Porous Networks for Gas Sensing

Project Information

SENNET

Grant agreement ID: 101072845

DOI

10.3030/101072845

EC signature date 14 July 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 30 November 2026

Funded under

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 3 160 681,20

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website, with a publicly accessible and an intranet part

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

At least one MOF-functionalized semiconductor metal oxide sensor fabricated by surface conversion

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Structured Aluminum Phosphonate Metal–Organic Framework for Efficient Hydrogen Purification: Reversible HCl Adsorption and Water-Triggered Regeneration

Author(s): Ravi Sharma, Ajay Padunnappattu, Max Phil Van der Stricht, Norbert Stock, Joeri F. M. Denayer
Published in: Chemistry of Materials, 2026, ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.CHEMMATER.5C03397

Effect of Pd functionalization on optical and hydrogen sensing properties of ZnO: Eu films

Author(s): Rajat Nagpal, Cristian Lupan, Artur Buzdugan, Vladislav Ghenea, Oleg Lupan
Published in: Optik, Issue 325, 2025, ISSN 0030-4026
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.IJLEO.2025.172247

High-Performance Hydrophobic MOFs for Selective Acetone Capture under Humid Conditions

Author(s): Sabrina Grigoletto, Kavosh Karami, Iago Maye, Ajay Padunnappattu, Siddharth Ravichandran, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman, Louis Vanduyfhuys, Veronique Van Speybroeck, Joeri F M Denayer, Matthias Thommes, Norbert Stock, Guillaume Maurin
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2025, ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/D5TA03712C

ANNEALING EFFECT ON UV DETECTION PROPERTIES OF ZnO:Al STRUCTURES

Author(s): Nagpal, R., Chiriac, M., Sereacov, A., Birnaz, A., Ababii, N., Lupan, C., Buzdugan, A., Sandu, I., Siebert, L., Pauporté, T., & Lupan, O.
Published in: JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE, Issue 30(4), 2024, ISSN 2587-3474
Publisher: UTM
DOI: 10.52326/jes.utm.2023.30(4).04

Ultra-selective hydrogen sensors based on CuO - ZnO hetero-structures grown by surface conversion

Author(s): Barnika Chakraborty, Dinu Litra, Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Cristian Lupan, Rajat Nagpal, Soni Mishra, Haoyi Qiu, Serghei Railean, Oleg Lupan, Nora H. de Leeuw, Rainer Adelung, Leonard Siebert
Published in: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Issue 1002, 175385, 2024
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.175385

<i>In Situ</i> Temperature-Dependent Properties of Metal–Organic Framework ZIF-Coated ZnO Hybrid Structures: Structural and Advanced Spectroscopic Insights

Author(s): Rajat Nagpal, Masaya Sugihara, Cristian Lupan, Nicolae Magariu, Tim Tjardts, Nahomy Meling Lizarde, Thomas Strunskus, Justin Jetter, Haoyi Qiu, Barnika Chakraborty, Tayebeh Ameri, Eckhard Quandt, Rainer Adelung, Rob Ameloot, Oleg Lupan
Published in: ACS Omega, 2026, ISSN 2470-1343
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSOMEGA.6C02238

Optical Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds: A Review of Methods and Functionalized Sensing Materials

Author(s): Aleksandra Hernik, Jorid Smets, Zhe Wang, Yuliya Semenova, Jin‐Chong Tan, Rob Ameloot, Izabela Naydenova
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADOM.202500369

Multifunctional Three-in-One Sensor on t-ZnO for Ultraviolet and VOC Sensing for Bioengineering Applications

Author(s): Rajat Nagpal,Cristian Lupan,Adrian Bîrnaz,Alexandr Sereacov,Erik Greve,Monja Gronenberg,Leonard Siebert, Rainer Adelung, Oleg Lupan
Published in: Biosensors, Issue 14, 293, 2024, ISSN 2079-6374
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/bios14060293

A Versatile Synthesis Approach and Interface Characterization of t-ZnO@Metal Hydroxide/Oxide Heterostructures

Author(s): Barnika Chakraborty, Tim Tjardts, Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Ulrich Schürmann, Anton Davydok, Dietmar Christian Florian Wieland, Haoyi Qiu, Alexander Reißmann, Nahomy Meling-Lizarde, Rajat Nagpal, Thomas Strunskus, Leonard Siebert, Rainer Adelung
Published in: Crystal Growth &amp; Design, Issue 26, 2026, ISSN 1528-7483
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.CGD.5C01604

