Publications de Frédéric Gumy

Gold Nanoparticles at a Liquid Interface: Towards a Soft Nonlinear Metasurface

Optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) is achieved using adsorbed gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with an average diameter of 16 nm at the aqueous solution–air interface in reflection. A detailed analysis of the depth profile of the SHG intensity detected sho ...

2024

Inkjet-printed microtiter plates for portable electrochemical immunoassays

Hubert Girault, Frédéric Gumy, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Alexandra Bondarenko, Yingdi Zhu, Milica Jovic

Herein, we present the large-scale fabrication of multiplexed three-electrode sensors used in a point-of-care device platform that couples a magnetic bead-based immunoassay strategy with amperometric detection for rapid and highly sensitive analysis. The m ...

Elsevier Science Sa2017

Self-Healing Gold Mirrors and Filters at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

Hubert Girault, Frédéric Gumy, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Pekka Eero Peljo, Evgeny Smirnov

The optical and morphological properties of lustrous metal self-healing liquid-like nanofilms were systematically studied towards different applications (e.g., optical mirrors or filters). These nanofilms were formed by a one-step self-assembly methodology ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

All-Vanadium Dual Circuit Redox Flow Battery for Renewable Hydrogen Generation and Desulfurisation

Hubert Girault, Frédéric Gumy, Véronique Amstutz, Heron Vrubel, Joana Morgado, Pekka Eero Peljo, Kathryn Ellen Toghill, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Justine Nadine Liliane Pandard

An all-vanadium dual circuit redox flow battery is an electrochemical energy storage system capable to function as a conventional battery, but also to produce hydrogen and perform desulfurization when surplus of electricity is available by chemical dischar ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Conductive Gold Nanoparticle Mirrors at Liquid/Liquid Interfaces

Hubert Girault, Frédéric Gumy, Carlos Manuel De Melo Pereira, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Véronique Amstutz, Dmitry Momotenko, Haiqiang Deng, Pingping Fang, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon

Gold nanoparticle (Au NP) mirrors, that exhibit both high reflectance and electrical conductance, were self-assembled at a [heptane + 1,2-dichloroethane]/water liquid/liquid interface. The highest reflectance, as observed experimentally and confirmed by fi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Sensitized near-IR luminescence of lanthanide complexes based on push-pull diketone derivatives

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Annina Aebischer

Lanthanide complexes with two push-pull diketone derivatives as sensitizers have been developed as synthons for near-infrared emitting materials. The ligand substituents consist of a carbazole moiety with hole-transport properties and an aromatic or hetero ...

2010

Integrating sphere for the optical analysis of luminescent materials

Frédéric Gumy

An integrating sphere for measuring quantum yield comprises a sample holder, for example a capillary (7) adapted to be placed in a quartz tube (12) comprised in the sphere, an inlet opening for introducing an excitation beam (10), and an outlet opening for ...

2009

Modulating the Near-Infrared Luminescence of Neodymium and Ytterbium Complexes with Tridentate Ligands Based on Benzoxazole-Substituted 8-Hydroxyquinolines

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti, Frédéric Gumy

An improved synthesis of 2-(2′-benzothiazole)- and 2-(2′-benzoxazole)-8-hydroxyquinoline ligands that combine a tridentate N,N,O-chelating unit for metal binding and extended chromophore for light harvesting is developed. The 2-(2′-benzoxazole)-8-hydroxyqu ...

2009

Structural and Near-IR Luminescent Properties of Erbium-Containing Coordination Polymers

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

The near-IR luminescence properties of two ErIII-containing coordination polymers, namely, [Er(btc)(H2O)5·3.5H2O] [(btc)3– = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate] and [Er2(bdc)3- (H2O)4] [(bdc)2– = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate] were investigated with the aim of testing ...

2009

Intrinsic quantum yields and radiative lifetimes of lanthanide tris(dipicolinates)

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy, Annina Aebischer

The efficiency with which the surroundings of trivalent lanthanide ions sensitize their luminescence (Zsens) is a key parameter in the design of highly emitting molecular edifices and materials. Evaluation of Zsens requires the measurement of the overall a ...

