Recent Publications

Articles

• Decoding Wetting Behavior: Capillary Rise Experiments with Amphiphilic Compounds and Theoretical Aspects
  Hamraoui A, Thuresson K, Nylander T : Langmuir, 2025
• Decoding wetting behavior: capillary rise experiments with amphiphilic compounds and theoretical aspects
  Ahmed Hamraoui, Krister Thuresson, Tommy Nylander : Langmuir, 2025
• Cell adhesion and surface interactions: A comprehensive review of surface energy, wettability, and topography effects
  Hamraoui A : AIP Advances, 2025
• Managing surface energy dynamics for enhanced axonal growth: An overview of present and future challenges
  Sénépart O, Legay C, Hamraoui A : Biophysics Reviews, 2025
• Ice templating water-stable macroporous polysaccharide hydrogels to mimic plant stems.
  Komiyama K, Allard M, Eschenbrenner C, Sicard C, Hamraoui A, Fernandes F : Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2025
• Contributions of Surface and Interface Physical Chemistry to Biology
  Ahmed Hamraoui : (preprint), 2024
• Complementarity between Brillouin signature and Scholte wave for controlled elasticity in fibrillated collagen medium for culture cell
  Ahmed Hamraoui, Océane Sénépart, Laurent Belliard : Applied Physics Letters, 2024
• Data clustering analysis of scanning ultrafast acoustic experiments. How acoustic and structural properties of a motoneuron are revealed
  Péronne E, Sénépart O, Legay C, Semprez F, Hamraoui A, Belliard L : {Physical Review Applied}, 2022
• Adhesion energy modulation acts as an NGF receptor activator for neuronal differentiation in NGF-free medium
  Sénépart O, Legay C, Hélary C, Hamraoui A : Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022
• Correlative Imaging of Motoneuronal Cell Elasticity by Pump and Probe Spectroscopy.
  Hamraoui A, Sénépart O, Schneider M, Malaquin S, Péronne E, Becerra L, Semprez F, Legay C, Belliard L : Biophys J, 2021
• Picosecond ultrasounds as elasticity probes in neuron-like cells models
  Viel A, Péronne E, Sénépart O, Becerra L, Legay C, Semprez F, Trichet L, Coradin T, Hamraoui A, Belliard L : Applied Physics Letters, 2019
• Ice-templating beet-root pectin foams: Controlling texture, mechanics and capillary properties
  Sarah Christoph, Ahmed Hamraoui, Estelle Bonnin, Catherine Garnier, Thibaud Coradin, Francisco M Fernandes : Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018
• Surface-induced assembly of sophorolipids.
  Peyre J, Hamraoui A, Faustini M, Humblot V, Baccile N : Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2017
• Substrate-induced PC12 cell differentiation without filopodial, lamellipodial activity or NGF stimulationa.
  Lamour G, Souès S, Hamraoui A : Macromol Biosci, 2015
• Tuning surface energy at the nanometer scale: A new step towards controlling neuronal differentiation?
  Lamour G, Souès S, Collart E, Colline S, Bardoue N, Hamraoui A : Journal of Nanoscience Letters, 2013
• Neuritogenesis on antagonist surfaces
  Lamour G, Souès S, Hamraoui A : Global Journal of Physical Chemistry| Volume, 2011
• Interplay between long- and short-range interactions drives neuritogenesis on stiff surfaces.
  Lamour G, Souès S, Hamraoui A : J Biomed Mater Res A, 2011
• Contact angle measurements using a simplified experimental setup
  Lamour G, Hamraoui A, Buvailo A, Xing Y, Keuleyan S, Prakash V, Eftekhari-Bafrooei A, Borguet E : Journal of chemical education, 2010
• Neuronal adhesion and differentiation driven by nanoscale surface free-energy gradients.
  Lamour G, Eftekhari-Bafrooei A, Borguet E, Souès S, Hamraoui A : Biomaterials, 2010
• Influence of surface energy distribution on neuritogenesis.
  Lamour G, Journiac N, Souès S, Bonneau S, Nassoy P, Hamraoui A : Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces, 2009
• Layering and prewetting in experimental systems: an assessment cross-referred to current theories.
  Hamraoui A, Privat M : Adv Colloid Interface Sci, 2009
• Modelling photochemical reactions in atmospheric water droplets: An assessment of the importance of surface processes
  Davide Vione, Claudio Minero, Ahmed Hamraoui, Mireille Privat : Atmospheric Environment, 2007
• Fingering phenomena during spreading of surfactant solutions
  Hamraoui A, Cachile M, Poulard C, Cazabat A : Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2004
• Films driven by surface tension gradients.
  Cachile M, Schneemilch M, Hamraoui A, Cazabat AM : Adv Colloid Interface Sci, 2002
• Analytical approach for the Lucas-Washburn equation.
  Hamraoui A, Nylander T : J Colloid Interface Sci, 2002
• Critical and wetting transitional adsorption behaviour in a liquid system against vapour and other walls
  Huruguen J, Amara M, Méar A, Hamraoui H, Olier R, Privat M : Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2001
• Can a dynamic contact angle be understood in terms of a friction coefficient?
  Hamraoui A, Thuresson K, Nylander T, Yaminsky V : Journal of colloid and interface science, 2000
• Interfacial properties of whey proteins at air/water and oil/water interfaces studied by dynamic drop tensiometry, ellipsometry and spreading kinetics
  Nylander T, Hamraoui A, Paulsson M : International journal of food science \& technology, 1999
• Surface phase transitions at liquid-mixture/solid interfaces
  Mazeas I, P{\’e}lerin P, Sellami H, Hamraoui A, Olier R, Privat M : Langmuir, 1999
• Impact of Bulk Phase Transitions and Wetting Transitions on Adsorption Isotherms in Binary Systems in Contact with Solid.
  Hamraoui A, Privat M : J Colloid Interface Sci, 1998
• Experimental Evidence of Pure Layering at the Solid/Liquid Binary Mixture Interface. Silica/Water- 2, 5-Dimethylpyridine System
  Sellami H, Hamraoui A, Privat M, Olier R : Langmuir, 1998
• Layering in a two-component liquid system undergoing a phase separation
  Hamraoui A, Privat M, Sellami H : The Journal of chemical physics, 1997
• Prewetting transition influenced by layeringlike transitions at a binary liquid/solid interface
  Hamraoui A, Privat M : The Journal of chemical physics, 1997
• Monolayers, critical layers and wetting films in a liquid-liquid-solid system undergoing a wetting transition. Experimental study
  Privat M, Amara M, Hamraoui A, Sellami H, Mear A : Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft f{\, 1994

