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Since 1992, Gérard Férey has devoted the last part of his scientific career to the genesis, the structures, some mechanisms of formation, as well as the properties and applications of porous solids, either with an inorganic or a hybrid organic-inorganic framework, in order to reach rationally ‘tailor-made' materials, through an integrated strategy... More than 150 new structural types resulted from this approach, with useful pore dimensions ranging from 8 to 50 Å. A careful choice of the metals of the precursors made that most of them are thermally stable (up to 600°C) and resistant to humidity, two criteria needed for eventual applications coupled with reactions performed in water... Successively Professor at Le Mans University, deputy Director of the Chemistry Department of CNRS, fondator of the Institut Lavoisier at the (...)