Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille

A journey with phosphorus compounds for nanomaterials and nanocatalysis

The design of nanocatalysts offers the opportunity to explore a broad range of transition-metal containing phases as well as to tailor their surface state.[1] It is especially interesting to target...

Ultrafast Micrometric Laser Structuring of Polymer Surfaces for Highly Organized Skeletal Muscle Tissue Modeling

ABSTRACT Engineered surface topographies have proven to be an efficient method to replicate in vitro the architecture of highly organized tissues by controlling the spatial arrangement of cells. In this work, we studied the ability to guide muscle cell development using femtoseco...

Micro-scale organization of non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs drives nitrogen fixation in marine particles

Abstract Dinitrogen (N₂) fixation supplies reactive nitrogen to the ocean, and non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs (NCDs) are increasingly recognized as contributors. Marine particles have been theorized as hotspots where low oxygen and labile carbon favor N₂ fixation by NCDs, but emp...

Magnetic Field Tuning of Modulated Magnetic Orders in CrOCl at the Two‐Dimensional Limit

Chromium oxychloride is a van der Waals magnet with intrinsic competing exchange interactions, including a strong antiferromagnetic one, source of a very rich magnetic phase diagram, with ferrimagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and canted states, up to high magnetic fields. We investig...

Molecular Rotors: From Newtonian Fluids to Functional Materials as Viscosity and Temperature Sensing Tools

ABSTRACT Molecular rotors (MRs) are a distinctive class of fluorescent molecules whose photophysical properties are influenced by their surrounding environment, making them valuable as viscosity nanosensors. However, interpreting their fluorescence responses in complex systems po...