Chapter

• Dynamic wetting and dewetting by aqueous solutions containing amphiphilic compounds
  Hamraoui Ahmed, Thuresson Krister, Nylander Tommy, Eskilsson Krister, Yaminsky Vassili : extracted from Surface and Colloid Science Valdemaras Razumas, Björn Lindman, Tommy Nylander – Springer, pages 113–119, ISBN:978-3-540-44941-6, 2001

Speech communications / proceedings

• Extracting Weak Signal with the Help of Data Clustering: Application to Motoneuron Adhesion
  Emmanuel Péronne, Sophie Malaquin, Loic Becerra, Laurent Belliard, Ahmed Hamraoui, Claire Legay, Fannie Semprez : Forum Acusticum, Lyon, France, 2020
• Picosecond ultrasounds as elasticity probes in neuron-like cells models.
  Laurent Belliard, Alexis Viel, Emmanuel Péronne, Océane Sénépart, Loic Becerra, Claire Legay, Fannie Semprez, Lea Trichet, Thibaud Coradin, Ahmed Hamraoui : Forum Acusticum, Lyon, France, 2020

Patents

• la pré-stimulation électrique d’un dispositif implantable pour la réparation du nerf
  Ahmed HAMRAOUI, Océane SENEPART, Claire LEGAY, Hafsa ER-ROUASSI, Richard Junior AMEDZROVI AGBESI : Patent # : DSO2025028091, 2025
• Nerve repair implant: International application
  A Hamraoui, O Sénépart, C Legay : Patent # : WO2024/241069, 2024