Axel Wilson

Domaine d’expertise

Applications

• Physico-chimie de surfaces fonctionnelles
• Catalyse hétérogène proche des conditions réelles de fonctionnement
• Électrochimie en conditions réelles de fonctionnement
• Développement d’environnements échantillon

Techniques expérimentales de laboratoire

• Microscopie de champ proche (AFM, STM)
• Microscopie électronique (TEM, SEM)
• Diffraction de rayon X (XRD)
• Spectroscopie de photoémission de rayon X (XPS)
• Caractérisation sous ultravide (LEED, AES, TPD...)

Techniques expérimentales avec source synchrotron

• Diffraction de rayons X en incidence rasante (GI-XRD, GI-SAXS)
• Absorption de rayon X (XANES, EXAFS, XFS)
• Spectroscopie de photoémission de rayon X à pression modérée (NAP-XPS)
• Microscopie de photoémission d’électron (PEEM)

Fonction et rattachement

Chargé de recherche CNRS (section 14 : Chimie de coordination, catalyse, interfaces et procédés)

Unité mixte de recherche Sorbonne-Université/CNRS Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface (LRS - UMR 7197)

Carrière

• 2019 : Chargé de recherche CNRS au Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, Sorbonne-Université (Paris, France)
• 2016 - 2019 : Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship, Science Division, Diamond Light Source Ltd. (Oxford, UK)
• 2015 - 2016 : Post-Doc, Department of Chemistry, University College London (Londres, UK)
• 2011 - 2014 : Thèse de physique, Institut de NanoSciences de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France)

Publications

• Design and Optimization of A Magneto-Plasmonic Sandwich Biosensor for Integration within Microfluidic Devices, Mona Soroush, Walid Ait Mammar, Axel Wilson, Hedayatollah Ghourchian, Michèle Salmain, and Souhir Boujday, Biosensors, 12(10), (2022), 799, Link

• Structure of the Surface Region of Stainless Steel: Bulk and Thin Films, Debi Garai, Axel Wilson, Ilaria Carlomagno, Carlo Meneghini, Francesco Carla, Hadeel Hussain, Ajay Gupta, Jörg Zegenhagen, Phys. Status Solidi B, (2022), 2100513, Link

• Studying the onset of galvanic steel corrosion in situ using thin films: film preparation, characterization and application to pitting, D. Garai, V. Solokha, A. Wilson, I. Carlomagno, A. Gupta, M Gupta, V R Reddy, C. Meneghini, F. Carla, C. Morawe and J. Zegenhagen,J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 33, (2021), 125001, Link

• Swelling of Steel Film by Hydrogen Absorption at Cathodic Potential in Electrolyte, D. Garai, I. Carlomagno, V. Solokha, A. Wilson, C. Meneghini, C. Morawe, V. Murzin, A. Gupta, J. Zegenhagen, Phys. Status Solidi B, 257, (2020), 2000055, Link

• Photoemission core level binding energies from multiple sized nanoparticles on the same support: TiO2(110)/Au, A. Mellor, A. Wilson, C. L. Pang, C. M. Yim, F. Maccherozzi, S. S. Dhesi, C. A. Muryn, H. Idriss, and G. Thornton, J. Chem. Phys., 152, (2020), 024709, Link

• Water Splitting on Ti-Oxide-Terminated SrTiO₃(001), V. Solokha, D. Garai, A. Wilson, D. A. Duncan, P. K. Thakur, K. Hingerl and J. Zegenhagen, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, (2019), 17232−17238, Link

• Gas-induced selective re-orientation of Au–Cu nanoparticles on TiO₂ (110), A. Wilson, A. Bailly, R. Bernard, Y. Borensztein, A. Coati, B. Croset, H. Cruguel, A. Naitabdi, M. Silly,  M-C. Saint-Lager, A. Vlad, N. Witkowski, Y. Garreau, and G. Prevot, Nanoscale, 11, (2019), 752−761, Link

• Effective attenuation length of keV photoelectrons in silicon measured by transmission through thin membranes, V. Solokha, T-L. Lee, A. Wilson, K. Hingerl, and J. Zegenhagen, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 225, (2018), 28−35, Link

• Water Dissociates at the Aqueous Interface with Reduced Anatase TiO₂ (101), I. M. Nadeem, J. P. W. Treacy, S. Selcuk, X. Torrelles, H. Hussain, A. Wilson, D. C. Grinter, G. Cabailh, O. Bikondoa, C. Nicklin, A. Selloni, J. Zegenhagen, R. Lindsay, and G. Thornton, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, (2018), 3131−3136, Link

• Bridging Hydroxyls on Anatase TiO₂ (101) by Water Dissociation in Oxygen Vacancies, I. M. Nadeem, G. T. Harrison, A. Wilson, C-L. Pang, J. Zegenhagen, and G. Thornton, J. Phys. Chem. B, 122, (2018), 834–839, Link

• Mechanism of Ethanol Photooxidation on Single-Crystal Anatase TiO₂ (101), K. Katsiev, G. Harrison, H. Alghamdi, Y. Alsalik, A. Wilson, G. Thornton, and H. Idriss, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, (2017), 2940−2950, Link

• Promoter effect of hydration on the nucleation of nanoparticles: direct observation for gold and copper on rutile TiO₂ (110), M. Iachella, A. Wilson, A. Naitabdi, R. Bernard, G. Prevot, and D. Loffreda, Nanoscale, 8, (2016), 16475−16485, Link

• Critical Au Concentration for the Stabilization of Au-Cu Nanoparticles on Rutile against Dissociation under Oxygen, A. Wilson, R. Bernard, Y. Borensztein, B. Croset, H. Cruguel, A. Vlad, A. Coati, Y. Garreau, and G. Prevot, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 6, (2015), 2050−2055, Link

• Epitaxial growth of bimetallic Au-Cu nanoparticles on TiO₂ (110) followed in situ by scanning tunneling microscopy and grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction, A. Wilson, R. Bernard, A. Vlad, Y. Borensztein, A. Coati, B. Croset, Y. Garreau, and G. Prevot, Phys. Rev. B, 90, (2014), 075416, Link

• Growth of Si ultrathin films on silver surfaces: Evidence of an Ag (110) reconstruction induced by Si, R. Bernard, T. Leoni, A. Wilson, T. Lelaidier, H. Sahaf, E. Moyen, L. Assaud, L. Santinacci, F. Leroy, F. Cheynis, A. Ranguis, H. Jamgotchian, C. Becker, Y. Borensztein, M. Hanbücken, G. Prévot, and L. Masson, Phys. Rev. B, 88, (2013), 121411, Link