Christophe Bichara

Activity

Modélisation / Simulation Numérique / Matériaux / Structure / Thermodynamique

Thèmes

- Computational Material Science

- Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics

- Specific interests in :

  • Disorder, liquid matter, non crystalline materials
  • Confined systems
  • Carbon nanostructures

Publications

2024

Pressure and temperature diagram of C60 from atomistic simulations

Karim Hakim, Romain Dupuis, Christophe Bichara, R.-J.-M. Pellenq

The Journal of Chemical Physics 161 (2024)10.1063/5.0213022

Dynamics of growing carbon nanotube interfaces probed by machine learning-enabled molecular simulations

Daniel Hedman, Ben Mclean, Christophe Bichara, Shigeo Maruyama, J. Andreas Larsson, Feng Ding

Nature Communications 15:4076 (2024)10.1038/s41467-024-47999-7

Dynamics of growing carbon nanotube interfaces probed by machine learningenabled molecular simulations

Daniel Hedman, Ben Mclean, Christophe Bichara, Shigeo Maruyama, J. Andreas Larsson, Feng Ding

Nature Communications 15:4076 (2024)10.1038/s41467-024-47999-7

Reply to Lee and Elliott: Changes of bonding upon crystallization in phase change materials

Jean-Yves Raty, Christophe Bichara, Carl-Friedrich Schön, Carlo Gatti, Matthias Wuttig

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (2024)10.1073/pnas.2405294121

Tailoring chemical bonds to design unconventional glasses

Jean-Yves Raty, Christophe Bichara, Carl-Friedrich Schön, Carlo Gatti, Matthias Wuttig

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (2024)10.1073/pnas.2316498121

Tailoring chemical bonds to design unconventional glasses

Jean-Yves Raty, Christophe Bichara, Carl-Friedrich Schön, Carlo Gatti, Matthias Wuttig

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (2024)10.1073/pnas.2316498121

2023

Swinging Crystal Edge of Growing Carbon Nanotubes

Georg Daniel Förster, Vladimir Pimonov, Huy-Nam Tran, Saïd Tahir, Vincent Jourdain, Christophe Bichara

ACS Nano 17:7135-7144 (2023)10.1021/acsnano.2c07388

2021

A semi-grand canonical kinetic Monte Carlo study of single-walled carbon nanotube growth

Georg Daniel Förster, Thomas D Swinburne, Hua Jiang, Esko Kauppinen, Christophe Bichara

AIP Advances 11 (2021)10.1063/5.0030943

Dynamic instability of individual carbon nanotube growth revealed by in situ homodyne polarization microscopy

Vladimir Pimonov, Huy-Nam Tran, Léonard Monniello, Saïd Tahir, Thierry Michel, Renaud Podor, Michaël Odorico, Christophe Bichara, Vincent Jourdain

Nano Letters (2021)10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03431

2020

Simulating the Geological Fate of Terrestrial Organic Matter: Lignin vs Cellulose

Lea Atmani, Pierre-Louis Valdenaire, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, Christophe Bichara, Henri van Damme, Adri C T van Duin, Franz Ulm, Jean-Marc Leyssale

Energy & Fuels 34:1537-1547 (2020)10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b03681

A deep learning approach for determining the chiral indices of carbon nanotubes from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images

Georg Daniel Förster, Alice Castan, Annick Loiseau, Jaysen Nelayah, Damien Alloyeau, Frédéric Fossard, Christophe Bichara, Hakim Amara

Carbon 169:465-474 (2020)10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.086

Quantitative insights into the growth mechanisms of nanopores in hexagonal boron nitride

Ki Kang Kim, Young Hee Lee, Ouafi Mouhoub, Rafael Martinez-Gordillo, Jaysen Nelayah, Guillaume Wang, Ji-Hoon Park, Young Hee Lee, Christophe Bichara, Annick Loiseau, Christian Ricolleau, Hakim Amara, Damien Alloyeau

Physical Review Materials 4 (2020)10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.014005

Morphology control of metallic nanoparticles supported on carbon substrates in catalytic conditions

Yann Magnin, Emmanuel Villermaux, Hakim Amara, Christophe Bichara, Roland J. M. Pellenq

Carbon 159:504-511 (2020)10.1016/j.carbon.2019.12.025

2019

Atomic-scale structural identification and evolution of Co-W-C ternary SWCNT catalytic nanoparticles: High-resolution STEM imaging on SiO 2

Hua An, Akihito Kumamoto, Rong Xiang, Taiki Inoue, Keigo Otsuka, Shohei Chiashi, Christophe Bichara, Annick Loiseau, Yan Li, Yuichi Ikuhara, Shigeo Maruyama

Science Advances 5:eaat9459 pages 1-8 (2019)10.1126/sciadv.aat9459

Sperm chromatin condensation defects, but neither DNA fragmentation nor aneuploidy, are an independent predictor of clinical pregnancy after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

C. Bichara, B. Berby, A. Rives, F. Jumeau, M. Letailleur, V. Setif, L. Sibert, C. Rondanino, Nathalie Rives

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 36:1387-1399 (2019)10.1007/s10815-019-01471-4

