MANA Young Scientist

Name: Dr. Lionel VAYSSIERES

Institute obtained PhD: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

 Research Interests or Research Plan:
Chemistry and Physics of ordered 1-D Metal Oxide Nano Arrays from aqueous solutions

 

 

Biographical Notes

Born in 1968, Lionel obtained a MSc. in Physical Chemistry in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in November 1995 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in Paris, France for his research work on the Interfacial and thermodynamic growth control of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions with Prof. Jacques Livage at the CNRS Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée. Thereafter, he joined Uppsala University, Sweden as a postdoctoral researcher for the Swedish Materials Consortium on Clusters and Ultrafine Particles to extend his concepts and develop purpose-built metal oxide nanomaterials for photoelectrochemical applications with Prof. Sten-Eric Lindquist as well as to characterize their electronic structure by x-ray spectroscopies at synchrotron radiation facilities with Profs. Hans Siegbahn & Joseph Nordgren.

He has been invited as a visiting scientist: at the department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA on nanocomposite metallic oxides for biosensors by Prof. Adam Heller; at the UNESCO Centre for Macromolecules & Materials and at the department of Biochemistry, at Stellenbosch University, South Africa on bio-nanocomposite materials by Profs. Ron Sanderson & Pieter Swart; at the Glenn T. Seaborg Center, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA on actinide nanomaterials by Dr. David Shuh; at the Texas Materials Institute on metal oxide-based nanomaterials for optical, magnetic, and energy storage and conversion devices by Profs. Arumugam Manthiram & Llewellyn Rabenberg; and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland on metal oxide oriented arrays for photocatalytic devices by Prof. Michael Graetzel; at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, by Prof. G.Q. Max Lu, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore by Prof. X. W. Sun, and at iThemba LABS in Cape Town, South Africa by Dr. Maaza on 1D nanodevices.

He has (co-)authored about 50 refereed publications which have already generated about 2000 citations (since year 2000), 3 ISI highly cited papers (first author) for the last 10 years, single author 2003 paper No.1 in the Top 10 hot papers in Chemistry (Jul-Aug 05), No. 2 in the Top 3 hot papers published in Materials Science (Sep-Dec 05) and No. 3 (May-June 05) in major international journals, refereed proceedings and book series. He has been interviewed by In-cites/ISI as well as by ScienceWatch in 2006 for a single authored 2003 paper cited now 500 times. Two other first and corresponding author 2001 papers have already been cited over 275 times. He has presented over 170 lectures and seminars at universities, governmental and industrial research institutes and international conferences in over 25 countries as well as acting as chairman, executive program committee, and advisory member at major international conferences and projects worldwide.

He is a referee for Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry A European Journal, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Communications, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Inorganic Chemistry, ChemPhysChem, Nanotechnology, Langmuir, Crystal Growth & Design, Electrochemical Solid State Letters, Electrochemistry Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Chemical Physics Letters, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Applied Physics, New Journal of Chemistry, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Applied Surface Science, Applied Catalysis A, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Comptes Rendus Chimie, Thin Solid Films, Materials Chemistry & Physics, Composites Engineering B, Materials Letters, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Australian Journal of Chemistry, Small, Chemistry An Asian Journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

He is a senior research scientist at the International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan; a R&D consultant; a guest scientist at the Chemical Sciences Division and the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA as well as at the Materials Chemistry Department at Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden.

He is the founder, organizer and chairman of the 1st international symposium dedicated to Solar Hydrogen & Nanotechnology, sponsored by the International Society for Optical Engineering held in San Diego, CA August 14-17, 2006 during SPIE Optics & Photonics meeting. World-renowned scientists presented the 4-day symposium and a 340-page proceeding was published.

He co-organized the 1st symposium on Nanostructured Materials & Nanotechnology: Development and Applications held during the 31st International Cocoa Beach conference & exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites organized by the American Ceramic Society at the Hilton Daytona Beach Resort & Ocean Center in Florida , January 21-26, 2007.

