Gérard Férey

Gérard Férey (* July 14, 1941 ) is a French chemist who is engaged in physical chemistry of solids and materials science.

Ferey founded in 1968, the Chemistry Department at the Institut universitaire de technologie at Le Mans and was then at the Université du Maine in Le Mans. In 1977 he received his doctorate at the University of Paris VI. 1981 to 1996 he was a professor at Le Mans and then at the University of Versailles -Saint -Quentin -en- Yvelines ( UVSQ ) where he founded the Institute Lavoisier ( which is supported by the UVSQ and CNRS ) and is now Professor Emeritus. 1988 to 1992 he was also director of the Chemistry Department at the CNRS.

Ferey dealt initially with the chemistry of inorganic fluorides. He developed new porous inorganic and hybrid materials with potential applications in medicine, for example, the petrochemical industry, for storing hydrogen in energy technology or the storage of carbon dioxide to reduce the greenhouse effect. He combines chemical experiments with digital simulation to predict the properties of porous materials. In 2007, he developed MIL 101 ( material of the Institute Lavoisier No.101 ), which can store at 25 degrees Celsius with its 3.5 nm pore in a cubic meter of 400 cubic meters of carbon dioxide, which is a record showed. In 2007 he developed with his group a substance ( trivalent metal dicarboxylates ) that their volume more than quadrupled with a solvent and then returns to the initial state.

He is in France one of the founders of the initiative Ambition Chimie, which is to make the chemistry in public popularity.

Honors and Memberships

• Prix ​​de chimie du solid Société Chimique de France ( 1983)
• Paul Pascal Prix of the Académie des sciences (1992 )
• Prix ​​de l'Institut français du pétrole the Académie des sciences (2000)
• Prix ​​Gay -Lussac - Humboldt ( 2004)
• Prix ​​C.N.R. RAO of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (2005)
• Grand Prize of the Japanese Chemical Society (2008)
• Prix ​​Catalan - Sabatier of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society (2008)
• ENI Prix of Environmental Sciences for his work on carbon dioxide storage ( 2009)
• Gold Medal of the CNRS (2010)
• First Prize of the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie (2010)

In 2007 he was Vice- President of the French Chemical Society. He is a member of the Academie des Sciences since 2003, is a member of the Institut universitaire de France, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Academic Palms and officer of the Ordre national du Mérite.