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"The Future of Chemistry is global"

Interview of IYCN team was published on ChemViews magazine... and is now one of the most read articles! Read it here.

December 7-8, 2017: Doctoral school days

At the annual days of the doctoral school ED397, third-year grad students present their work to the younger students. Clément will share the wonders of oxysulfides.

With: Clément, Minh, Kim...

December 5-7, 2017: C'Nano 2017

C'Nano organizes this year its first national conference with all the disciplines represented (chemistry, biology, human sciences...). An excellent opportunity to present our work on metal oxysulfide nanoparticles!

With: Sophie

November 20-27, 2017: µ-XRF and XANES at ESRF

This week we are at ESRF observing cells cultivated with nanoparticles, in the context of our "Safer-by-design" project. Exciting observations performed on record time thanks to the performances of ID21 microscope!

With: Minh, Sophie, Corinne, Ana Elena and Sophie

November 20, 2017: Award at Photography Contest

My picture submitted to the Photochimica 2017 contest, organized by EYCN, was awarded the 3rd prize!

It is titled "Thou shall burn" and was taken at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley. Check the picture.

Joining the Research Council of Sorbonne Université

The results of the elections for the central councils and faculties of Sorbonne Université are out. I was a candidate on the list "Réunis", led by Pr. Jean Chambaz. I will be joining in 2018 the Research Council of Sorbonne Université... a new experience ahead! Read more in my blog (FR).

November 16, 2017: InfoDay about Academic Careers

With the regional French Young Chemists Network, we organize an InfoDay to help young colleagues apply to academic career positions.

With: @RJ_SCF, @upmc, @LabexMATISSE, @LabexMichem

November 14-15, 2017: SAXS-WAXS at CEA ParisSaclay

To understand nucleation and growth of metal oxysulfide nanoparticles, we performed SAXS and WAXS measurements thanks to the expertise of David Carrière at LIONS, of nanoparticles freshly synthesized on the other side of the corridor (thanks to our host Jean-Claude Berthet!).

With: Clément, Xavier, Sophie

November 7, 2017: Nanoparticles at SMIS beamline

This week, we are at SMIS beamline at SOLEIL synchrotron, looking at nanoparticles using our small in situ ATR-IR cell... Thanks to Feri and the SMIS team!

With: Xavier, Florian, Sophie.

October 23, 2017: Paper accepted

Our study on the reactivity of metal oxysulfide nanoparticles was just accepted in Inorganic Chemistry. We synthesized a new family of these nanoparticles and unravelled the relation between their cerium content and their reactivity. Check the paper.

October 18, 2017: Congrats to Camille!

Camille defended her PhD titled "Elaboration de borures et phosphures métalliques : synthèse de nanomatériaux en sels fondus et réactivité de surface".

Many thanks to the members of the jury for a constructive session of questions and big cheers to Camille for all the work she accomplished on this challenging topic!

October 13, 2017: All hands on deck

Today is the beginning of "La Fête de la Science", the national science fair. Most students and post-docs of the team are actively involved in presenting the wonders of chemistry to kids and the general public, on two fronts: Collège de France and UPMC.

On the top picture, the sol-gel stand at UPMC, with the involvement of Labex Matisse. On the bottom, the stand about colors at Collège de France.

With: Nadège (top picture), Minh and Florian (bottom picture), Clément, Xavier, .... and the whole LCMCP!

Now opened : Two master internship positions

Project "NanoFLP" was selected for funding by ERC Starting Grant Program 2017. Project will officialy start in January 2018.

Two positions are now opened for Master Internships: Application: CV + Letter of motivation. %%% Positions are now filled %%%

Funding for PhD positions on these topics is available.

More positions (PhD students, Post-docs) will be anounced here in the upcoming days and weeks. Stay tuned!

September 25, 2017: Metal oxysulfides @ECASIA

In Montpellier, I presented our recent results on metal oxysulfides at the conference ECASIA, organized by the French Vacuum Society.

This conference brings together surface scientists, tribologists, specialits of heterogenous catalysis, spectroscopics, etc. Got a lot of questions from the room!

September 13, 2017: Interview for Innovation Review

I was interviewed by the newsmagazine "Innovation Review" about the motivations of young researchers to apply to ERC funding.

Go to the article.

September 13, 2017: Safer-by-design Nanoparticles

Minh participated to a dedicated conference about nanoparticles and biology: Metallic nanoparticles: health, environment, applications and safer-by-design. The conference was organized in Grenoble, and Minh presented his work to specialists of the field.

September 6, 2017: Project accepted!

Very glad to announce that my project "NanoFLP" was selected for funding by ERC Starting Grant Program.

Big thanks to all the colleagues, at UPMC, CNRS and beyond, who helped me shape this project!

Stay tuned for more info and job opportunities.

September 5, 2017: Boron and Nanoparticles

Camille presented her work on metal boride nanoparticles at the International Symposium on Boron, Borides and Related Materials, in Freiburg, Germany.

With: Camille, Simon, David.

September 3, 2017: Congrats to Nadège!

Nadège received the International Sol-Gel Society Travel Grant to partipate to the 2017 conference in Liège, Belgium.

She presented her work on functional silanes for building 2D and 3D nanomaterials.

July 24, 2017: Paper online

Our study about cobalt boride nanoparticles, led by David Portehault, is now online in Inorganic Chemistry. Exposing the nanoparticles to hydrogen resulted in unexpected phase segregation of the metal borides.

