Dr. Manuel Houmard Postdoc (October 2009 — August 2011) | ![]() |
Research Activities
Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering Scaffold, Calcium Phosphate, Sol-gel technology, Robocasting, Freezecasting, CoatingsEducation
2005-2009 Ph.D. in
‘Materials, Mechanics, Civil
Engineering and Electrochemistry’ of
the Grenoble
Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) - France
2007 Visiting researcher in the Laboratory of Ceramic Materials (UFMG-Belo Horizonte) - Brazil
2004-2005 M.S. in ‘Materials Science’ (Grenoble-INP) - France
Publications
M. Houmard, G. Berthomé, J.C. Joud, M.
Langlet, Enhanced
cleanability of super-hydrophilic TiO2–SiO2 composite
surfaces prepared via a sol-gel route, Surface Science
605 (2011) 456 (DOI)
M. Messaoud, M. Houmard, S. Briche, F. Roussel, M. Langlet, Hydrophobic functionalization of cotton-based textile fabrics through a non-fluorinated sol-gel route, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 55 (2010) 243
M. Houmard, D.C.L. Vasconcelos, W.L. Vasconcelos, G. Berthomé, J.C. Joud, M. Langlet, Water and oil wettability of hybrid organic-inorganic titanate-silicate thin films deposited by a sol-gel route, Surface Science 603 (2009) 2698
M. Houmard, D. Riassetto, F. Roussel, A. Bourgeois, G. Berthomé, J.C. Joud, M. Langlet, Enhanced persistence of natural super-hydrophilicity in TiO2–SiO2 composite thin films deposited via a sol–gel route, Surface Science 602 (2008) 3364
S. Permpoon, M. Houmard, D. Riassetto, L. Rapenne, G. Berthomé, B. Baroux, J.C. Joud, M. Langlet, Natural and persistent superhydrophilicity of SiO2/TiO2 and TiO2/SiO2 bi-layer films, Thin Solid Films 516 (2008) 957
M. Houmard, D. Riassetto, F. Roussel, A. Bourgeois, G. Berthomé, J.C. Joud, M. Langlet, Morphology and natural wettability properties of sol–gel derived TiO2–SiO2 composite thin films, Applied Surface Science 254 (2007) 1405
M. Houmard, G. Berthomé, L. Boulangé, J.C. Joud, Surface physico-chemistry study of an austenitic stainless steel: Effect of simple cold rolling treatment on surface contamination, Corrosion Science 49 (2007) 2602