Awards, prizes, publications
Louvain-La-Neuve
Awards, prizes, publications
octobre 10, 2024
Space4Relaunch & l’UCLouvain
Le programme Win4Excellence de la Région Wallonne finance des recherches ambitieuses et prometteuses en termes de retombées économiques futures pour la Wallonie. De nombreux chercheur.es de...
September 20, 2024
Factors Controlling Cage Escape Yields of Closed- and...
The cage escape yield, i.e., the separation of the geminate radical pair formed immediately after bimolecular excited-state electron transfer, was studied in 11 solvents using six Fe(III), Ru(II),...
June 04, 2024
Investigation of the Excited-State Electron Transfer and...
Excited-state quenching and reduction of [Fe(phtmeimb)2]+, where phtmeimb is phenyl[tris(3-methyl-imidazolin-2-ylidene)]borate, with iodide, bromide, and chloride were studied in dichloromethane,...
June 04, 2024
Photoinduced One-Electron Chloride Oxidation in Water...
A novel iridium(III) photosensitizer containing pyridinium-decorated terpyridines has been used for the photo-oxidation of chloride in water. Despite its abundance, the very positive one-electron...
June 04, 2024
Factors that Impact Photochemical Cage Escape Yields
The utilization of visible light to mediate chemical reactions in fluid solutions has applications that range from solar fuel production to medicine and organic synthesis. These reactions are...
May 28, 2024
2023 IMCN Best Thesis Award
Martin GILLARD has received the 2023 IMCN Best Thesis Award on 24 May 2024.
His work was entitled "Developing Ruthenium(II) Salphen Schiff Base Complexes towards...
April 30, 2024
Exploiting the disorder to harvest heat energy: The...
Thermoelectric systems are a green and sustainable way to harvest energy from any form of heat which otherwise would be wasted. At the core of this energy conversion process is the...
March 21, 2024
Small-pore hydridic frameworks store densely packed hydrogen
Nanoporous materials have attracted great attention for gas storage, but achieving high volumetric storage capacity remains a challenge. Here, by using neutron powder diffraction, volumetric gas...
mars 20, 2024
Capter l’hydrogène de manière plus compacte
L’hydrogène, solution d’avenir notamment pour une mobilité plus verte ? Oui, si son stockage n’était pas aussi compliqué (volumes importants et t° très basses). Des scientifiques...
January 11, 2024
Chiral Isochalcogenourea-Catalysed Enantioselective...
Allenoates are versatile building blocks which are primarily activated and controlled using chiral tert. phosphine and tert. amine Lewis bases. We herein report the first example of allenoate...
December 21, 2023
Ionic Liquids for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
Elucidating the Iron-Based Ionic Liquid [C4py][FeCl4]: Structural Insights and Potential for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries
In this study, a low-melting organic-inorganic crystalline ionic...
December 18, 2023
Non-identical moiré twins in bilayer graphene
The superlattice obtained by aligning a monolayer graphene and boron nitride (BN) inherits from the hexagonal lattice a sixty degrees periodicity with the layer alignment. It implies that, in...
November 22, 2023
Simplified quantum chemistry methods to evaluate...
This review presents the theoretical background concerning simplified quantum chemistry (sQC) methods to compute non-linear optical (NLO) properties and their applications to large systems. To...
November 14, 2023
A “gold standard” for computational materials science...
How to verify the precision of density-functional-theory implementations via reproducible and universal workflows
Density-functional theory methods and codes adopting periodic boundary...
October 18, 2023
Phonon Self-Energy Corrections: To Screen, or Not to Screen
Phonons are collective atomic vibrations in crystals that govern many physical phenomena ranging from electrical and thermal transport to superconductivity and light absorption. When calculating...
octobre 06, 2023
MT 180: une doctorante UCLouvain sur le podium!
Maëlle Bottin a décroché une superbe deuxième place à la finale internationale du concours Ma Thèse en 180 secondes, qui se déroulait ce 5 octobre à Rabat. Comment ? En amenant la recherche...
October 02, 2023
Prof. Yann Garcia contributed to a Wiley-VCH book on...
Prof. Yann Garcia, in collaboration with Prof. Junhu Wang and Prof. Tao Zhang, director of the Mössbauer Effect Data Center from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics China, have published a...
September 15, 2023
Modeling symmetric and defect-free carbon schwarzites...
