Gilles Bourret

Gilles Bourret

Gilles Bourret, PhD
Associate Professor

Jakob-Haringer-Strasse 2a, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-6222
Fax.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-6289
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Group website:  https://sites.google.com/view/gillesbourret-nanomaterials/home
ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9774-1686

Professional Experience

2020 to date: Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Salzburg

2014- 2020: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Salzburg

2011 – 2014: Postdoctoral fellow in Professor Chad Mirkin’s group, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, USA

Educational background

M. Eng. Applied Physics and M. Sc. Nanotechnology, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse, France

Ph.D. Chemistry (Materials’ Chemistry division) McGill University, Canada

Habilitation in Materials Science, Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials, University of Salzburg

Metrics

  •  Track-record of publication in high impact journals including 1 Nature Nanotechnology, 2 Adv. Mater., 3 Nano Lett., 2 JACS, 1 Angew. Chem., 3 Chem. Mater., 2 Phys. Rev. Lett. and 4 ACS AMI
  •  Average impact factor per publication > 9.
  •  1 patent
  •   6 awards/fellowships
  • 15 invited lectures
  •  5 interviews in main stream media outlets 
  •  Total funding 6.3 million EUR (as main and co-applicant, including infrastructure funding programs)
  •  Total research funding as the main PI of 468 000 EUR

Current group

Joshua Piaskowski – PhD student, Topic: Synthesis and Study of Heterometallic Gapped Nanorods for Plasmonic Catalysis

Amin Farhadi – PhD student, Topic: Optimizing Catalyst Loading within Nanostructured Si Photocathodes

Theresa Bartschmid – PhD student, Topic: Synthesis and Study of Silicon-Ru, Rh Nanowire Arrays for Photocatalysis

Gebhard Sabhati – PhD student (co-supervised, main supervisor: Prof. M. Musso), Topic: Nanostructured Metal-Silicon for SERS

Research interests

Our group is unique in its integration of synthesis, characterization, electromagnetic simulations and device testing. We investigate how geometry at the nanoscale affects function within complex three-dimensional systems that have strong interactions with light.

Our approach:  

  • Structure optimization based on three-dimensional electromagnetic numerical simulations
  • State-of-the-art chemical syntheses with a sub-5 nm spatial resolution in all three dimensions
  • Fundamental studies in photoelectrochemistry (water-splitting photocathodes), plasmonic photocatalysis (gas phase photomethanation) and Surface-Enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)                      

Our three-dimensional electrochemical axial lithography (Nano Lett. 2018,  3DEAL) technique can be used to pattern macroscopic arrays of single-crystalline Si micro- and nanowires with feature dimensions down to 5 nm. 

We are currently using 3DEAL to design substrates for 3D surface-enhanced Ramanspectroscopy (SERS) and water-splitting photoelectrodes.

SERS

Selected publications (* corresponding authorship)

  • “Coaxial Lithography” T. Ozel,#G. R. Bourret,# and C. A. Mirkin Nature Nanotechnology 2015, 10, 319–324 (# co-first authorship)
  • “Three-Dimensional Lithography on Si Micro- and Nanowire Arrays” F. J. Wendisch, Michael S. Saller, A. Eadie, A. Reyer, M. Musso, M. Rey, N. Vogel, O. Diwald, and G. R. Bourret* Nano Letters 2018, 18, 7343-7349
  • “Large-Scale Synthesis of Highly Uniform Silicon Nanowire Arrays Using Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching” F. J. Wendisch, M. Rey, N. Vogel, and G. R. Bourret* Chemistry of Materials 2020, 32, 9425–9434
  • “Morphology-Graded Silicon Nanowire Arrays via Chemical Etching: Engineering Optical Properties at the Nanoscale and Macroscale” F. J. Wendisch, M. Abazari, H. Mahdavi, M. Rey, N. Vogel, M. Musso, O. Diwald, and G. R. Bourret* ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2020, 12, 13140-13147
  • “Hydroxylation Induced Alignment of Metal Oxide Nanocubes” D. Thomele, G. R. Bourret, J. Bernardi, M. Bockstedte, O. Diwald Angewandte Chemie 2017, 56, 1407 –1410
  • “Investigation of Mass-Produced Substrates for Reproducible Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Measurements over Large Areas”, A. Reyer,* A. Prinz, S. Giancristofaro, J. Schneider, D. B. Menezes, G. Zickler, G.  R. Bourret,* and M. E. Musso, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 9, 25445–25454
  • “Confined Etching within 2D and 3D Colloidal Crystals for Tunable Nanostructured Templates: Local Environment Matters” F. J. Wendisch, R. Oberreiter, M. Salihovic, M. S. Elsaesser, and G. R. Bourret* ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 9, 3931–3939
  • “Modification of Charge Trapping at Particle/Particle Interfaces by Electrochemical Hydrogen Doping of Nanocrystalline TiO2“ J. M. Jiménez, G. R. Bourret, T. Berger, and K. P. McKenna Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138, 15956–15964
  • “Long-Range Plasmophore Rulers”, G. R. Bourret, T. Ozel, M. Blaber, C. Shade, G. C. Schatz and C. A. Mirkin, Nano Lett. 2013, 13, 2270  
  • “Synthesis of Hybrid Semiconductor Core-Shell Nanowires with Tunable Plasmonic Antennas” T. Ozel, # G. R. Bourret, #  A. Schmucker, K. Brown and C. A. Mirkin  Advanced Materials 2013, 25, 4515 (# co-first authorship)
  • “Solution-Dispersible Metal Nanorings with Deliberately Controllable Compositions and Architectural Parameters”, T. Ozel, M. J. Ashley, G. R. Bourret, M. B. Ross, G. C. Schatz and C. A. Mirkin, Nano Lett. 2015, 15, 5273–5278  
  • “Dispersible Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Nanosheets” K. D. Osberg, M. Rycenga, G. R. Bourret, K. Brown and C. A. Mirkin, Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 6065  
  • 1D Cu(OH)2 Nanomaterial Synthesis Templated in Water Microdroplets, G. R. Bourret and R. B. Lennox, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 6657
  • “Nanoparticle Motion within Glassy Polymer Melts”, H. Guo, G. R. Bourret, M. K. Corbierre, S. Rucareanu, R. B. Lennox, K. Laaziri, L. Piche, M.Sutton,  J. L.Harden and R. L. Leheny, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, 102, 075702  

Main stream newspaper articles

 

  • Nicht sichtbar für das freie Auge, Die Presse, 11.12.2015 (interview from Veronika Schmidt) – national newspaper (equivalent to New-York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian etc.)
  • Jung, international, preisgekrönt, Salzburger Nachrichten, 12.12.2015 (article from Gabriele Pfeiffer) – local newspaper
  • Krone der Wissenschaft, Kronenzeitung, 27.02.2018 (series on Austrian scientists) – national newspaper  http://• https://www.pressreader.com/austria/kronen-zeitung/20180227/283317522909395
  • Der atomare Blick auf Dinge des Alltags, Kronenzeitung, 06.03.2018 (article on our transmission electron microscope) – national newspaper  http://www.krone.at/1658777