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Redox photocatalysis is more and more popular in synthetic and pharmaceutical chemistry for preparing organic compounds is mild conditions. It aims to convert visible light absorbed by a photocatalyst into charges (electron and/or holes) with redox potentials well adapted for performing reduction and/or oxidation reactions. These reactions can be very efficient and enable the formation […] >>

Global inversion symmetry or time reversal symmetry have been long regarded as fundamental ingredients to form a superconducting state. However nowadays, several systems have been found which are superconducting even though they break locally inversion symmetry, sometimes together with broken time reversal symmetry. Prominent examples are the uranium based ferromagnetic superconductors URhGe and UCoGe (breaking […] >>

This thesis focuses on the study of unconventional topological spin textures present in antiferromagnetic thin film materials. In the field of spintronics, spin correlations have attracted considerable attention, facilitating progress in fundamental physics and the development of new applications. Some effects, such as the topological Hall effect, are related to the specific local arrangement of […] >>

Sodium-ion batteries can compete with Li-ion batteries for power applications, while being free of critical metals such as Co, Ni or Li. However, fast charging can lead to inter- and/or intra-particle reaction heterogeneities causing underutilisation of the electrode and/or mechanical degradation involving particle cracking. These complex non-equilibrium processes can have profound effects on the overall […] >>

Silicon/Germanium spin qubits have made outstanding progress in the past two years [Nature 591, 580 (2021); arXiv:2202.09252]. In these devices, the elementary information is stored as a coherent superposition of the spin states of an electron in a Si/SiGe heterostructure, or of a hole in a Ge/SiGe heterostructure. These spins can be manipulated electrically owing […] >>