The nanostructures team had a nice time yesterday in Paris, on the occasion of the inaugural lesson of Thomas Ebbesen in Collège de France. Here are some souvenirs of this beautiful afternoon.
Nano team in Paris
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Poster prize in SCOM for Anoop
Our colleague Dr Anoop Thomas won the poster prize offered by Nature Nanotechnology in SCOM 2018 conference in Eindhoven. Congratulations to him, but also to his corecipient Dr Ankit Bisht from Chalmers University !
From left to right: Anoop, Alberto Moscatelli, editor in Nature Nanotechnology , and Ankit.
Remember…
Our group 10 years ago was smaller…
Permanent people are still there and all the former postdocs and phD students on the picture found a position afterwards. From left to right (with their position in 2008), Pr Ebbesen, Dr Genet, Adi Salomon (postdoc) is now leading a group in Bar-Ilan University in Israel, Eric Laux (phD) is Director in Strategy & Business Development for Quantum Global Group in Zug Switzerland, but also professor in the Luxembourg School of Business, Frédéric Przybilla (phD) is assistant professor in Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies (Pharmacy University, Strasbourg), Aurélien Drezet (postdoc) is a CNRS researcher in the team “Nano-optique et forces” (Néel Institute, Grenoble), Oussama Mahboub (phD) is assistant professor at ENSA Tétouan (Morocco), Dr Devaux, Ms Jouati our secretary, and Jean-Yves Laluet (phD) is group leader at Saint-Gobain research (Paris).
Inaugural lecture at Collège de France
As mentionned in a previous post, Thomas Ebbesen was elected to an annual chair at Collège de France this year. He will give his inaugural lecture entitled The Alchemy of the Void – Light-Matter Interactions in Physical Chemistry on May 2nd, 6pm at the Collège de France in Paris (Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre – Marcelin Berthelot), then a serie of courses will follow in May and June and the detailed program can be found here. Lectures are open to all, free of charge and without prior registration so if you can catch a train to Paris, don’t hesitate to attend !
Spying chirality nucleation
A new paper from our group has just been accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C, nicely combining physics and chemistry. Indeed, using a Mueller polarimetry optical setup, we were able to monitor the different stages of the self-assembly of an achiral cyanine molecule into supramolecular chiral aggregates. You will find the just accepted version on the publications page.
20th birthday
At 20, one is still young but already an adult… with a bit of delay, happy birthday to the seminal paper of Pr. Thomas Ebbesen about extraordinary transmission, that was published in Nature in February 1998 ! To (re)read it, just click the link.
Women at ISIS
Here is a nice picture of women working at ISIS taken on March 8th in front of the institute, to celebrate women’s international day.
Note that they are accompanied by Pr. Lehn and Pr. Samori.
Visit of Atef Shalabney
Atef Shalabney, now assistant professor in ORT Braude College, is courageous enough to leave the sweet sun of Israël and visit us for 3 weeks. He’ll be among us till March 1st and will be installed in room 107 during his stay.
Recipe for a Chiraliton
Take a plasmon mode having a its spin-momentum locked. Add a strong valley exciton, spin-polarized. Keep them together at room temperature. You will obtain a nice chiraliton.
For a more detailed recipe, check this publication in ACS Photonics, result of a fruitful collaboration between former and actual members of our group and colleagues at IPCMS. Bon appétit !
Thomas Ebbesen Doctor Honoris Causa from KU Leuven
On the occasion of Patron Saint’s Day, February 2nd, Thomas Ebbesen received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University (Katholieke Universiteit) of Leuven. He was nominated by Professors Johan Hofkens and Maarten Roeffaers, during an impressive and beautiful ceremony.
A nice article, with a short video interview, have been published on the KU Leuven news website, and you can read it here in english.
