Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology

Biography

Lahcène Ouahab received his PhD thesis from the University of Rennes1 in 1985. He was “Maître de conférences” at the University of Constantine (Algeria) and then associate Professor at the University of Rennes1 (1988) before getting a permanent position in CNRS as “chargé de recherche” in 1989. He is presently a CNRS director of research and leads the molecular materials research group. He was director of the  “Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide et Inorganique Moléculaire UMR6511-CNRS Université de Rennes1” 2004-2006. He was awarded the 1998 prize of the Coordination Chemistry Division, the 2011 Claude Berthault Prize of the “Académie des Sciences” and the 2012 “Grand Prix Pierre Süe” of the French Chemical Society. His fields of research include molecular materials, in particular, multifunctional materials, charge transfer complexes, radical ion salts, organic-inorganic hybrids, polymeric coordination complexes and polyoxometallates

Abstract

Abstract : Lanthanides-redox ligands for single molecule magnets and luminescence