Research Programs

Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry by the way of Professor Yves Geerts is (or was) part of the following programs:

  • ARC (Actions de Recherche Concertée) from Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
  • FEDER (Fond Européen de Développement Régional) from European Union
  • Research program from Région Wallonne
  • PDR (Projet de Recherche) from FNRS
  • FRIA (Fonds pour la formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture) from FNRS
  • PAI (Pôle d’Attraction Interuniversaire) from Federal government
  • Research program from European Commission
  • EOS (Excellence of Science, FNRS-FWO)
  • FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Actions de Recherche Concertée (ARC – Collaborative Research Actions)

2018-2023 : “Structural Evolution of Soft-Matter under Dissipative Conditions” (SADI)

Previous ARC Projects

Fond Européen de Développement Régional (FEDER – European Regional Development Fund)

Previous FEDER projects

Research program from Région Wallonne

Previous Région Wallonne projects

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)

PDR 2018-2022 : “Novel molecular semiconductors with very high charge carrier mobility (PI-FAST) / Nouveaux semiconducteurs
moléculaires à très haute mobilité des charges (PIFAST)” 

EQP 2021-2023: “Unconventional approach to polymorphism of molecular crystals (POLYP)”

Research Fellow Maxime Bonsir 2019-2023: “Synthesis of Nanodiamonds (NDs) at mild Pressure and Temperature (Diamsyn)”

Postdoctoral Researcher Guillaume Schweicher 2019-2022: “Breaking the current limits of charge transport in organic semiconductors”

Individual Fellowships at Université libre de Bruxelles (IF@ULB)

Ryusei Oketani 2020-2021: “Polymorphism Control by Defined Non-Equilibrium Crystallization Conditions (PCNEC)”

Luca Catalano 2021-2022: “Taming Polymorphism via Electric and Electromagnetic Fields (TaPEF)”

Fonds pour la formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA – Training Fund for Research in Industry and Agriculture)

The aim of this project is to synthesized a new generation of organic semiconductors.

2018-2022 : FRIA de Félix Devaux ,”Conception, synthèse et caractérisation de semi-conducteurs organiques pour leur utilisation dans des transistors électrochimiques”

Previous FRIA projects

Research program from European Commission

2018-2020 : Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Incoming Fellow (IIF) “Parallel Donor and Acceptor Semiconductor Crystals for Organic Field Effect Transistors” (PARADA), Dr. Guangfeng Liu

2019-2023 : Marie Sklodowska Curie International Training Network (ITN) “Ultra-high Charge Carrier Mobility to Elucidate Transport
Mechanisms in Molecular Semiconductors (UHMob)”, Yves Geerts

Previous EC projects

Pôle d’Attraction Interuniversaire (PAI – Interuniversity Attraction Poles)

Previous PAI projects

EOS (Excellence of Science, FNRS-FWO)

2018-2022 : “From 2D to 3D crystals: a multi-scale, multi-technique and multi-system approach of the crystallization of organic molecules” (2Dto3D)

See the project