Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics 

of Colloids, Surfaces & Biointerfaces  

 

      Current research topics

 
  • Biophysics of whole-cell luminescent biosensor's response & Applications to contaminants toxicity evaluation, metal bioavailability quantification, virus detection, and water quality assessment
  • Biophysical chemistry of cell adhesion to biotic/abiotic surfaces, homotypic/heterotypic cell interactions
  • Thermodynamics & kinetics of metal complexation by ionic/molecular ligands, nano-sized particles and colloids
  • Dynamics of reactive transfer of contaminants (metals and organics) to accumulating biointerfaces, dynamics of contaminants bioaccumulation and speciation, (bioavai)lability of contaminants
  • Chemical physics of contaminants adsorption and accumulation by colloidal vectors, e.g. micro/nanoplastics
  • Biophysics of contaminants-(micro)organisms-colloids interactions at the molecular, cellular and mesoscopic scales
  • Applications of atomic force micro/spectro-scopies (AFM, SMFS), fluorescence micro/spectro-scopies (CLSM, FLIM) and non-linear optic processes (SHG) in nanotoxicology and biogeosciences
  • Electrohydrodynamics (electrokinetics) of soft surfaces, soft (bio)colloids and polymer films : fundamentals and applications 
  • Electrophoresis of nano- and micro-organisms (bacteria, yeasts, viruses)
  • Computational flow dynamics in microfluidics and nanofluidics & Applications