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Professor Ferey is an international expert on  porous solids, on which he has written from 1992 onwards over 450 articles on many specialized magazines such as the Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Solid State Sciences, Chemistry of Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Science.
His research group, based at the Institut Lavoisier of the University of Versailles, where G. Ferey is  Professor above scale, is formed by a few young researchers  and is assisted by researchers and engineers from the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
Their innovative research is focused on inorganic and hybrid porous solids with microscopical holes (MOFs) which are very useful particularly in  petrochemistry, catalysis, gas separation and fine chemistry fields.
This research field is becoming increasingly relevant because of the importance of these materials  in hydrogen and CO2 storage as well as in the production of electrode materials, because of their combination of inorganic (metal iones) and organic components (mostly stiff organic molecules that make up one, two or three dimensional porous structures).

   Prof. Ferey also owns some patents on these important researches, for which he has also received many important scientific recognitions, such as: his admission to the Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France in 2003, his Royal Society of Chemistry Fellowship in 2005 and the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Award aasigned by the Alexander Von Humbolt Foundation. He has been and still is on the advisory board of several scientific magazines (Inorganic chemistry, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials), between 1988 and 1992 he has also been named Deputy Director of the CNRS Chemistry Department; he is currently the President of the National Committee of Chemistry.