Thierry DUFOUR is full time associate-professor at Sorbonne Université and heads his research activities at LPP (UMR 7648, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique). In 2009, T. Dufour obtained his PhD in plasmas physics at the University of Orleans (GREMI, France) and became postdoctoral researcher at the University of Brussels (ULB). In 2015, he was appointed Associate Professor at Sorbonne Université and obtained in 2016 his HDR (French research supervisor accreditation).
Today, T. Dufour is member of the Plas@Par federation Steering Committee, member of the GDR Happybio (CNRS, #2025), member of the SIRIC CURAMUS and co-steers the research programme "Initiative Physique des Infinis" at Sorbonne Université.
His research activities are focused on cold atmospheric plasmas and cover a large spectrum of applications: plasma-material interactions (polymers, organometallics, colloids), plasma chemistry (CO2 valorization, syngas production, micro-plasmas) and plasmas for life sciences. In that regard, his current research activities deal with plasma medicine (cold plasmas applied to solid tumors of cholangiocarcinomas and lungs) and plasma agriculture (plasma processes to promote seeds and seedlings biological properties). In 2021, T. Dufour has published 35 articles and 12 proceedings in peer-review journals, and has >80 contributions in conferences. H-index 17 (Google-Scholar).

 Cold plasma devices to meet Life Sciences issues (breakthrough and incremental innovations)
 Cold plasmas applied to oncology (cholangiocarcinomas, lung cancer)
 Cold plasmas applied to agronomy (tailoring seeds dormancy, improving seeds germination, boosting seedlings growth)
 Plasma diagnostics (OES, MS, IR imaging, ...)
 Self-organization of plasma patterns

@Sorbonne Université
 Magnetic induction and energy conversion
 Introduction to Electronics
 Analog electronic systems
 Plasma Physics - Master level 2

• Techniques des écoulements gazeux
• [Non disponible]
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 Plasma Physics - Master level 1

• Introduction à la fusion nucléaire
• Fusion nucléaire en astrophysique
• Fusion nucléaire pour la production d’énergie électrique
• Propulsion spatiale
• Plasmas-Matériaux
• Plasma-médecine

 Waves and biological media

• 1. Intro sur les ondes acoustiques
• 2. Ondes ultrasonores
• 3. Echographie
• 4. Rayonnements ionisants

 Electromagnetism & Optics
 Career counseling & Career integration
 Projects of physics in autonomy
 Thermal transfers
 Thermodynamics

@ULB, <2015
 Physico-chemistry of plasma
 Surface analysis

Publications in international journals with peer review

Sustainable improvement of seeds vigor using dry atmospheric plasma priming: Evidence through coating wettability, water uptake, and plasma reactive chemistry, T. Dufour, Q. Gutierrez, C. Bailly, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 129, 084902 (2021) DOI, HAL

Seed-packed dielectric barrier device for plasma agriculture: understanding its electrical properties through an equivalent electrical model, F. Judée, T. Dufour, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 128, Issue 4, 2020 DOI, HAL

Cold-atmospheric plasma induces tumor cell death in preclinical in vivo and in vitro models of human cholangiocarcinoma, J. Vaquero, F. Judée, M. Vallette, H. Decauchy, A. Arbelaiz, L. Aoudjehane, O. Scatton, E. Gonzalez-Sanchez, F. Merabtene, J. Augustin, C. Housset, T. Dufour and Laura Fouassier, Cancers, 12(5), 1280 (2020) DOI, HAL

Atmospheric pressure plasma jets applied to cancerology: correlating electrical configuration with in vivo toxicity and therapeutic efficiency, F. Judée, J. Vaquero, L. Fouassier, S. Guegan, T. Dufour, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 52, Issue 24, 2019, DOI, HAL

Plasma gun for medical applications: engineering an equivalent electrical target of human body and deciphering relevant electrical parameters, F. Judée, T. Dufour, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Letter, Vol. 52, Issue 16, 2019, DOI, HAL

Self-organized patterns by a DC pin liquid anode discharge in ambient air: effect of liquid types on formation, S. Zhang, T. Dufour, Physics of Plasmas 25, 073502 (2018), DOI, HAL