July 9-14, 2017: Metal carbides @IUPAC2017

I presented in Sao Paulo our paper about the synthesis of metal carbide nanoparticles. This was part of the "Nanotechnology" session of the IUPAC 2017 conference.

July 9, 2017: Creation of IYCN

At the IUPAC 2017 conference, we officially created the International Younger Chemists' Network! Proud to be part of this new adventure, representing France.

Check IYCN newsletter and our article in ChemViews to learn about IYCN project.

July 4, 2017: Annual meeting of Labex MATISSE

The cluster of excellence MATISSE helds his scientific annual meeting today. Lots of exiciting talks, from Mars expedition to high-pressure chemistry and DFT modeling.

The poster session over lunch (and under a bright sun!) was also a great success of this edition. Clément presented his results on metal oxysulfide nanoparticles.

With: Clément, Lionel, Sophie...

June 25-30, 2017: Time for School!

C'Nano summer school will be held in the suburbs of Paris, and gather top scientists of all fields of Nano Sciences&Technology. This year, Nadège and Minh will have the chance to participate to the school and talk about their research.

With: Minh, Nadège, Simon, Lionel, David, etc.

June 22-23, 2017: Scientific Days at LCMCP

Along with all the master students, Kim, Madeleine and Binghua will be presenting their work during the scientific days organized at LCMCP. Exciting talks in perspective!

With: Madeleine, Binghua, Kim, and everyone else...

June 1st, 2017: Video online

As a "young researcher", I was recently interviewed by the French Society of Chemistry (SCF). Check the interview! You can also check the other interviews of this series here.

April 28, 2017: IPV Scientific Day

The doctoral program "Interfaces pour le Vivant" held its scientific day with talks and poster presentations. Minh presented his work on a safe-by-design approach for emerging nanoparticles.

With: Minh.

April 22, 2017: Marching for Science in Paris

The Science March was a huge success in Paris, as it gathered a much bigger attention than expected. We marched the 5th district in front of the most symbolic places (Museam, UPMC at Jussieu, Ministry of Research/Ecole Polytechnique, Collège de France, La Sorbonne...) and shared with the bewildered citizens our reasons for marching. The lab was there with a large delegation!

With: Corinne, Natacha, Florence, Clément, Marco, Simon, Kim, Sophie, Niki, Francisco, etc.

March 30-31, 2017: SpectroCat @Caen

Xavier presented his work at this annual workshop, dealing with surface characterization and spectroscopy.

With: Xavier.

March 29, 2017: MPBT Workshop

Clément was invited to give a talk on campus, about his PhD results, at the annual MPBT plateform scientific day.

With: Clément.

March 9-11, 2017: Measurements at SAMBA

XAS, episode #2! Following promising measurements made at SOLEIL, we are using XAS to monitor nanomaterial's evolution @Samba_beamline.

With: Camille, Madeleine, David. Thanks to Benedikt and Emiliano for their help!

Post-doc Position Available

%%% Position is now filled %%%

Start date: asap, from May 2017
Duration: One year.
Application: Motivation letter, CV, full list of publications&patents

February 24-25, 2017: Village de la Chimie

For this annual meeting, the students and post-docs of LCMCP organize and present several experiments to the public, illustrating the wonders of chemistry and material sciences. This is a great opportunity for discussion with younger students.

With: Xavier, Kim, Lionel, Simon, Audrey... and many others!

February 13, 2017: Paper accepted @ChemCatChem

This mechanistic study describes the birth of nickel phosphide at a nickel surface. Decomposition of tri-n-octylphosphine (TOP) happens at temperature as low as 150 °C and is accompanied by sp2 carbon deposition.

Check the Paper.

February 10, 2017: Visit of CNRS-Saint Gobain Research Unit

I was invited to give a talk at the Ceramic Synthesis and Functionalization Laboratory, hosted in Saint-Gobain research center in Cavaillon. I discovered the many research activities of the center... hoping to start a new collaboration soon!

Many thanks to Dr. Helena Kaper and her team for the warm welcome.

February 7, 2017: International Younger Chemist Network

With Camille Oger and Grégory Chatel, members of the French Young Chemist Network, we just published the results and analysis of the survey regarding the upcoming International Younger Chemist Network.

Go to the article @ChemViews.

February 1, 2017: In situ measurements at SMIS

We are studying nanoparticle's surfaces by infra-red spectroscopy on the SMIS beamline this week at SOLEIL. Thanks to Feri, Stephane, Christophe & all the SMIS team for helping us with this new setup!

With: Madeleine, Xavier, Sophie.

January 26 , 2017: JCC conference in Grenoble

JCC stands for "Journées de Chimie de Coordination", organized each year by the French Chemical Society. Xavier participated to this two-days conferences and presented his work.

With: Xavier.

January 17-20, 2017: Workshops at SOLEIL

Despite the cold, this week was a busy one for conferences. Minh and Madeleine assisted to the annual Users Meeting of synchrotron SOLEIL, where David was presenting research dealing with in situ measurements performed on nanoparticles. I also presented the most resent results of Clément's project (metal oxysuldide nanoparticles) at the satellite workshop LiXS (Liquid X-ray Spectroscopy)

With: Minh, Madeleine, David, Sophie.

January 4, 2017: Congrats to Camille!

The picture submitted by Camille to the SCF photo contest was awarded a prize!

The pic is titled "Ma vie en boîte" and features our beloved glovebox Baggy.

With: Camille.

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