optical, electronic, and transport properties, including their dynamics.

This expertise is made possible by our expertise in growth techniques, directional solidification, and chemical synthesis, which enable us to obtain a wide range of materials, from epitaxial nanostructures to colloidal nanoparticles and solidification microstructures.

To study their properties, we use laboratory analysis techniques (X-ray diffraction, optical spectroscopy, microscopy/near-field spectroscopy, transport measurements, photoelectron spectroscopy) and synchrotron radiation techniques (photoemission, X-ray scattering/diffraction), as well as theoretical tools (analytical methods and Monte Carlo simulations).