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Senior Lecturer

CNRS Research Director

Current functions – Currently

• Director of IMN
• CNRS senior researcher DR2 (Section15 – Chemistry of materials, nanomaterials and processes)
• Researcher within the ST2E group “Electrochemical storage and conversion of energy (ST2E)” at the Institute of Materials Jean Rouxel – Nantes (IMN

Qualifications

• 2007: “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” from Nantes University
• 1990-93: PhD thesis, Nantes University “Study of the anharmonic behavior of d10 ions (Ag+, Cd2+, Zn2+) in ternary and quaternary chalcogenides.”

Thèmes de recherche – Research themes

• DFT modeling and simulation of various spectroscopies: NMR, EELS, XAS
• Electronic Structure calculations applied to battery materials

Animation de la recherche – Research Community Activities

Scientific committee member of GDR REST (2015-2018)

Publications

As of 01/2018

• 90 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (H-Factor: 27 – source Google Scholar)
• 10 invited talks at national/international conferences, 8(co)organisation of conferences

Links

ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-7408-2012
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florent_Boucher
Google Scholar: https: //scholar.google.fr/citations?user=eNSComAAAAAJ&hl

University Professor

Fonctions actuelles / Current

• Since 2024: Vice-Dean in charge of Research and International Partnerships, Polytech Nantes
• Since 2023: Chair Division 3 (Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage)Chair Division 3 (Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage) International Society of Electrochemistry
• Since 2012: Associate Editor for Journal of the Electrochemical Society (Battery technology)
• Since 2010: Senior Scientist and CTO of ERIMAT (BO Capacités SAS)

Functions precedents / Before

• 2013-2020: Vice-Dean in charge of technology transfer at the University of Nantes
• 1999-2019: Elected at the National Council of the Universities (CNU section 33)
• 2005-2011: Director of Laboratoire de Génie des Matériaux et Procédés Associés (LGMPA – EA2664)
• 2010-2013: President of the evaluation committee of National Research Agency (ANR) call for proposal STOCK-E and PROGELEC

Qualifications

• Engineer degree from ISMRa-ENSI Caen (1987)
• PhD from University of Caen (High Tc superconductive thin films)
• HDR from University of Nantes (functional thin films for energy storage)
• Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (Since 2022)

Research Themes

• Supercapacitors: from materials (pseudocapacitive oxides and nitrides, functionalized carbons) to devices (asymmetric supercapacitors, hybrid devices)
• Microdevices for energy storage: microbatteries (Li-ion, metal-air,…), microsupercapacitors

Research Community Activities / Teaching Responsibilities

• Co-coordinator of Capacitive storage area for RS2E (http://www.energie-rs2e.com/en/organisation-chart)
• Member of the Global Innovation in Research Program at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• In charge of supercapacitor topic in the team ST2E at IMN

Publications

• 230 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (H-Factor: 39 – source Google Scholar)
• 12 book chapters
• 8 patents
• 66 invited talks at national/international conferences, 46 oral conference presentations, 36 invited seminars,
• 12 (co)organisations of conferences

Links

• ResearcherID : ORCID 0000-0003-2243-8508
• ResearchGate: https: //www.researchgate.net/profile/Thierry_Brousse
• Google Scholar: https: //scholar.google.com/citations?user=ITua4w4AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
• LinkedIn: https: //www.linkedin.com/in/thierry-brousse-a050559a/

Senior Lecturer

CNRS Research Director

Functions :

CNRS Research Director (Section 17)

Expertise :

• Organic-inorganic hybrid materials
• Coordination chemistry
• Energy storage
• Porous materials
• In situ studies
• Crystal chemistry
• Structure-property relationships

Main research themes:

• Synthesis of new functional MOFs
• New electroactive materials
• Binders and coordination coatings for battery electrodes
• Hybrid materials and thermal energy storage.

Current research projects:

As coordinator :

ANR PRC CE05, 2024-2027. Thermal management of metal organic framework materials (TEM-MOF). Partners: LTeN (X. Py), ICMN (B. Cagnon).

