Ircelyon welcomes young students every year in celebration of the International Womens Day and the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This event offers women from the institute, whether they hold scientific or...
On October 8, 2025, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for groundbreaking work on MOFs (Metal-Organic Frameworks) or porous coordination polymers. A field in which our laboratory, Ircelyon, has been a leader for many...
Léa Vilcocq (from the CARE team) has recently published an article titled \”Catalytic Valorization of Black Liquor for the Chemical Industry\”. This article appears in the January issue of Actualité Chimique, the journal of the...
The Year of Engineering runs from September 2025 to June 2026. The goal of this initiative is to bring together schools, research, businesses, and the general public. It highlights scientific and technological professions and knowledge...
The entire Ircelyon laboratory team wishes you a wonderful 2026! Thank you for your commitment alongside us. Together, let’s continue to innovate for a sustainable future. Discover our retrospective and relive the highlights of 2025:...
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We are delighted to welcome Léa Vilcocq, a CNRS Research Scientist, who joined our team on October 1, 2025.Having joined the CNRS in 2016, Léa previously contributed to the work of the LGPC and then...
GDR Or-nano (Research Group)is organising its thematic school from 13 to 17 April 2026 in Cargèse, Corsica. This school is one of the highlights celebrating Or-nano’s 20th anniversary in 2026! Interdisciplinaire, l’école réunira environ 70...
As part of the CNRS internal mobility campaign (FSEP), the IRCELYON laboratory is recruiting a Research Engineer in electron microscopy. We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Ircatech characterisation platform, supporting our...
Ircelyon is pleased to present its brand new brochure. Find out about the latest highlights from the laboratory. And to find out more about our current projects, feel free to take a look at the...
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been in the spotlight since the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi. Several of our researchers have also been working on these...
Would you like to learn more about hydrogen and the energy transition? Ircelyon once again took part in the CNRS’s ‘Échappées inattendues’ event on 30 June 2025 at the Vaulx-en-Velin Planetarium as part of Hydrogen...
In 2025, Ircelyon committed to obtaining ‘Pro Vélo’ certification. This included participating in ‘Mai à Vélo’ (May by Bike) and maintenance workshops in June and September. What is the Pro-Vélo label? The Pro-Vélo Employer label...
The GECat 2026 conference will take place from May 18th to 21st, 2026, at the Azureva Centre in La-Londe-les-Maures (Côte d’Azur, France).The Catalysis Study Group, a committee of DivCat, brings together the entire French-speaking community in this...
Mathieu Prévot, Mickaele Bonneau, Aude Demessence and David Farrusseng contributed to the work that was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. During his postdoctoral research in Professor Omar Yaghi’s laboratory (UC Berkeley), Mathieu Prévot...
This year, we welcomed two new researchers: – Dr Ibrahim khalil, new CNRS recruit who joined in February and works within the CATREN team on the development of bifunctional catalysts for the bio-based and selective...
The GDR Thermobio is organising the VALOTHERBIO thematic school from 6 to 10 October 2025 at the Villa Clythia in Fréjus. For its second edition on the Thermochemical Valorisation of Biomass and Waste: Characterisation, Processes...
The Ircelyon Science Day took place on 1 July 2025. It was an opportunity to get together for oral presentations, coffee breaks and an outdoor buffet in the sunshine. For this event, 2 speakers have...
Thanks to the work of researchers who reproduce atmospheric chemistry in the laboratory, we are gradually learning more about cloud formation and climate. A joint study by scientists from Ircelyon (CARE team) and the University...
The IRCELYON laboratory is recognised as an institute of excellence in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, an essential area of expertise for the development of new energies. It is in this context that our colleagues...
Ircelyon has welcomed to its CARE team, Clara Inés Alcolado Olivares, a PhD student known in Spain for sharing science videos on social networks. Sharing science with society is one of our missions, and meeting...
The FCCAT 2025 Congress took place from May 19 to 23. This 4th edition was an opportunity for the French and international catalysis communities to share their most advanced research in a spirit of conviviality....
On Wednesday 9 April, we welcomed the CNRS representative in China, Fermin Cuevas, accompanied by Clarisse Munier, Head of the Africa – Middle East – India sector in the Europe and International Division (DEI). This...
Take a look at the new Operando component of the PEPR LUMA research programme (light-matter interactions) within our IRCATECH research facilities.Each month the PEPR LUMA unveils a new video presenting its research facilities. In April,...
The thesis work of Daria Ryaboshapka (CATREN team) for which she was awarded the thesis prize of the Catalysis Division of the Société Chimique de France (SCF DivCat), are also the subject of an article...
He arrived in France at the age of two with his parents, who were persecuted by the Franco regime. He lived in the Ain region before moving to Lyon in 1953. After studying at the...
The échappées inattendues are ‘events and get-togethers open to all to debate, experiment, explore and exchange ideas with scientists’. The Ircelyon laboratory took part in 2 of these events at the end of 2024: An...
IRL CINTRA of Singapore (International Research Laboratory between France and Singapore in nanoelectronics and nanophotonics) visited IRCELYON on 21 March. During this visit, Philippe Coquet (IRL CINTRA Director) introduced us to the IRL CINTRA, a...
We were fortunate to welcome back Professor Ioan-Cezar Marcu (Laboratory of Chemical Technology & Catalysis – Bucharest, Romania). He defended his thesis at the laboratory in 2002 under the supervision of Jean-Marc Millet (CATREN team)....
The next Rencontres de Chimie Physique (RCP2025) will take place from 15 to 17 September 2025 at the Centre CNRS Paul Langevin at Aussois in the Alps. These meetings will be structured around plenary sessions with...
The National PhotoEmission Spectroscopy Days (JNSPE) is the annual event of the Fédération de Recherche Spectroscopies de Photoémission FR SPE 2050 (fr-spe.cnrs.fr). Following the success of the first 3 editions of the JNSPE (Dijon 2022...
“The art of science: revealing the hidden beauty of knowledge” The first edition of Art in la Doua, a scientific and artistic exhibition, is currently being held at the Marie Curie Library at INSA Lyon,...
In the wake of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, the tenth International Day of Women and Girls in Science took place on 11 February.On these occasions, the CNRS and its laboratories have launched...
Congratulations to the distinguished members of the Société Chimique de France (SCF) 2024 edition and in particular to our colleagues Alessandra Quadrelli and David Farrusseng (from the ING team).This distinction is awarded to members who...
On 21 November, we welcomed Professor Fabio H. Ribeiro to IRCELYON, Ambassador for the Chemical Sciences in France, on his tour of France.We would like to thank him for his lecture, the discussions that followed...
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A versatile fast polarity switching CIMS platform for studies of atmospheric composition
Analytical Chemistry, 2026, p.
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Organic aerosol volatility and its drivers in realistic urban air replicas
Analytical Chemistry, 2026, p.
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PhD thesis defense
Tania MREYDE ~ Photocatalyse assistée par polarisation ferroélectrique - Application à la production d"hydrogène
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