RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
i) Design and synthesis of helically chiral molecular architectures : aromatic oligoamide foldamers, helicenes and hybrids
ii) Study of optical and chiroptical properties : circular dichroïsm (CD), circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), nonlinear chiroptics
BACKGROUND
- Since 2008 : Chargé de Recherche CNRS at Institut of Molecular Sciences, University of Bordeaux
- 2006 - 2008 : Postdoctoral position at EPFL in Prof. Kay Severin's group, Supramolecular Chemistry Lab.
- 2003 - 2006 : Ph. D. in Molecular Chemistry from Université de Rennes 1 under guidance of Profs. Stéphane Rigaut and Daniel Touchard
Publications
Borges-Anastácio, R., Merlet, E., Adamietz, F., Kauffmann, B., Ferrand, Y., Olivier, C., Rodriguez, V. (). Probing the Nonlinear Chiroptical Activity of Multiturn Aromatic Helices Using Linearly Polarized Light. In Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Vol. 64, Issue 29, p. e202503025). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202503025
Keppetipola, N.M., Dissanayake, M., Dissanayake, P., Karunarathne, B., Dourges, M.A., Talaga, D., Servant, L., Olivier, C., Toupance, T., Uchida, S., Tennakone, K., Kumara, G.R.A., Cojocaru, L. (). Graphite-type activated carbon from coconut shell: a natural source for eco-friendly non-volatile storage devices. In Rsc Advances (Vol. 11, Issue 5, p. 2854-2865). https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ra09182k
Verreault, D., Moreno, K., Merlet, É., Adamietz, F., Kauffmann, B., Ferrand, Y., Olivier, C., Rodriguez, V. (). Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering as a New Chiroptical Method: Uncovering the Nonlinear Optical Activity of Aromatic Oligoamide Foldamers. In Journal of the American Chemical Society (Vol. 142, Issue 1, p. 257-263). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b09890
Uddin, M.T., Nicolas, Y., Olivier, C., Servant, L., Toupance, T., Li, S., Klein, A., Jaegermann, W. (). Improved photocatalytic activity in RuO2-ZnO nanoparticulate heterostructures due to inhomogeneous space charge effects. In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Vol. 17, Issue 7, p. 5090-5102). https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cp04780j
De Sousa, S., Olivier, C., Ducasse, L., Le Bourdon, G., Hirsch, L., Toupance, T. (). Oligocarbazole-based chromophores for efficient thin-film dye-sensitized solar cells. In Chemsuschem (Vol. 6, Issue 6, p. 993-996). https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201200975
Ducasse, L., Castet, F., Méreau, R., Nénon, S., Idé, J., Toupance, T., Olivier, C. (). Structure and absorption properties of the C212 dye chemisorbed onto the TiO2 (1 0 1) anatase surface. In Chemical Physics Letters (Vol. 556, p. 151-157). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2012.11.024
Uddin, M.T., Nicolas, Y., Olivier, C., Toupance, T., Servant, L., Müller, M.M., Kleebe, H.J., Ziegler, J., Jaegermann, W. (). Nanostructured SnO 2-ZnO heterojunction photocatalysts showing enhanced photocatalytic activity for the degradation of organic dyes. In Inorganic Chemistry (Vol. 51, Issue 14, p. 7764-7773). https://doi.org/10.1021/ic300794j
