In the context of growing questions about the energy future, bio-inspired chemistry of carbon and hydrogen, according to Marc Fontecave, is expected to play an important role in the development of renewable energies. At the crossroads of chemistry and biology, his laboratory is inspired by biological phenomena, such as photosynthesis, to invent new materials, new catalysts and new reactions.
Marc Fontecave is a professor at the Collège de France where he holds the chair of Chemistry of Biological Processes, and a member of the Academy of Sciences. Its laboratory, Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes, works at the interface of chemistry and biology, relying in a multidisciplinary manner on the methods of biochemistry, molecular and structural biology, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and various spectroscopies. His work focuses in particular on the chemistry of transition metals, iron, cobalt, nickel, and the role that these metal ions play in cellular life, and also on the chemistry of carbon (valorization of carbon dioxide) and hydrogen. .
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