He is the co-organizer of the symposium dedicated to Nanowires & Nanotubes for the IEEE International NanoElectronics Conference (INEC) in conjunction with the Shanghai Nanophotonics & Electronics forum to be held in Shanghai, China March 24-27, 2008: http://www.ieeenec.org/topic02/ as well as for the 2nd International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Oxides to be in Crete, October 22-26, 2008: http://www.iesl.forth.gr/conferences/tco2008/

He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a new SCI-indexed journal dedicated to nanotechnology reviews, the International Journal of Nanotechnology (ISSN 1475-7435(Print) and 7141-8151(Online)) published by Inderscience Entreprises Ltd., http://www.inderscience.com/ijnt

Int. J. Nanotechnol. has released twelve special issues and five regular ones, representing a total of 208 articles and editorials (mostly invited) and about 3700 pages of in-depth coverage of major topics related to nanotechnology written by professionals from all over the world (30 different countries and counting). The journal has been released at major international conferences in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and is indexed in leading publication databases i.e. ANTE, Chemical Abstracts® Services, Compendex®, Current Contents® (Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences and Engineering, Computing & Technology), Engineered Materials Abstracts, Google™Scholar, Ingenta Connect, INSPEC®, Journal Citation Reports®, Materials Science Citation Index®, Metadex, Pascal®, Science Citation Index™, SciFinder Scholar®, Scopus®, Technology and Management (TEMA), the Web of Science® and shortly in PubMed/MEDLINE.

A total of over 315 citations can be found (h index 11). An Impact Factor should have been released this year (IF 2006) but Thomson Corporation has officially announced that the citations are being collected only from the 2nd Volume (2005) leaving behind numerous citations from the inaugural volume (2004) with several articles in the top 1-10% for citations in Materials Science according to the latest Essential Science Indicators percentiles table.

 
2008, Volume 5, 1393 pages, 69 articles
No. 1, special issue on Nanotoxicity;
Nos. 2-3, special issue on Nanotechnology in Australia;
Nos. 4-5, special issue on Nanosensors;
Nos. 6-8, special issue on Nanotechnology in France;
Nos. 9-12, special issue on Nanotechnology in Canada;

2007, Volume 4, 790 pages, 54 articles
Nos. 1-2, special double issue on Nanotechnology in China;
No. 3, special issue on Nanomaterials for Security Technologies;
No. 4, special issue on Nanotechnology in Singapore;
No. 5, special issue on Australia-Brazil Bio- & Nanotechnology;
No. 6, regular issue;

2006, Volume 3, 592 pages, 35 articles
Nos. 1, special issue on Progress in Nanomaterials in Ukraine;
Nos. 2-3, special double issue on Nanotechnology in Korea;
No. 4, regular issue;
 
2005, Volume 2, 477 pages, 27 articles
Nos. 1-2, special double issue on Nanotechnology in Spain, official release at Trends in Nanotechnology 2005, Oviedo, Spain;
No. 3, special issue on Nano Toolkit, official release at IEEE NanoSingapore 2006, Singapore;
No. 4, regular issue, official release at MRS Fall meeting 2005, Symposium R, Boston, MA, USA;

2004, Volume 1, 497 pages, 23 articles
Nos. 1-2, inaugural double issue, official release at MRS Fall meeting 2003, Boston, MA, USA;
No. 3, regular issue, official release at ICCE-11 2004, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA;
No. 4, regular issue, official release at Nanotech Insight 2005, Luxor, Egypt;

Forthcoming special issues:
  • Africa (M. Maaza, iThemba LABS; A.C. Beye, Univ. Senegal)
  • Egypt (I. A. Ibrahim, CMRDI)
  • Greece (C. Fotakis, IESL; A. Nassiopoulou, IMEL/NCSR)
  • India (G.U. Kulkarni, Jawaharlal Nehru Ctr; J. Kumar, Indian Inst.Tech.)
  • Ireland (W. Ahmed, University of Ulster)
  • Italy (A. deBattisti, Ferrara Uni.; G. Bottaro, D. Barreca, Padova Univ.)
  • Japan (Y. Tachibana, Osaka University)
  • Latin America (A. Fernandez, Universidad de Venezuela)
  • New Zealand (J. Travas-Sejdic, Auckland University)
  • Sweden (G. Westin, Uppsala University)
  • Taiwan (Y.-Y. Chen, M. K. Wu, Academia Sinica)
  • Thailand (J. Dutta, Asian Institute of Technology)
  • Vietnam (L. V. Hong, Institute of Materials Science)

