Matheus DE SOUZA LIMA MENDES

Matheus DE SOUZA LIMA MENDES

Postdoctoral fellow, Surfaces and Interfaces (DSI)matheus.mendes@ipcms.unistra.fr
Tél: +33(0)3 88 10 70 78Bureau: 1031

Parcours de recherche

2025-2027: Post-doctorat at Département Surfaces et Interfaces (DSI) » Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS) under the supervision of Dr. Christine Boeglin.

Parcours universitaire

2022-2025: PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux.

Thesis: Magnetochiral nanocomposites: from natural to synthetic strategies towards the observation of the magnetochiral dichroism phenomenon. Under the supervision of Dr. Emilie Pouget.

2019 – 2021: Master in Polymers and Science Technology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IMA-UFRJ).

2015-2019: Bachelor in Chemistry with specialization in Natural products chemistry from the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Research

Ultrafast magnetization dynamics and time-resolved X-ray techniques: I’m interested in what spins and magnetic materials do on insanely short timescales.

Nanomagnetism: study of magnetic anisotropy using X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) in nanostructured systems such as nanoparticles and thin films.

Magnetochirality: The combination of chiro and magneto-optical activity in materials. Magnetochiral Dichroism effect (MChD).

Chiroptical active materials at nanoscale. Strategies to induce chiroptical properties at nanoscale: Nanoparticles and nanoassemblies.

Publications

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M. de S.L. Mendes, L.C. Adi, I. Makarchuk, G. Duroux, A. Boudier, P. Pranee, M.D. Blanco, J. Wang, C. Labrugere-Sarroste, E. Lebraud, S. Nlate, R. Oda, C. Train, G.L.J.A. Rikken, P. Rosa, F. Choueikani, A. Juhin, B.P. Pichon, M. Atzori, E.A. Hillard, E. Pouget, Magneto-Chiral Dichroism at the Nanoscale: Experimental Observation in Chiral Paramagnetic Nanoparticles, ACS Materials Letters 7 (2025) 3853–3858. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.5c01256.
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G. Duroux, M.D.S.L. Mendes, I. Makarchuk, T. Lucante, C. Kiefer, S. Buffiere, F. Weill, W. Baaziz, T. Buffeteau, S. Nlate, R. Oda, P. Rosa, E.A. Hillard, B.P. Pichon, E. Pouget, Challenges in Chirality Induction in Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: In Situ vs Ex Situ Growth on Helical Nanoplatforms, Crystal Growth & Design 25 (2025) 603–611. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01346.

2025. Magneto-Chiral Dichroism at the Nanoscale: Experimental Observation in Chiral Paramagnetic Nanoparticles. ACS Materials Lett. 2025, 7, 12, 3853–3858.

Challenges in Chirality Induction in Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: In Situ vs Ex Situ Growth on Helical Nanoplatforms. Cryst. Growth Des. 2025, 25, 3, 603–611.

Chirality expression from hierarchical foldamer-mesoscopic helical silica frameworks. Mater. Chem. Front., 2025,9, 1501-1510.

Porphyrin J-aggregates as a probe for chiral impurities as demonstrated by their symmetry breaking by confinement in montmorillonite clay