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Karen Leus is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with substantial work in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Leus's scientific output centers on topics including:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Leus include:

  • Pascal Van Der Voort
  • Rino Morent
  • Nathalie De Geyter
  • Chidharth Krishnaraj
  • Himanshu Sekhar Jena

Their work has been published in a number of venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Green Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Among the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Karen Leus are:

  • Strongly Reducing (Diarylamino)benzene-Based Covalent Organic Framework for Metal-Free Visible Light Photocatalytic H2O2 Generation, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Pyrene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Engineering a Highly Defective Stable UiO-66 with Tunable Lewis-Brønsted Acidity: The Role of the Hemilabile Linker, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Covalent triazine frameworks - a sustainable perspective, 2020, Green Chemistry
  • Engineering Covalent Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Organic Transformations, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Leus's research involves extensive work in designing and applying covalent organic frameworks and metal-organic frameworks, particularly in relation to photocatalytic processes. This includes studying materials for hydrogen peroxide generation and optimizing the acidity and defectivity in framework materials to adapt their catalytic functionality.

Best Publications

  • Mixed-metal metal-organic frameworks.

    Sara Abednatanzi;Parviz Gohari Derakhshandeh;Hannes Depauw;François-Xavier Coudert

  • Strongly Reducing (Diarylamino)benzene-Based Covalent Organic Framework for Metal-Free Visible Light Photocatalytic H2O2 Generation.

    Chidharth Krishnaraj;Chidharth Krishnaraj;Himanshu Sekhar Jena;Laurens Bourda;Andreas Laemont

  • Technologies for Arsenic Removal from Water: Current Status and Future Perspectives

    Nina Ricci Nicomel;Karen Leus;Karel Folens;Pascal Van Der Voort

  • Systematic study of the chemical and hydrothermal stability of selected “stable” Metal Organic Frameworks

    Karen Leus;Thomas Bogaerts;Jeroen De Decker;Hannes Depauw

  • Pyrene‐Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production

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  • Engineering a Highly Defective Stable UiO-66 with Tunable Lewis- Brønsted Acidity: The Role of the Hemilabile Linker.

    Xiao Feng;Julianna Hajek;Himanshu Sekhar Jena;Guangbo Wang;Guangbo Wang

  • Covalent triazine frameworks – a sustainable perspective

    Chidharth Krishnaraj;Himanshu Sekhar Jena;Karen Leus;Pascal Van Der Voort

  • Engineering Covalent Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Organic Transformations

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  • Generating Catalytic Sites in UiO-66 through Defect Engineering

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  • Understanding Intrinsic Light Absorption Properties of UiO-66 Frameworks: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study

    Kevin Hendrickx;Danny E. P. Vanpoucke;Karen Leus;Kurt Lejaeghere

  • Synthesis, crystal structures, and luminescence properties of carboxylate based rare-earth coordination polymers.

    Roel Decadt;Kristof Van Hecke;Diederik Depla;Karen Leus

  • A fluorine-containing hydrophobic covalent triazine framework with excellent selective CO2 capture performance

    Guangbo Wang;Karen Leus;Himanshu Sekhar Jena;Chidharth Krishnaraj

  • A Visible‐Light‐Harvesting Covalent Organic Framework Bearing Single Nickel Sites as a Highly Efficient Sulfur–Carbon Cross‐Coupling Dual Catalyst

    Hui Chen;Wanlu Liu;Andreas Laemont;Chidharth Krishnaraj

  • The remarkable catalytic activity of the saturated metal organic framework V-MIL-47 in the cyclohexene oxidation

    Karen Leus;Ilke Muylaert;Matthias Vandichel;Guy B. Marin

  • Biocompatible Zr-based nanoscale MOFs coated with modified poly (ε-caprolactone) as anticancer drug carriers

    Maria Filippousi;Stuart Turner;Karen Leus;Panoraia I. Siafaka

  • Triggering White-Light Emission in a 2D Imine Covalent Organic Framework Through Lanthanide Augmentation

    Chidharth Krishnaraj;Anna M. Kaczmarek;Himanshu Sekhar Jena;Karen Leus

  • The coordinatively saturated vanadium MIL-47 as a low leaching heterogeneous catalyst in the oxidation of cyclohexene

    Karen Leus;Matthias Vandichel;Ying-Ya Liu;Ilke Muylaert

  • Extending the π-Conjugation System of Covalent Organic Frameworks for more Efficient Photocatalytic H2O2 Production

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  • Progress in hydrometallurgical technologies to recover critical raw materials and precious metals from low-concentrated streams

    Jeffrey Paulo H. Perez;Karel Folens;Karen Leus;Frank Vanhaecke

  • Creation of Exclusive Artificial Cluster Defects by Selective Metal Removal in the (Zn, Zr) Mixed-metal UiO-66

    Xiao Feng;Himanshu Jena;Chidharth Krishnaraj;Daniel Arenas-Esteban

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks as Selective or Chiral Oxidation Catalysts

    Karen Leus;Ying-Ya Liu;Pascal Van Der Voort

  • Understanding the charge storage mechanism to achieve high capacity and fast ion storage in sodium-ion capacitor anodes by using electrospun nitrogen-doped carbon fibers

    Runyu Yan;Elinor Josef;Haijian Huang;Karen Leus

  • Removal of arsenic and mercury species from water by covalent triazine framework encapsulated γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles.

    Karen Leus;Karel Folens;Nina Ricci Nicomel;Jeffrey Paulo H. Perez

  • New Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks MIL-47-X (X = −Cl, −Br, −CH3, −CF3, −OH, −OCH3): Synthesis, Characterization, and CO2 Adsorption Properties

    Shyam Prosad Biswas;Danny Vanpoucke;Toon Verstraelen;Matthias Vandichel

  • Removal of Pesticides from Aqueous Solutions by Adsorption on Zeolites as Solid Adsorbents

    C. De Smedt;F. Ferrer;K. Leus;P. Spanoghe

  • New V(IV)-based metal-organic framework having framework flexibility and high CO2 adsorption capacity.

    Ying-Ya Liu;Sarah Couck;Matthias Vandichel;Maciej Grzywa

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Van Der Voort
Pascal Van Der Voort Ghent University
Michel Waroquier
Michel Waroquier Ghent University
Gijs Du Laing
Gijs Du Laing Ghent University
Stuart Turner
Stuart Turner James Hutton Institute
Nathalie De Geyter
Nathalie De Geyter Ghent University
Joeri F. M. Denayer
Joeri F. M. Denayer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rino Morent
Rino Morent Ghent University
Christophe Detavernier
Christophe Detavernier Ghent University
Guy Marin
Guy Marin Ghent University

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