    •  Other special issues:
    Nanomedicine     (H. Hosseinkhani, NIMS, Japan)
    Nanotechnology for gas and oil industry (S. Mokhatab, Univ. Wyoming, USA)
    Citations
        The total citation: 315 (h index = 11) according to SCOPUS (based on 176 documents) and the Web of Science

    Recent Publications 2004-2007

    L. Vayssieres, “On aqueous interfacial thermodynamics and the design of metal oxide nanostructures” in Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Oxide Nanomaterials, edited by J. A. Rodriguez and M. Fernandez-Garcia (John Wiley & Sons, 2007, 756 pages), Chapter II, pp. 49-78

    L. Vayssieres, “An aqueous approach to advanced metal oxide arrays on substrates”, Appl. Phys. A 2007, 89(1), 1-8

    L. Vayssieres, “On the aqueous stabilisation of crystalline metastable nanostructures”, Int. J. Nanotechnology 2007, 4(6), 750-775

    L. Vayssieres (editor), Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology, Proc. SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 2006, Vol. 6340, 336 pages

    J. X. Wang, X. W. Sun, Y. Yi, H. Huang, Y. C. Lee, O. K. Tan, and L.Vayssieres, “Hydrothermally grown ZnO nanorod arrays for gas sensing applications”, Nanotechnology 2006, 17(19), 4995-4998 cited: 19   top 0.1-1 %

    L. Vayssieres, “Advanced semiconductor nanostructures”, C. R. Chimie 2006, 9(5-6), 691-701  cited: 6    top 10-20 %

    C. Persson, C.L. Dong, L. Vayssieres, A. Augustsson, T, Schmitt, M. Mattesini, R. Ahuja, J. Nordgren, C.L. Chang, A. Ferreira da Silva, J.-H. Guo “x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy of ZnO nanoparticles and highly oriented ZnO microrod arrays”, Microelectronics J. 2006, 37(8), 686-689 cited: 3    top 10%

    L. Vayssieres, “On the thermodynamic stability of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions”, Int. J. Nanotechnology 2005, 2(4), 411-439   cited: 7    top 10 %

    L. Vayssieres*, C. Sathe, S. M. Butorin, D. K. Shuh, J. Nordgren, J.-H. Guo*, “1-D quantum confinement effect in a-Fe2O3 ultrafine nanorod arrays”, Adv. Mater. 2005, 17(19), 2320-2323   cited: 21  top 1-10 %  

    L. Vayssieres* and M. Graetzel, “Highly ordered SnO2 nanorod-arrays from controlled aqueous growth”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43(28), 3666-3670   cited: 55    top  1-10 % 

    L. Vayssieres, “On the design of advanced metal oxide nanomaterials”, Int. J. Nanotechnology 2004, 1(1-2), 1-41   cited: 40    top 1%

    C. L. Dong, C. Persson, L. Vayssieres, A. Augustsson, T, Schmitt, M. Mattesini, R. Ahuja, C. L. Chang and J.-H. Guo “The electronic structure of nanostructured ZnO from x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy and the local density approximation”, Phys. Rev. B 2004, 70(19), 195325   cited: 37   top 1-10 %

     

    Selected Publications 1998-2003 (sorted by citations)

        Papers L. Vayssieres, “Growth of arrayed nanorods and nanowires of ZnO from aqueous solutions”, Adv. Mater. 2003, 15(5), 464-466   cited: 490   top <<0.01%  

     L. Vayssieres*, K. Keis, A. Hagfeldt and S.-E. Lindquist, “Three-dimensional array of highly oriented crystalline ZnO Microtubes”, Chem. Mater. 2001, 13(12), 4395-4398  cited: 277  top 0.01-0.1%

    L. Vayssieres*, K. Keis, S.-E.Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt, “Purpose-built anisotropic metal oxide material: 3D highly oriented microrod-array of ZnO”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105(17), 3350-3352  cited: 274   top 0.1-1 %

