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Gacoin Thierry
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Dean of the Chemistry Department, École polytechnique - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
CNRS Senior Scientist, Professor Ecole Polytechnique
Head of the Solid State Chemistry group, EP
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- Research Themes :
- materials Chemistry and Physics,
- Liquid routes for the elaboration of colloidal nanoparticles and thin films (sol-gel, precipitation, colloid chemistry)
- Optical properties
- Micro/nanostructure effects on optical properties : size-shape-surface effects, dielectric microstructure
- Mains subjects of investigations
- Rare earth doped luminescent nanoparticles
- Nanorods with anisotropic optical properties
- Light emiting thin films
- nanostructured dielectric thin films (high/low refractive index, birefringence, Bragg mirrors, photonic crystals)
- metal/dielectric nanocomposites with transport and plasmonic properties
- Main investigated compounds
- Nanoparticles : CdS, CdS:Mn, YVO4:Ln, NaYF4:Ln, LaPO4, YAG:Ce, KTP, Ag, Au, TiO2, diamond
- sol-gel silica, silicates, meso/marcoporous silica coatings, sol-gel TiO2
- organic/inorganic hybrid materials
- Silica/TiO2/Ag nanocomposites