List of projects:

• Radiolysis as a tool to accelerate ageing in Lithium-ion batteries
• Radiolysis in confined media

Main results:

• Reaction mechanisms on a large timescale in various carbonates used in electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries.
• Charge separation effects in inorganic nanotubes.

Most important related posts:

• Confined water radiolysis in aluminosilicate nanotubes: the importance of charge separation effects
• Reaction mechanisms in swelling clays under ionizing radiation: influence of the water amount and of the nature of the clay mineral
• Role of PF₆^– in the radiolytical and electrochemical degradation of propylene carbonate solutions
• Ultrafast decay of the solvated electron in a neat polar solvent: the unusual case of propylene carbonate
• Electrolytes Ageing in Lithium‐ion Batteries: A Mechanistic Study from Picosecond to Long Timescales

List of projects:

• pathways of DNA damage under ionizing radiation

Main results:

coming soon

Most important related posts:

• One Way Traffic: Base‐to‐Backbone Hole Transfer in Nucleoside Phosphorodithioate
• Observation of dissociative quasi-free electron attachment to nucleoside via excited anion radical in solution
• Ultrafast Electron Attachment and Hole Transfer Following Ionizing Radiation of Aqueous Uridine Monophosphate
• Direct observation of the oxidation of DNA bases by phosphate radicals formed under radiation: a model of the backbone-to-base hole transfer

List of projects:

• Study of radiolysis mechanisms in the nuclear fuel cycle:
  • aqueous media: HNO₃, anti-nitrous agent, U(IV), …
  • organic media: extractants (TBP), …

Main results:

• Real-Time Observation of Solvation Dynamics of Electron in Actinide Extraction Binary Solutions of Water and n-TriButyl Phosphate

• Decay Mechanism of NO₃• Radical in Highly Concentrated Nitrate and Nitric Acidic Solutions in the Absence and Presence of Hydrazine

• Pulse radiolysis study on the reactivity of NO3• radical toward Uranous (IV), hydrazinium nitrate and hydroxyl ammonium nitrate at room temperature and at 45°C

Most important related posts:

• Pulse radiolysis study on the reactivity of NO₃^˙ radical toward uranous(iv), hydrazinium nitrate and hydroxyl ammonium nitrate at room temperature and at 45 °C

List of projects:

• Transient electrochemistry coupled with pulse radiolysis

Main results:

• Creation of methylviologene redox intermediate produced by a picosecond electron accelerator. Simultaneous detection by transient absorption and transient electrochemical techniques of the methylviologen radical cation.
• Study of reactivity of a guanosine radical created by a radiolytic electron pulse both by spectroscopic and electrochemical methods.  The emphasis of competition between oxidation and reduction of the guanosine radical; an important result to further analyze the degradation or repair pathways of DNA bases.

List of projects:

• Quasi-free Electron Attachment to DNA in Liquids;
• Radiation-generated Electrons for Substantial Energy;
• Ultrafast Processes in Radiolysis of Extractors and Solvents in PUREX process;
• Intermediates in Radiation Synthesis of Advanced Materials.

Main results:

coming soon

Most important related posts:

• Observation of dissociative quasi-free electron attachment to nucleoside via excited anion radical in solution
• Ultrafast Electron Attachment and Hole Transfer Following Ionizing Radiation of Aqueous Uridine Monophosphate
• Direct observation of the oxidation of DNA bases by phosphate radicals formed under radiation: a model of the backbone-to-base hole transfer