CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)

The CNRS is a publicly-funded science and technology research institute operating under the aegis of the French Ministry of Higher Education Research and Innovation with a staff of nearly 33,000, a opera- ting budget of €3.3 bn (€769 million self- nanced), and more than 1,100 research and service units across France, the CNRS is France’s primary multidisciplinary research organization the CNRS Chemistry Institute conducts state-of-the-art research in various chemistry fields (www. cnrs.fr/inc).

Organic chemistry, applied chemistry for life sciences and healthcare, materials and nanomaterials, metallurgy, polymers and soft matter, catalysis and chemical reactivity.

The CNRS Institute of Chemistry, via its laboratories, can conduct studies and research contracts with external partners, including industrialists.
Research carried out in particular on:
- Energy, energy storage and conversion: batteries, supercapacitors, photovoltaics, bioenergy, hydrogen production and storage, biomass conversion
- Sustainable development: biomass, CO2 recovery, biosourced processes, catalysis
- Eco-responsible processes: green chemistry, bio-inspired chemistry, remediation, recycling, natural products, microuidic and miniaturized devices
- Electronics and organic electronics: conductive polymers, dyes, detectors, organic LEDs, devices for flexible electronics...
- Health and biological chemistry: drug discovery, medical imaging and contrast agents, natural products.