American chemist and material scientist
Wendy Lee Queen (born 1981 in
South Carolina ) is an
American
chemist and
material scientist . Her research interest focus on development design and production of
hybrid organic/inorganic materials at the intersection of
chemistry ,
chemical engineering and
material sciences . As of 2020 she is a
tenure-track
assistant professor at the
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in
Switzerland , where she directs the Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials.
[1]
Career
Queen studied chemistry and mathematics at
Lander University in
Greenwood, South Carolina ,
USA . She then pursued a
PhD in
inorganic chemistry at
Clemson University under the mentorship of Shiou-Jyh Hwu. In 2009 she joined the
Center for Neutron Research at
National Institute of Standards and Technology . From 2011 to 2012 she was a visiting scholar in laboratory of
Jeffrey R. Long
[2] at
University of California Berkeley before returning to the
Center for Neutron Research as a
postdoctoral fellow with Craig Brown.
[3]
[4]
In the position of a project scientist, Queen joined the Molecular Foundry at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2012. Here she helped build a new user program focused on the synthesis and characterization of porous
adsorbents . During her time there she worked on a number of projects focused on the use of
polymer -
metal-organic frameworks (MOF) or MOF-based membranes for a variety of globally relevant gas separations such as
carbon dioxide capture from flue gas and water capture from air.
[5]
[6]
In 2015, she was nominated as
tenure-track
assistant professor at Department of Chemical Engineering of
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials is based at the EPFL Valais Wallis campus in
Sion ,
Switzerland .
[7]
[8]
Research
Queen's research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel porous adsorbents, namely
metal-organic frameworks , and their corresponding composites, which are of interest in a number of host-guest applications.
[9] Her research aims at contributing knowledge towards solving globally relevant problems, like reducing energy consumption,
[10] cutting CO2 emissions,
[11]
[12] water purification,
[13] the extraction of valuable commodities from waste,
[14]
[15] and chemical conversion processes.
[16]
[17]
Queen became known to a wider audience through her
TEDx Talk on "Cut Carbon to Save Lives",
[18] her
Aeon article on "Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost?",
[19] and multiple appearances in the news outlets.
[20]
[21]
[22]
[23]
[24]
Distinctions
In 2020, Queen was nominated as one of
Chemical & Engineering News 's “Talented 12”.
[25] She is a member of the board of Scientific Advisors at novoMOF.
[26]
References
^
"24 new professors at the two Federal Institutes of Technology | ETH-Board" . www.ethrat.ch . Retrieved 2020-09-11 .
^
"Group Alumni | The Long Group" . alchemy.cchem.berkeley.edu . Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^ craig.brown@nist.gov (2019-05-10).
"Craig Brown CV" . NIST . Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^ Wendy, Lee Queen (January 2017).
"Curriculum Vitae of Professor Wendy L. Queen" (PDF) .
^
"New Carbon Capture Membrane Creates CO2 Highways" . foundry.lbl.gov . Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^ Su, Norman C.; Sun, Daniel T.; Beavers, Christine M.; Britt, David K.; Queen, Wendy L.; Urban, Jeffrey J. (2016-03-09).
"Enhanced permeation arising from dual transport pathways in hybrid polymer–MOF membranes" . Energy & Environmental Science . 9 (3): 922–931.
doi :
10.1039/C5EE02660A .
ISSN
1754-5706 .
^
"LFIM" . www.epfl.ch . Retrieved 2020-09-11 .
^ Verde, Mariachiara (2015-09-30).
"SNSF Assistant Professor Energy Grant awarded to Prof. Wendy Queen" . EPFL News .
^ Bloch, E. D.; Queen, W. L.; Krishna, R.; Zadrozny, J. M.; Brown, C. M.; Long, J. R. (2012-03-30).
"Hydrocarbon Separations in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Iron(II) Coordination Sites" . Science . 335 (6076): 1606–1610.
Bibcode :
2012Sci...335.1606B .
doi :
10.1126/science.1217544 .
ISSN
0036-8075 .
PMID
22461607 .
S2CID
30717494 .
^ Geier, Stephen J.; Mason, Jarad A.; Bloch, Eric D.; Queen, Wendy L.; Hudson, Matthew R.; Brown, Craig M.; Long, Jeffrey R. (2013).
"Selective adsorption of ethylene over ethane and propylene over propane in the metal–organic frameworks M2(dobdc) (M = Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn)" . Chemical Science . 4 (5): 2054.
doi :
10.1039/c3sc00032j .
