Gérard Férey

Gérard Férey was successively Professor at Le Mans University (1967-1988 and 1992-1995), then deputy Director of the Chemistry Department of CNRS (1988-1992) before creating the Institut Lavoisier at the new University of Versailles, on demand of CNRS and Ministery of Education.
He was nominated as Professor at the Institut universitaire de France in 1999. His fields of research concerned first the magnetic frustration of 3d transition metal fluorides (Le Mans) and then, in Versailles, (…)

Since 1992, Gérard Férey has devoted the last part of his scientific career to the genesis, the structures, some mechanisms of formation, as well as the properties and applications of porous solids, either with an inorganic or a hybrid organic-inorganic framework, in order to reach rationally ‘tailor-made’ materials, through an integrated strategy.
More than 150 new structural types resulted from this approach, with useful pore dimensions ranging from 8 to 50 Å. A careful choice of the (…)