POUGET Emilie

My research aims at understanding some of the basic principles of molecular organic self-assemblies and hybrid organic/inorganic structures formation in order to develop new nanofabrication strategies to control the morphologies from the nanometric scale to the macroscopic level. I am particularly interested into the chiral self-assemblies and their inorganic transcription, forming chiral colloid suspensions. I am working on the hybrid organic/inorganic systems, particularly concerning the plasmonic and magnetic hybrid structures. More generally, starting from silica nanohelices, we design in the group a panel of functional nano-objects giving efficient chiroptical properties, magnetic ones, piezoelectric sensors, catalysts etc…

Selected publications:

- E. Pouget, E. Dujardin, A. Cavalier, A. Moreac, C. Valery, V. Marchi-Artzner, T. Weiss, A. Renault, M. Paternostre and F. Artzner. "Hierarchical architectures by synergy between dynamical template self-assembly and biomineralization", Nature Materials 2007, 6, 434

- T. Delclos, C. Aime, E. Pouget, A. Brizard, I. Huc, M.H. Delville and R. Oda, “Individualized silica nanohelices and nanotubes: tuning inorganic nanostructures using lipidic self-assemblies”, Nano Letters 2008, 8(7), 1929-1934

- Y. Okazaki, J. Cheng, D. Dedovets, G. Kemper, M.-H. Delville, M.-C. Durrieu, H. Ihara, M. Takafuji, E. Pouget* and R. Oda*, “Chiral Colloids: Homogeneous Suspension of Individualized SiO2 Helical and Twisted Nanoribbons”, ACS Nano 2014, 8 (7), 6863–6872

- J. Cheng, G. Le Saux, J. Gao, T. Buffeteau, Y. Battié, P. Barois, V. Ponsinet, M.-H. Delville, O. Ersen, E. Pouget*, R. Oda*, “GoldHelix : Gold Nanoparticles Forming 3D Helical Superstructures with Controlled Morphology and Strong Chiroptical Property”, ACS Nano 2017, 11 (4), 3806–3818

- G. Duroux, L. Robin, P. Liu, E. Dols, M. De Souza Lima Mendes, S. Buffière, E. Pardieu, A. Scalabre, T. Buffeteau, S. Nlate, R. Oda, M.S. Raju, M. Atzori, C. Train, G.L.J.A. Rikken, P. Rosa, E.A. Hillard*, E. Pouget*, "Induced circular dichroism from helicoidal nano substrates to porphyrins: the role of chiral self-assembly", Nanoscale 2023, 15, 12095-12104

I studied the chemistry at the Polytechnic National Institute of Toulouse (INP Toulouse, France) and obtained my Master degree in 2002 (specialization in Materials science). In 2006, I obtained my PhD from the University of Rennes for my work on the mineralization of peptidic self-assembled nanotubes under the supervision of Dr. Franck Artzner. This work is described in the PhD thesis: "Nanotubes de silice obtenus par biominéralisation d’un auto-assemblage peptidique : structure et mécanismes de formation".

From 2006 to 2008, I went to the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) to work as a post-doc in the Biomineralization group supervised by Nico Sommerdijk. I specialized into the kinetic studies of biomineralization by coupling the cryoTEM tomography and the electron diffraction. I then worked one year in collaboration with the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal in Bordeaux (France) and the Forschungzentrum in Jülich (Germany) studying a biological liquid crystal. In 2009, I got an award to study the mineralization of this biological liquid crystal.

Since January 2012, I am working as researcher at the CNRS, in the CBMN Institute (Chimie et Biologie des Membranes et des Nanoobjets) in Bordeaux, France. I am involved in most of the project studied in the Chiral Molecular Assemblies’ group.