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Wendy Lee Queen

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

Wendy Lee Queen, Jocelyn Richard Roth, 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 ...

Weinheim2024

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

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

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

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

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

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-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

A customized MOF-polymer composite for rapid gold extraction from water matrices

Wendy Lee Queen, Daniel Teav Sun, Shuliang Yang, Jun Li, Li Peng, Olga Syzgantseva

With the fast-growing accumulation of electronic waste and rising demand for rare metals, it is compelling to develop technologies that can promotionally recover targeted metals, like gold, from waste, a process referred to as urban mining. Thus, there is ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2023

Solid-state synthesis of a MOF/polymer composite for hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin

Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Vikram Vinayak Karve

A new solid-state method was used to introduce a furan-thiourea polymer into the pores of a MOF, Cr-BDC. Next, the activity of the new MOF-polymer composite containing Pd was assessed in the catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin, a biomass derived chemi ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Hybridization of Synthetic Humins with a Metal-Organic Framework for Precious Metal Recovery and Reuse

Wendy Lee Queen, Jordi Espin Marti, Till Marian Schertenleib, Olga Trukhina, Claudia Esther Avalos, Vikram Vinayak Karve

The number of synthetic strategies used to functionalize MOFs with polymers is rapidly growing; this stems from the knowledge that non-native polymeric guests can significantly boost MOF performance in a number of desirable applications. The current work p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

A Two Step Postsynthetic Modification Strategy: Appending Short Chain Polyamines to Zn-NH2-BDC MOF for Enhanced CO2 Adsorption

Wendy Lee Queen, Jordi Espin Marti, Mehrdad Asgari, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Anita Justin

Functionalizing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with amines is a commonly used strategy to enhance their performance in CO2 capture applications. As such, in this work, a two-step strategy to covalently functionalize NH2-containing MOFs with short chain po ...

2021

An Investigation into the Intrinsic Peroxidase-Like Activity of Fe-MOFs and Fe-MOFs/Polymer Composites

Wendy Lee Queen, Daniel Teav Sun, Vikram Vinayak Karve

The quest for developing materials that provide a perfect trade-off between factors such as enzyme-like response, stability, and low cost has been a long-standing challenge in the field of biosensing. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their composites ha ...

WILEY2021

Perovskite solar cell provided with an adsorbent material for adsorbing toxic materials

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Wendy Lee Queen, Aron Joel Huckaba, Daniel Teav Sun

The present invention concerns a perovskite solar cell provided with a polymer-porous template composite material for absorbing toxic metal ions. Preferably, the porous template material is a metal oxide framework (MOF) material. An example of a preferred ...

2021

Mechanistic Study on Thermally Induced Lattice Stiffening of ZIF-8

Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jian Hao, Mehrdad Asgari, Deepu Joseph Babu, Qi Liu

The flexibility of the ZIF-8 aperture, which inhibits a molecular cutoff of 3.4 angstrom, can be reduced by rapid heat treatment to obtain CO2-selective membranes. However, the early stages of the structural, morphological, and chemical changes responsible ...

2021

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