The European Academy of Sciences has awarded Professor Clément Sanchez the Blaise Pascal Medal (2021).
Professor emeritus and holder of the Chemistry of Hybrid Materials Chair (2011-2020), Clément Sanchez specializes in the nanochemistry of nanostructured porous and non-porous gels based on transition metal oxides, and porous and non-porous organic and inorganic hybrid materials in the form of monoliths, microspheres and films. He created a new school of thought in materials chemistry and opened up a new disciplinary field with both fundamental and technological impact. He was the first to develop functional inorganic-organic hybrid materials, synthesized by "soft chemistry" combined with ecological processing methods. He has been able to implement many of his fundamental concepts in technologies associated with hybrid materials, applied to adsorption, catalysis, protection, waste recycling and optics...