    L. Vayssieres*, C. Chaneac, E. Tronc, J.P. Jolivet, “Size tailoring of magnetite particles formed by aqueous precipitation: An example of thermodynamic stability of nanometric oxide particles”, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 1998, 205(2), 205-212 cited: 92 top 1%

     L. Vayssieres*, N. Beermann, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt, “Controlled aqueous chemical growth of oriented three-dimensional nanorod Arrays: Application to Iron(III) oxides”, Chem. Mater. 2001, 13(2), 233-235    cited: 91   top 0.1-1%

    L. Patthey, H. Rensmo, P. Persson, L.Vayssieres, K. Westermark, P. Brühwiler, H. Siegbahn, N. Mårtensson, A. Stashans, S. Lunell, “Adsorption of bi-isonicotinic acid on Rutile TiO2 (110)“, J. Chem. Phys. 1999, 110(12), 5913-5918  cited: 87    top 1-10%

    N. Beermann, L. Vayssieres, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt, “Photoelectrochemical studies of oriented nanorod thin films of Hematite”, J. Electrochem. Soc. 2000, 147(7), 2456-2461 cited: 75    top 1-10 %

    K. Keis, L. Vayssieres, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt, “Nanostructured ZnO electrodes for photovoltaic applications”, Nanostruct. Mater. 1999, 12(1-4), 487-490 cited: 70    top 1-10 %

    L. Vayssieres*, A. Hagfeldt and S.-E. Lindquist, “Purpose-built metal oxide nanomaterials. The emergence of a new generation of smart materials”, Pure Appl. Chem. 2000, 72(1-2), 47-52  cited: 51    top 1-10 %

    K. Keis, L. Vayssieres, H. Rensmo, S.-E. Lindquist and A. Hagfeldt, “Photoelectrochemical properties of nano-to-microstructured ZnO electrodes“, J. Electrochem. Soc. 2001, 148(2), A149-A155  cited: 44    top 1-10 %

    T. Lindgren, H. Wang, N. Beermann, L. Vayssieres, A. Hagfeldt, S.-E. Lindquist, “Aqueous photoelectrochemistry of hematite nanorod-array”, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2002, 71(2), 231-243  cited: 43     top 1-10 %

    J.-H. Guo, L.Vayssieres, C. Persson, R. Ahuja, B. Johansson and J. Nordgren, “Polarization-dependent soft-xray absorption of highly oriented ZnO microrods” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2002, 14(28), 6969-6974  cited: 37  top 1-10%

    L. Vayssieres*, L. Rabenberg and A. Manthiram, “Aqueous chemical route to ferromagnetic 3D arrays of iron nanorods”, Nano Lett. 2002, 2(12), 1393-1395  cited: 32    top 1-10 %

    L. Vayssieres*, J.-H. Guo and J. Nordgren, “Aqueous chemical growth of α-Fe2O3-α-Cr2O3 nanocomposite thin films”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 2001, 1(4), 385-388   cited: 21    top 1-10 %

    T. Lindgren, L. Vayssieres, H. Wang and S.-E. Lindquist, “Photo-oxidation of water at hematite electrodes”, in Chemical Physics of Nanostructured Semiconductors, edited by A. I. Kokorin & D. W. Bahnemann, (VSP-International Science Publishers, 2003), pp. 83-110 cited: 17

    L. Vayssieres*, A. Manthiram, “2-D mesoparticulate arrays of α-Cr2O3”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107(12), 2623-2625  cited: 17   top 10-20 %

    L. Vayssieres* and A. Manthiram, “One-dimensional metal oxide nanostructures” in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, edited by H. S. Nalwa , (American Scientific Publishers, 2004), Vol. 8, pp. 147-166 cited: 8

    L. Vayssieres, Y. Alfredsson and H. Siegbahn, “Electrochromic Properties of bis(phthalocyaninato)lutetium(III) sensitized nanostructured anatase TiO 2 thin film”, Electrochem. Solid-State Lett. 1999, 2(12), 648-650  cited: 5

    L. Rabenberg and L. Vayssieres, “Multiple orientation relationships among nanocrystals of manganese oxides”, Microsc. Microanal. 2003, 9(2), 402-403 cited: 4