Pierrick Guy Robert Clément

I have a background in chemistry and worked in a multidisciplinary environment in which physics, electrical engineering and chemistry issues are at the core of my research interests. I have a wide experience in synthesis, functionalization and characterization of nanomaterials (including but not limited to carbon nanotubes, graphene, quantum dots, nanowires) and their incorporation in a device configuration for the development of (bio)chemical sensors.  I have been oriented to Nanotechnology and Microsystems for the development of chemical sensors during my MSc. Throughout my PhD, I gained extended experience in electrical device fabrication by screen-printing with the development of two chemical gas sensor platforms based on single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). To improve the sensitivity and selectivity towards benzene vapors, I have established a different approach to create interaction between benzene molecule and the sensitive layer that was based on host-guest molecular recognition via a cavitand supramolecule anchored by self-assembled-monolayer through a successful collaboration. In December 2015, I got a post-doc position in Queen Mary University of London in the group of Dr. Palma and worked on the fabrication of molecular and nano-electronics based on solution processable of SWCNTs hybrids via self-assembly strategies to develop low cost (bio)chemical sensors. Part of this work consists of assembling hybrids of SWCNTs and aptamers from solution to surfaces in nanoscale device configurations, where the nanotubes could act as the transducer elements (as field effect transductors), and the aptamers as the molecular recognition components, of an electrical biosensing platform. Another approach comes from another collaboration that I have initiated which deals with the use of SWCNT as a vector template for direct synthesis of metal nanowire in device configuration.