Plasma-activation of tap water using DBD for agronomy applications: identification and quantification of long lifetime chemical species and production/consumption mechanisms, F. Judée, S. Simon, C. Bailly, T. Dufour, Water Research 133 (2018) 47-59, DOI, HAL

Promoting lentil germination and stem growth by plasma activated tap water, demineralized water and liquid fertilizer, S. Zhang, A. Rousseau and T. Dufour, RSCAdv. ,2017, 7 ,31244-31251, DOI, HAL

DBD in burst mode: solution for more efficient CO2 conversion?, A. Ozkan, T. Dufour*, T. Silva, N. Britun, R. Snyders, F. Reniers, A. Bogaerts, Plasma Sources Science & Technology, 2016, Vol. 25, No 5, 055005, DOI, HAL

How do the barrier thickness and dielectric material influence the filamentary mode and CO2 conversion in a flowing DBD?, A. Ozkan, T. Dufour*, A. Bogaerts, F. Reniers, Plasma Sources Science & Technology, 2016, Vol. 25, No 4, 045016, DOI, HAL

Reactivity of water vapor in an atmospheric argon flowing post-discharge, S. Collette, T. Dufour, F. Reniers, Plasma Sources Science & Technology, 2016, Vol. 25, No 2, 025014, DOI, HAL

The influence of power and frequency on the filamentary behavior of a flowing DBD – Application to the splitting of CO2, A. Ozkan, T. Dufour, T. Silva, N. Britun, R. Snyders, A. Bogaerts, F. Reniers, Plasma Sources Science & Technology, 2016, Vol. 25, No 2, 025013, DOI, HAL

Fuel cell electrodes from organometallic platinum precursors: an easy atmospheric plasma approach, D. Merche, T. Dufour, J. Banneton, G. Caldarella, V. Debaille, N. Job, F. Reniers, Plasma processes and polymers, 2016, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 91-104, DOI, HAL

Synthesis and texturization processes of (super)-hydrophobic fluorinated surfaces by atmospheric plasma, J. Hubert, J. Mertens, T. Dufour, N. Vandencasteele, F. Reniers, P. Viville, R. Lazzaroni, M. Raes, H. Terryn, Journal of Materials Research, 2015, Vol. 30, Issue 21, 3177-3191, DOI, HAL

Chemical and physical effects of the carrier gas on the atmospheric pressure PECVD of fluorinated precursors, J. Hubert, N. Vandencasteele, J. Mertens, P. Viville, T. Dufour, C. Barroo, T. Visart de Bocarmé, R. Lazzaroni, F. Reniers, Plasma Processes & Polymers, 2015, Vol. 12, Issue 10, 1174-1185, DOI, HAL

CO2-CH4 conversion and syngas formation at atmospheric pressure using a multi-electrode dielectric barrier discharge, A. Ozkan, T. Dufour, G. Arnoult, P. de Keyzer, A. Bogaerts, F. Reniers, Journal of CO2 utilization, 2015, Vol. 9, 74-81, DOI, HAL

LDPE surface modifications induced by atmospheric plasma torches with linear and showerhead configurations, S. Abou Rich, T. Dufour, P. Leroy, L. Nittler, J.-J. Pireaux, F. Reniers, Plasma Processes & Polymers, 2015, Vol. 12, Issue 8, 771-785, DOI, HAL

Understanding polyethylene surface functionalization by an atmospheric He/O2 plasma through combined experiments and simulations, T. Dufour, J. Minnebo, S. Abou Rich, E. C. Neyts, A. Bogaerts, F. Reniers, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2014, Vol. 47, Issue 22, 224007 (12 pp), DOI, HAL

Effect of cationic and anionic surfactants on application of calcium carbonate nanoparticles in paper coating, A. Barhoum, H. Rahier, R. Abouzeid, M. Rehan, T. Dufour, G. Hill, F. Reniers, A. Dufresne, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, Vol. 6, Issue 4, 2734-2744, DOI

In-depth diffusion of oxygen into LDPE exposed to an Ar-O2 atmospheric post-discharge: a complementary approach between ARXPS and Tof-SIMS techniques, S. Abou Rich, P. Leroy, T. Dufour, N. Wehbe, L. Houssiau, F. Reniers, Surf. Interface Anal., 2014, Vol.46, Issue 3, 164-174, DOI, HAL

