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Alain Walcarius

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Présentation

Research Director at CNRS
Head of the « Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry » (ELAN) group of LCPME

Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Microbiology for Materials and the Environment (LCPME)
Address: LCPME-CNRS, 405 rue de Vandoeuvre, 54600 Villers-les-Nancy
Tel. : 03 72 74 73 75 ; Fax : 03 83 27 54 44 ; E-mail : alain.walcarius@univ-lorraine.fr

Main research themes

# Reactivity of silica-based organic-inorganic hybrid materials in aqueous media

# Functional mesoporous materials in electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, and environment

# Electrochemically-assisted generation of functionalized and/or mesostructured sol-gel films

# Development of bioelectrocatalytic reactors of novel generation based on nanomaterials

Educational background and career

1994 PhD level in Sciences (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgique)

1995 Post-doctoral fellow (New Mexico State University, USA, Pr. J. Wang)

1996 Post-doctoral fellow, then Research Associate to CNRS at LCPME

2000 Habilitation for managing Research (University Henri Poincaré, Nancy I)

2001 Head of the « Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry » (ELAN) group at LCPME

2004 Research Director at CNRS (DR2, LCPME; DR1 in 2011, DRCE in 2021)

2005-2010 Deputy Director of LCPME

2011-2020 Director of LCPME

Fields of expertise

# Electroanalytical chemistry and sensors – Electrogeneration of sol-gel-derived materials

# Analytical investigation of solid/liquid interfaces (mass transport and charge transfert)

# Chemistry and physical chemistry with silica-based, porous and functionalized materials

Student supervison

- 27 PhD students (24 graduated).

- 7 Bachelor final year projects (Belgium) and 8 Master theses (France) + ~20 interns.

Some responsibilities

- "Délégué Scientifique" (officer) at the CNRS Direction (Chemistry Institute)

- Officer at the International Society of Electrochemistry (Chair of the Analytical Electrochemistry Division)

- Member of the Editorial Board of Sensors & Actuators B (Elsevier) and Electroanalysis (Wiley)

- Member of the scientific committees of national and international conferences (24 int. + 6 nat.)

- Expert for a number of national funding agencies (France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Czech Republic)

Awards

- June 1999: Award for Analytical Electrochemistry (Radiometer & Electrochemistry group & SFC)

- January 2001: Award from the Analytical Chemistry Division of the French Society of Chemistry

- September 2007: Tajima Prize 2006 of ISE (International Society of Electrochemistry)

- November 2013: Doctor Honoris Causa from University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

- October 2015: Senior Researcher Award, Physical Chemistry Division of the French Society of Chemistry

- August 2016: Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry

- October 2019: Prix Langevin of the French Academy of Sciences

- March 2021: Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials

Publications (~335)

- Peer-reviewed international papers: 315 (> 14 600 cit., H = 62 (WoS) or > 20 000 cit., H = 75 (google scholar))

- Book chapters: 12 + 1 book (Electroanalysis with Carbon Paste Electrodes)

- Proceedings: 23

- Patents: 3

5 significant publications

# A. Walcarius, E. Sibottier, M. Etienne and J. Ghanbaja, Electrochemically-assisted self assembly of mesoporous silica thin films, Nature Materials, 2007, 6, 602-608.

# A. Walcarius, Mesoporous materials and electrochemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, 2013, 42, 4098-4140.

# N. Vilà, J. Ghanbaja, E. Aubert and A. Walcarius, Electrochemically assisted generation of highly ordered azide-functionalized mesoporous silica for oriented hybrid films, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, 53, 2945-2950.

# N. Vilà, E. André, R. Ciganda, J. Ruiz, D. Astruc and A. Walcarius, Molecular sieving with vertically-aligned mesoporous silica films and electronic wiring through isolating nanochannels, Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28, 2511-2514.

# A. Walcarius, Electro-induced surfactant self-assembly driven to vertical growth of oriented mesoporous films, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021, 54, 3563-3575.

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