2009

2,2’-Bipyrimidine as Efficient Sensitizer of the Solid-State Luminescence of Lanthanide and Uranyl Ions from Visible to Near-Infrared

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

Treatment of Ln(NO3)3.nH2O with 1 or 2 equiv 2,2-bipyrimidine (BPM) in dry THF readily afforded the monometallic complexes [Ln(NO3)3(bpm)2] (Ln=Eu, Gd, Dy, Tm) or [Ln(NO3)3(bpm)2]THF (Ln=Eu, Tb, Er, Yb) after recrystallization from MeOH or THF, respectivel ...

2009

Benzothiazole- and Benzoxazole-Substituted Pyridine-2-Carboxylates as Efficient Sensitizers of Europium Luminescence

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti, Frédéric Gumy

A facile synthesis of benzothiazole- and benzoxazole-substituted pyridine-2-carboxylic acids has been developed. These ligands form mononuclear nine-coordinate complexes [Ln(κ3-ligand)2(κ1-ligand)(H2O)2] with light and heavy trivalent lanthanides, as estab ...

2009

Luminescent Bimetallic Lanthanide Bioprobes for Cellular Imaging with Excitation in the Visible-Light Range

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Caroline Vandevyver, Frédéric Gumy, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Bo Song

A series of homoditopic ligands H2LCX (X=4–6) has been designed to self-assemble with lanthanide ions (LnIII), resulting in neutral bimetallic helicates of overall composition [Ln2ACHTUNGTRENUNG(LCX)3] with the aim of testing the influence of substituents ...

2009

Homo- and Heterodinuclear Helicates of Lanthanide(III), Zinc(II) and Aluminium(III) Based on 8-Hydroxyquinoline Ligands

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

Homonuclear helicates with rare-earth-metal(III) ions or heteronuclear derivatives with rare-earth-metal and aluminium or zinc centres are obtained in alkali-metal-templated selfassembly processes from isobutenylidene- bridged homoditopic bis(2-carb-Gamido ...

2009

Highly Luminescent Homoleptic Europium Chelates

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti, Frédéric Gumy

The need for efficient and photostable lanthanide luminescent materials is dramatically increasing, in particular with respect to their growing application in lighting devices and biosciences. To this end, we have developed a facile synthesis of benzimidaz ...

2009

Structural, Spectroscopic, and Thermodynamic Consequences of Anti-Chelate Effect in Nine-Coordinate Lanthanide Podates

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

The connection of three tridentate 2,6-bis(1-ethyl-benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine binding units to an extended sulfurcontaining tripodal anchor in the ligand L9 yields nine-coordinate podates [Ln(L9)]3+ upon reaction with trivalent lanthanides, Ln(III). Struct ...

2009

Surprisingly Bright Near-Infrared Luminescence and Short Radiative Lifetimes of Ytterbium in Hetero-Binuclear Yb-Na Chelates

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti, Frédéric Gumy

New heterobinuclear lanthanide complexes with benzoxazole-substituted 8-hydroxyquinolines, [Ln(ligand)2(μ-ligand)2Na] (Ln: Yb, Lu), have been prepared and their structure established by X-ray crystallography, 1H NMR spectroscopy, and photophysical studies. ...

2009

Near-Infrared Luminescence of Nine-Coordinate Neodymium Complexes with Benzimidazole-Substituted 8-Hydroxyquinolines

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Rosario Scopelliti, Frédéric Gumy

A new class of benzimidazole-substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline ligands has been prepared that contain a monoanionic tridentate N,N,O-coordinating unit. These ligands form charge-neutral lanthanide complexes of the type [Ln(LR) 3] · nH2O or [Ln2(L2)3] · nH2O ( ...

2008

NIR-emitting lanthanide helicates

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy, Annina Aebischer

2008

Linear Polynuclear Helicates as a Link between Discrete Supramolecular Complexes and Programmed Infinite Polymetallic Chains

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy, Michal Borkovec

The contribution of the solvation energies to the assembly of polynuclear helicates reduces the free energy of intermetallic repulsion, DEMM, in condensed phase to such an extent that stable D3-symmetrical tetranuclear lanthanide-containing triplestranded ...

2008