Low-density polyethylene films treated by an atmospheric Ar-O2 post-discharge: functionalization, etching, degradation and partial recovery of the native wettability state, S. Abou Rich, T. Dufour, P. Leroy, L. Nittler, J.-J. Pireaux, F. Reniers, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2014, Vol. 47, Issue 6, 065203, DOI, HAL

Ignition and extinction phenomena in helium micro-hollow cathode discharges, M. K. Kulsreshath, N. Sadeghi, L. Schwaederle, T. Dufour, L. J. Overzet, P. Lefaucheux, R. Dussart, J. Appl. Phys., 2013, Vol. 114, 243303 (8 pp), DOI, HAL

Competitive and synergistic effects between excimer VUV radiation and O radicals on the etching mechanisms of polyethylene and fluoropolymer surfaces treated by an atmospheric He-O2 post-discharge, T. Dufour, J. Hubert, N. Vandencasteele, P. Viville, R. Lazzaroni, F. Reniers, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2013, Vol. 46, Issue 31, 315203 (14 pp), DOI, HAL

Influence of ambient air on the flowing afterglow of an atmospheric pressure Ar/O2 radiofrequency plasma, C. Y. Duluard, T. Dufour, J. Hubert, F. Reniers, J. Appl. Phys., 2013, Vol. 113, Issue 9, 093303 (12 pp), DOI, HAL

Chemical mechanisms inducing a DC current measured in the flowing post-discharge of an RF He-O2 plasma torch, T. Dufour, J. Hubert, N. Vandencasteele, F. Reniers, Plasma Sources Science & Technology, 2012, Vol. 21, Issue 4, 045013 (10 pp), DOI, HAL

PTFE surface etching in the afterglow of a scanning RF plasma torch: evidence of ejected fluorinated species, T. Dufour, J. Hubert, P. Viville, C. Duluard, S. Desbief, R. Lazzaroni, F. Reniers, Plasma Processes and Polymers, 2012, Vol. 9, Issue 8, 820-829, DOI, HAL

Etching processes of polytetrafluoroethylene surfaces exposed to He and He-O2 atmospheric post-discharges, J. Hubert, T. Dufour, N. Vandencasteele, S. Desbief, R. Lazzaroni, F. Reniers, Langmuir, 2012, Vol. 28, Issue 25, 9466-9474, DOI, HAL

Synthesis of Membrane-Electrode Assembly for Fuel Cells by Means of (Sub)-Atmospheric Plasma Processes, D. Merche, T. Dufour, J. Hubert, C. Poleunis, S. Yunus, A. Delcorte, P. Bertrand, F. Reniers, Plasma Processes & Polymers, 2012, Vol. 9, Issue 11-12, 1144-1153, DOI, HAL

Gas sensing properties of multiwall carbon nanotubes decorated with rhodium nanoparticles, R. Leghrib, T. Dufour, F. Demoisson, N. Claessens, F. Reniers, E. Llobet, Sensors and actuators B : Chemical, 2011, Vol. 160, Issue 1, 974-980, DOI, HAL

Carbon nanotubes decorated with gold, platinum and rhodium clusters by injection of colloidal solutions into the post-discharge of an RF atmospheric plasma, N. Claessens, F. Demoisson, T. Dufour, A. Mansour, A. Felten, J. Guillot, J-J Pireaux, F Reniers, Nanotechnology, 2010, Vol. 21, Issue 38, 385603, DOI, HAL

Integrated micro-plasmas in silicon operating in helium, R. Dussart, L.J. Overzet, P. Lefaucheux, T. Dufour, M. Kulsreshath, P. Ranson, J.B. Lee, M. Goeckner, The European Physical Journal D, 2010, Vol. 60, Issue 3, 601-608, DOI, HAL

Experimental study and simulation of a micro-discharge with limited cathode area, T. Dufour, L.J. Overzet, R. Dussart, L.C. Pitchford, N. Sadeghi, P. Lefaucheux, M. Kulsreshath, P. Ranson, The European Physical Journal D, 2010, Vol. 60, Issue 3, 565-574, DOI, HAL

