Wendy Lee Queen Explained

Wendy Lee Queen
Citizenship:American
Known For:Platform for the design of porous materials capable of capturing molecules
Workplaces:Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Alma Mater:
Website:https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lfim/

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", her Aeon article on "Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost?",[18] and multiple appearances in the news outlets.[19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

Distinctions

In 2020, Queen was nominated as one of Chemical & Engineering News's “Talented 12”.[24] She is a member of the board of Scientific Advisors at novoMOF.[25]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 24 new professors at the two Federal Institutes of Technology ETH-Board. 2020-09-11. www.ethrat.ch.
  2. Web site: Group Alumni The Long Group. 2020-08-10. alchemy.cchem.berkeley.edu.
  3. Web site: craig.brown@nist.gov. 2019-05-10. Craig Brown CV. 2020-08-10. NIST. en.
  4. Web site: Wendy. Lee Queen. January 2017. Curriculum Vitae of Professor Wendy L. Queen.
  5. Web site: New Carbon Capture Membrane Creates CO2 Highways. 2020-08-10. foundry.lbl.gov.
  6. 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. en. 9. 3. 922–931. 10.1039/C5EE02660A. 1754-5706.
  7. Web site: LFIM. 2020-09-11. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  8. Verde. Mariachiara. 2015-09-30. SNSF Assistant Professor Energy Grant awarded to Prof. Wendy Queen. EPFL News. en.
  9. 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. en. 335. 6076. 1606–1610. 10.1126/science.1217544. 22461607. 2012Sci...335.1606B . 30717494. 0036-8075.
  10. 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. en. 4. 5. 2054. 10.1039/c3sc00032j. 2041-6520.
  11. Bloch . Eric D. . Murray . Leslie J. . Queen . Wendy L. . Chavan . Sachin . Maximoff . Sergey N. . Bigi . Julian P. . Krishna . Rajamani . Peterson . Vanessa K. . Vanessa Peterson . 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 . 10.1021/ja205976v . 0002-7863 . 21830751.
  12. 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. en. 134. 4. 1970–1973. 10.1021/ja210580b. 22235866. 0002-7863.
  13. 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. en. 136. 11. 4369–4381. 10.1021/ja500330a. 24588307. 207107770 . 0002-7863.
  14. 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. en. 140. 48. 16697–16703. 10.1021/jacs.8b09555. 30395464. 0002-7863. free.
  15. 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. en. 4. 3. 349–356. 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605. 2374-7943. 879484. 29632880.
  16. 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. en. 6. 7. 590–595. 10.1038/nchem.1956. 24950328. 2014NatCh...6..590X . 1755-4349. 2318/153276. 1458980 . free.
  17. 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. en. 22. 2. 368–378. 10.1039/C9GC03140E. 213412438 . 1463-9262.
  18. Web site: Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost? – Wendy Lee Queen & Mirko Bischofberger Aeon Ideas. 2020-08-10. Aeon. en.
  19. Web site: Gabbud. Jean-Yves. 2018-03-15. Un matériau révolutionnaire qui dépollue l'eau développé en Valais. 2020-08-10.
  20. Web site: 2020-01-23. Is There a Gold Mine in Electronic Waste?. 2020-08-10. Mind Matters. en-US.
  21. Web site: Senese. Gioia. 2020-08-01. Diese Forscherin rettet die Erde: CO2 aus der Luft filtern. 2020-08-10. Blick.
  22. Web site: Filtering out toxic chromium from water. 2020-08-10. ScienceDaily. en.
  23. 2020-12-28. The Galactic Chloé Show: a new star in the EPFL universe. en.
  24. Web site: C&EN's Talented 12: Wendy Lee Queen. 2020-09-11. Chemical & Engineering News. en.
  25. Web site: novoMOF Company. 2020-09-11. novoMOF. en-US.

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