Hot: Very Important Paper on a porous hydride & Inside Cover in Angew. Chem. See press releases from Wiley (+ in German), from ESRF and from UCL (+ here)

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Yaroslav Filinchuk - contact info

Professor of structural chemistry
Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN)
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
E-mail address:	Yaroslav.Filinchuk at uclouvain.be
Postal address:	Place L. Pasteur 1, bte L4.01.03 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Tel:	+32 10 47 28 13
Fax:	+32 10 47 27 07
Location:	How to reach us, Lavoisier building, office A210

Research directions

Metal and chemical hydrides as hydrogen (energy) storage materials light hydrides: borohydrides, amides etc. synthesis: by mechanochemical methods, under high pressure in diamond anvil cells, by wet chemistry crystallography: single-crystal and powder diffraction; synchrotron X-rays and neutrons in-situ powder diffraction to study properties and transformations: under gas or hydrostatic pressure, reactivity and phase transitions at high/low temperatures, thermal decomposition, reversibility of hydrogen release trapping and characterization of intermediate phases Porous materials: inorganic polymers, MOFs, gas absorption Development of sample environment for in-situ diffraction studies

Publications, presentations, CV

Publication list

Book chapters, proceedings

Selected talks & forthcoming conferences

Full list of conference presentations, lectures, seminars; meetings attended

Curriculum Vitae, March 2011

Ph.D. Thesis, 2002

Recent highlights

2007	Six SNBL highlights since 2007	ESRF press release on MOFs
	SSCr Newsletter, No.70 (p. 10-13)	MOFs at Nanometer.ru
	Title page + highlight (p. 20): SSCr Newsletter, No. 71
	Swiss Science Concentrates in CHIMIA: 1st + 2nd
	ESRF press release on LiBH4	Other highlights on LiBH4
	Poster prize at ECM24	TV video (France 3)
2008	Chemical Science News
	University of Geneva press release	EurJIC Cover page
2009	Euronews about our research on hydrides	- TV Video (69 Mb)
2010	ESRF Young Scientist Award + an interview in ESRF news: p. 17
	Highlight in March issue of the ESRF news: the title page + p. 12-13
	Title page + highlight (p. 40-41): SSCr Newsletter, No. 81
	Cryst. Res. Technol. Cover page
	Synchrotron Radiation News on hydrides	- pdf
2011	My collaboration on hydrides with UniGe, Campus, No. 102, p. 16-17
	ESRF highlight on flexible MOFs
	European Young Researchers' Award - to Dorthe Ravnsbćk (hydrides)
	New mineral: press releases from SGU	and Uppsala University
	ESRF spotlight on science: Untangling chemical bonding in boron
	Porous hydride: "Very Important Paper" + Inside Cover in Angew. Chem.

Teaching

2nd year BA: "Eléments de cristallographie et spectroscopie moléculaire" - in French

1st year MA: "Structural chemistry by diffraction methods" - in English

Large facilities we use

European synchrotron, ESRF and Neutron source (nuclear reactor), ILL see site map
Some photos: Panorama of Grenoble, A bird's eye view on ESRF, The Grenoble valley
More images of the ESRF/ILL/EMBL site from www.lightsources.org: 1 2 3 4 5

Swiss Spallation Neutron Source, SINQ and Swiss Light Source, SLS at PSI, Switzerland
See PSI from top        My photos from an experiment at SINQ in 2002
Now, a free-electron laser is under construction nearby.

Private

My photo gallery (old pictures mostly)

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