Publications by Wendy Lee Queen

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Evaluation of materials for iodine and technetium immobilization through sorption and redox-driven processes

Radioactive iodine-129 (I-129) and technetium-99 (Tc-9(9)) pose a risk to groundwater due to their long half-lives, toxicity, and high environmental mobility. Based on literature reviewed in Moore et al. (2019) and Pearce et aL (2019), natural and engineer ...

ELSEVIER2020

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

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

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

Synergistic material and process development: Application of a metal-organic framework, Cu-TDPAT, in single-cycle hydrogen purification and CO2 capture from synthesis gas

Wendy Lee Queen, Mehrdad Asgari

We employ a synergistic material and process development strategy to improve the performance of a single-cycle vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) process for the hydrogen purification and the CO2 separation from reforming-based hydrogen synthesis. Bas ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

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

Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Till Marian Schertenleib, Jocelyn Richard Roth, 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

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

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

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

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

Emad Oveisi, Wendy Lee Queen, Mounir Driss Mensi, Mehrdad Asgari, 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

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

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

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

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

Mechanistic Study on Thermally Induced Lattice Stiffening of ZIF-8

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

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

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

Hydrogen Storage and Selective, Reversible O-2 Adsorption in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Chromium(II) Sites

Wendy Lee Queen

A chromium(II)-based metal-organic framework Cr-3(Cr4Cl)(3)(BTT)(8) (Cr-BTT; BTT3 = 1,3,5-benzenetristetrazolate), featuring coordinatively unsaturated, redox-active Cr2+ cation sites, was synthesized and investigated for potential applications in H-2 ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2016

Preparation of Highly Porous Metal-Organic Framework Beads for Metal Extraction from Liquid Streams

Emad Oveisi, Wendy Lee Queen, Shuliang Yang, Daniel Teav Sun, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Olga Syzgantseva, Anita Justin

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer great promise in a variety of gas- and liquid-phase separations. However, the excellent performance on the lab scale hardly translates into pilot- or industrial-scale applications due to the microcrystalline nature of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Enhanced permeation arising from dual transport pathways in hybrid polymer-MOF membranes

Wendy Lee Queen, Daniel Teav Sun

The rise of anthropogenic global warming has sparked new interest in developing strategies to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions. Conventional carbon capture processes are not economically viable at scale due to their enormous energy cost. Membrane-based se ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

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

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

Wendy Lee Queen, Mehrdad Asgari, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Mathieu Soutrenon, 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

Understanding How Ligand Functionalization Influences CO2 and N-2 Adsorption in a Sodalite Metal-Organic Framework

Michele Ceriotti, Wendy Lee Queen, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Mehrdad Asgari, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

In this work, a detailed study is conducted to understand how ligand substitution influences the CO, and N-2 adsorption properties of two highly crystalline sodalite metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) known as Cu-BTT (BTT-3 = 1,3,5-benzenetristetrazolate) and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

An In-Situ Neutron Diffraction and DFT Study of Hydrogen Adsorption in a Sodalite-Type Metal-Organic Framework, Cu-BTTri

Michele Ceriotti, Wendy Lee Queen, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Mehrdad Asgari, Shuliang Yang, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Safak Bulut, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

Herein we present a detailed study of the hydrogen adsorption properties of Cu‐BTTri, a robust crystalline metal–organic framework containing open metal‐coordination sites. Diffraction techniques, carried out on the activated framework, reveal a structure ...

2019

3D vs. turbostratic: controlling metal-organic framework dimensionality via N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry

Emad Oveisi, Wendy Lee Queen, Mounir Driss Mensi, Mehrdad Asgari, Shuliang Yang, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Till Marian Schertenleib, Anita Justin

Using azolium-based ligands for the construction of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is a viable strategy to immobilize catalytically active N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) or NHC-derived species inside MOF pores. Thus, in the present work, a novel copper MOF ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022