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Gert Desmet is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and has a significant body of work primarily in the fields of Engineering and Chemistry. Their research focuses on several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Spectroscopy, Analytical Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Computational Mechanics.

The main topics covered in Desmet's research include:

  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
  • Chromatography in Natural Products
  • Protein purification and stability
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies

Desmet has published extensively in various scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Journal of Chromatography A (65 publications)
  • Analytical Chemistry (18 publications)
  • Analytica Chimica Acta (5 publications)
  • Powder Technology (5 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Desmet are:

  • Advances and Innovations in Liquid Chromatography Stationary Phase Supports, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Graph Convolutional Networks for Improved Prediction and Interpretability of Chromatographic Retention Data, 2021, Analytical Chemistry
  • Measurement and modelling of the intra-particle diffusion and b-term in reversed-phase liquid chromatography, 2020, Journal of Chromatography A
  • A comprehensive study on the phenomenon of total breakthrough in liquid chromatography, 2021, Journal of Chromatography A
  • Deep convolutional autoencoder for the simultaneous removal of baseline noise and baseline drift in chromatograms, 2021, Journal of Chromatography A

Frequent collaborators include Deirdre Cabooter, Ken Broeckhoven, Ignaas S. M. Jimidar, Bram Huygens, and A. Moussa, with collaboration counts ranging from 14 to 27 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Geometry-independent plate height representation methods for the direct comparison of the kinetic performance of LC supports with a different size or morphology.

    Gert Desmet;David Clicq;Piotr Gzil

  • Pressure-driven reverse-phase liquid chromatography separations in ordered nonporous pillar array columns.

    Wim De Malsche;Hamed Eghbali;David Clicq;Joris Vangelooven

  • Fundamentals for LC miniaturization.

    Gert Desmet;Sebastiaan Eeltink

  • Electrochemical synthesis of thin HKUST-1 layers on copper mesh

    Tom R.C. Van Assche;Gert Desmet;Rob Ameloot;Dirk E. De Vos

  • CO2, CH4 and N2 separation with a 3DFD-printed ZSM-5 monolith

    Sarah Couck;Jasper Lefevere;Steven Mullens;Lidia Protasova

  • Relationship between the particle size distribution of commercial fully porous and superficially porous high-performance liquid chromatography column packings and their chromatographic performance.

    Deirdre Cabooter;A Fanigliulo;G Bellazzi;B Allieri

  • Advantages of perfectly ordered 2-D porous pillar arrays over packed bed columns for LC separations: a theoretical analysis.

    Piotr Gzil;Nico Vervoort;Gino Baron;Gert Desmet

  • Silica–MOF Composites as a Stationary Phase in Liquid Chromatography

    Rob Ameloot;Anuschka Liekens;Luc Alaerts;Michael Maes

  • Realization of 1 × 10(6) theoretical plates in liquid chromatography using very long pillar array columns.

    Wim De Malsche;Jeff Op De Beeck;Selm De Bruyne;Selm De Bruyne;Han Gardeniers

  • A correlation for the pressure drop in monolithic silica columns.

    Nico Vervoort;Piotr Gzil;Gino V. Baron;Gert Desmet

  • Measurements of diffusion coefficients in 1-D micro- and nanochannels using shear-driven flows

    Kris Pappaert;Jurgen Biesemans;David Clicq;Sarah Vankrunkelsven

  • The kinetic plot method applied to gradient chromatography: theoretical framework and experimental validation

    Ken Broeckhoven;Deirdre Cabooter;Frederic Lynen;Pat Sandra

  • Experimental study of porous silicon shell pillars under retentive conditions.

    Wim De Malsche;Han Gardeniers;Gert Desmet

  • Influence of the pillar shape on the band broadening and the separation impedance of perfectly ordered 2-D porous chromatographic media.

    J. De Smet;P. Gzil;N. Vervoort;H. Verelst

  • Practical constraints in the kinetic plot representation of chromatographic performance data: theory and application to experimental data.

    Gert Desmet;David Clicq;Dao T.-T. Nguyen;Davy Guillarme

  • Effective medium theory expressions for the effective diffusion in chromatographic beds filled with porous, non-porous and porous-shell particles and cylinders. Part I: Theory

    Gert Desmet;Sander Deridder

  • Integration of porous layers in ordered pillar arrays for liquid chromatography

    Wim De Malsche;Wim De Malsche;David Clicq;Vincent Verdoold;Piotr Gzil

  • Model column structure for the analysis of the flow and band-broadening characteristics of silica monoliths.

    Nico Vervoort;Piotr Gzil;Gino V. Baron;Gert Desmet

  • Errors involved in the existing B-term expressions for the longitudinal diffusion in fully porous chromatographic media: Part I: Computational data in ordered pillar arrays and effective medium theory

    G. Desmet;K. Broeckhoven;J. De Smet;S. Deridder

  • Performance limits of monolithic and packed capillary columns in high-performance liquid chromatography and capillary electrochromatography

    Sebastiaan Eeltink;Gert Desmet;Gabriel Vivó-Truyols;Gerard P. Rozing

  • Experimental investigation of the difference in B-term dominated band broadening between fully porous and porous-shell particles for liquid chromatography using the Effective Medium Theory.

    Anuschka Liekens;Joeri Denayer;Gert Desmet

Frequent Co-Authors

Gino V. Baron
Gino V. Baron Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Frederic Lynen
Frederic Lynen Ghent University
Johannes G.E. Gardeniers
Johannes G.E. Gardeniers University of Twente
Peter J. Schoenmakers
Peter J. Schoenmakers University of Amsterdam
Pat Sandra
Pat Sandra Ghent University
Joeri F. M. Denayer
Joeri F. M. Denayer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Davy Guillarme
Davy Guillarme University of Geneva
Hugo Thienpont
Hugo Thienpont Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Herman Terryn
Herman Terryn Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Paul Van Hummelen
Paul Van Hummelen Harvard University

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