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Marc Fontecave

Marc Fontecave

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Chemistry
France
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
46102
World Ranking
672
National Ranking
8

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
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Marc Fontecave is a researcher affiliated with Collège de France in France, specializing in the field of Energy with a focus on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Their work intersects multiple scientific domains including Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Catalysis, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's research primarily covers topics related to CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Metalloenzymes and Iron-Sulfur Proteins, Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications.

Frequent publication venues for their work include The Cambridge Structural Database, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, ChemSusChem, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and ACS Catalysis.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Marc Fontecave are:

  • Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO2 electrolysers, 2022, Nature Energy
  • Co-immobilization of a Rh Catalyst and a Keggin Polyoxometalate in the UiO-67 Zr-Based Metal-Organic Framework: In Depth Structural Characterization and Photocatalytic Properties for CO2 Reduction, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Ethanol with Copper-Based Catalysts, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • High-Current-Density CO2-to-CO Electroreduction on Ag-Alloyed Zn Dendrites at Elevated Pressure, 2020, Joule
  • Benchmarking of oxygen evolution catalysts on porous nickel supports, 2021, Joule

Frequent co-authors involved in their research include Sandrine Zanna, María Gómez-Mingot, Moritz W. Schreiber, Albert Solé-Daura, and Caroline Mellot-Draznieks.

Marc Fontecave was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Splitting water with cobalt.

    Vincent Artero;Murielle Chavarot-Kerlidou;Marc Fontecave;Marc Fontecave

  • From hydrogenases to noble metal-free catalytic nanomaterials for H2 production and uptake.

    Alan Le Goff;Vincent Artero;Bruno Jousselme;Phong Dinh Tran

  • A Janus cobalt-based catalytic material for electro-splitting of water

    Saioa Cobo;Jonathan Heidkamp;Pierre-André Jacques;Jennifer Fize

  • Engineering the Optical Response of the Titanium-MIL-125 Metal–Organic Framework through Ligand Functionalization

    Christopher H. Hendon;Davide Tiana;Marc Fontecave;Clément Sanchez

  • Bio-inspired hydrophobicity promotes CO 2 reduction on a Cu surface

    David Wakerley;Sarah Lamaison;François Ozanam;Nicolas Menguy

  • Biomimetic assembly and activation of [FeFe]-hydrogenases

    Gustav Berggren;Gustav Berggren;Gustav Berggren;A. Adamska;C. Lambertz;T. R. Simmons

  • S-adenosylmethionine: nothing goes to waste

    Marc Fontecave;Mohamed Atta;Etienne Mulliez

  • Molecular polypyridine-based metal complexes as catalysts for the reduction of CO2.

    Noémie Elgrishi;Matthew B. Chambers;Xia Wang;Marc Fontecave

  • Resveratrol, a remarkable inhibitor of ribonucleotide reductase.

    Marc Fontecave;Michel Lepoivre;Eric Elleingand;Catherine Gerez

  • Electroreduction of CO 2 on Single-Site Copper-Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Material: Selective Formation of Ethanol and Reversible Restructuration of the Metal Sites

    Dilan Karapinar;Ngoc Tran Huan;Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie;Jingkun Li

  • Mechanistic Understanding of CO2 Reduction Reaction (CO2RR) Toward Multicarbon Products by Heterogeneous Copper-Based Catalysts

    Tanya K. Todorova;Moritz W. Schreiber;Marc Fontecave

  • Solar fuels generation and molecular systems: is it homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysis?

    Vincent Artero;Marc Fontecave

  • Cobaloxime‐Based Photocatalytic Devices for Hydrogen Production

    Aziz Fihri;Vincent Artero;Mathieu Razavet;Carole Baffert

  • Proton electroreduction catalyzed by cobaloximes: functional models for hydrogenases.

    Mathieu Razavet;Vincent Artero;Marc Fontecave

  • H2 Evolution and Molecular Electrocatalysts: Determination of Overpotentials and Effect of Homoconjugation

    Vincent Fourmond;Pierre-André Jacques;Marc Fontecave;Marc Fontecave;Vincent Artero

  • Mimicking hydrogenases: From biomimetics to artificial enzymes

    Trevor R. Simmons;Gustav Berggren;Gustav Berggren;Marine Bacchi;Marc Fontecave;Marc Fontecave

  • Cobalt and nickel diimine-dioxime complexes as molecular electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution with low overvoltages

    Pierre-André Jacques;Vincent Artero;Jacques Pécaut;Marc Fontecave

  • Inactivation of ribonucleotide reductase by nitric oxide.

    Michel Lepoivre;Franck Fieschi;Jacques Coves;Lars Thelander

  • Cobaloximes as functional models for hydrogenases. 2. Proton electroreduction catalyzed by difluoroborylbis(dimethylglyoximato)cobalt(II) complexes in organic media.

    Carole Baffert;Vincent Artero;Marc Fontecave

  • Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Catalyzed by Fe-N-C Materials: A Structure–Selectivity Study

    Tran Ngoc Huan;Nastaran Ranjbar;Gwenaelle Rousse;Moulay Tahar Sougrati

  • Molecular engineering of a cobalt-based electrocatalytic nanomaterial for H 2 evolution under fully aqueous conditions

    Eugen S Andreiadis;Pierre-André Jacques;Phong D Tran;Adeline Leyris

  • Some general principles for designing electrocatalysts with hydrogenase activity

    Vincent Artero;Marc Fontecave

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Artero
Vincent Artero Grenoble Alpes University
Frédéric Barras
Frédéric Barras Institut Pasteur
Jacques Pécaut
Jacques Pécaut Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Marc Latour
Jean-Marc Latour Grenoble Alpes University
Thierry Douki
Thierry Douki Grenoble Alpes University
Yiannis Sanakis
Yiannis Sanakis Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
Jean-Louis Pierre
Jean-Louis Pierre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Caroline Mellot-Draznieks
Caroline Mellot-Draznieks Collège de France
Wolfgang Lubitz
Wolfgang Lubitz Max Planck Society
Peter Reichard
Peter Reichard University of Padua

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