(EC) CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR

1) Advanced Electron Microscopy for Nanomaterials characterization
2) Nanoscale analysis of nano materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis
3) Nanoscale analysis of nano materials for sensors
4) Nanoscale analysis of nano materials for Biomedicine and biotechnology
5) Development and optimization of novel methodologies for the 2D and 3D characterization of Nano and Bio materials by Advanced Transmission and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
6) Electron Tomography of Nanostructured Materials

Synthesis, characterisation and chemical reactivity of transition metal complexes for the activation of small molecules and C-C and C-H bonds, with application in organic synthesis: isomerization, cyclization, polymerisation, hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions, hydrodesulfuration, etc.
Taxonomy, phylogeny and genomics of venomous marine gastropods of the superfamily Conoidea. Evolutionary Venomics.

The aim of the scientific group is the development of multifunctional potentiometric sensors in solid state with membranes with the addition of nano particles. A secondary objective is to develop simple potentiometric sensors for the determination of chemical species of interest that would have improved properties. Improved sensor performance will be based on simpler preparation of samples for analysis (does not matter discoloration and turbidity of the sample), improved chemical, physical and electrical properties.

The ‘Laboratoire de Chimie, Electrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique, UMR CNRS 6521 – UBO, CEMCA’ (‘Molecular Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry’ Laboratory) is a joint, CNRS and University of Brest, research laboratory. It is located in Brest at the Faculty of Science and Technology. This laboratory was created in the early eighties (1981) by the fusion into a single research unit of four teams having expertises in organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. That is the sole research laboratory in chemistry of the University of Brest.