chemistry

Patrice Simon

Patrice Simon is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Patrice Simon rather than just read about it. In short: Patrice Simon (born 1969) is a French chemist in the field of materials science and electrochemistry. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Université de Toulouse (former Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier) since 2007.

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Reference excerpt

Patrice Simon (born 1969) is a French chemist in the field of materials science and electrochemistry. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Université de Toulouse (former Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier) since 2007. His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of materials for electrochemical energy storage applications, particularly for power systems (supercapacitors and batteries). More specifically, he develops advanced electrochemical characterization techniques to understand the charge storage mechanisms in confined environments, a research topic he initiated in 2006 with Yury Gogotsi. He currently serves as Director of the research network on electrochemical energy storage RS2E. Alongside Hélène Burlet (CEA), he also leads the "Priority Research Programs and Equipment" (PEPR) Batteries, funded as part of the national battery acceleration strategy. Patrice Simon is Fellow of the French Academy of Sciences, of the French Academy of Technologies. He was also appointed as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea.

Biography Simon studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques (ENSIACET) in Toulouse, graduating with M.S. in metallurgy (1992) and Ph.D. in Materials science (1996). Thereafter he worked as assistant professor of Electrochemistry at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, and from 2001 at the CIRIMAT laboratory of materials science, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. He received his D.Sc. from Université Paul Sabatier in 2002 and was appointed full Professor of Materials Sciences at CIRIMAT in 2007. He was promoted as Distinguished Professor in 2014. From 2010 to 2017 he served as Director of the European Research Institute ALISTORE ERI. He was awarded two ERC Grants, in 2012 and 2020.

Research contributions Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that have similar form factors to batteries, but offer higher power and a longer cycle life. A type of supercapacitors, called Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (EDLCs), use high surface area porous carbon as active materials. In these devices, charge storage is achieved electrostatically under polarization at the electrolyte / carbon interface, by reversible adsorption of ions from an electrolyte onto the carbon surface. Together with Prof Yury Gogotsi (Drexel university, USA), he demonstrated that ions from an electrolyte could partially desolvate to access small size nanopores (thought to be un-accessible) in porous carbon electrodes (Science 2006). His research may results in advances in commercial products. Modelling approaches were developed in collaboration with theoreticians to describe ion dynamics and organization in confined pores. He experimentally evidenced the concept of ion desolvation using advanced electrochemical techniques, such as Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM). The concept of ion desolvation during adsorption and charge storage capacity increase has also been shown in reduced graphene oxide electrode (rGO), pointing out the key role of the spontaneous interactions between the carbon surface and the electrolyte, that can be described by the zeta potential or its counterpart the potential of zero charge (PZC) in the process. The confinement effect and its associated capacity increase was also observed in 2-Dimmensional (2D) materials such as MXene, that store the charge by fast redox reactions, making the concept of charge under confinement of key importance for designing fast charge materials for high power batteries.

Awards and honours

2024 Highly Cited Researcher 2024

2023 Highly Cited Researcher 2023

2022 Highly Cited Researcher 2022

2021 Highly Cited Researcher 2021

2020 Member of the European Academy of Sciences Highly Cited Researcher 2020 ERC Synergy Grant "MoMa-STOR" together with Prof. Markus Antonietti

2019 Member of the French Academy of Sciences Honorary professorship in Beijing University of Chemical Technology Highly Cited Researcher 2019 Member of Academia Europaea Grand Prix Pierre-Süe of the Société Chimique de France

2018 Member of the French Academy of Technologies Clarivate Citation Laureates Highly Cited Researcher 2018 Brian Conway Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry

2017 Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France

2016 Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry Highly Cited Researcher 2016 Lee Hsun Lecture Award on Materials Science, Chinese Academy of Science

2015 Silver Medal of the CNRS RUSNANOPRIZE on Nanotechnologies Charles Eichner Medal from French Materials and Metallurgy Society (SF2M)

2012 ERC Advanced Grant "IONACES" Excellence Chair of the Airbus group Fondation

2009 Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry

2007 Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Patrice Simon

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Patrice Simon ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Patrice Simon

In research: Patrice Simon appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Patrice Simon in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Patrice Simon is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1969 births, 21st-century French engineers, 21st-century French scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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