Publication "Examples of physics ancient instruments use in education at the secondary school and at university levels in France supported by ASEISTE" by Françoise Khantine-Langlois, Alfonso San-Miguel, Pierre Lauginie. Chapter 7 in "Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education". Pages:122–138, ISBN: 978-90-04-49966-9 (2021). We have shown how physics ancient instruments may be transformed in an extremely powerful pedagogical tool.
Publication "Delamination of multilayer graphen stacks form its substrate through wrinkle fromation under high pressure" Ian R. Amaral et al, Carbon, 185, 242 (2021). Graphene is the ultimate sheet made of a monolayer of carbon atoms. When in contact with a surface, graphene 'sticks' and is not always easy to remove. We have found that the application of hydrostatic pressure allows stacks of graphene sheets to be lifted from the substrate...
Publication: "Collapse phase diagram of carbon nanotubes with arbitrary number of walls. Collapse modes and macroscopic analog", Y. Magnin, F. Rondepierre, W. Cui, D. Dunstan and A. San-Miguel, Carbon, 178, 552-562 (2021) (Arxiv version)...
Diatomic molecules are ubiquitous in our environment, as in the air we breathe, but if we increase the pressure by gradually bringing them closer together, until when can we still speak of differentiated molecules?...
Graphene is the ultimate foil with the thickness of an atomic layer. Two sheets of graphene is therefore... the ultimate book. We have shown that it is possible to "read" each oneof the pages of this book separately using a laser light and even more, during “printing”...
The French national agency (ANR) has financed a 3.5 year research project (January 2020 to mid 2023) entitled 2D-PRESO to study the modulation of the physical properties of 2D materials by applying mechanical efforts perpendicular to the 2D planes...
The CNRS, through the program "Biomimetism Challenge"("Défi Biomimétisme") has awarded us a one-year project to explore the development of bio-inspired graphene origami structures for NEMS development...
« High-pressure effect on the optical extinction of a single gold nanoparticle» in ACS Nano.
We have developed the first experimental method to quantitatively measure the optical absorption of an individual nanoparticle at very high-pressure (~10 GPa)...
The effect of pressure – by definition a 3‐dimensional concept – on 2‐dimensional systems brings a number of fundamental questions, which have been partly answered through newly engineered samples and experimental setups. In this review of the high‐pressure Raman studies of graphene, we underline the importance of the presence of a supporting substrate and its role for the production of biaxial strain conditions in high pressure experiments...
We have been able to change the dimensionality of carbon nanocarbons from 1D to 2D. The action of very high pressures on triple-walled carbon nanotubes lead first to their radial collapse, followed by the unzipping of the collapsed tubes and the formation of graphene nanoribbons. The investigation included the use of Raman spectroscopy, high resolution electron microscopy and atomistic molecular dynamics modelling. The study opens a new route for graphene production...