RF impedance measurements of DC atmospheric micro-discharges, L.J. Overzet, D. Jung, M.A. Mandra, M. Goeckner, T. Dufour, R. Dussart, P. Lefaucheux, The European Physical Journal D, 2010, Vol. 60, Issue 3, 449-454, DOI, HAL

Effect of limiting the cathode surface on DC micro-hollow cathode discharge in helium, T. Dufour, R. Dussart, P. Lefaucheux, P. Ranson, L. Overzet, M. Mandra, J.-B. Lee, M. Goeckner, Applied Physics Letters, 2008, Vol. 93, Issue 7, 071508, DOI, HAL

Proceedings from international symposiums with peer review

Plasma wet and dry approaches for agriculture: limitations, challenges andopportunities, T. Dufour, F. Judée, C. Bailly, ISPC-24, Naples, Italy, 9-14 June, 2019

Treatment of carcinomas using atmospheric pressure plasma jets: from targets to in vivo models to investigate innocuity and therapeutic efficiency, F. Judée, J. Vaquero, L. Fouassier, T. Dufour, ISPC-24, Naples, Italy, 9-14 June, 2019

Reactive species involved in higher seeds germination and shoots vigor through direct plasma exposure and plasma-activated liquids, T. Dufour*, S. Zhang, S. Simon, A. Rousseau, ISPC-23, Montreal, Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017, Y-5-9, proceeding Ref. 129

Single and multiple pin(s)-to-liquid discharges: Connecting self-organization patterns and ROS production in liquids for plasma agronomy applications, S. Zhang, A. Rousseau, T. Dufour, ISPC-23, Montreal, Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017, P-2-62-10, proceeding Ref. 350

Synthesis and/or grafting of noble metal nanoparticles by microplasma and by atmospheric plasma torch, D. Merche, C. De Vos, J. Banneton, T. Dufour, S. Godet, F. Reniers, ISPC-23, Montreal, Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017, Proceeding Ref. 179

Hydrogen peroxide generated by an atmospheric He-O2-H2O flowing post-discharge: production mechanisms and absolute quantification, T. Dufour, N. El Mourad, C. De Vos, F. Reniers, ISPC-22, Antwerp, Belgium, 5th-10th July 2015, PDF, HAL

CO2 splitting by DBD: understanding the influence of electrical parameters and regimes, A. Ozkan, T. Dufour, T. Silva, N. Britun, A. Bogaerts, F. Reniers, ISPC-22, Antwerp, Belgium, 5th-10th July 2015, PDF, HAL

A combined study for turning CO2 and H2O into value-added products in a dielectric barrier discharge, R. Snoeckx, A. Ozkan, R. Aerts, T. Dufour, F. Reniers, A. Bogaerts, ISPC-22, Antwerp, Belgium, 5th-10th July 2015, PDF, HAL

Reactivity of water vapour in an atmospheric pressure DBD – Application to LDPE surfaces, S. Collette, T. Dufour, P. Viville, F. Reniers, ISPC-22, Antwerp, Belgium, 5th-10th July 2015, PDF, HAL

Preparation and characterization of ultra-hydrophobic calcium carbonate nanoparticles, A. Barhoum, S.M. El-Sheikl, F. Morsy, S. El-Sherbiny, F. Reniers, T. Dufour, M. P. Delplancke, G. Van Assche, H. Rahier, IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2014, Vol. 64, 012037, DOI, HAL

Optical diagnostics and mass spectrometry on the afterglow of an atmospheric pressure Ar/O2 radiofrequency plasma used for polymer surface treatment, C. Y. Duluard, T. Dufour, J. Hubert, F. Reniers, 30th-ICPIG, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 28th August – 2nd September 2011, PDF, HAL

Direct current parallel microdischarges in helium, T. Dufour, R. Dussart, L. J. Overzet, P. Lefaucheux, P. Ranson, L. B. Jeong, M. Mandra, M. Goeckner, N. Sadeghi, ISPC-18, Kyoto, Japan, 26th-31st August 2007, PDF, HAL