Recently, a process has been proposed for generating negatively-curved carbon schwarzites via zeolite-templating (Braun et al., 2018). However, the proposed process leads to atomistic models which...
August 09, 2023
Electronic Properties of Functionalized Diamanes for...
Ultrathin diamond films, or diamanes, are promising quasi-2D materials that are characterized by high stiffness, extreme wear resistance, high thermal conductivity, and chemical stability. Surface...
June 28, 2023
Polymer-coated silica dual functional fillers to improve...
The application of solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) is mainly hindered by their low ionic conductivity and the limited mechanical properties. Adding functional small molecules and inorganic...
June 06, 2023
2022 IMCN Best Thesis Award
Nicolas MOREAU has received the 2022 IMCN Best Thesis Award on 26 May 2023.
His work was entitled "Scanning gate imaging and tuning of quantum electronic transport in...
juin 05, 2023
Maëlle Bottin remporte la finale belge du concours MT 180
Doctorante UCLouvain en chimie, Maëlle Bottin a conquis tout le monde lors de la finale interuniversitaire belge du concours « Ma thèse en 180 secondes ». Elle représentera la Belgique lors de...
June 05, 2023
Ethanol dehydrogenation to acetaldehyde with mesoporous...
Copper based catalysts are central for carrying dehydrogenation reactions. However, these materials are prone to deactivation by sintering and coke deposition. Irreversible sintering occurring...
March 06, 2023
Photocatalytic Sulfonyl Fluorination of Alkyl...
Sulfonyl fluorides are highly versatile molecules for click chemistry that have found applications in many areas of chemistry and biology. Recent chemical approaches have focused on the synthesis...
March 06, 2023
Anti-Dissipative Strategies toward More Efficient Solar...
In natural and artificial photosynthesis, light absorption and catalysis are separate processes linked together by exergonic electron transfer. This leads to free energy losses between the initial...
October 20, 2022
IBAME Vice Chair
Prof. Yann Garcia, elected as Vice chair IBAME (International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer effect)
The objectives of this Board are to advance the diffusion of knowledge in the...
October 06, 2022
Imprimer du vivant en 3D
Imprimer du vivant en 3D : une technique qui diminue le recours aux animaux de laboratoire.
La ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche scientifique, Valérie Glatigny, a...
October 04, 2022
MOFs for thermal management
Recently metal organic frameworks (MOFs), already known as adsorbent materials, have gained increasing research interest in thermal energy storage and conversion. MOF-water working pairs have been...
September 30, 2022
Prof. J.-C. Charlier.
Spin filtering in graphene based magnetic tunnel junctions
Large spin-filtering effects in epitaxial graphene-based spin valves is found to be strongly enhanced in
when chemical vapor deposited multilayer graphene is combined with a high quality...
September 16, 2022
Prof. D. Debecker
Phenolics from waste biomass
Unleashing lignin potential from waste lignocellulosic biomass
Filippo Brienza recently completed his PhD in the groups of Iwona Cybulska (ELI) and of Damien Debecker (IMCN). His work was focused...
September 12, 2022
Prof. J.-C. CHARLIER
Electron-Phonon Coupling in a Magic-Angle...
The importance of phonons in the strong correlation phenomena observed in twisted-bilayer
graphene (TBG) at the so-called magic-angle is under debate. Here a gate-dependent micro-Raman...
July 08, 2022
2021 Best IMCN Thesis Award
Jiande WANG has received the 2021 IMCN Best Thesis Award on 25 May 2022.
His work was entitled "High voltage organic positive electrode materials for alkali-ion batteries"
This Prize, which...
June 28, 2022
Nature and role of Cu(II) species in doped C12A7...
In a time when paradoxically coexist (i) the choice to restart coal-based powerplants, made by several European countries to address the present energy crisis; and (ii) the shared desire to reduce...
March 29, 2022
Forecasting the outcome of spintronic experiments with...
Forecasting the outcome of spintronic experiments with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Deep learning has an increasing impact to assist research, allowing, for example, the discovery of...
March 25, 2022
Pr. J.-C. Charlier
Toward Optimized Charge Transport in Multilayer Reduced...
In the context of graphene-based composite applications, a complete understanding of charge conduction in multilayer reduced graphene oxides (rGO) is highly desirable. However, these rGO compounds...
January 13, 2022
Dr. Pascal GEHRING
ERC Starting Grant
Dr Pascal GEHRING from NAPS Division of the Institute of Condensed Mater and Nanosciences of Université catholique de Louvain (IMCN - UCLouvain) has been very recently awarded an ERC Starting...
