Lionel Santinacci
Electrochemistry, Surface functionalization, Surface nanostructuring, Energy, ALD
Lionel Santinacci received a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne(EPFL) in 2002. He performed post-doctoral studies on Li-polymer batteries by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy at Aix-Marseille University (2002-2003). In 2003, he joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) as non-tenured assistant professor to investigate the localized corrosion by in situ AFM (2003-2004).
In 2004, he got a CNRS research scientist position at the Lavoisier's Institute of the University of Versailles to continue the work on the anodic surface structuring of III-V materials such as InP in both aqueous and non-aqueous electrolyte.
In 2009, he moved to the Center for Interdisciplinary Nanoscience of Marseille (CINaM) where he was appointed Senior Research Scientist in 2024. There, he works on electrochemically grown one-dimensional nanostructures such as TiO2 nanotubes, Al2O3 nanoporous membranes and porous Si. These nanostructures are functionalized by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for energy production and storage with special emphasis on solar water splitting.
Additionally, he is Region SUD PACA Representative of the Center of Competences in Nanoscience and Nanotechnolgy of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (C'Nano PACA) with Nicolas Bonod.
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WEBPAGE OF THE GROUP
- 1998: M. Sc. in Physical chemistry and Materials Science, Aix-Marseille University (France)
- 2002: PhD in Materials Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL (Switzerland) and at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
- 2002-2003: Research fellow, Aix-Marseille University - CNRS, MADIREL Laboratory.
- 2003-2004: Assistant professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris - CNRS, Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Surfaces.
- 2004-2009: CNRS Junior Research Scientist at Lavoisier Institute of Versailles (2004-2009).
- Since 2009: CNRS Research Scientist at Center for Interdisciplinary Nanoscience of Marseille.
- 2016: Habilitation from Aix-Marseille University
- 2024: Appointed CNRS Senior Research Scientist
2025
Silver Nanocube Epitaxy via Nanogap-induced electrostatics
Muhammad Fajri, Anna Capitaine, Lionel Santinacci, Beniamino Sciacca
Small Methods 9 (2025)10.1002/smtd.202401304

Atomically bridged palladium between nickel species and carbon microfibers and the subsequent conversion into free-standing and electrocatalytically active multifunctional electrodes
Zahra Hagheh Kavousi, Clémence Badie, Vyshnav Kannampalli, Massomeh Ghorbanloo, Qing Wang, Hazar Guesmi, Lionel Santinacci, Yaovi Holade, Mikhael Bechelany
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 13:34231-34248 (2025)10.1039/D5TA02374B

Atomic Layer Deposition of NiOx : Harnessing the Potential of New Precursor Combinations for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation
Vyshnav Kannampalli, Marcel Schmickler, Bruno Fabre, Ludovic Largeau, Antoine Seyeux, José Alvarez, Simon Elliott, Anjana Devi, Lionel Santinacci
Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2025)10.1039/D5TA04555J

Photoelectrochemical Charge Transfer Imaging at Nanoscale Catalysts
Changlin Zhou, Bertrand Goudeau, Patrick Garrigue, Frédéric Bedu, Lionel Santinacci, Zonghua Wang, Neso Sojic, Gabriel Loget, Julie Descamps
ACS Energy Letters 10:3519-3525 (2025)10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01296

2024
Development of hydrogen-selective TiOxNy-Pd composite membrane materials by atomic layer deposition
Clémence Badie, Martin Drobek, Anne Julbe, Christophe Charmette, Jim Cartier, Jean-Manuel Decams, Vincent Astie, Mikhael Bechelany, Lionel Santinacci
Applied Materials Today 39:102303 (2024)10.1016/j.apmt.2024.102303

Selective Detection of H 2 Gas in Gas Mixtures Using NiO‐Shelled Pd‐Decorated ZnO Nanowires
Clémence Badie, Ali Mirzaei, Jae‐hyoung Lee, Syreina Sayegh, Mikhael Bechelany, Lionel Santinacci, Hyoun Woo Kim, Sang Sub Kim
Advanced Materials Technologies (2024)10.1002/admt.202302081

A potential mechanism for abnormal grain growth in Ni thin films on c-sapphire
Dominique Chatain, Blandine Courtois, Saba Ahmad, Gerhard Dehm, Christina Scheu, Clémence Badie, Lionel Santinacci
Acta Materialia 281:120451 (2024)10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120451

