Publications de Wendy Lee Queen

Recent Advances in Photocatalytic Co2 Reduction Into Valuable Products Using Nickel-based Metal-organic Frameworks

The conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals through photochemical processes has been considered to be a potential technique to address environmental challenges. A good number of MOFs-based nickel (Ni-MOFs) compounds have garnered significant i ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Unraveling metal effects on CO2 uptake in pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks

Emad Oveisi, Berend Smit, Wendy Lee Queen, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Fatma Pelin Uran, Elias Moubarak, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Jordi Espin Marti, Yutao Li

Pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have tremendous potential for various applications. With infinite structural possibilities, the MOF community often relies on simulations to identify the most promising candidates for given applications. Among t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Non-van-der-Waals Oriented Two-Dimensional UiO-66 Films by Rapid Aqueous Synthesis at Room Temperature

Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Qi Liu, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Kangning Zhao, Shuqing Song, Ranadip Goswami

The synthesis of MOFs in a two-dimensional (2D) film morphology is attractive for several applications including molecular and ionic separation. However, 2D MOFs have only been reported from structures that crystallize in lamellar morphology, where layers ...

2025

Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methanol over Eco-Friendly CuCo-ZIF@g-C3N4 Synthesized from Recyclable Resources

Wendy Lee Queen

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Anisotropic node distortions in amorphous MOFs: Low-valent Zr sites as catalytic hotspots

Emad Oveisi, Berend Smit, Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jian Hao, Beatriz Bueno Mouriño, Timo Markus Oskar Felder

We introduce a new approach to defect engineering in Zr-based metal-organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs), aiming to reduce Zr site valency while preserving high node connectivity. Using a rapid heat treatment (RHT) in humid air, oxygen vacancies (O-vacancies) were ...

Elsevier BV2025

Testing Protocols for Obtaining Reliable Pair Distribution Functions from Laboratory X‐Ray Sources Using PDFgetX3

Wendy Lee Queen, Till Marian Schertenleib

Herein, data acquisition protocols are explored and data reduction protocols are improved using PDFgetX3 to obtain reliable data for atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis from a laboratory‐based Mo K α X‐ray source. A variable counting scheme is ...

Wiley2025

Immobilizing amine species in a Cr-MOF for enhanced selectivity in CO2 cycloaddition reactions

Jocelyn Richard Roth, Wendy Lee Queen, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jordi Espin Marti

After grafting polyalkylamine species onto the ligand within a Cr 3+ -MOF, the material was tested for catalyzing cycloaddition reactions between CO 2 and 1,2-epoxybutane (EB). ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

Ligands for metal organic frameworks and a catalyst-free method of making such

Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov

The present invention relates to a catalyst free method for the synthesis of a ligand for polymeric tri-dimensional porous network comprising reacting a. at least one amine of formula (VII), (VIII), (IX), (X) or (XIII), with b. at least one aromatic compou ...

2024

How Reproducible is the Synthesis of Zr-Porphyrin Metal-Organic Frameworks? An Interlaboratory Study

Jocelyn Richard Roth, Wendy Lee Queen, Rawan Al Natour

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a rapidly growing class of materials that offer great promise in various applications. However, the synthesis remains challenging: for example, a range of crystal structures can often be accessed from the same building b ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

A post-synthetic modification strategy for enhancing Pt adsorption efficiency in MOF/polymer composites

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Till Marian Schertenleib

Growing polymers inside porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can allow incoming guests to access the backbone of otherwise non-porous polymers, boosting the number and/or strength of available adsorption sites inside the porous support. In the present wo ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Post-Synthetic Covalent Grafting of Amines to NH2-MOF for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture

Mounir Driss Mensi, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Anita Justin, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Till Marian Schertenleib, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Jordi Espin Marti

Herein, a post-synthetic modification strategy is used to covalently graft polyamines, including ethylenediamine (ED), diethylenetriamine (DETA), tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TAEA), and polyethyleneimine (PEI) to the amino-ligand inside of a Cr-MOF, NH2-Cr-BDC ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Enhanced CO2 Photoconversion at Elevated Pressures Using Conductive Polymer Modified Metal–Organic Framework

Wendy Lee Queen

Artificial photosynthesis is considered to be a promising approach for energy storage and global warming mitigation. However, the suboptimal selectivity of products and the low conversion efficiency of CO2 persist as challenges, driving continuous interest ...

2024

Adsorption in Pyrene-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks: The Role of Pore Structure and Topology

Berend Smit, Wendy Lee Queen, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Fatma Pelin Uran, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Jordi Espin Marti

Pore topology and chemistry play crucial roles in the adsorption characteristics of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). To deepen our understanding of the interactions between MOFs and CO2 during this process, we systematically investigate the adsorption prop ...

2024

Preserving High Porosity of Covalent Organic Frameworks via Functional Polymer Guest Introduction

Wendy Lee Queen

Due to their high structural tunability, remarkable internal surface areas, readily accessible pore space, and host of possible applications, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) remain at the forefront of materials science research. Unfortunately, many COFs ...

2024

Densification and shaping of pure Cu-BTC powders using a solid-state chemical transformation

Mathieu Soutrenon, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Alexandre Mabillard, Jordi Espin Marti

MOFs are a class of porous crystalline materials whose unique properties have led to applicability in several fields ranging from gas adsorption to drug delivery. Despite their high potential, MOFs are usually found as fine powders, a property that can lim ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Role of Na2CO3 as Nucleation Seeds to Accelerate the CO2 Uptake Kinetics of MgO-Based Sorbents

Wendy Lee Queen

There is an urgent need for inexpensive, functional materials that can capture and release CO2 under industrial conditions. In this context, MgO is a highly promising, earth-abundant CO2 sorbent. However, despite its favorable carbonation thermodynamics an ...

2024

Post-Synthetic Modification of a MOF via Continuous Flow Methods for Gold E-Waste Recycling

Jocelyn Richard Roth, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Till Marian Schertenleib, Timo Markus Oskar Felder

This work represents a pioneering effort in utilizing continuous flow methods for the post-synthetic modification of a nanoporous metal-organic framework (Fe-BTC or MIL-100(Fe)) with short-chain redox-active oligomers (poly-p-phenylenediamine, PpPDA). The ...

2024

N-Containing Carbons Derived from Microporous Coordination Polymers for Use in Post-Combustion Flue Gas Capture

Emad Oveisi, Wendy Lee Queen, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Jordi Espin Marti

Herein, novel carbons that, owing to a high density of micropores (up to 79%) and N-content (up to 14.9%), offering exciting potential for post-combustion CO2 capture are reported. Given that little is known about how starting materials impact the structur ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Uranium(IV) and Thorium(IV) Coordination Polymers Based on Tritopic Carboxylic Acids

Rosario Scopelliti, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Marinella Mazzanti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Aurélien René Willauer, Wendy Lee Queen, Till Marian Schertenleib

Rigidtritopic linkers of different sizes were used to buildporous U-(IV) and Th-(IV) 3D frameworks. The charge of the polymerscould be tuned by reaction conditions such as the temperature, pH,solvent, ligand, or metal precursor, yielding a series of neutra ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

A Simple, Transition Metal Catalyst-Free Method for the Design of Complex Organic Building Blocks Used to Construct Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks

Jocelyn Richard Roth, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jordi Espin Marti, Sophia Alessandra Pache, Nazanin Taheri

The design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) having large pore sizes and volumes often requires the use of complex organic ligands, currently synthesized using costly and time-consuming palladium-catalyzed coupling chemistry. Thus, in the present work, a ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023