Alain PAILLERET

Associate Professor at Sorbonne University (ex UPMC)

LISE UMR CNRS/SU 8235,

orcid.org/0000-0002-4296-4188

Tower 13-14, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris
Office : 13-14.212 (2^nd floor)
Phone : +33 1 44 27 41 69

E-mail : alain.pailleret@sorbonne-universite.fr

Biography :

Education and carrier :

• 2009 : associate professor (HDR) at UPMC
• 2003- : Assistant professor at LISE (UPMC)
• 2002-2003 : post-doctoral fellow at LECA (ENSCP, Paris)
• 1999-2002 : Ph.D. in electrochemistry (Univ. of Salford, United Kingdom of Gr. B)
• 1998 : DEA in Electrochemistry (Univ. J. Fourier and Inst. Nat. Polytech. Grenoble)

Research domains:

• Development of couplings of techniques involving AFM
  • Electrochemistry-AFM (EC-AFM) coupling
  • AFM-QCM coupling
  • Conductivity probe - AFM coupling (CS-AFM and pc-AFM, I/V curves)
• Composite and/or nanostructured electrode materials
  • Amorphous carbon nitrides (a-CNx thin films)
  • Conducting polymers
  • Nanostructured transition metal oxides
  • Conducting polymer / metal oxide composite materials
  • Conducting polymer / a-CNx composite materials
• Energy conversion and storage
• Protection against corrosion

Tools and investigation methods :

• AFM (contact, AM-AFM, and PI-AFM working modes, force curves, friction loops)
• Classical electrochemical techniques (CV, EIS, pulsed techniques), photoassisted electrodeposition methods, surface treatment electrochemical methods
• Electrochemistry of semi-conductors and photo-electrolysis

Teaching activities :

• Chemistry of solutions (LU1Cl002) and electrochemistry (LU3Cl011 and Master MEEF)
• Formation permanente « AFM at electrochemical interfaces»

Divers :

•    Member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), of Société Chimique de France (SCF), and of French Centre for anticorrosion (CEFRACOR).