December 16, 2021
Whispering electrons in graphene
Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are quite common in acoustics and optics. They denote the guided waves circulating along a concave surface, the seminal example being the whispering galleries of...
October 08, 2021
The first example of an iron(III) photosensitizer for...
Accessing Photoredox Transformations with an Iron(III) Photosensitizer and Green Light
The scarcity of 2nd and 3rd row transition metals such as ruthenium, iridium, rhodium or osmium, coupled...
October 07, 2021
High-throughput computational search identifies new...
Thin film photovoltaic could grow as an important source of sustainable energy both in itself or in tandem with silicon solar cells. New absorber materials for thin film solar cell are needed to...
August 20, 2021
Carbon black-polydopamine-ruthenium composite as a...
Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 427, 1 January 2022, 131820
Carbon black-polydopamine-ruthenium composite as a recyclable boomerang catalyst for the oxidative cleavage of oleic acid...
August 17, 2021
2nd Carbon Dioxide Conversion Catalysis Virtual Conference
8-9 November 2021
The forthcoming 2nd Carbon Dioxide Conversion Catalysis Virtual Conference taking place from 08-09 November 2021. Organised by Fusion Online, a Cambridge, UK based...
July 12, 2021
Prof. B. Hackens
The Achilles tendon of graphene quantum Hall effect
The team of B. Hackens in the NAPS/IMCN laboratory at UCLouvain, in collaboration with the group of C. Stampfer in RWTH Aachen, revealed a new detailed microscopic picture of the “quantum Hall...
June 14, 2021
ESA - Nouvelle mission vers Vénus
Après le succès de la mission Venus Express (2005-2014), l'Europe va lancer une nouvelle sonde, EnVision à destination de la planète Vénus, a annoncé jeudi l'Agence spatiale européenne (ESA)....
May 28, 2021
2020 Best IMCN Thesis Award
Tristan da Câmara Santa Clara Gomes has received the 2020 IMCN Best Thesis Award on 21 May 2021.
His work was entitled "3D interconnected magnetic nanowire networks"
This Prize, which is...
May 04, 2021
Band-Gap Landscape Engineering in Large-Scale 2D...
The CNRS-Thales team in Paris and the MODL group at IMCN (UCLouvain) have recently reported on vertical tunneling device based on 2D WS2/WSe2 large-scale layers and discuss the clear signature of...
March 02, 2021
Dr. Pascal GEHRING
Thermoelectric properties of single molecules - "Nature...
One of the dreams of today’s science is to be capable of harvesting electricity back from dissipated heat. The key to this probably resides in circuits that contain single molecules: instead of...
February 22, 2021
Prof. J.-C. CHARLIER
Probing Twistronics - Nature publication
The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene sparked interest in the electronic properties of similarly distorted 2D crystal lattices. The twisted structure is created by...
January 11, 2021
Prof. G.-M. RIGNANESE
Science ADVANCES Publication
Amorphization mechanism of SrIrO3 electrocatalyst: How oxygen redox initiates ionic diffusion and structural reorganization
Authors : Gang Wan, John W. Freeland, Jan Kloppenburg,...
December 08, 2020
Prof. L. Piraux
Funny superconductivity : the magnetic levitation train
Vidéo didactique réalisée par l'équipe du Prof. L. Piraux qui montre une facette amusante des supraconducteurs.
Amusante supraconductivité : le train à lévitation magnétique...
December 04, 2020
Prof. B. ELIAS
JACS publication
« Photostable Polynuclear Ruthenium(II) Photosensitizers Competent for Dehalogenation Photoredox Catalysis at 590 nm»
Simon Cerfontaine, Sara A. M. Wehlin, Benjamin Elias *, and Ludovic...
December 04, 2020
Docteur Honoris Causa 2020 - Sciences et technologies
Docteur Honoris Causa 2020 - Sciences et technologies
« Développement durable et technologies – quelles trajectoires ? »
Le 16 octobre dernier, le secteur des sciences et technologies (SST)...
November 17, 2020
Prof. Y. FILINCHUK
Angewandte Chemie publication
Kinetic Barriers and Microscopic Mechanisms of Noble Gas Adsorption by Nanoporous γ‐Mg(BH4)2 Obtained by means of Sub‐Second X‐Ray Diffraction
Iurii Dovgaliuk, Irena...
