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Louvain-La-Neuve

Metal borohydrides

A collaborative effort of the teams from Universities in Aarhus, Geneva and Louvain-la-Neuve (Yaroslav Filinchuk of IMCN Institute), as well as from the Helmholtz Center in Geesthacht, has lead to a comprehensive review of 70 pages in the prestigious journal "Chemical Society Reviews", covering...
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Hexagonal boron nitride (BN) is an excellent support for...

In the frame of her PhD thesis, Josefine Schnee (IMCN Institute / pole MOST), team of Eric Gaigneaux, and teaching assistant at the faculty of bioscience engineering) demonstrated for the first time that hexagonal boron nitride (BN) is an excellent support for...
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Dr. Ronggang CAI has been granted the PhD Award in the...

Dr. Ronggang CAI has been granted the PhD Award in the field of Material Science for his work entitled “Nanoimprinted ferroelectric polymer layers for organic memory devices and multiferroism“ by the Royal Belgian Society of Microscopy (RBSM vzw). The RBSM awards up to three prizes annually...
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Umicore Materials Technology Award

Dr Camila Fernandez has received the € 10,000 Umicore Materials Technology Award for her PhD work in the field of exploring dynamic catalytic processes for synthesizing ammonia on ruthenium-supported nanoparticles at low temperatures. Dr Fernandez’s entry was one of 15 submitted from all...
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Multiferroic Nanopatterned Hybrid Material with...

  A multidisciplinary team from BSMA (groups of Alain Jonas, Bernard Nysten and Luc Piraux, with principal researchers Ronggang Cai and Vlad Antohe), in collaboration with Zhijun Hu from Soochow University (China) – a former post-doc from BSMA, fabricated a composite multiferroic...
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