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Yaroslav Filinchuk - contact info
Professor of structural chemistry Molecules, Solids and Reactivity (MOST) 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, BelgiumTel: +32 10 47 28 13 Fax: +32 10 47 27 07 Location: How to reach us, Lavoisier building, office B162
Research directions Metal and chemical hydrides as hydrogen (energy) storage materials
Porous materials: inorganic polymers, MOFs, gas absorption
- 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
Development of sample environment for in-situ diffraction studies
Publications, presentations, CV
Articles published Google Scholar profile
Book chapters & proceedings
Selected talks All presentations
Chaired and organized
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. Thesis, 2002
Highlights
Teaching
2nd year Bachelor in Chemistry: "Eléments de cristallographie et spectroscopie moléculaire" - in French
2nd year Master in Chemistry: "Structural chemistry by diffraction methods" - in English
3rd year Bachelor in Chemistry: "Compléments de travaux pratiques en chimie" - in French
1st year Bachelor in Physics and Math: "Chimie générale" - in French
1st year Bachelor in Management Engineering: "Chimie I" - in French
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.
Various
My photo gallery (old pictures)
Traineeships at the European Synchrotron