Congratulations to Lau Chung Hean on winning the 2026 Global Undergraduate Award. Special thanks to Kazutaka for his excellent supervision of this project on Pt–Sn alloys for propane dehydrogenation (PDH). 👏 Publication coming soon... undergraduateawards.com/glob…

Congrats to Barnabé and other awardees of the Talent Program of Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry prizes 2026 sponsored by @clariant @ETH_DCHAB @ETH

How about a non-destructive "analytical ruler" for chlorinated impurities? In our recently published work, we combine ³⁵Cl NQR spectroscopy and DFT to identify trace byproducts in industrial MDI streams. doi.org/10.1002/hlca.70095

A new solid-to-solid relayed DNP approach enables sensitivity-enhanced NMR of surfaces that are incompatible with conventional radical impregnation. Just published in JACS, in collaboration with the Lesage group in Lyon! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c09647

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are said to bridge heterogeneous and molecular catalysis. But how “molecular” is our understanding? Our latest JACS provides a molecular-level description of the metal–support interface in a prototypical SAC: Pt₁/γ-Al₂O₃. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c09006

Congrats to our former group member Domenico on receiving the MatChem PhD Award 2026 from the Swiss Chemical Society! 🎉 The award recognizes outstanding PhD research advancing materials chemistry. We wish Domenico continued success at UC Berkeley! scg.ch/scg-news/news-materia…

Yesterday, our former group members Anna, Domenico, Enzo, and Christian officially received their doctoral degree certificates. Congratulations to all four on this well-deserved achievement and best wishes for the exciting careers ahead!

Pioneering works explained the MOs of metal clusters through a fragment approach, later supported by DFT. Here, we show that 195Pt ssNMR fingerprints of Chini clusters encode information about their electronic structure. Read about our work in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Congrats to Anna on the successful defense of her PhD! 🎉Her work focused on the use of nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) to understand the state of chlorine in industrial catalytic processes. Many thanks to Dr. Florian and Dr. Pauschinge for serving as examiners.

Copéret group picture FS '26. Together, We’re the perfect Fit for Science

Congrats to Enzo on the successful defense of his PhD! 🎉His work focused on the use of advanced microscopy to understand the behaviour of well-defined catalysts. Many thanks to Prof. Ersen and Müller for serving as examiners.

Synthesizing Pt/γ-Al2O3 materials, ubiquitous in heterogeneous catalysis, with well-defined Pt nuclearity remains challenging. In this work, we demonstrate how SOMC can be employed to tune cluster size down to single atoms. @ChemEurope doi.org/10.1002/cctc.70704

47/49Ti NMR Crystallography enables to refine the speciation, distortion and distribution of Ti sites in Titanium Silicalite-1, a prominent catalyst for sustainable selective oxidation reactions doi.org/10.1002/anie.2025242…

Congrats to Christophe on being appointed a Full Member of SATW in recognition of his work and commitment to chemical research in Switzerland. satw.ch/en/news/satw-welcome…

Higher field doesn’t always mean better! Read our work on the use of 35Cl Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance as A Cl-specific Probe of Local Structural Motifs in PVC. @ACSPublications pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

The group celebrated Christophe election to the French Academy of Science by gifting him a sword! Albeit a less traditional one than usually done ⚔️