EVENTS
April 23, 2021
IMCN seminar - Prof. I. ARENDS
« Application of Enzymes for Sustainable Chemistry»
ONLINE EVENT
Nature uses enzymes to catalyze a wealth of biotransformations. However...
NEWS
Dr. Pascal GEHRING
March 02, 2021
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...
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Prof. J.-C. CHARLIER
February 22, 2021
Probing Twistronics - Nature publication
The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene sparked interest in the electronic properties of similarly distorted 2D crystal...
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Prof. G.-M. RIGNANESE
January 11, 2021
Science ADVANCES Publication
Amorphization mechanism of SrIrO3 electrocatalyst: How oxygen redox initiates ionic diffusion and structural reorganization
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Prof. Alexandru VLAD
January 08, 2021
A new class of organic battery materials - Nature...
Our modern society has witnessed an unprecedented improvement with the rise of consumer electronics and electric vehicles. But this comes at the...
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Prof. L. Piraux
December 08, 2020
Funny superconductivity : the magnetic levitation train
Vidéo didactique réalisée par l'équipe du Prof. L. Piraux qui montre une facette amusante des supraconducteurs.
Amusante...
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Prof. B. ELIAS
December 04, 2020
JACS publication
« Photostable Polynuclear Ruthenium(II) Photosensitizers Competent for Dehalogenation Photoredox Catalysis at 590 nm»
Simon Cerfontaine, Sara...
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Docteur Honoris Causa 2020 - Sciences et technologies
Docteur Honoris Causa 2020 - Sciences et technologies
« Développement durable et technologies – quelles trajectoires ? »
Le 16 octobre...
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November 17, 2020
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...
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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...
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Doctorat Honoris Causa SST - 2020
Docteur Honoris Causa 2020 - Sciences et technologies
« Développement durable et technologies – quelles trajectoires ? »
Le 16 octobre...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Science Advances
August 17, 2020
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...
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Damien DEBECKER
July 29, 2020
Francqui Research Professor Chair
Damien Debecker is granted a « Francqui Research Professor » chair
The Board of the Francqui Foundation has decided to grant Prof....
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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...
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Valentin SMEETS
June 29, 2020
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...
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Benjamin Elias
June 29, 2020
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...
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May 28, 2020
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...
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Jean-Christophe CHARLIER
May 15, 2020
Strain Modulated Superlattices in Graphene
Numerous theoretically proposed devices and novel phenomena have sought to take advantage of the intense pseudogauge fields that can...
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Damien DEBECKER
April 20, 2020
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...
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Technologie
April 16, 2020
‘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...
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SOLIDARITE@uclouvain
April 08, 2020
#Coronavirus : visières et solution hydroalcoolique...
En collaboration avec les autres instituts du Secteur des Sciences et Technologies de l’UCLouvain, l’institut IMCN participe à un vaste élan...
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Damien DEBECKER
April 06, 2020
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...
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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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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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