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ANR CDeePL Kick-Off meeting
At the beginning of February, more precisely on the 2nd, some members of our group in Lyon, including Margarida and Agílio, went to Dunkirk for the first meeting of the ANR CDeePL project.
The main goal is to prepare biocompatible porous liquids based on deep eutectic solvents and CD-MOFs to increase the solubility and bioavailability of active ingredients.
This project involves several collaborating laboratories and is led by researcher Dr Sophie Fourmentin of UCEIV in collaboration with three partners: Unistra, CMC UMR 7140 – Dr S. Baudron; Paris-Saclay, IGPS UMR 8612 – Dr F.-X. Legrand; and ENS-Lyon, LCH UMR 5182 – Dr M. Costa Gomes.
Furthermore, each group presented some of their specialities and contributions to the project, and we had a super productive day. We hope this project bears fruit!
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In the image are those present (from left to right): Dr Miriana Kfoury – ULCO, Dr David Landy -ULCO, Dr Margarida Costa Gomes – ENS Lyon, Dr Vincent Faivre – Paris Saclay, Steven Ruellan – ULCO, Dr François-Xavier Legrand – Paris Saclay, Dr Sophie Fourmentin – ULCO, Dr Agilio Padua – ENS Lyon, Dr Nithavong Cam – ENS Lyon, Dr Stéphane Baudron – Unistra, Dr Cintia M. Correa, ENS Lyon, and Pauline André – Unistra.
Benjamin Abécassis’ talk about SAXS and WAXS
Last Tuesday, Benjamin Abécassis (CNRS research director – ENS Lyon) offered us a class on the fundamentals of SAXS and WAXS.
Thank you again for accepting our invitation and enlightening our thoughts about the technique.
Furthermore, our collaborator Guillaume was responsible for the breakfast with croissants, pains au chocolat and chouquettes.
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Nicolas and Margarida presenting at ILMAT23, Porto
Adriaan’s farewell
Group hike in the Monts du Lyonnais
i-PhD Innovation Award in Paris
The group at the COIL-9 Congress, Lyon
Guillaume Simon’s Thesis!
Luke’s and Federica’s farewell March 2022
The ESRF campaign!
Adriaan presenting at GDR Solvate
Katya defended her PhD
Katya Goloviznina defended her PhD brilliantly in front of a jury composed of Ed Maginn (Notre Dame, USA), Céline Merlet (CNRS, Toulouse), Paul Madden (Oxford, UK) and Luca Monticelli (INSERM, Lyon). Katya is the first PhD of those who started in the group at ENS Lyon.
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Seminar by Paulo Telles de Souza on Martini
Paulo Souza of the Molecular Biology and Structural Biochemistry lab (almost next-door) presented a great seminar to the group on the Martini force field for coarse-grained simulation of ionic liquids, with emphasis on the Martini 3 version for ionic liquids.
Group photo Sept 2021
Pizza outside
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On a not so sunny day… thanks to Guillaume S!
Group picnic
A group picnic at the end of confinement, Spring 2021
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Group photo Sep 2019
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CL&Pol Polarizable force field
Download our polarizable force field for ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents based on Drude induced dipoles.
Paper on SAILs in Nature Materials
In a recent article in Nature Materials, from a collaboration with MIT (USA), Bristol (UK) and Perth (Australia) we describe the discovery of a new class of electrolytes, which can improve energy storage efficiency in supercapacitors. These detergent-like ionic liquids can self-assemble into sandwich-like bilayer structures on electrode surfaces. And that is very reason why they give better energy storage performance.
Check the manuscript at Nat. Mat. (2019) DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0449-6
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