RIASSETTO David

Teaching Activities:

• Surface and Interface Science
• Physic
• Material Science
• Ecological transition for sustainable development
• Fluid Mechanic
• Clean Room Labworks

• PHELMA 1^st year Physic labworks (2014-2024)
• PHELMA 1^st year Multidisciplinary Project (2016-2025)

Research 

Research activities:
Since the beginning, my research activity relies on nanomaterials and surface functionalization, from thin films and metal nanoparticles for photocatalysis during my Ph.D at LMGP (Grenoble-INP) to QDs encapsulation as postdoctoral researcher at University of Utah (USA). Then I was hired as associate professor at LMGP (Grenoble INP), and launched my own activity on nanoarchitectured materials for water management and depollution. I developed coatings to make any type of substrate superhydrophilic for months or superhydrophobic for years and also to repel liquids based on liquid infused porous surfaces. Recently, this expertise has been adapted to produce Nanowire-based Janus membranes for desalination and passive atmospheric water harvesting devices. Nanowire-based oxydes membranes are studied for depollution (dye degradation, CO₂ reduction) and energy (H₂ production based on solar water splitting) applications based on their optimized photocatalytic activity.

Bio

Dr. David Riassetto is an Associate professor HDR in Material Science. He got a Master of Science degree in physics and energy with honors in 2005 at University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble and a Ph.D. at Grenoble Institute of Technology in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah. Since 2011, he is an associate professor at Grenoble Institute of Technology and doing his researches in the LMGP laboratory (Laboratory of Materials and Physical Engineering) has a member of the NAnomaterials, BIOmolecules and Surfaces (NaBioS) team, and more precisely of the Nanostructured materials for biology and the environment axis. Currently Dr. David Riassetto’s researches focus on the surface functionalization at the nanometer scale, using wet-chemistry methods (e.g. sol-gel, photochemistry…), mainly for depollution (photocatalysis) and water management (water purification, desalination, water harvesting) applications. From 2018 to 2024 he was member of the board of Labex Ceman, from 2022 to 2025 coleader of the LMGP's Funsurf team and since 2023 is coleader of the international joint laboratory CARE ‘Water Management’ team (Vietnam-France).

List of recent publications
ORCID: 0000-0001-8338-6954

2026

• Machine Learning–Guided eco-friendly synthesis of Cu₂O Nanowires and Metal Oxide Nanorods via a Fehling-Inspired Approach, Submitted
• Comparative Cradle‐to‐Gate Life Cycle Assessment of Hydrothermal Zinc Oxide Nanowire Synthesis Methods, Green chemistry 2026, accepted; DOI: 10.1039/D5GC03866A
• Mechanisms involved in the hydrothermal growth of thin and long Cu₂O nanowires, Materials Today Chemistry 2026, 51, 103250; DOI: 10.1016/j.mtchem.2025.103250 

• Double-structured zinc oxide nanowire architecture for robust superhydrophobicity and multifunctionality, Surfaces & Interfaces 2025, 72, 107248; DOI: 10.1016/j.surfin.2025.107248 
• Ecofriendly Process to Synthesize Cu₂O Nanowires with Tunable Morphology by pH Adjustments, Crystal Growth & Design 2025, 25(15), p. 5946-5953; DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5c00360

2024

• Advancing Surface-Enhanced Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes: Customizing Properties for Enhanced Performance in Membrane Distillation, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 2024, 309(7), 2300461; DOI: 10.1002/mame.202300461

2023

• Tailoring the pore architecture and crystalline structure of UiO-66 for the selective adsorption of anionic species in aqueous media. Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring and Management 2023, 20, 100869; DOI: 10.1016/j.enmm.2023.100869
• Study and Optimization of a Micro-Structured Waveguiding and Fluorescent Sol-Gel Architecture. Molecules 2023, 28(12), 4608; DOI: 10.3390/molecules28124608
• Impact of the duty cycle on the morphology and photocatalytic properties of S-TiO₂ obtained by plasma electrolytic oxidation to treat real electroplating wastewater contaminated with Cr⁶⁺. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 2023, 11(5), 110246, DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2023.110246
• Wetting ridges on slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces. Reports on Progress in Physics 2023, 86, 066601, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/acc87a
• Study of the Photoluminescence Enhancement Observed in ZnO Nanowire Gratings Optimally Grown by the Hydrothermal Method. Advanced Optical Materials 2023, 11(20), 2300695; DOI: 10.1002/adom.202300695

2022

• Nanostructuration of YAG:Ce Coatings by ZnO Nanowires: A Smart Way to Enhance Light Extraction Efficiency. Nanomaterials 2022, 12(15), 2568; DOI: 10.3390/nano12152568
• Setting-up and assessing a new micro-structured waveguiding fluorescent architecture on glass entirely elaborated by sol-gel processing. Materials 2022, 15(3), 979; DOI: 10.3390/ma15030979

2021

• Lubricant Depletion‐Resistant Slippery Liquid‐Infused Porous Surfaces via Capillary Rise Lubrication of Nanowire Array. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2021, 2002058

2020

• ZnO nanowires/YAG:Ce functional heterostructure coatings with tunable optical properties. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2020, 842, 155708, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.155708

• Multifunctional composite films with vertically aligned ZnO nanowires by leaching-enabled capillary rise infiltration. Nanoscale 2019, 11(45), 22099-22107, DOI: 10.1039/c9nr07183k
• Micro-structuration of a sol-gel architecture for channel waveguide/diffraction grating coupling. Optical Materials 2019, 92, 36-45, DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2019.04.009

2017

• Mechanisms involved in the hydrothermal growth of ultra-thin and high aspect ratio ZnO nanowires. Applied Surface Science 2017, 410, 423-431, DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.03.086
• Benefits and limitations of Pt nanoparticles supported on highly porous antimony-doped tin dioxide aerogel as alternative cathode material for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Applied Catalysis B-Environmental 2017, 201, 381-390, DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.08.010