Event
March 20, 2020
IMCN thesis defence - Vishank KUMAR
Ab initio study of lithium dynamics in silicon-based materials for battery applications
Silicon-based materials are promising candidates to...
April 01, 2020
IMCN thesis defence - Tristan DA CAMARA SANTA CLARA GOMES
3D interconnected magnetic nanowire networks
By video...
April 03, 2020
POSTPONED - IMCN seminar - Prof. Hans Jakob WÖRNER
Attosecond soft-X-ray spectroscopy
in the gas and liquid phases
Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner
!! This seminar has been postponed...
April 29, 2020
IMCN seminar - Prof. Philippe POIZOT
Towards rechargeable batteries made of abundant chemical elements
ABSTRACT
Li-ion batteries (LIBs) appear nowadays as flagship...
NEWS
February 07, 2020
Heterogeneous Catalysis - Prof. Eric GAIGNEAUX
For the 6th consecutive year, Professor Eric Gaigneaux has gone to teach heterogeneous catalysis to master students in the “chemical engineer”...
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January 21, 2020
3D micro-supercapacitors based on nanowire networks
In a recent publication*, a multidisciplinary team from IMCN (groups of Alexandru Vlad and Luc Piraux) have demonstrated a large...
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January 07, 2020
Band-structure spin-filtering in vertical spin-valves...
Band-structure spin-filtering in vertical spin-valves based on chemical vapor deposited WS_2
Spin transport in WS2-based 2D-magnetic...
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December 23, 2019
Hollow zeolite microspheres give enzymes a home
Building multifunctional hybrid materials that integrate both bio- and chemo-catalytic functionalities is a promising way to carry out multistep...
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October 15, 2019
Universal Spin Diffusion Length in Polycrystalline Graphene
Graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the most promising material for industrial-scale applications based on graphene monolayers....
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August 12, 2019
Core-shell nanostructured organic redox polymer cathodes...
Electrodes based on organic redox active materials attract more and more attention due to their inherent advantages such as renewability,...
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July 24, 2019
Computational identification and experimental...
Computational identification and experimental confirmation of a new electride material: Sr3CrN3
In traditional materials, the electrons are...
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July 22, 2019
Un nouveau matériau pour les batteries du futur, made...
En bref :
Le défi des énergies renouvelables ? Le stockage de l’énergie verte. Soit garder l’énergie lors de sa production et...
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Environnement
avril 04, 2019
L’atmosphère source de combustibles solaires
Le projet SUNRISE, auquel participe l’UCLouvain, vient de recevoir un million d’euros de l’Union Européenne. Avec cette somme, pendant...
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May 31, 2019
2019 - Best IMCN Thesis Award
Benoît VAN TROEYE has received the 2018 IMCN Best Thesis Award on May 29, 2019.
His work was entitled "First-principles investigation of...
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March 11, 2019
Science Advances - Combining spintronics and...
Spin-related effects in thermoelectricity offer novel promising applications for the harvesting of thermal energy. With this perspective, coupling...
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October 04, 2018
A general method for protein immobilization
Immobilizing proteins at interfaces is highly wanted for many fields of application including biosensing and diagnostics, biomaterials science and...
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September 12, 2018
Insulator-to-Metallic Spin-Filtering in 2D-Magnetic...
Recently, in collaboration with the CNRS - Thales-group (France) and the University of Cambridge (UK), we report on the integration of atomically...
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December 12, 2016
Multiferroic Nanopatterned Hybrid Material with...
A multidisciplinary team from BSMA (groups of Alain Jonas, Bernard Nysten and Luc Piraux, with principal researchers Ronggang Cai...
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May 09, 2018
Nouveaux matériaux : une base de données enrichie
Les propriétés vibrationnelles des matériaux maintenant disponibles au public dans la base de donnée Materials Project grâce au travail...
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April 10, 2018
Ronggang CAI - Chinese government award for outstanding...
Ronggang Cai wins a Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad.
The China Scholarship Council has awarded a Chinese...
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April 10, 2018
JACS Publication - Precision Oligomers in Catalysis -...
Sequence and Surface Confinement Direct Cooperativity in Catalytic Precision Oligomers
Prakash Chandra, Alain M. Jonas , and Antony...
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December 04, 2017
ERC Consolidator
Dr. Alexandru Vlad from MOST Division of the Institute of Condensed Mater and Nanosciences of Université catholique de Louvain (IMCN-UCL) has...
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November 13, 2017
Le Prof. Léon Ghosez a reçu les insignes de Chevalier...
L’Ambassadeur de France en Belgique, Madame Claude-France Arnould, a remis au cours d’une cérémonie organisée à la Résidence de France,...
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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...
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September 19, 2017
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...
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August 03, 2017
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...
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August 03, 2017
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...
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August 21, 2018
2017 IMCN Thesis Award
Matthieu GENEVRIEZ has received the 2017 IMCN Best Thesis Award on May 25, 2018.
His work was entitled "Photon- and electron-induced...
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