Surface and interfacial chemistry
The Copéret group is part of the Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry
in the chemistry department of ETH Zürich



Copéret Group, Zürich, May 2013



LATEST NEWS
03/13/12

Prof. Copéret has been interviewed in the radio broadcast "science show" on SRF2: Erdöl, der unterschätzte Stoff.

11/10/12

Congratulations to Laurent Mathey who graduated on November, 5th!

10/23/12

Congratulations to Pierre Laurent who graduated on October, 19th!

09/26/12

Congratulations to Arthur Roussey who graduated on September, 25th!

05/12/12

Congratulations to Frédéric Blanc, who will soon start at the University of Liverpool (UK) as a Lecturer.

04/15/12

Our article "Nature and Structure of Aluminum Surface Sites Grafted on Silica from a Combination of High-Field Aluminum-27 Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy and First-Principles Calculations" has been highlighted by the Institute of chemistry of CNRS.

01/25/12

Our communication "Non-aqueous solvents for DNP surface enhanced NMR spectroscopy" has been selected as front cover by the Editors of Chem. Commun.

12/07/11

Prof. Copéret edited a special issue of Journal of Catalysis on "Molecular Approach to Heterogeneous Catalysis". Volume 284, Issue 2, Pages 125-258 (1 December 2011).

11/21/11

Congratulations to David Baudouin who graduated on November, 18th!

11/03/11

Our review "Silica-supported single-site catalysts: to be or not to be? A conjecture on silica surfaces" has been selected as front cover by the Editors of New. J. Chem.

10/25/11

Congratulations to Matthieu Baffert, Adrien Bourdolle and Santosh Kavitake who graduated in October!

10/20/11

Prof. Copéret has been interviewed by The Sceptical Chymist - The Nature Chemistry blog.

05/23/11

Prof. Copéret gave his inaugural lecture entitled "Molecular Control on Surfaces - Catalyst Design and beyond" on May, 17th. The video is available on the multimedia portal of ETH

02/20/11

Our Communication "Dinitrogen: a selective probe for tri-coordinate Al "defect" sites on alumina" has been selected as back cover by the Editors of Chemical Communications.


02/15/11

Our Communication "Optimal water coverage on alumina: a key to generate Lewis acid-base pairs reactive towards the C-H bond activation of methane" has been chosen as a "Hot Paper" and selected as back cover by the Editors of Angewandte Chemie.


11/18/10

Our recent JACS paper concerning DNP has been highlighted by Griffin in the last issue of Nature:
"Reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Lesage et al. describe an outstanding example of DNP in which the NMR signals of molecules attached to silica surfaces were enhanced approximately 50fold. Such an increase in sensitivity could revolutionize NMR studies of surfaces."