2011 Le Prix La Recherche award: Chemistry Section

Congratulations to Azzedine Bousseksou and co-workers for winning the 2011 Le Prix La Recherche award (Chemistry Section) for their research on ‘bistable fluorescent nanoparticles’.

 Photograph of the Le Prix La Recherche award ceremony

The full winning team was: A.  Bousseksou, L.  Salmon, G.  Molnár, L. Rechignat, W.nicolazzi, T. Mahfoud, C. Quintero, A. Akou, S. Bedoui, I.  Goralsky, H. Shepherd, M. Lopes, MT Carayon, K.  Abdulkader, G.felix, A. Routarou, F. Dang.

An important part of the team’s research on bistable fluorescent nanoparticles was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry in 2010. You can read the paper here:

A novel approach for fluorescent thermometry and thermal imaging purposes using spin crossover nanoparticles: Lionel Salmon, Gábor Molnár, Djelali Zitouni, Carlos Quintero, Christian Bergaud, Jean-Claude Micheau and Azzedine Bousseksou, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 5499-5503.

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