SolHyCat
Artero Research Group
News
September 2020
The short movie introducing our research activities on artificial photosynthesis presented by Murielle (assisted by Kun, Manos and Duc) is now availble! This movie was made in collaboration with Le Temps des Sciences and filmed and assembled by Bonnie&Clark Production in the framework of the science festival "Baie des Sciences".
Watch the film HERE or click on the picture! (Disclaimer: movie in french!)
Many thanks to all the participants, Le Temps des Science and Bonnie&Clark for all the work!
Inspired by work pionneered by the group of Daniel Nocera, the SolHycat team, in collaboration with the group of Dr. Phong Dinh Tran at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, are developping a new design of artificial leaf.
This new animation video explains how this type of devices can use solar energy to produce sustainable H2, a potential step forward a green hydrogen economy.
Special thanks to Ghislain who edited the entire video and to Andrew for giving a voice to the speech!
August 2020
Early October, Vincent and the SolHyCat team are taking part to the festival "Baie des Sciences", organised by the french association Le temps des Sciences, based in Saint-Brieuc, which carries out science outreach activities.
This year, the festival is making a focus on biomimetism and bioinspiration, topics at heart of the SolHyCat team research interests.
Vincent's conference "Préparer la transition énergétique" (in french) will be broadcasted live on Monday the 12th of October and will highlight some of the group's research activities.
In addition to the conference, Le temps des Sciences and Bonnie and Clark production also filmed a short movie in the lab, where Murielle, Kun, Manos and Duc presented some of our research activites on artificial photosynthesis, in immersion in the lab!
The film will also soon be available, stay tuned!
May 20th, 2020 Murielle presents at the Dyenamo web workshop
Murielle was invited to present our most recent achievements towards the development of dye sensitised photocathodes for hydrogen production at the Dyenamo web workshop along with four other prestigious speakers of the field: Licheng Sun (KTH Stockholm and Westlake University Hangzhou), Elisabeth Gibson (Newcastle University), Haining Tian (Uppsala University) and Julien Warnan (Technical University of Munich)
May 7th, 2020 Duc wins CBH Graduate School photo contest!
Congratulations Duc!
On May the 7th Duc won the best "unusual photo prize" of the CBH Graduate School photo contest.
Check out the list of all of the contest winners and their photos here
December 12th, 2019 Cristina at the Elysée Palace!
Cristina was invited to visit the Elysee Palace and meet with Président E. Macron on December 12th 2019. This was the second anniversary of the Make Our Planet Great Again program and Cristina is one of the very few laureates of this program
October 22nd, 2019 SolHyCat at Biomim'expo
The SolHycat team, through the labex Arcane, was represented at the Biomim expo 2019 at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie de la Villette (Paris)
Vincent presented how artificial photosynthesis could pave the way to more sustainable strategies to produce, store and consume energy. You can watch Vincent's presentation here.
September 28th , 2018 Congratulations
Nathan Coutard defended his PhD work on the development of bioinspired anodes for H2/O2 fuel cells and their analysis using EIS and Tafel modelling ;).
Congratulation Dr Coutard!
August 2018 : Poster Prize for Sebastian!
Sebastian Bold received a poster award for his contribution at the LightChec summer school. Congratulations!
July 09 2018 : New group members, new group picture!
From left to right : Back row : Vincent Artero, Matthieu Koepf, Sebastian Bold, Tim Rosser, Murielle Chavarot-Kerlidou, Nathan, Bertrand Reuillard
Front row : Kun Yang, Camille Roiron, Nick Randell, Manos Giannoudis, Adina Morozan, Jennifer Fize, Chengbo Li
June 20 2018 : Prix Forscheur Jean-Marie Lehn
Vincent Artero and Benjamin Dietzek (IPHT and Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena) have been awarded the 2018 Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn Prize sponsored by BASF, Sanofi and the French-German University.
February 2018 : Visit to Deb at UCI
Sunset at Laguna Beach with Deb at UC Irvine !
January 2018 : New AE position for V. Artero at Chemical Science
Dr Vincent Artero is now Associate Editor for Chemical Science, the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Your submissions in the field of molecular science for energy research are welcome!
January 2018 : visit at IACS, Kolkata, India
Again enjoying scientific discussion ( not shown) and Indian hospitality in the group of Abhishek Dey at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS, Kolkata) and in the group of Arnab Dutta at IIT Gandhinager the during a CEFIPRA visit.
December 15th , 2017 Congratulations
Murielle Chavarot-Kerlidou defended her habilitation on molecular approaches for artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels.
Congratulations and best wishes for future science!
November 15th , 2017 Congratulations
Solène Gentil defended her phD work on the development of nanostructured electrodes based on enzymes and bioinspired catalysts for noble metal-free H2/O2 fuel cells
Congratulation Dr Gentil!
