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Jean-François Nierengarten (born 16 December 1966 in Strasbourg) is a French chemist working in the field of molecular chemistry. He is Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS and head of the Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires (University of Strasbourg and CNRS).

Life and research activity
Jean-François Nierengarten studied biochemistry and chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France, and received his doctoral degree under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker in Strasbourg (1994). He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with François Diederich at the ETH-Zürich, Switzerland (1994-1996). He obtained a CNRS researcher position in 1996. He is currently Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS (DR1) and head of the Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires (University of Strasbourg and CNRS). His research focuses on the chemistry of fullerenes for applications in materials science and biology. Other research interests are in the area of dendrimers, luminescent transition metal complexes, macrocyclic compounds, and porphyrins.

Honors and awards

 * Bronze medal of the CNRS (2001)
 * SFC-Acros prize from the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (2004)
 * Grammaticakis-Neuman Prize from the French Academy of Science (2007)
 * Catalan-Sabatier Prize from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2013)

Books

 * Fullerenes: principles and applications; F. Langa and J.-F. Nierengarten (Eds.), RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Series, 2nd edition, 2011
 * Supramolecular chemistry of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, N. Martin, J.-F. Nierengarten (Eds.), Wiley-VCH (Weinheim), 2012

Selected papers in scientific journals

 * Synthesis of a C60-oligophenylenevinylene hybrid and its incorporation in a photovoltaic device. J.-F. Nierengarten, J.-F. Eckert, J.-F. Nicoud, L. Ouali, V. Krasnikov, G. Hadziioannou, Chem. Commun. 1999, 617-618.
 * Highly luminescent Cu(I) complexes for light-emitting electrochemical cells. N. Armaroli, G. Accorsi, M. Holler, O. Moudam, J.-F. Nierengarten, Z. Zhou, R. T. Wegh, R. Welter, Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 1313-1316.
 * Glycosidase inhibition with fullerene iminosugar balls: a dramatic multivalent effect. P. Compain, C. Decroocq, J. Iehl, M. Holler, D. Hazelard, T. Mena Barragán, C. Ortiz Mellet, J.-F. Nierengarten, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 5753-5756.
 * The high yielding synthesis of pillar[5]arene under Friedel-Crafts conditions explained by dynamic covalent bond formation. M. Holler, N. Allenbach, J. Sonet, J.-F. Nierengarten, Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 2576-2578.
 * Fullerene-sp2-iminosugar balls as multimodal ligands for lectins and glycosidases: a mechanistic hypothesis for the inhibitory multivalent effect. R. Risquez-Cuadro, J. M. Garcia Fernandez, J.-F. Nierengarten, C. Ortiz Mellet, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 16791-16803.
 * Synthesis of giant globular multivalent glycofullerenes as potent inhibitors in a model of Ebola virus infection. A. Muñoz, D. Sigwalt, B. M. Illescas, J. Luczkowiak, L. Rodríguez, I. Nierengarten, M. Holler, J.-S. Remy, K. Buffet, S. P. Vincent, J. Rojo, R. Delgado, J.-F. Nierengarten, N. Martín, Nature Chem. 2016, 8, 50-57.