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imcn | Louvain-la-Neuve

  • 20 September 2024
    Factors Controlling Cage Escape Yields of Closed- and Open-Shell Metal Complexes in Bimolecular Photoinduced Electron Transfer
    The cage escape yield, i.e., the separation of the geminate radical pair formed immediately after bimolecular excited-state electron transfer, was studied in 11 solvents using six Fe(III), Ru(II), and
  • 4 June 2024
    Investigation of the Excited-State Electron Transfer and Cage Escape Yields Between Halides and a Fe(III) Photosensitizer
    Excited-state quenching and reduction of [Fe(phtmeimb)2]+, where phtmeimb is phenyl[tris(3-methyl-imidazolin-2-ylidene)]borate, with iodide, bromide, and chloride were studied in dichloromethane, acet
  • 4 June 2024
    Photoinduced One-Electron Chloride Oxidation in Water Using a Pentacationic Ir(III) Photosensitizer
    A novel iridium(III) photosensitizer containing pyridinium-decorated terpyridines has been used for the photo-oxidation of chloride in water.
  • 4 June 2024
    Factors that Impact Photochemical Cage Escape Yields
    The utilization of visible light to mediate chemical reactions in fluid solutions has applications that range from solar fuel production to medicine and organic synthesis.
  • 28 May 2024
    2023 IMCN Best Thesis Award
    Martin GILLARD has received the 2023 IMCN Best Thesis Award on 24 May 2024. His work was entitled "Developing Ruthenium(II) Salphen Schiff Base Complexes towards Theranostic
  • 30 April 2024
    Exploiting the disorder to harvest heat energy: The potentialities of 2D magnets for thermoelectric applications
    Thermoelectric systems are a green and sustainable way to harvest energy from any form of heat which otherwise would be wasted.
  • 21 March 2024
    Small-pore hydridic frameworks store densely packed hydrogen
    Nanoporous materials have attracted great attention for gas storage, but achieving high volumetric storage capacity remains a challenge.
  • 11 January 2024
    Chiral Isochalcogenourea-Catalysed Enantioselective (4+2) Cycloadditions of Allenoates
    Allenoates are versatile building blocks which are primarily activated and controlled using chiral tert. phosphine and tert. amine Lewis bases.
  • 21 December 2023
    Ionic Liquids for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
    Elucidating the Iron-Based Ionic Liquid [C4py][FeCl4]: Structural Insights and Potential for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries In this study, a low-melting organic-inorganic crystalline ionic liquid co
  • 18 December 2023
    Non-identical moiré twins in bilayer graphene
    The superlattice obtained by aligning a monolayer graphene and boron nitride (BN) inherits from the hexagonal lattice a sixty degrees periodicity with the layer alignment.