
Email : bruno [dot] fabre [at] univ-rennes1 [dot] fr
Phone : +33 (0) 2 23 23 65 50
Office number : Building 10C, Room 209
Education and Professional Experience
Bruno Fabre, born 1967, received his engineer diploma and M.S. degree in electrochemistry from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrochimie et d’Electrométallurgie de Grenoble (ENSEEG now PHELMA, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble INPG, France) in 1990. After a Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. Gérard Bidan (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique CEA, Grenoble, France) in 1994 and a postdoctoral stay at the Département de Médecine Expérimentale (Lyon, France), he joined the laboratory of Molecular Electrochemistry in Rennes (France) as Chargé de Recherche at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1995. He spent one year as an invited researcher (NATO felloswship) in Ottawa (Canada) in Prof. Dan Wayner’s lab at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences (National Research Council of Canada NRCC) in 2002. He is, since 2008, Directeur de Recherche at CNRS working at the Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (UMR CNRS 6226, France).
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&inst=17849131778672153748&pli=1&user=9JAB7VEAAAAJ
Orcid ID 0000-0002-0488-7812: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0488-7812
Research
His current research interests lie in the areas of chemically modified electrodes, the functionalization and micro- or nanopatterning of semiconducting surfaces (hydrogen-terminated silicon), and the development of functionalized semiconducting photoelectrodes for electrocatalytic purposes (electrolytic water splitting and CO2 conversion).
Keywords: Molecular Electrochemistry, Modified Electrodes, Photoelectrodes, Silicon, Electrocatalysis, Solar Fuel Cells, Water Splitting
- Development of novel surface chemistry reactions for the functionalization of oxide-free hydrogen-terminated silicon (H-Si) surfaces
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Fabrication of redox-active molecule-modified silicon surfaces for molecular information processing
- Electrocatalyst-modified semiconductor-based photoelectrodes for the solar light-driven catalytic activation of small molecules (H2 and CO2)
- Functionalized conjugated materials for molecular recognition and enhanced electrical stability
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Collaborations
- Nuria CRIVILLERS and Concepcio ROVIRA, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain
- Emmanuel CADOT, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR CNRS 8180, France
- Sylvie CHARDON, University Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, Département de Chimie Moléculaire, UMR CNRS 5250, France
- Han ZUILHOF, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Mark G. HUMPHREY, Department of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Dario M. BASSANI, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, University of Bordeaux, France
- Graça H. VICENTE, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Membership of Professional Organizations
Member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and active French expert in the “Observatoire des Micro- et Nanotechnologies OMNT” network dedicated to advances, trends and prospects in molecular electronics.
Awards & Prices
2002 NATO fellowship, Invited scientist in the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
CNRS Excellence Scientific Award (PES) 2011-2014
CNRS Research and Doctoral Supervision Prize (PEDR) 2017-2020
Publications referenced in HAL (may be incomplete)