Today, the search for new materials for various applications and new devices leads to the development of new synthetic routes mixing the concepts of solid state chemistry, molecular or supramolecular chemistry, or biochemistry. This is particularly evident in the field of organic-inorganic hybrid materials, whose realization is based on the design and organization of custom synthesized functional building blocks. Our contribution in this field concerns mainly families of lamellar hybrid compounds based on transition metal hydroxides or oxides, their synthesis and the analysis of their magnetic, optical or electronic properties. These materials often prove to be good model systems for the understanding of the correlations between the structural and physical properties induced by the molecular entities grafted on the inorganic layers.
We are developing different ways to access these lamellar hybrid materials: insertion-grafting, anion exchange, pre-insertion, microwave chemistry or syntheis in confined environment.
Beyond lamellar materials, we have been interested in the past few years in the development of innovative methods to obtain functionalized inorganic nanosheets. The fine characterization of the suspensions of these nanosheets and their controlled deposition are key-aspects of our activity.
Thanks to this toolbox for the synthesis and characterization of lamellar hybrid materials and functionalized nanosheets, we aim at improving the understanding of organic-inorganic interfaces and their influence on the global behavior of hybrid structures. Modelization by numerical approaches (electronic structure calculations and structural optimization) is also used to describe these hybrid systems at the atomic scale, in connection with the “atomic scale modeling” team.
Know-how
-fonctionnalization of layered materials
-exfoliation
-coordination chemistry
-magnetic properties of molecular and hybrid compounds
Ongoing projects

Joint Research Laboratory CARMEN (ChARactérisation of Materials for New Energies)

2021-2025 : ITI QMAT Project
“Confined synthetic approaches to layered multifunctional heterostructures and 2D magnets” (2Dconfined)

2019-2022 : IDEX “Attractivité”
“Functionalized oxide nanosheets : new platforms for directed assembly of multifunctional hybrid materials and films”

2019-2023 : ANR
“Structured CAtalysts in Layered HYdroxide materials for selective CO2 electroreduction reaction” (CALHYCO2)
Activities
Actual members
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Former members
Emilie Delahaye (post-doc 2007-2009, CR 2012-2018)
Varun Kumar (post-doc 2021-2023)
Juan Aguirre Araque (post-doc 2020-2022)
Oksana Toma (post-doc 2016-2017)
Oleg Palamarciuc (post-doc 2012-2013)
Marina Lang (post-doc 2011-2013)
Satyabrata Si (post-doc 2008-2009)
Nassira Chakroune (post-doc 2004-2005)
Frédéric Payet (PhD 2022)
Nesrine Benamara (PhD 2020)
Quentin Evrard (M1, M2, PhD 2017)
Yanhui Wang (PhD 2016)
Pierre Farger (PhD 2016)
Riadh Bourzami (PhD 2014, cotutelle P. Turek)
Séraphin Eyele Mezui (M1, M2, PhD 2011)
Aude Demessence (PhD 2006)
Adel Beghidja (PhD 2005)
Claire Adamski (M1, M2 2024)
Thibaud Henry (M1, M2 2024)
Julien Bader (M2 2024, coll. A. d’Aléo)
Mohamed El Botakmanti (M2, 2022)
Marie Duflot (M1, M2 2020)
Florian Friedmann (M1, M2 2019)
Pedro de Sa Miranda (M1, M2 2018)
Camille Falk (M1, M2 2017)
Hélène Bordeneuve (M2 2005)
Alexandre Mairet (M1 2020)
Mathieu Sigwalt (M1 2017)
Keltoum Balbzioui (M1 2017)
Haixin Qiu (M1 2016)
Leila Grassa (M1 2016)
Christophe Higy (M1 2010)
Georgios Verginis (2023)
Andrius Pakalniškis (2022)
Iana Minich (2020)
Deividas Zilevicius (2017)
Maria Nikolopoulou (2017)
Capucine Loth (2016)
Varun Kumar (2016)
Jean-François Oberle-Jaeck (2012)
Mayoro Diop (2007, 2008, 2016)
Deshan Zheng (2007)