Toward Air Stability of Efficient Filter‐Free Band‐Selective Organic Photodetectors Based on Bulk Heterojunction: Avoiding Environmental Degradation with Atomic Layer Deposition Encapsulation
Quentin Eynaud, Mohamed El Amine Kramdi, Vyshnav Kannampalli, Tomoyuki Koganezawa, Noriyuki Yoshimoto, Lionel Santinacci, Jörg Ackermann, Christine Videlot-Ackermann
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research 2300262 (2024)10.1002/aesr.202300262

Statistical and Correlative Characterization of Individual Nanoparticle in Gap Plasmon Resonator Sensors
Peeranuch Poungsripong, Vyshnav Kannampalli, Lionel Santinacci, David Grosso, Dominique Chatain, David Duché, Olivier Margeat, Beniamino Sciacca
Advanced Materials Technologies 202400083 (2024)10.1002/admt.202400083

Near-IR Photoinduced Electrochemiluminescence Imaging with Structured Silicon Photoanodes
Yiran Zhao, Borja Sepulveda, Julie Descamps, Fatoumata Faye, Marcos Duque, Jaume Esteve, Lionel Santinacci, Neso Sojic, Gabriel Loget, Yoan Léger
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16:11722-11729 (2024)10.1021/acsami.3c19029

2023
Conductive TiN thin films grown by plasma- enhanced atomic layer deposition: Effects of N-sources and thermal treatments
Clémence Badie, Héloïse Tissot, Beniamino Sciacca, Maïssa K. S. Barr, Julien Bachmann, Christophe Vallee, Gaël Gautier, Thomas Defforge, Vincent Astié, Jean Manuel Decams, Mikhael Bechelany, Lionel Santinacci
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 41:032401 (2023)10.1116/6.0002288

Enhanced sensitivity towards hydrogen by a TiN interlayer in Pd-decorated SnO 2 nanowires
Clémence Badie, Jae-Hyoung Lee, Ali Mirzaei, Hyoun Woo Kim, Syreina Sayegh, Mikhael Bechelany, Lionel Santinacci, Sang Sub Kim
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 11:12202-12213 (2023)10.1039/d3ta00020f

Design of infrared optical absorber using silver nanorings array made by a top-down process
Ibtissem Bouanane, F. Bedu, Igor Ozerov, Beniamino Sciacca, Lionel Santinacci, David Duché, Gérard Berginc, Ludovic Escoubas, Olivier Margeat, Judikaël Le Rouzo
Scientific Reports 13:7770 (2023)10.1038/s41598-023-34579-w

Nanoparticle Imprint Lithography: From Nanoscale Metrology to Printable Metallic Grids
Anna Capitaine, Mehrnaz Bochet-Modaresialam, Peeranuch Poungsripong, Clémence Badie, Vasile Heresanu, Olivier Margeat, Lionel Santinacci, David Grosso, Erik Garnett, Beniamino Sciacca
ACS Nano (2023)10.1021/acsnano.3c01156

Atomic layer deposition: An efficient tool for corrosion protection
L. Santinacci
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 101674 (2023)10.1016/j.cocis.2022.101674

Upconversion photoinduced electrochemiluminescence of luminol-H2O2 at Si/SiOx/Ni photoanodes
Yiran Zhao, Julie Descamps, Yoan Léger, Lionel Santinacci, Sandrine Zanna, Néso Sojic, Gabriel Loget
Electrochimica Acta 444:142013 (2023)10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142013

2022
Solar-assisted urea oxidation at silicon photoanodes promoted by an amorphous and optically adaptive Ni-Mo-O catalytic layer
Joudi Dabboussi, Rawa Abdallah, Lionel Santinacci, Sandrine Zanna, Antoine Vacher, Vincent Dorcet, Stéphanie Fryars, Didier Floner, Gabriel Loget
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10:19769-19776 (2022)10.1039/D2TA01212J

Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Anodes for Ultrastable and Site-Selective Upconversion Photoinduced Electrochemiluminescence
Yiran Zhao, Julie Descamps, Soraya Ababou-Girard, Jean-Francois Bergamini, Lionel Santinacci, Yoan Léger, Neso Sojic, Gabriel Loget
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61:e202201865 (2022)10.1002/anie.202201865

2021
Collective amplification of nearby nanoparticles in the Coulomb blockade restricted charging of a single nanoparticle
Baptiste Chatelain, Ali El Barraj, Clémence Badie, Lionel Santinacci, Clemens Barth
New Journal of Physics (2021)10.1088/1367-2630/ac38cb

