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Overview

Gérard Férey was affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research contributed extensively to the fields of materials science, chemistry, and engineering, with significant focus on materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry.

Their work spanned various subfields, including materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and even sociology and political science. Main topics of research included metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) synthesis and applications, carbon dioxide capture technologies, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, covalent organic framework applications, and membrane separation and gas transport.

The scientist's recent publications included:

  • How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation? (2022), Advanced Materials
  • Tailoring the separation properties of flexible metal-organic frameworks using mechanical pressure (2020), Nature Communications
  • Tuning the Properties of MOF-808 via Defect Engineering and Metal Nanoparticle Encapsulation (2021), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Metal-organic framework hybrid adsorbents for carbon capture - A review (2023), Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • Process-performance of solid sorbents for Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 in optimized temperature-vacuum swing adsorption (TVSA) cycles (2024), Chemical Engineering Journal

Frequent coauthors throughout their career included:

  • Guillaume Maurin
  • François-Xavier Coudert
  • Jack D. Evans
  • Paul Iacomi
  • Simon Krause

Their work was frequently published in venues such as the University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology), arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, The Cambridge Structural Database, and Advanced Materials.

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

  • Open-Framework Inorganic Materials.

    Anthony K. Cheetham;Gérard Férey;Thierry Loiseau

  • 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

  • A Breathing Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Solid with Very Large Pores and High Magnetic Characteristics

    Karin Barthelet;Jérôme Marrot;Didier Riou;Gérard Férey

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Serre
Christian Serre École Normale Supérieure
Thierry Loiseau
Thierry Loiseau University of Lille
Thomas Devic
Thomas Devic University of Nantes
Guillaume Maurin
Guillaume Maurin University of Montpellier
Philip L. Llewellyn
Philip L. Llewellyn Aix-Marseille University
Jean-Marc Greneche
Jean-Marc Greneche Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Patricia Horcajada
Patricia Horcajada IMDEA Energy Institute
Caroline Mellot-Draznieks
Caroline Mellot-Draznieks Collège de France
Alexandre Vimont
Alexandre Vimont Université de Caen Normandie

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