People

The team

We are four young researchers with complementary expertise in modeling and experiments. We already collaborated successfully on thermal transport at liquid/solid interfaces, electrokinetic effects in liquid foams, solid-state nanopores, and very recently on ab initio measurement of liquid/solid friction at defective surfaces.

Laurent Joly (principal investigator) is a professor in the "Modeling of condensed matter and interfaces" team of the Institute of Light and Matter (ILM). He is an expert of nanofluidic transport, which he models by combining analytical developments and numerical simulations at different scales, with an emphasis on molecular dynamics simulations. He recently learned ab initio methods during a sabbatical in the group of Angelos Michaelides (University College London), expert of quantum chemistry methods applied to interfacial water. He now wishes to combine his knowledge of fluidic transport with ab initio methods to investigate the role of interfacial reactivity on transport in close interaction with experiments, as he has done fruitfully in the past. Webpage - Google scholar - Researchgate

Samy Merabia is a CNRS researcher in the "Modeling of condensed matter and interfaces" team of the ILM. He has a complementary expertise in analytical and numerical modeling of thermal transport at interfaces, which is a key component of this project. In particular, he probed the behavior of soft matter systems under nanoscale temperature gradients, using molecular dynamics and continuum models. Google scholar

Anne-Laure Biance is a CNRS researcher in the "Liquids and Interfaces" team of the ILM. She is an expert in the physics of foams and in nanofluidics. She in particular developed different experimental techniques to measure electrokinetic transport near surfactant laden interfaces, in boron nitride nanotubes (osmotic current), in nanopores (Coulter counting) and nanochannels (diffusioosmosis). Webpage

Oriane Bonhomme is an assistant professor in the "Non-linear optics and interfaces" team of the ILM. She brings her knowledge in non-linear optics techniques and nanofluidic flow. Combination of these techniques enables her to characterize surface composition and dynamics of interfaces such as soap films. Webpage