L’AGENDA CHIMIE PARISTECH - PSL

Phonon mediated superconductivity in complex oxides, By Julien Varignon, Laboratoire CRISMAT, CNRS UMR 6508, ENSICAEN, Caen.  Several oxides deriving from a Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) phase with the chemical formula An+1BnO3n+1 such as bismuthates BaBiO3 and antimonates BaSbO3 (n=∞), infinite layered nickelates R1-xAxNiO2 (n=∞, R=La, Pr or Nd, A=Ca or Sr) and Nd6Ni5O12 (n=5), obtained after a chemical…

Co-assembly of functionally active membrane proteins in mesostructured silica, Brad Chmelka, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. Thursday June 26 at 2 pm in Amphi Charpak, ESPCI Paris-PSL.  The physicochemical properties of membrane proteins, such as for ion transport, selective catalysis, or biosensing, are desirable for technological applications, although they are challenging to harness in synthetic abiotic…

Prof. Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge, for the Gulliver Seminar. The title of Tuomas' talk is "Protein phase transitions in health, disease, and new materials” and the abstract is below.This seminar will take place at the seminar room of Gulliver theatre C1.62 on Monday 30 June at 14h00.

Structural analysis of soft matter with scattering techniques and its application in designing functional materials The structure plays a crucial role in defining a material’s properties. In soft matter systems, these structures can be chaotic and challenging to control. My talk highlights multiple studies that utilize recent advancements in polymer synthesis and polymer physics to…

Thursday July 3 at 2:00 pm (Paris time), Room Charpak, ESPCI, entrance building, at LPEM in hybrid format:  Heat propagation in liquid 3He and metallic Fermi liquidsby Kamran Behnia , Laboratoire de Physique et Etude de Matériaux, ESPCI, 75005 Paris, FranceNormal liquid 3He inspired Landau’s Fermi liquid theory. What has been overlooked, however, is that fact that the agreement between this theory and the experimental data…

Thursday, 24 July at 10:00 am in the IPGG amphitheatre. The seminar is organised as part of the Horizon Europe project MOF2H2, coordinated at ESPCI by Christian Serre.10:00 AM: Guillaume Maurin "Computational approaches to MOFs based-Sorbents Catalysts and Membranes"11:00 AM: Mohamad El-Roz "Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production using Cu-Based MOFs: Insights into the mechanism" SEMINAR_MOF2H2_24-07-2025_program

Enhancing Mechanical Properties in Injectable Nanocomposite Hydrogels through Dynamic Covalent Bonding at the Polymer-Nanoparticle Interface   Bruno F. Urbano Departamento de Polímeros, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Concepción, Edmundo Larenas 129, Concepción, Chile. Email:   The incorporation of nanoparticles into hydrogels to form nanocomposite hydrogels (NCgels) has emerged as a promising approach for…