As partner manager :

• ANR PRC CE50, 2022-2026. Catalytic sorbent bed for improved production of methanol (SIMPA). Coordinator A.C- Roger (ICPEES); partners IMN (T. Devic), CP2M (P. Fongarland), ICGM (P. Trens).
• ANR PRC CE08, 2025-2029. Novel MOFs for singlet oxygen generation storage and delivery (MOFSONG). Coordinator A. Fateeva (LMI); partners IMN (T. Devic), CEISAM (V. Coeffard), CRMN (G. Pintacuda), LRGP (C. Frochot).

As a participant :

IMN-Blue solutions joint laboratory (IMNBlue), 2023-2027. New-generation all-solid batteries.

Biography:

Thomas Devic obtained his PhD in 2003 from the University of Angers. After a postdoctoral stay at Cornell University, USA, under the supervision of Stephen Lee, he was recruited to the CNRS at the Institut Lavoisier in Versailles, France, in 2004, within the “Porous Solids” research group headed by Gérard Férey. In 2016, he joined the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, in Nantes, France, where he is currently CNRS Research Director. His research focuses mainly on organic-inorganic hybrid materials, with a particular emphasis on synthesis and structural characterization. He is interested in the development of new hybrid compounds (salts, complexes and coordination polymers, MOFs), in particular based on non-trivial organic building blocks, the use of high-throughput tools to achieve this, their in-depth structural characterization using various analytical techniques (XRD, NMR, infrared…) and their applications in various fields, such as gas capture and electrochemical and thermal energy storage. He has supervised more than 20 doctoral and post-doctoral students, and participates in various academic and industrial collaborative projects.

Teaching:

Courses and practical work on porous coordination polymers, Master’s level (Nantes University)

Publications :

Number of publications: 155

Illustrative major publications:

A Fe-thiolate layered metal organic framework as a high-performance electrode material for potassium-ion batteries. L.H.B. Nguyen, P. Salcedo-Abraira, D. Le Thanh, N. Gedikoglu, N. Guillou, R. Coatleven, P. Poizot, F. Salles, N. Louvain, L. Stievano, T. Devic, Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 9614 – 9617.

Expanding the horizons of porphyrin metal-organic frameworks via catecholate coordination: exploring structural diversity, materials stability and redox properties. S. De, G. Mouchaham, F. Liu, M. Affram, B. Abeykoon, N. Guillou, E. Jeanneau, J.-M. Grenèche, L. Khrouz, C. Martineau-Corcos, L. Boudjema, F. Salles, P. Salcedo-Abraira, G. Valente, M. Souto, A. Fateeva, T. Devic, J. Mater. Chem. A 2023, 11, 25465-25483.

Is there any benefit of coating Si particles for negative electrode material for Li-ion batteries with a MOF? The case of Al fumarate. N. Kana, K. Touidjine, S. Olivier-Archambaud, E. Gkaniatsou, M. Paris, N. Dupré, N. Gautier, P. Moreau, C. Sicard, B. Lestriez, T. Devic, ACS Applied Energy Mater. 2023, 6, 9218-9230.

Coordinatively cross-linked binders for silicon-based electrodes for Li-ion batteries: beneficial impact on mechanical properties and electrochemical performance. L. Huet, D. Mazouzi, P. Moreau, N. Dupré, M. Paris, S. Mittelette, D. Laurencin, T. Devic, L. Roué, B. Lestriez, ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 15509-15524.

Deciphering the thermal and electrochemical behaviors of dual redox-active iron croconate violet coordination complexes. M. Denis, J.-M. Grenèche, N. Gautier, P. Poizot, T. Devic, Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 9308-9317.

Silicon Electrodes for Li-ion Batteries. Addressing the Challenges through Coordination Chemistry. T. Devic, B. Lestriez, L. Roué, ACS Energy Lett. 2019, 4, 550-557.

Number of patents: 4

Link to publi HAL: https://hal.science/search/index?q=thomas+devic

Link to orcid: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-7074-6498

CNRS Research Fellow

CNRS Research Director