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2026

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145
Citations
94393
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161
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award

Overview

Christian Serre is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and has an extensive research record primarily in Materials Science, Chemistry, and Engineering. Their work spans both main disciplines and several subfields, including Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas within advanced materials and nanotechnology. Key topics include Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) synthesis and applications, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, membrane separation and gas transport, covalent organic framework applications, gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Their recent published papers illustrate a focus on MOFs and related advanced functional materials. Selected recent works include:

  • "Toxicity of metal-organic framework nanoparticles: from essential analyses to potential applications," 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation?", 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Large-Scale Production of Metal-Organic Frameworks," 2023, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Recent progress on MOF-based optical sensors for VOC sensing," 2022, Chemical Science
  • "MOFs industrialization: a complete assessment of production costs," 2021, Faraday Discussions

Christian Serre has worked collaboratively with several frequent co-authors, including Guillaume Maurin, Antoine Tissot, Farid Nouar, Georges Mouchaham, and G. Patriarche.

Their research outputs have appeared repeatedly in prominent journals and venues, reflecting consistent contributions to the field. Frequent publication venues include SSRN Electronic Journal, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and Angewandte Chemie.

Best Publications

  • A chromium terephthalate-based solid with unusually large pore volumes and surface area.

    G. Férey;G. Férey;C. Mellot-Draznieks;C. Serre;F. Millange

  • Porous metal–organic-framework nanoscale carriers as a potential platform for drug delivery and imaging

    Patricia Horcajada;Tamim Chalati;Christian Serre;Brigitte Gillet

  • Metal-organic frameworks in biomedicine.

    Patricia Horcajada;Ruxandra Gref;Tarek Baati;Phoebe K. Allan

  • Very Large Breathing Effect in the First Nanoporous Chromium(III)-Based Solids: MIL-53 or CrIII(OH)·{O2C−C6H4−CO2}·{HO2C−C6H4−CO2H}x·H2Oy

    Christian Serre;Franck Millange;Christelle Thouvenot;Marc Noguès

  • Metal-organic frameworks as efficient materials for drug delivery.

    Patricia Horcajada;Christian Serre;María Vallet-Regí;Muriel Sebban

  • A Rationale for the Large Breathing of the Porous Aluminum Terephthalate (MIL‐53) Upon Hydration

    Thierry Loiseau;Christian Serre;Clarisse Huguenard;Gerhard Fink

  • Flexible Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks for a Controlled Drug Delivery

    Patricia Horcajada;Christian Serre;Guillaume Maurin;Naseem A. Ramsahye

  • Large breathing effects in three-dimensional porous hybrid matter: facts, analyses, rules and consequences

    Gérard Férey;Gérard Férey;Christian Serre

  • High Uptakes of CO2 and CH4 in Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks MIL-100 and MIL-101

    Philip L. Llewellyn;Sandrine Bourrelly;Christian Serre;Alexandre Vimont

  • A New Photoactive Crystalline Highly Porous Titanium(IV) Dicarboxylate

    Meenakshi Dan-Hardi;Christian Serre;Théo Frot;Laurence Rozes

  • Synthesis and catalytic properties of MIL-100(Fe), an iron(III) carboxylate with large pores

    Patricia Horcajada;Suzy Surblé;Christian Serre;Do-Young Hong

  • Crystallized frameworks with giant pores: are there limits to the possible?

    Gérard Férey;Caroline Mellot-Draznieks;Christian Serre;Franck Millange

  • Amine Grafting on Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Centers of MOFs: Consequences for Catalysis and Metal Encapsulation

    Young Kyu Hwang;Do Young Hong;Jong San Chang;Sung Hwa Jhung

  • BioMOFs: metal-organic frameworks for biological and medical applications.

    Alistair C. McKinlay;Russell E. Morris;Patricia Horcajada;Gérard Férey

  • Different Adsorption Behaviors of Methane and Carbon Dioxide in the Isotypic Nanoporous Metal Terephthalates MIL-53 and MIL-47

    Sandrine Bourrelly;Philip L Llewellyn;Christian Serre;Franck Millange

  • Role of solvent-host interactions that lead to very large swelling of hybrid frameworks

    C. Serre;C. Mellot-Draznieks;C. Mellot-Draznieks;S. Surblé;N. Audebrand

  • Porous Chromium Terephthalate MIL-101 with Coordinatively Unsaturated Sites: Surface Functionalization, Encapsulation, Sorption and Catalysis

    Do-Young Hong;Young Kyu Hwang;Christian Serre;Gérard Férey

  • A Hybrid Solid with Giant Pores Prepared by a Combination of Targeted Chemistry, Simulation, and Powder Diffraction

    Gérard Férey;Gérard Férey;Christian Serre;Caroline Mellot-Draznieks;Franck Millange

  • Hydrogen adsorption in the nanoporous metal-benzenedicarboxylate M(OH)(O2C–C6H4–CO2)(M = Al3+, Cr3+), MIL-53

    Gérard Férey;Michel Latroche;Christian Serre;Franck Millange

  • Hydrogen Storage in the Giant‐Pore Metal–Organic Frameworks MIL‐100 and MIL‐101

    Michel Latroche;Suzy Surblé;Christian Serre;Caroline Mellot-Draznieks

Frequent Co-Authors

Gérard Férey
Gérard Férey Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Guillaume Maurin
Guillaume Maurin University of Montpellier
Patricia Horcajada
Patricia Horcajada IMDEA Energy Institute
Thomas Devic
Thomas Devic University of Nantes
Philip L. Llewellyn
Philip L. Llewellyn Aix-Marseille University
Alexandre Vimont
Alexandre Vimont Université de Caen Normandie
Marco Daturi
Marco Daturi Université de Caen Normandie
Hervé Jobic
Hervé Jobic Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Patrick Couvreur
Patrick Couvreur University of Paris-Saclay

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