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Pierre Aimar is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and engineering, with a focus on surface, coatings and films, water science and technology, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, and biomaterials.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including membrane separation technologies, polymer surface interaction studies, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, protein interaction studies and fluorescence analysis, nanoparticle-based drug delivery, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, and electrostatics and colloid interactions.

Frequent coauthors in Pierre Aimar's research collaborations include:

  • Patrice Bacchin
  • Christel Causserand
  • Yung Chang
  • Charaf Eddine Merzougui
  • Peter Matthew Paul Fowler

Research publications have appeared in several journals, reflecting diverse interests and interdisciplinary approaches. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Soft Matter
  • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
  • Membranes

Selected recent papers from Pierre Aimar's body of work include:

  • Surface Zwitterionization of Expanded Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) via Dopamine-Assisted Consecutive Immersion Coating, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Combining fluorescence and permeability measurements in a membrane microfluidic device to study protein sorption mechanisms, 2020, Journal of Membrane Science
  • Pearl-necklace assembly of human serum albumin with the poly(acrylic acid) polyelectrolyte investigated using small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), 2020, Soft Matter
  • Dopamine-Induced Surface Zwitterionization of Expanded Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) for Constructing Thermostable Bioinert Materials, 2022, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
  • pH-Dependent Adsorption of Human Serum Albumin Protein on a Polystyrene-Block-Poly(acrylic acid)-Coated PVDF Membrane, 2023, Membranes

Best Publications

  • Critical and sustainable fluxes: Theory, experiments and applications

    Patrice Bacchin;Pierre Aimar;Robert W Field

  • Model for colloidal fouling of membranes

    Patrice Bacchin;Pierre Aimar;Victor Sanchez

  • A contribution to the translation of retention curves into pore size distributions for sieving membranes

    Pierre Aimar;Martine Meireles;Victor Sanchez

  • A unifying model for concentration polarization, gel-layer formation and particle deposition in cross-flow membrane filtration of colloidal suspensions

    Patrice Bacchin;Djaffar Si-Hassen;Victor Starov;Michael J. Clifton

  • Removal of bisphenol A by a nanofiltration membrane in view of drinking water production.

    Yang Zhang;Christel Causserand;Pierre Aimar;Jean-Pierre Cravedi

  • On an experimental method to measure critical flux in ultrafiltration

    Benjamin Espinasse;Patrice Bacchin;Pierre Aimar

  • Experimental study of the effects of hypochlorite on polysulfone membrane properties

    Sandrine Rouaix;Christel Causserand;Pierre Aimar

  • Permeability and chemical analysis of aromatic polyamide based membranes exposed to sodium hypochlorite

    Axel Ettori;Axel Ettori;Axel Ettori;Emmanuelle Gaudichet-Maurin;Jean-Christophe Schrotter;Pierre Aimar;Pierre Aimar

  • Use of the log-normal probability density function to analyze membrane pore size distributions: functional forms and discrepancies

    Andrew L. Zydney;Pierre Aimar;Martine Meireles;Joseph M. Pimbley

  • Albumin denaturation during ultrafiltration: effects of operating conditions and consequences on membrane fouling.

    Martine Meireles;Pierre Aimar;Victor Sanchez

  • Low-biofouling membranes prepared by liquid-induced phase separation of the PVDF/polystyrene-b-poly (ethylene glycol) methacrylate blend

    Antoine Venault;Yi-Hung Liu;Jia-Ru Wu;Hui-Shan Yang

  • Role of the cell-wall structure in the retention of bacteria by microfiltration membranes

    Nathalie Lebleu;Christine Roques;Pierre Aimar;Christel Causserand

  • Analysing flux decline in dead-end filtration

    Alexia Grenier;Martine Meireles;Pierre Aimar;Philippe Carvin

  • Influence of surface interaction on transfer during colloid ultrafiltration

    Patrice Bacchin;Pierre Aimar;Victor Sanchez

  • Colloidal surface interactions and membrane fouling: Investigations at pore scale

    Patrice Bacchin;Patrice Bacchin;Aurélie Marty;Aurélie Marty;Paul Duru;Paul Duru;Martine Meireles;Martine Meireles

  • Study of streaming potentials of clean and fouled ultrafiltration membranes

    Christel Causserand;Marianne Nyström;Pierre Aimar

  • Fractionation of model proteins using their physiochemical properties

    Marianne Nyström;Pierre Aimar;Susana Luque;Maaret Kulovaara

  • Effects of protein fouling on the apparent pore size distribution of sieving membranes

    Martine Meireles;Pierre Aimar;Victor Sanchez

  • Limiting flux in membrane separations: A model based on the viscosity dependency of the mass transfer coefficient

    Pierre Aimar;Robert Field

  • Whey protein fractionation: Isoelectric precipitation of α-lactalbumin under gentle heat treatment

    C. Bramaud;P. Aimar;G. Daufin

  • Membrane— solute interactions: influence on pure solvent transfer during ultrafiltration

    Pierre aimar;Semia baklouti;Victor sanchez

Frequent Co-Authors

Yung Chang
Yung Chang Chung Yuan Christian University
Robert W. Field
Robert W. Field University of Oxford
Bernard Cabane
Bernard Cabane Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Philippe Croué
Jean-Philippe Croué University of Poitiers
Dimitrios Stamatialis
Dimitrios Stamatialis University of Twente
Jie Zheng
Jie Zheng University of Akron
Kuo-Lun Tung
Kuo-Lun Tung National Taiwan University
Victor Starov
Victor Starov Loughborough University
Juin-Yih Lai
Juin-Yih Lai National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

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