November 13, 2020
Spin filtering by proximity effects at hybridized...
Spin filtering by proximity effects at hybridized interfaces in spin-valves with 2D graphene barriers
The CNRS-Thales team in Paris and the MODL group at IMCN (UCLouvain) have recently...
November 12, 2020
Doctorat Honoris Causa SST - 2020
Docteur Honoris Causa 2020 - Sciences et technologies
« Développement durable et technologies – quelles trajectoires ? »
Le 16 octobre dernier, le secteur des sciences et technologies (SST)...
November 06, 2020
2019 IMCN Thesis Award
Aurélien vander Straeten has received the 2019 IMCN Best Thesis Award .
His work was entitled "Photon- and electron-induced ionization of metastable helium and light anions".
This Prize,...
October 22, 2020
Chemistry World publication
Publication in Chemistry World: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/salt-bridge-strategy-expands-access-to-pharmaceutical-cocrystals/4012629.article
Combining API in a dual-drug...
October 05, 2020
Electron-phonon beyond Fröhlich: dynamical quadrupoles...
Electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions play an important role in various physical phenomena such as the conventional phonon-mediated superconductivity, the phonon-assisted light absorption, the...
septembre 14, 2020
L’UCLouvain décroche quatre prix quinquennaux FNRS !
Les Pr·es Jean-Christophe Charlier, Jean-François Collet, Véronique Dehant et Vassilis Saroglou de l’UCLouvain ont décroché quatre des cinq prix quinquennaux attribués par le FNRS....
August 17, 2020
Science Advances
Giant spin signals in chemically functionalized...
Faced with the technological and societal challenges represented by the storage, transfer and processing of computer data, electronic devices exploit- ing the quantum nature of electrons have been...
July 29, 2020
Damien DEBECKER
Francqui Research Professor Chair
Damien Debecker is granted a « Francqui Research Professor » chair
The Board of the Francqui Foundation has decided to grant Prof. Damien Debecker a “Francqui Research Professor”...
July 08, 2020
2020 HOT PCCP article
Large cluster ions: soft local probes and tools for organic and bio surfaces.
By Arnaud Delcorte, Vincent Delmez, Christine Dupont-Gillain, Clément Lauzin, Hannah...
June 29, 2020
Valentin SMEETS
ISGS PhD Thesis Award
Dr. Valentin Smeets has received the 2019 ISGS PhD Thesis Award on May 15, 2020 for his work entitled « New synthetic approaches to efficient...
June 29, 2020
Benjamin Elias
Converting sunlight into chemical energy: a green way...
Converting and storing sunlight into clean chemical fuels is an area full of promises, which represents one of the most important challenge of the current energy transition. The success of such an...
May 28, 2020
Benjamin Elias
Killing hypoxic cancer cells with light? Transition...
The research group of Prof. B. Elias has developed new Ir(III)-based molecules able to oxidize biomolecules by photo-induced electron transfer processes under oxygen-free conditions....
May 15, 2020
Jean-Christophe CHARLIER
Strain Modulated Superlattices in Graphene
Numerous theoretically proposed devices and novel phenomena have sought to take advantage of the intense pseudogauge fields that can arise in strained graphene. Many of these...
April 20, 2020
Damien DEBECKER
Stable catalysts for ethylene production via ethanol...
The dehydration of bio-alcohols is an important catalytic reaction in the perspective of the development of a bio-based industry. Bioethanol, for example, is a major bio-based platform chemical as...
April 16, 2020
Technologie
‘All-organic’ batteries for sustainable mass storage
Conventional batteries aren’t a sustainable solution for our planet. Prof. Alexandru Vlad is currently working on an alternative for storing energy: all-organic batteries.
Today’s...
April 08, 2020
SOLIDARITE@uclouvain
#Coronavirus : visières et solution hydroalcoolique made...
En collaboration avec les autres instituts du Secteur des Sciences et Technologies de l’UCLouvain, l’institut IMCN participe à un vaste élan de solidarité à destination du personnel soignant et...
April 06, 2020
Damien DEBECKER
Prix Jeune Chercheur de la Division Catalyse de la...
Le comité de la « DivCat » vient de décider de décerner le Prix Jeune Chercheur 2020 à Damien Debecker, Professeur à l’UCLouvain (conjointement avec Antoine Daudin, Chef de projet à l’IFP Energies...
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 footprint areal capacitance/energy enhancement in...