Sophie Carenco

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Sophie Carenco
Alma materUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris)
Scientific career
Thesis Une nouvelle voie pour la synthèse de nanoparticules de phosphures de métaux à partir du phosphore blanc : applications en catalyse et pour les batteries au lithium  (2011)

Sophie Carenco is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, [1] working on nanochemistry at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Paris. Her research focuses on novel synthetic routes of exotic nanomaterials for energy application such as CO2 capture.

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Early life and education

Sophie Carenco is from the city of Hyeres in France, [2] and graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 2008. She obtained her PhD in 2011 from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, working on the synthesis and applications of metal phosphide nanoparticles. [3] From 2012 to 2013, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, in Miquel Salmeron's group working on X-ray spectroscopy at the Advanced Light Source. [1]

Research and career

In 2014, she joined the French National Center for Scientific Research as a researcher in the team Hybrid Materials and Nanomaterials of the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Paris (LCMCP), associated with Sorbonne University and Collège de France, with a L'Oreal-UNESCO-Académie des Sciences Fellowship. [4] In 2017, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to work on small molecules activation at the surface of nanoparticles. [5]

Carenco's research during her undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral training was on the use of white phosphorus to synthesize nickel-containing nanoparticles [6] which can be constructed into defined sizes, [7] and investigating the catalysis of reactions of nickel nanoparticles with alkynes, [8] and nanoscaled reaction mechanisms with borides and phosphides. [9]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

She was awarded the European Young Chemist Award from the European Chemical Society in 2010 [10] and the C'Nano National Award [11] in 2012 for her PhD work. In 2018 she was awarded the Bronze Medal of the CNRS [12] and the Jean Rist Medal. [13] In 2020, she received a Clara Immerwahr award from UniSysCat. [14]

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  1. 1 2 "Sophie Carenco". www.cnrs.fr.
  2. ↑ Alcaraz, Romain (2014-12-31). "La jeune femme qui veut domestiquer le CO2". lamarseillaise.fr.
  3. ↑ Carenco, Sophie (2011). Une nouvelle voie pour la synthese de nanoparticules de phosphures de metaux a partir du phosphore blanc: applications en catalyse et pour les batteries au lithium (Thesis). OCLC   1175666651.
  4. ↑ "L'Oreal-UNSECO Pour les femmes et la science 2014".
  5. ↑ "ERC Starting grants 2017" (PDF). erc.europa.eu. 2017-06-09.
  6. ↑ Carenco, Sophie; Resa, Irene; Goff, Xavier Le; Floch, Pascal Le; Mézailles, Nicolas (2008-02-26). "White phosphorus as single source of "P" in the synthesis of nickel phosphide". Chemical Communications (22): 2568–2570. doi:10.1039/B802454E. ISSN   1364-548X. PMID   18506246.
  7. ↑ Carenco, Sophie; Boissière, Cédric; Nicole, Lionel; Sanchez, Clément; Le Floch, Pascal; Mézailles, Nicolas (2010-02-23). "Controlled Design of Size-Tunable Monodisperse Nickel Nanoparticles". Chemistry of Materials. 22 (4): 1340–1349. doi:10.1021/cm902007g. ISSN   0897-4756.
  8. ↑ Carenco, Sophie; Leyva-Pérez, Antonio; Concepción, Patricia; Boissière, Cédric; Mézailles, Nicolas; Sanchez, Clément; Corma, Avelino (2012-02-01). "Nickel phosphide nanocatalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of alkynes". Nano Today. 7 (1): 21–28. doi:10.1016/j.nantod.2011.12.003. hdl: 10251/65702 . ISSN   1748-0132.
  9. ↑ Carenco, Sophie; Portehault, David; Boissière, Cédric; Mézailles, Nicolas; Sanchez, Clément (2013-10-09). "Nanoscaled Metal Borides and Phosphides: Recent Developments and Perspectives". Chemical Reviews. 113 (10): 7981–8065. doi:10.1021/cr400020d. ISSN   0009-2665. PMID   23767879.
  10. ↑ "European Young Chemist Award". www.euchems.eu.
  11. ↑ "C'Nano IdF Prix de thèse 2012". cnanoidf.org.
  12. ↑ "CNRS Bronze medalists 2018". www.cnrs.fr.
  13. ↑ "Jean Rist medal 2018". sf2m.fr.
  14. ↑ "UniSysCat: Awardees in UniSysCat". www.unisyscat.de. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
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