Projects
Design and synthesis of organic semiconductors for near-infrared photodetection with bulk heterojunction organic cavity devices Hasselt University
Autonomous Drug Discovery: Machine Learning for Optimization of Computer-Aided Organic Synthesis in Flow Ghent University
Drug discovery is a long and costly process, in which the chemical synthesis of target compounds is a rate-limiting step. Recent academic breakthroughs have introduced artificial intelligence and robotics for drug discovery. Potential drug candidates can now be discovered by machine learning algorithms, a feasible synthesis pathway for compounds is predictable using large datasets and robots can perform automated synthesis. However, ...
High-throughput identification and synthesis of stable and crystalline covalent organic frameworks for carbon capture Ghent University
The capture of CO2 from the flue gases of stationary industrial sources forms a crucial step to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in the short term. Current technologies based on amine scrubbing require a high regeneration cost and are therefore economically not viable for most CO2 sources. As a result, covalent organic frameworks (COFs), a new class of nanoporous materials with exceptional physicochemical properties, were ...
Synthesis, chirality sorting and advanced spectroscopy of functional nanohybrids of organic molecules inside carbon nanotubes. University of Antwerp
high resolution mass spectrometry for targeted identification and quantification of small and large synthetic and natural organic molecules (target_HRMS) Ghent University
Chemical synthesis of inorganic composite solid electrolytes with enhanced ionic conductivity by interfacial Li+ ion diffusion Hasselt University
Chemical synthesis of inorganic composite solid electrolytes with enhanced ionic conductivity by interfacial Li+ ion diffusion. Hasselt University
Electrokinetic controlled zeolite synthesis: a new frontier for inorganic electrochemistry KU Leuven
Zeolites are porous crystalline oxides built from networks of aluminum and silicon nodes. They have highly regular pores with similar dimensions as most of the molecules that sustain modern society. This allows them to act as molecular sieves, adsorbents and catalysts in many processes and daily life applications. Zeolites are active due to the negative charge on their framework where aluminum (III) substitutes for silicon (IV). The synthesis ...
Synthetic organogenesis: using in vivo cellular reprogramming to induce ectopic organs KU Leuven
Our long-term goal is to find ways to induce synthetic organogenesis, that is to produce miniorgans that function in vivo. With the term "miniorgan" we mean multicellular assemblies that i) contain all major cell types normally present in an organ, ii) that show morphological organization within the miniorgan, and iii) that functionally integrate into the host tissue. Thus, miniorgans may be smaller than regular organs, but they are fully ...