ISSN
2041-6520 .
^ Bloch, Eric D.; Murray, Leslie J.; Queen, Wendy L.; Chavan, Sachin; Maximoff, Sergey N.; Bigi, Julian P.; Krishna, Rajamani;
Peterson, Vanessa K. ; Grandjean, Fernande; Long, Gary J.; Smit, Berend (2011-09-21).
"Selective Binding of O2 over N2 in a Redox–Active Metal–Organic Framework with Open Iron(II) Coordination Sites" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 133 (37): 14814–14822.
doi :
10.1021/ja205976v .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
PMID
21830751 .
^ Hudson, Matthew R.; Queen, Wendy L.; Mason, Jarad A.; Fickel, Dustin W.; Lobo, Raul F.; Brown, Craig M. (2012-01-12).
"Unconventional, Highly Selective CO 2 Adsorption in Zeolite SSZ-13" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 134 (4): 1970–1973.
doi :
10.1021/ja210580b .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
PMID
22235866 .
^ Furukawa, Hiroyasu; Gándara, Felipe; Zhang, Yue-Biao; Jiang, Juncong; Queen, Wendy L.; Hudson, Matthew R.; Yaghi, Omar M. (2014-03-19).
"Water Adsorption in Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks and Related Materials" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 136 (11): 4369–4381.
doi :
10.1021/ja500330a .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
PMID
24588307 .
S2CID
207107770 .
^ Sun, Daniel T.; Gasilova, Natalia; Yang, Shuliang; Oveisi, Emad; Queen, Wendy L. (2018-12-05).
"Rapid, Selective Extraction of Trace Amounts of Gold from Complex Water Mixtures with a Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)/Polymer Composite" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 140 (48): 16697–16703.
doi :
10.1021/jacs.8b09555 .
ISSN
0002-7863 .
PMID
30395464 .
^ Sun, Daniel T.; Peng, Li; Reeder, Washington S.; Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad; Tiana, Davide; Britt, David K.; Oveisi, Emad; Queen, Wendy L. (2018-03-28).
"Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite" . ACS Central Science . 4 (3): 349–356.
doi :
10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605 .
ISSN
2374-7943 .
PMC
879484 .
PMID
29632880 .
^ Xiao, Dianne J.; Bloch, Eric D.; Mason, Jarad A.; Queen, Wendy L.; Hudson, Matthew R.; Planas, Nora; Borycz, Joshua; Dzubak, Allison L.; Verma, Pragya; Lee, Kyuho; Bonino, Francesca (2014-05-18).
"Oxidation of ethane to ethanol by N 2 O in a metal–organic framework with coordinatively unsaturated iron( II ) sites" . Nature Chemistry . 6 (7): 590–595.
Bibcode :
2014NatCh...6..590X .
doi :
10.1038/nchem.1956 .
hdl :
2318/153276 .
ISSN
1755-4349 .
OSTI
1458980 .
PMID
24950328 .
^ Karve, Vikram V.; Sun, Daniel T.; Trukhina, Olga; Yang, Shuliang; Oveisi, Emad; Luterbacher, Jeremy; Queen, Wendy L. (2020).
"Efficient reductive amination of HMF with well dispersed Pd nanoparticles immobilized in a porous MOF/polymer composite" . Green Chemistry . 22 (2): 368–378.
doi :
10.1039/C9GC03140E .
ISSN
1463-9262 .
S2CID
213412438 .
^ Queen, Wendy L. (6 October 2017),
Cut carbon to save lives , retrieved 2020-08-10
^
"Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost? – Wendy Lee Queen & Mirko Bischofberger | Aeon Ideas" . Aeon . Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^ Gabbud, Jean-Yves (2018-03-15).
"Un matériau révolutionnaire qui dépollue l'eau développé en Valais" . Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^
"Is There a Gold Mine in Electronic Waste?" . Mind Matters . 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^ Senese, Gioia (2020-08-01).
"Diese Forscherin rettet die Erde: CO2 aus der Luft filtern" . Blick . Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^
"Filtering out toxic chromium from water" . ScienceDaily . Retrieved 2020-08-10 .
^
"The Galactic Chloé Show: a new star in the EPFL universe" . 2020-12-28.
^
"C&EN's Talented 12: Wendy Lee Queen" . Chemical & Engineering News . Retrieved 2020-09-11 .
^
"novoMOF | Company" . novoMOF . Retrieved 2020-09-11 .
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