skip to content

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

Senior Research Associate

Dr. Bruno Frka-Petesic graduated theoretical soft matter Physics from the University of Paris 7 (2006) and later defended his Ph.D. in experimental Physics at the Univ. of Paris 6 (2010), where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Régine Perzynski (PHENIX lab) on the control of self-assembly routes of magnetic nanoparticles. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked at Cermav-CNRS (Grenoble, France, with Dr. Laurent Heux) and at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS-Paris, PSL, France, with Dr. Christophe Tribet) before joining the Vignolini group. His research interest is primarily focused on better understanding and controlling collective phenomena such as self-assembly and self-organization in soft matter systems from the nanoscale to the macroscale. His current research is focused on controlling the self-assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) in thin films for optic and photonic applications. He also explores dynamic effects in out-of-equilibrium, evolving or dissipative conditions, e.g., under the influence of external fields, mechanic solicitations, drying effects and slow aggregation processes. 

Bruno is also co-founder of the Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge society (EPOC, https://www.epoc.group.cam.ac.uk), a Cambridge-based organisation that develops and delivers initiatives to support Cambridge researchers in their pursuit of business and entrepreneurial ventures, and to awaken them to the multitude of opportunities around them. 

Publications

Large-scale fabrication of structurally coloured cellulose nanocrystal films and effect pigments
BE Droguet, H-L Liang, B Frka-Petesic, RM Parker, MFL De Volder, JJ Baumberg, S Vignolini
– Nature Materials
(2021)
21,
352
Cellulose Photonic Pigments
RM Parker, TH Zhao, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
(2021)
Chiral Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals is Driven by Crystallite Bundles
TG Parton, RM Parker, GT van de Kerkhof, A Narkevicius, JS Haataja, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
(2021)
Effect of thermal treatments on chiral nematic cellulose nanocrystal films.
G Guidetti, B Frka-Petesic, AG Dumanli, WY Hamad, S Vignolini
– Carbohydr Polym
(2021)
272,
118404
Co-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Silk Fibroin into Photonic Cholesteric Films
G Guidetti, H Sun, A Ivanova, B Marelli, B Frka-Petesic
– Advanced Sustainable Systems
(2021)
5,
2000272
Hyperspectral Imaging of Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films: Structure of Local Defects and Implications for Self-Assembly Pathways.
B Zhu, VE Johansen, G Kamita, G Guidetti, MM Bay, TG Parton, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
– ACS Nano
(2020)
14,
15361
Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Reveals the Structural Details of Thermosensitive Polymer-Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions
F Azzam, B Frka-Petesic, EF Semeraro, F Cousin, B Jean
– Langmuir
(2020)
36,
8511
Retrieving the co-assembly pathway of composite cellulose nanocrystal photonic films from their angular optical response
B Frka-Petesic, JA Kelly, G Jacucci, G Guidetti, G Kamita, NP Crossette, WY Hamad, MJ MacLachlan, S Vignolini
– Adv Mater
(2020)
32,
e1906889
Cellulose Nanocrystal-Templated Tin Dioxide Thin Films for Gas Sensing
A Ivanova, B Frka-Petesic, A Paul, T Wagner, AN Jumabekov, Y Vilk, J Weber, J Schmedt Auf der Günne, S Vignolini, M Tiemann, D Fattakhova-Rohlfing, T Bein
– ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
(2020)
12,
12639
Visual Appearance of Chiral Nematic Cellulose-Based Photonic Films: Angular and Polarization Independent Color Response with a Twist.
CLC Chan, MM Bay, G Jacucci, V Roberto, CA Williams, GT van de Kerkhof, RM Parker, K Vynck, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
– Adv Mater
(2019)
31,
e1905151
  • <
  • 2 of 6
  • >

Telephone number

01223 334372 (shared)

Email address

bf284@cam.ac.uk

College

Clare Hall