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Veronique Van Speybroeck

Veronique Van Speybroeck

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Chemistry
Belgium
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
94
Citations
32029
World Ranking
1707
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Veronique Van Speybroeck is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their research spans over 157 publications in Materials Science and 143 in Chemistry, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and its subfields.

The scientist's work embraces various subfields of study including:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Van Speybroeck has explored a variety of research topics, notable among them being:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications

Their publication record shows activity in several reputable scientific venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators of Van Speybroeck include:

  • Pascal Van Der Voort (41 coauthored works)
  • Sven M. J. Rogge (32 coauthored works)
  • Christian V. Stevens (27 coauthored works)
  • Louis Vanduyfhuys (20 coauthored works)
  • Sander Borgmans (19 coauthored works)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Van Speybroeck reflect their engagement with photocatalytic materials and porous frameworks:

  • 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
  • Hydrogen Clathrates: Next Generation Hydrogen Storage Materials, 2021, Energy Storage Materials
  • Truly combining the advantages of polymeric and zeolite membranes for gas separations, 2022, Science

Best Publications

  • Reproducibility in density functional theory calculations of solids

    Kurt Lejaeghere;Gustav Bihlmayer;Torbjörn Björkman;Torbjörn Björkman;Peter Blaha

  • Synthesis Modulation as a Tool To Increase the Catalytic Activity of Metal–Organic Frameworks: The Unique Case of UiO-66(Zr)

    Frederik Vermoortele;Bart Bueken;Gaëlle Le Bars;Ben Van de Voorde

  • Metal–organic and covalent organic frameworks as single-site catalysts

    S. M. J. Rogge;A. Bavykina;J. Hajek;H. Garcia

  • Thermal unequilibrium of strained black CsPbI3 thin films

    Julian A. Steele;Handong Jin;Iurii Dovgaliuk;Robert F. Berger

  • Electrophilicity and Nucleophilicity Index for Radicals

    Freija De Vleeschouwer;Veronique Van Speybroeck;Michel Waroquier;and Paul Geerlings

  • Error Estimates for Solid-State Density-Functional Theory Predictions: An Overview by Means of the Ground-State Elemental Crystals

    K. Lejaeghere;V. Van Speybroeck;G. Van Oost;S. Cottenier

  • 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

  • Advances in theory and their application within the field of zeolite chemistry.

    Veronique Van Speybroeck;Karen Hemelsoet;Lennart Joos;Michel Waroquier

  • Electronic Effects of Linker Substitution on Lewis Acid Catalysis with Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Frederik Vermoortele;Matthias Vandichel;Ben Van de Voorde;Rob Ameloot

  • Regioselectivity in the ring opening of non-activated aziridines.

    Sonja Stanković;Matthias D'hooghe;Saron Catak;Heesung Eum

  • Error estimates for solid-state density-functional theory predictions: an overview by means of the ground-state elemental crystals

    Kurt Lejaeghere;Veronique Van Speybroeck;Guido Van Oost;Stefaan Cottenier

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

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

  • i-PI 2.0: A universal force engine for advanced molecular simulations

    Venkat Kapil;Mariana Rossi;Ondrej Marsalek;Ondrej Marsalek;Riccardo Petraglia

  • Triazolinediones enable ultrafast and reversible click chemistry for the design of dynamic polymer systems

    Stijn Billiet;Kevin De Bruycker;Frank Driessen;Hannelore Goossens

  • A Complete Catalytic Cycle for Supramolecular Methanol‐to‐Olefins Conversion by Linking Theory with Experiment

    David M. McCann;David Lesthaeghe;Philip W. Kletnieks;Darryl R. Guenther

  • Understanding the Failure of Direct C ? C Coupling in the Zeolite‐Catalyzed Methanol‐to‐Olefin Process

    David Lesthaeghe;Veronique Van Speybroeck;Guy B. Marin;Michel Waroquier

  • Unraveling the reaction mechanisms governing methanol-to-olefins catalysis by theory and experiment

    Karen Hemelsoet;Jeroen Van der Mynsbrugge;Kristof De Wispelaere;Michel Waroquier

  • Structure–performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process

    Irina Yarulina;Irina Yarulina;Kristof De Wispelaere;Simon Bailleul;Joris Goetze

  • Determining the storage, availability and reactivity of NH3 within Cu-Chabazite-based Ammonia Selective Catalytic Reduction systems.

    I Lezcano-Gonzalez;U Deka;B Arstad;A Van Yperen-De Deyne

  • Structure-mechanical stability relations of metal-organic frameworks via machine learning

    Peyman Z. Moghadam;Sven M.J. Rogge;Aurelia Li;Chun-Man Chow

  • First principle chemical kinetics in zeolites: the methanol-to-olefin process as a case study

    Veronique Van Speybroeck;Kristof De Wispelaere;Jeroen Van der Mynsbrugge;Matthias Vandichel

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Waroquier
Michel Waroquier Ghent University
Pascal Van Der Voort
Pascal Van Der Voort Ghent University
Norbert De Kimpe
Norbert De Kimpe Ghent University
Karen Leus
Karen Leus Ghent University
Guy Marin
Guy Marin Ghent University
Dirk De Vos
Dirk De Vos KU Leuven
Christian V. Stevens
Christian V. Stevens Ghent University
Frank De Proft
Frank De Proft Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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