Latest news
- June 2025: FX Coudert is recognized as one of the “Pioneers in Hybrid Glass Research” by the award of the 2025 Dalton Horizon Prize to a group of scientists lead by prof. Tom Bennett (University of Canterbury), for “discovering and developing the chemistry of hybrid glasses”.
- June 2025: Happy to announce the publication of the Open Experimental Powder X-Ray Diffraction Database, an openly available dataset of labeled and unlabeled experimental powder diffractograms to guide machine learning research toward fully automated analysis of pXRD, and the result of a large-scale international collaboration.
- May 2025: We’re so happy to be part of the team that worked hard on the latest version of the CoRE MOF database, a curated experimental MOF database with machine-learned properties for integrated material-process screening. Now including (thanks to Lionel Zoubritzky) framework topology, among many new features!
- April 2025: Congratulations to Léna Triestram, who won the award for Best Poster at the TOTEMIC Training School 2025 “Tools for Energy Materials Modelling Acceleration”!
- March 2025: We are looking for a bright PhD candidate for a project “Active learning to accelerate discovery of multi-variate MOFs”. Please read the full announcement here.
- January 2025: You can read our recent review on Negative Gas Adsorption (NGA) now published in Chem. Soc. Rev.
- December 2024: We share with great sadness the news that Professor Alain Fuchs passed away on December 8th. He was a pioneer in the fields of thermodynamics and molecular simulation of confined phases, adsorption, and nanoporous materials.
- November 2024: Luca’s latest work in the group, on neural network-based interatomic potentials for zeolites is now published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
- October 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Lionel Zoubritzky on the award of his PhD! 🎓
- September 2024: Welcome to Léna Triestram and Fengming Shi who are joining the group as PhD students!
- July 2024: FX Coudert is a keynote speaker at the amazing MOF 2024 conference in Singapore 🇸🇬.
- June 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Emmanuel Ren, who has been selected as Finalist for the ENEN PhD Event & Prize 2024 by the European Nuclear Education Network Association.
- May 2024: As part of an collaboration with Shinshu University 🇯🇵, we are proud to present our latest work on H2O/D2O adsorption in flexible graphene oxide nanosheets, published in Nature Communications.
- April 2024: Prediction diffusion coefficients in nanoporous materials is a difficult problem, and Emmanuel’s latest paper proposes a new methodology: “Prediction of the Diffusion Coefficient through Machine Learning Based on Transition-State Theory Descriptors” is published.
- February 2024: Welcome to Ayoub Traverson, who joins the group for a MSc project.
- December 2023: Happy to announce the publication of a special issue on “Modelling and advanced characterization of framework materials” in Communications Chemistry, guest-edited by FX!
- November 2023: Congratulations to Ambroise De Izarra for publication of two papers in one week! 🏅 Both on intrusion of electrolytes: an analytical model and a series of Monte Carlo simulations.
- September 2023: Party time! Dr. Emmanuel Ren is awarded a PhD 🎓 following his defence.
- July 2023: Congratulations to Nicolas Castel on the very successful defence of his PhD!
- June 2023: FX Coudert is participating in the Telluride workshop “Returning to the Molecule: Thinking at the Chemical Level to Advance Understanding and Function in Synthetic Porous Frameworks”. Beautiful science, beautiful location! ⛰️
- May 2023: Read about Computation of Finite Temperature Mechanical Properties of ZIF Glasses by MD in Nicolas’ latest paper in Chem. Mater.
- April 2023: Our group’s @MOF_papers Twitter bot is featured in Chem. Mater.! Read more in this editorial.
- January 2023: Congratulations to Ambroise De Izarra and Emmanuel Ren for publishing the first two papers of the group in 2023: an alchemical osmostat for Monte Carlo simulation and a fast sampling method for characterizing nanoporous materials.
- December 2022: 🎥 We have published a short video tutorial of our CrystalNets web app for topology identification of crystalline materials.
H2O/D2O adsorption in flexible graphene oxide nanosheets: you can read our recent work in Nature Communications!
Our latest work on the fast and accurate prediction of gas adsorption in nanoporous frameworks has been published in Chem. Mater.!
Our latest work on the tunable acetylene sorption by flexible catenated metal–organic frameworks has been published in Nature Chemistry!
Our latest Perspective paper on the changing state of porous materials has been published in Nature Materials! Follow the free to read link and learn more about novel porous liquids and glasses.
Our latest work on the melting of hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites to form stable liquids and melt-quenched MOF glasses has been published in Nature Chemistry!
Félix Mouhat’s study of the chemistry of graphene oxide in liquid water through first-principles molecular dynamics has been published in Nature Communications!
