I am honored to be elected board member of the Solid State Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society. Thanks for the trust. Hope to be able to promote the field and its interrelations with nanosciences, physics and many others.
Versatile synthesis of perovskite nanocrystals
We have uncovered a molten salts pathway enabling versatile design of perovskite oxide nanocrystals. Congrats to Naoual and Guillaume for their first paper! Check out this invited paper in ChemNanoMat.
A new tungsten trioxide polymorph published in Nature Communications
We have discovered a new WO3 polymorph as a a 2D nanomaterial, through aqueous chemistry at low temperature. This material shows mpressive electrochromic properties. Congrats to Julie and Binghua for their great work, and thanks to collaborators from SOLVAY, INSP Paris, IPCM Paris, IRCP Paris, UC Madrid and UCCS Lille for bringing their own bricks to this nice assembly. Check the paper and the story of the discovery there and on the CNRS web site.
Welcome!
New position
A new position is opened in the group for a motivated master student (M2 – 6 months). Topic: nanoparticles synthesis – intermetallics – energy conversion.
Please write me for details. All applications welcome!
New comers!
We warmly welcome our two new PhD students: Guillaume funded by the French National Agency for Research, and Yang funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council and the Innitiative of Excellence Labex MATISSE. Lots of exciting research in the pipeline!
Electrocatalysis with new two-dimensional nano-oxides
Our new work with UCMadrid and José M. González-Calbet’s group is out in Chemistry of Materials! Another example of this fruitful collaboration for the design of functional nanoscaled oxides, this time in aqueous media. Congrats to Alberto and Francisco for their really nice work.
A. Azor, M. L. Ruiz-González, F. Gonell, C. Laberty-Robert, M. Parras, C.Sanchez, D.Portehault,* and J. M. González-Calbet*, Nickel-doped sodium cobaltite 2D nanomaterials: synthesis and electrocatalytic properties, High pressures pathway toward boron-based nanostructured solids, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01146
Invited conference at CIMTEC 2018
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David presented some recent work from the team at the CIMTEC 2018 conference in Perugia, Italy. A multidisciplinary congress with lots of impressive speakers. Thanks for the invitation!
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Extreme pressures in Dalton Transactions
Our new paper appears in Dalton Transactions! Very proud of this work by Rémi Grosjean and Simon Delacroix, the first joint multidisciplinary study with my physicist colleague Yann Le Godec. Hopefully the beginning of a long story, initiated by Labex MATISSE and CNRS.
R. Grosjean, Y. Le Godec, S. Delacroix, G. Gouget, P. Beaunier, O. Ersen, D. Ihiawakrim, O. Kurakevych, C. Chaneac D. Portehault, High pressures pathway toward boron-based nanostructured solids, DOI: 10.1039/C8DT00932E
New article accepted in Accounts of Chemical Research
We develop in our new article, just accepted by Accounts of Chemical Research, the strategy of the group and our « work philosophy » towards new solid state compositions at the nanoscale:
D. Portehault, S. Delacroix, G. Gouget, R. Grosjean, T.-H.-C. Chan-Chang, Beyond the compositional threshold of nanoparticle-based materials, DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00429
