SCF election results
Congratulations to all those elected to the various SCF bodies. Below are the results that will be ratified at the next Annual General Meeting, scheduled for Thursday 26 June 2024.Mathieu Prevot is elected to the...
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Interdisciplinarity facing environmental challenges
Should researchers in chemistry, history, sociology, economics, etc. join forces to find solutions to the ecological and energy challenges?Scientists from the CNRS and a number of universities have come together in a novel, interdisciplinary approach....
Pauline Bredy, in her grandfather’s footsteps
Once upon a time, there was the story of Pauline Bredy and her grandfather Gérard Bredy, both doctoral students at the laboratory, 57 years apart!Pauline tells us about this wonderful adventure in an interview: Your...
French MOF 2024 Conference
The Ircelyon and LMI laboratories are co-organising an open-access conference to bring together French and European researchers working on MOFS and other porous materials.The conference will take place on 10 and 11 June 2024 in...
Public courses “Chimies Situées : quels avenirs aborder avec quelles chimies ?”
Alessandra Quadrelli (ING team) will give a course cycle from May 10 to 31 at la Cité des Halles (Lyon 7). This cycle is part of the Cours publics de l’Ecole urbaine de Lyon 2023...
Women chemists and the environment
The CNRS Institute of Chemistry (INC) highlights 6 portraits of women scientists who work sustainably for the environment. Among these portraits, that of Alessandra Quadrelli, director of research at Ircelyon (Catalyst and Process Engineering team)....
Nuno Rocha Batalha, new CNRS recruit
Nuno Rocha Batalha join the “Ingénierie, du matériau au réacteur” (ING) team of our laboratory as “Chargé de Recherche”. Nuno had previously completed a post-doctorate at Ircelyon in the “Catalyse Hétérogène pour la Transition Énergétique”...
The periodic table of chemists confronts the limits of the earth system
Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli ING team of Ircelyon) et Xavier Carrier (Sorbonne University) co-authored an article in The Conversation journal on the evolution of the periodic table by the European Chemical Society (EuChemS).This new table takes...
SMOLAB International Research Project
The Small Molecule Laboratory (Smolab) is an International Research Project (IRP) inaugurated in October 2018.This collaborative work between the Institute of Integrated Cellular Materials Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University and 2 CNRS laboratories including Ircelyon (UMR5256...
Pint of Science Festival
Our laboratory participates in the Pint of Science event at Crazy Dog on Wednesday May 11, 2022 with 2 general public conferences on carbon: La Biomasse est-elle le réservoir chimique de demain ?Dorothée Laurenti PhD...
Installation of a unique Respiratory Adsorption Unit developed by Avantium
In the last decade, air quality, both indoor and outdoor, has become a cause of growing concern due the influx of air pollutants resulting from human and industrial activity. A such, it has become increasingly...
Converting CO2 into “green” methanol
Researchers from our laboratory, in collaboration with scientists from the “Institut de physique et chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg” (CNRS/University of Strasbourg), of the Hubert Curien Laboratory (CNRS/University Jean Monnet/Institut d’optique graduate school), from the...
Collaboration with Avantium
The Avantium company is developing a new system for high throughput testing of the adsorption material used in the filters of respiratory masks for IRCELYON. The system is equipped with sensors for measuring volatile organic...
SCF21 catalysis Congress
The Catalysis Division of the Société Chimique de France (SCF) organize a webconference of the Catalysis session on June 29 and 30, 2021.The detailed program and the registration link are available on https://scf21-catalysis.sciencesconf.org/.Participation is free...
Congratulations to David who received the CNRS silver medal 2020.
The CNRS 2020 medal ceremony in Rhône Auvergne, initially scheduled for November 2020, will take place on June 14, 2021 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. You can follow it live on https://webcast.in2p3.fr/live/talentscnrs video portrait...
DivCat thesis prize 2021
Congratulations to Yorck Mohr, who completed his thesis in the Engineering group and will receive the DivCat-Total 2021 thesis prize during Gecat 2021. This prize rewards his work on the development of new molecular systems...
Expert opinion on CO2
Or how this molecule playing a major role in global warming can become an ideal molecule for storing renewable energies.Find here the expert opinion of Alessandra Quadrelli (CNRS Research Director in the ING team and...
Conference “L’étonnante chimie” at the confluence museum
Conference organized on Wednesday April 28 at 6.30 p.m. on the occasion of the release of the eponymous book.More informations From understanding the oceans to crafting perfumes, from designing new materials to exploring interstellar clouds,...
Ambient air pollution control: the Platinum track
The mechanism of operation of Platinum in Pt/CeO2 catalysts for the degradation of CO has been demonstrated for the first time. This catalyst also exhibits excellent performance at ambient temperature and in the presence of...
These new nano-porous materials
Our colleague David Farrusseng, winner of the CNRS silver medal and member of the “Catalyst and process engineering” team, was the guest of the program “Dis Pourquoi?” from November 3, 2020 on RCF Radio. Find...
Green Chemistry 2020 Emerging Investigators
Jérôme Canivet, of the ING team, was recently invited to contribute to the collection “2020 Green Chemistry Emerging Investigators” set up by Green Chem. journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry as an emerging researcher...
Article dans Les Echos – Un catalyseur qui transformera le CO2 en carburant
Une étude menée par J. Canivet et F. Wisser au sein de l’équipe Ingénierie de l’IRCELYON a démontré l’efficacité d’un catalyseur solide poreux pour la valorisation du CO2 en acide formique, ouvrant des perspectives pour...
IRCELYON is partner in IMPRESS program in the frame of SPIRE call
We are glad to announce that IRCELYON got a H2020 grant for the development of new porous adsorbants for bio-refinery applications. The IMPRESS consortium recieved a total grant of €13 million for a 4 years...