Tuning bimetallic catalysts for a selective growth of SWCNTs

Salomé Forel, Alice Castan, Hakim Amara, Ileana Florea, Frédéric Fossard, Laure Catala, Christophe Bichara, Talal Mallah, Vincent Huc, Annick Loiseau, Costel-Sorin Cojocaru

Nanoscale 11:4091-4100 (2019)10.1039/c8nr09589b

Cutting floating single-walled carbon nanotubes with a ‘CO2 blade’

Ying Tian, Nan Wei, Patrik Laiho, Saeed Ahmad, Yann Magnin, Yongping Liao, Christophe Bichara, Hua Jiang, Esko Kauppinen

Carbon 143:481-486 (2019)10.1016/j.carbon.2018.11.035

2018

Growth Modes and Chiral Selectivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Maoshuai He, Yann Magnin, Hua Jiang, Hakim Amara, Esko I. Kauppinen, Annick Loiseau, Christophe Bichara

Nanoscale (2018)10.1039/C7NR09539B

Entropy driven stability of chiral single-walled carbon nanotubes

Yann Magnin, Hakim Amara, François Ducastelle, Annick Loiseau, Christophe Bichara

Science 362:212-215 (2018)10.1126/science.aat6228

Ni 2 C surface carbide to catalyze low-temperature graphene growth

Rafael Martinez-Gordillo, Céline Varvenne, Hakim Amara, Christophe Bichara

Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) 97:1-9 (2018)10.1103/PhysRevB.97.205431

Carbon Nanotubes and Related Nanomaterials: Critical Advances and Challenges for Synthesis toward Mainstream Commercial Applications

Rahul Rao, Cary Pint, Ahmad Islam, Robert Weatherup, Stephan Hofmann, Eric Meshot, Fanqi Wu, Chongwu Zhou, Nicholas Dee, Placidus Amama, Jennifer Carpena-Nuñez, Wenbo Shi, Desiree Plata, Evgeni Penev, Boris Yakobson, Perla Balbuena, Christophe Bichara, Don Futaba, Suguru Shi, Homin Shi, Keun Su Kim, Benoit Simard, Francesca Mirri, Matteo Pasquali, Francesco Fornasiero, Esko Kauppinen, Michael A. Arnold, Baratunde Cola, Pavel Nikolaev, Sivaram Arepalli, Hui-Ming Cheng, Dmitri Zakharov, Eric Stach, Jin Zhang, Fei Wei, Mauricio Terrones, David Geohegan, Benji Maruyama, Shigeo Shi, Yan Li, W. Wade Adams, A. John Hart

ACS Nano 12:11756-11784 (2018)

Incipient Metals: Functional Materials with a Unique Bonding Mechanism

Matthias Wuttig, Volker Deringer, Xavier Gonze, Christophe Bichara, Jean-Yves Raty

Advanced Materials 30:1803777 (2018)

2017

Probing the role of carbon solubility in transition metal catalyzing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes growth

Juan-Manuel Aguiar-Hualde, Yann Magnin, Hakim Amara, Christophe Bichara

Carbon 120:226-232 (2017)10.1016/j.carbon.2017.05.035

Modeling the Growth of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Hakim Amara, Christophe Bichara

Topics in current chemistry 375 (2017)10.1007/s41061-017-0141-8

From cellulose to kerogen: molecular simulation of a geological process

Lea Atmani, Christophe Bichara, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, Henri van Damme, Adri van Duin, Zamaan Raza, Lionel Truflandier, Amaël Obliger, Paul Kralert, Franz Ulm, Jean-Marc Leyssale

Chemical Science 8:8325-8335 (2017)10.1039/C7SC03466K

Linking growth mode to lengths of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Maoshuai He, Yann Magnin, Hakim Amara, Hua Jiang, Hongzhi Cui, Frederic Fossard, Alice Castan, Esko Kauppinen, Annick Loiseau, Christophe Bichara

Carbon 113:231-236 (2017)10.1016/j.carbon.2016.11.057

Magnetism as indirect tool for carbon content assessment in nickel nanoparticles

Y. Oumellal, Y. Magnin, A. Martínez de Yuso, J. Aguiar Hualde, H. Amara, V. Paul-Boncour, C. Matei Ghimbeu, A. Malouche, C. Bichara, R. Pellenq, C. Zlotea

Journal of Applied Physics 122:213902 (2017)10.1063/1.5006138

2016

Fracture toughness anomalies: Viewpoint of topological constraint theory

Mathieu Bauchy, Bu Wang, Mengyi Wang, Yingtian Yu, Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, Morten M. Smedskjaer, Christophe Bichara, Franz-Josef Ulm, Roland J.-M. Pellenq

Acta Materialia 121:234-239 (2016)10.1016/j.actamat.2016.09.004

2015

Size Dependent Phase Diagrams of Nickel-Carbon Nanoparticles

Y. Magnin, A. Zapelli, H. Amara, F. Ducastelle, C. Bichara

Physical Review Letters 115:205502 (2015)

Aging mechanisms in amorphous phase-change materials

J.Y. Raty, W. Zhang, J. Luckas, C. Chen, R. Mazzarello, C. Bichara, M Wuttig

Nature Communications 6:7467 (2015)