GFZ members
Academic laboratories and industrial sites that bring the French zeolite community to life.
Ten towns, twelve teams
From the Honfleur industrial site to CNRS and university laboratories, members cover the synthesis, characterisation, modelling and application of porous solids.
IFPEN
IFP Energies nouvelles
Solaize
Zeolite-based catalysts and adsorbents for refining, petrochemistry and the environment.
Website IFPEN (external site, new tab)
IRCELYON
Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l’environnement de Lyon
Lyon
Zeolites and porous hybrid materials (MOFs) for adsorption, separation and purification.
Website IRCELYON (external site, new tab)Arkema – CECA
Unité de production de tamis moléculaires
Honfleur
20,000 tonnes of molecular sieves produced every year.
GRL
Groupement de recherches de Lacq
Lacq
Zeolite synthesis and molecular sieve preparation: exchange, agglomeration, post-treatment.
IMPP
Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris
Paris
Founded in late 2016 by former members of the porous solids team of the Institut Lavoisier de Versailles.
Website IMPP (external site, new tab)
LRS
Laboratoire de réactivité de surface
Paris
Synthesis and functionalisation of inorganic and hybrid materials, including zeolites and MOFs.
Website LRS (external site, new tab)
LASIR
Laboratoire de spectroscopie pour les interactions, la réactivité et l’environnement
Villeneuve-d’Ascq
Complex physico-chemical systems studied by advanced molecular spectroscopy.
Website LASIR (external site, new tab)
ICGM
Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier
Montpellier
Synthesis, texturing and shaping of nanoporous materials: zeolites, mesostructured silicas, MOFs.
Website ICGM (external site, new tab)
MADIREL
Matériaux divisés, interfaces, réactivité, électrochimie
Marseille
Divided materials, interface thermodynamics and adsorption.
Website MADIREL (external site, new tab)
IC2MP
Institut de chimie des milieux et matériaux de Poitiers
Poitiers
Interdisciplinary chemistry research institute founded in 2012.
Website IC2MP (external site, new tab)
LCS
Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie
Caen
Joint research unit (UMR 6506) of CNRS, ENSICAEN and Université de Caen Normandie.
Website LCS (external site, new tab)
IS2M
Institut de science des matériaux de Mulhouse
Mulhouse
Controlled-porosity materials: design of solids with tailored porosity.
Website IS2M (external site, new tab)