October 12th , 2017 Congratulations
Dongyue Sun defended his PhD work on diimine-dioxime cobalt complexes for H2 evolution electrocatalysis: mechanistic study and optimization through coupling with an electron reservoir
Congratulation to our new French doctor Dr Sun!
October 2017: Welcome to Gabriel and Océane: We're working hard to prepare a better world for you:
2017: A great year for SolHyCat graduates
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Nicolas KAEFFER is one of the 7 laureates of the Prix de Thèse 2017 de
l'Université Grenoble Alpes
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Deborah Brazzolotto won the Prix de Thèse 2017 of the Physical Chemistry Division of the French Society of Chemistry
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Nicolas Queyriaux won the Prix de Thèse 2017 of the Energy Division of the French Society of Chemistry
January 13th , 2017 : visit at IACS, Kolkata, India
Very warm welcome from the students of the Dey group at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS, Kolkata, India) during a CEFIPRA visit.
October 2016 : AE position for V. Artero at Sustainable Energy and Fuels
Dr Vincent Artero is now Associate Editor for Sustainable Energy and Fuels, the new journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Your submissions in the field of molecular science, bio-isnpired catalysis and artificial photosynthesis are welcome!
October 11th , 2016 Poster
Excellent poster award of the 5th symposium on solar fuels and solar cells awarded to Dongyue :
"Novel hydrogen evolution catalysts containing a redox-active moiety"
Congrats !
We thank the FrenchBIC for the travel grant to Dongyue for attending this conference.
Excellent poster award of the 5th symposium on solar fuels and solar cells awarded to Dongyue :
"Novel hydrogen evolution catalysts containing a redox-active moiety"
Congrats !
We thank the FrenchBIC for the travel grant to Dongyue for attending this conference.
Excellent poster award of the 5th symposium on solar fuels and solar cells awarded to Dongyue :
"Novel hydrogen evolution catalysts containing a redox-active moiety"
Congrats !
We thank the FrenchBIC for the travel grant to Dongyue for attending this conference.
October 5th , 2016 Congratulations
Deborah Brazzolotto defended her PhD work the same day of announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A great day for molecular chemistry.
This work was carried out in the framework of the Arcane Labex for Bio-driven chemistry in Grenoble
March 11th and 24th , 2016 Congratulations
This month, Nicolas Kaeffer and Nicolas Queyriaux superbly defended their work and achievements during these 3.41 years in the lab. This is the end of their tour in Grenoble and the start of a promising career for both of them.
29.01.2016 New year, new faces!
Group photo in front of the lab
Team members have been trying to keep their smile during the group photo organized by 5°C for the new year. From left to right : First row : Jennifer Fize, Adina Morozan, Murielle Chavarot-Kerlidou, Vincent Artero, Christopher Windle, Julien Massin, Nicolas Queyriaux. Second row : Matthieu Koepf, Jean-François Lefèbvre, Nathan, Dongyue Sun, Sundar Chandrasekaran, Nicolas Kaeffer.
04.05.2015 International Solar Fuels Conference
Poster session at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress
Some of the team members have been presenting the latest results from the group at the International Solar Fuels Conference organized by the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis. From left to right : Souvik Roy, Nicolas Queyriaux, Vincent Artero, Nicolas Kaeffer, Bianca Cecconi, Jean-François Lefèbvre and Reuben Jane.
A SOFI-funded collaborative project
The Solar Fuel Institute has decided to fund a collaborative project between our group and the BISfuel Energy Frontier Research Center at Arizona State University. Nicolas Kaeffer has then left on Monday October 7 for 2 months to experience the sunny weather of Arizona and combine our H2-evolving cathodes with photoanodes developed at BISFuel.
After a lot of preparation and work, the new lab space is now operational and fully installed.
The new lab space!
The new lab space!
Nicolas and Eugen install the fume-hood for nano-chemistry
The new lab space!
Summer 2013: New lab space for SolHyCat
Artificial Photosynthesis, a european initiative
The European Community of Solar Fuels gathers within AMPEA, a joint program of the European Energy Research Association (EERA) aiming at developing Advanced Materials and Processes for Energy Applications. The joint paper in Green relates this initiative.
February 2013: ArtipHyction Workshop
February 2013: ArtipHyction Workshop
On February 11st and 12nd, some of the partners of the Artiphyction project (CEA-Grenoble, CEA-Saclay and Solaronix SA) have met at the headquarters of Solaronix SA in Aubonne (Switzerland) to discuss about the last progress of each team.
These two days have been dedicated to the sharing of new know-how and discussing on the pursuit of this european project.
The SolHyCat team organized the Annual meeting of the ArtipHyction project in Grenoble (June 27).
