Projects
Catalytic and solid state NMR spectroscopic study of bimetallic catalysts: synergisms between Lewis acid and transition metal sites in carbonylation and transfer hydrocyanation reactions KU Leuven
Catalytic coupling of two small molecules may proceed much faster if each molecule is activated on a discrete metal centre. Especially combinations of transition metals (TM) and Lewis acids (LA) can generate a special synergy in heterogeneous catalysis. In carbonylation of alcohols (or epoxides), CO and the alcohol (epoxide) are activated resp. by TM and LA sites; in transfer hydrocyanations, the slow steps are accelerated by binding of ...
Nanostructuring transition metal dichalcogenides via non-covalent and covalent molecular functionalization KU Leuven
Graphene is a two-dimensional material that exists of a single layer of carbon atoms. It relates to the natural material, graphite, that is composed of a huge number of stacked graphene layers, just like a phone book consists of a stack of pages. However, the electrical properties of a single graphene layer differ a lot from those of graphite. This insight gave rise to the birth of the so-called two dimensional materials, or 2D materials. ...
Improving the performance of rock salt type cathodes for Li-ion batteries through control of the transition metal cation migration using redox reactions of the oxygen sublattice and Li-conductive coatings. University of Antwerp
Transition metal dichalcogenides as unique 2D platform for collective quantum behavior. University of Antwerp
Few-body correlation effects in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. University of Antwerp
Colloidal Transition Metal Chalcogenide Nanosheets and Quantum Dots, a New Class of Nanomaterials, from Synthesis towards Application. Ghent University
Nanomaterials have attracted tremendous attention in science and technology as their behaviour
is very different from their bulk analogues. While bulk gold is unreactive and reflects light, its
nanoscalar counterpart is reactive and capable of absorbing a significant part of incident light. Tiny
semiconductors crystals, so-called quantum dots, emit light with a color according to their size. A
single layer of carbon ...