Chercheur CNRS (DR émérite)

DR1 CNRS Emeritus

E-mail: andre.gourdon@cemes.fr

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0370-1019

Web of Science ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/C-9799-2009

Education

       Engineer E.N.S.C.P., Paris 1975

       D.E.A. Spectrochemistry and Structure, (1976) Univ. P. & M. Curie, (Paris VI)

       PhD Chemistry (1978) Univ. P. & M. Curie, (Paris VI)

       PhD Physical Sciences (Doctorat d’Etat) (1986) Univ. P. & M. Curie, (Paris VI)

Positions

       Research Assistant, S.R.C. 1980-1981, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (Oxford)

       Research assistant CNRS, 1981-1989, Transition Metals Chemistry Laboratory, Univ. P & M. Curie (Paris) then CEMES 1989_1999 (Toulouse)

       Research Director (1999) CEMES (Toulouse)

       Research Director Emeritus (from 2019)

Management

       Leader of the CEMES NanoSciences Group –CNRS- Toulouse – France –2010-2015

       Coordinator of the European projects PAMS Planar Atomic and         Molecular Scale devices 2013-2017), ARTIST (Alternative Routes Towards Information      Storage and Transport at the atomic and molecular scale 2010-2013)), CHIC (Consortium for Hamiltonian Intramolecular Computing, 2002-2006)

Coordinator of the international ANR projects ICMADS (ANR-DFG, 2011-2015) and MQwires (ANR-MOST, 2017-2020)

       President of the Scientific Council of the “Laboratoire d’Excellence” NEXT (6 laboratories,            186 permanent researchers, 89 engineer/technicians, 160 phD/post-docs)

       See https://nanox-toulouse.fr/discover-nanox/)

Research

Conception, design and synthesis of molecular devices for experiments at the single molecule level.

Publications –176 published – h-factor : 44 (Oct. 2023); >7300 citations

Full list of publications:

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-9799-2009

http://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=fr&user=jXmEF6IAAAAJ

Selected recent publications

Extending on-surface synthesis from 2D to 3D by cycloaddition with C60

Pengcheng Ding,  et al.

Nat. Commun. 14, 6075 (2023)

https://rdcu.be/dojGd

Large-Distance Quantum Confinement Passing through Single-Layer Graphene by Van der Waals Interface of Corrals

Zhuo Li, et al.

Cell Reports Physical Science 4, 101492, July 19 (2023)

10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101492

Tuning the diradical character of pentacene derivatives via non-benzenoid coupling motifs
Wang, Tao, et al.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145:18, 10333-10341 (2023)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c02027

Preparative-scale synthesis of nonacene  

Andrej Jančařík, et al.

Nature Communications 13, 223 (2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27809-0

https://rdcu.be/dmJkA

Subsurface Carbon-Induced Local Charge of Copper for Dehydrogenation

Shaoshan Wang, et al.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 23123 –2312 (2021) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202108712

On-Surface Decarboxylation Coupling Facilitated by Lock-to-Unlock Variation of Moleculesupon the Reaction

Shaoshan Wang, et al.

Angew. Chem Int. Ed. 60:32, 17435-17439 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202106477

A Large Starphene Comprising Pentacene Branches

Jan Holec, et al.

Angew.Chem. Int. Ed, 60, 7752–7758 (2021)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202016163

Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies

C. Toninelli, et al

Nature Materials 20, 1615–1628 (2021)

https://rdcu.be/dmJkD

On-Surface Synthesis with Atomic Hydrogen

Rafal Zuzak et al

ACS Nano  14, 10, 13316 (2020)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c05160

Long-range ordered and atomic-scale control of graphene hybridization by photocycloaddition

Miao Yu,  et al

Nature Chemistry volume 12, pages1035–1041(2020)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-0540-2