Electrochemical Stability of n-Si Photoanodes Protected by TiO2 Thin Layers Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition
Maxime E Dufond, Jean-Noël Chazalviel, Lionel Santinacci
Journal of The Electrochemical Society (2021)10.1149/1945-7111/abeaf3

Preventing Corrosion of Aluminum Metal with Nanometer-Thick Films of Al 2 O 3 Capped with TiO 2 for Ultraviolet Plasmonics
Prithu Roy, Clémence Badie, Jean-Benoît Claude, Aleksandr Barulin, Antonin Moreau, Julien Lumeau, Marco Abbarchi, Lionel Santinacci, Jérôme Wenger
ACS Applied Nano Materials 4:7199-7205 (2021)10.1021/acsanm.1c01160

2020
Quantifying the Extent of Ligand Incorporation and the Effect on Properties of TiO2 Thin Films Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition Using an Alkoxide or an Alkylamide
Maxime Dufond, Maïmouna W Diouf, Clémence Badie, Carine Laffon, Philippe Parent, Daniel Ferry, David Grosso, Jacques C S Kools, Simon D Elliott, Lionel Santinacci
Chemistry of Materials 32:1393-1407 (2020)10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b03621

Ordered SnO2 nanotube arrays of tuneable geometry as a lithium ion battery material with high longevity
Ying Zhuo, Sarah Tymek, Hong Sun, Maïssa Barr, Lionel Santinacci, Julien Bachmann
Nanoscale Advances 2:1417-1426 (2020)10.1039/c9na00799g

2019
Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity of Nanoporous SnO2/Fe2O3/IrO2 Thin Film Composite Electrodes with Ultralow Noble Metal Loading
Sandra Haschke, Ying Zhuo, Stefanie Schlicht, Maïssa Barr, Ricarda Kloth, Maxime Dufond, Lionel Santinacci, Julien Bachmann
Advanced Materials Interfaces 6:1801432 (2019)10.1002/admi.201801432

2018
Investigations of the Anodic Porous Etching of n-InP in HCl by Atomic Absorption and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopies
Lionel Santinacci, Muriel Bouttemy, Matthieu Petit, Anne-Marie Goncalves, Nathalie Simon, Jackie Vigneron, Arnaud Etcheberry
Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165:3131-3137 (2018)10.1149/2.0181804jes

The transformation behaviour of “alucones”, deposited by molecular layer deposition, in nanoporous Al2O3 layers
Kevin van de Kerckhove, Maïssa Barr, Lionel Santinacci, Philippe Vereecken, Jolien Dendooven, Christophe Detavernier
Dalton Transactions 47:5860-5870 (2018)10.1039/C8DT00723C

Boron Nitride as a Novel Support for Highly Stable Palladium Nanocatalysts by Atomic Layer Deposition
Matthieu Weber, Cassandre Lamboux, Bruno Navarra, Philippe Miele, Sandrine Zanna, Maxime Dufond, Lionel Santinacci, Mikhael Bechelany
Nanomaterials 8:849 (2018)10.3390/nano8100849

2017
Atomic layer deposition of HfO2 for integration into three-dimensional metal–insulator–metal devices
Loïc Assaud, Kristina Pitzschel, Maïssa K. S. Barr, Matthieu Petit, Guillaume Monier, Margrit Hanbücken, Lionel Santinacci
Applied physics. A, Materials science & processing 123:768 (2017)10.1007/s00339-017-1379-2

Enhancement of Pd Catalytic Activity toward Ethanol Electrooxidation by Atomic Layer Deposition of SnO2 onto TiO2 Nanotubes
Maïssa Barr, Loïc Assaud, Nicolas Brazeau, Margrit Hanbücken, Spyridon Ntais, Lionel Santinacci, Elena Baranova
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121:17727-17736 (2017)10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b05799

The Electrochemical Behavior of SnSb as an Anode for Li-ion Batteries Studied by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Electron Microscopy
Alexander Tesfaye, Yasemin D. Yücel, Maïssa K.S. Barr, Lionel Santinacci, Florence Vacandio, Frédéric Dumur, Sébastien Maria, Laure Monconduit, Thierry Djenizian
Electrochimica Acta 256:155-161 (2017)10.1016/j.electacta.2017.10.031