ZIF-71-Coated CuO:Al with Enhanced Gas-Sensing Performance for <i>n</i> -Butanol and Hydrogen

Author(s): Rajat Nagpal, Masaya Sugihara, Cristian Lupan, Tim Tjardts, Nahomy Meling-Lizarde, Thomas Strunskus, Haoyi Qiu, Rainer Adelung, Rob Ameloot, Oleg Lupan
Published in: ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2025, ISSN 2637-6113
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSAELM.5C01659

Sensors

Author(s): Faolan Radford McGovern; Aleksandra Hernik; Catherine Grogan; George Amarandei; Izabela Naydenova
Published in: Sensors, Vol 23, Iss 12, p 5711 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s23125711

Computational Screening of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks for Optical Sensing of VOCs via Refractive Index Modulation

Author(s): Aparajita Ghosh, Guillaume Maurin, Veronique Van Speybroeck, Louis Vanduyfhuys
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2026, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.JPCC.5C07148

Optical Response of PDMS Surface Diffraction Gratings under Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds

Author(s): Aleksandra Hernik; Faolan Radford McGovern; Izabela Naydenova
Published in: ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2024, ISSN 2771-9855
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.4c00138

Surface Conversion of ZnO Tetrapods Produces Pinhole-Free ZIF-8 Layers for Selective and Sensitive H₂ Sensing Even in Pure Methane

Author(s): Mirjam P. M. Poschmann; Leonard Siebert; Cristian Lupan; Oleg Lupan; Fabian Schütt; Rainer Adelung; Norbert Stock
Published in: ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces, 2023
Publisher: ACS PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1021/ACSAMI.3C06317

Nanoimprinted Holographic MOF Diffraction Gratings─Advancing Selective Volatile Organic Compound Detection at Low Concentrations

Author(s): Aleksandra Hernik, Masaya Sugihara, Ajay Padunnappattu, Norbert Stock, Rob Ameloot, Izabela Naydenova
Published in: ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces, 2025, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSAMI.5C10794

Humidity-tolerant selective sensing of hydrogen and <i>n</i> -butanol using ZIF-8 coated CuO:Al film

Author(s): Rajat Nagpal, Masaya Sugihara, Nicolae Magariu, Tim Tjardts, Nahomy Meling-Lizarde, Thomas Strunskus, Tayebeh Ameri, Rob Ameloot, Rainer Adelung, Oleg Lupan
Published in: Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2025, ISSN 2052-1537
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/D5QM00565E

Monographic books (1)

Nanostructured Polymers

Published in: Engineering Materials, 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-3581-1

Book chapters (3)

Gas Sensing Structure of CuO/Cu2O Doped with Sn for Ethanol with Potential Detection in Exhaled Breath

Author(s): Mihai Brinza, Rajat Nagpal, Dinu Litra, Maxim Chiriac, Oleg Lupan
Published in: IFMBE Proceedings, Advances in Digital Health and Medical Bioengineering, 2024, ISSN 1680-0737
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-62523-7_21

MOF-Coated 3D-Printed ZnO Tetrapods as a Two-in-One Sensor for H2 Sensing and UV Detection

Author(s): Barnika Chakraborty, Philipp Schadte, Mirjam P. M. Poschmann, Cristian Lupan, Tudor Zadorojneac, Nicolae Magariu, Ajay Padunnappattu, Fabian Schütt, Oleg Lupan, Leonard Siebert, Norbert Stock, Rainer Adelung
Published in: IFMBE Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Engineering, 2023, ISSN 1680-0737
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42775-6_8

Study on Al2O3/ZnO Heterostructure Based UV Detection for Biomedical Applications

Author(s): Rajat Nagpal, Cristian Lupan, Philipp Schadte, Adrian Birnaz, Mihai Brinza, Leonard Siebert, Oleg Lupan
Published in: IFMBE Proceedings, Advances in Digital Health and Medical Bioengineering, 2024, ISSN 1680-0737
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-62523-7_20

Conference proceedings (4)

Diffractive Optical Transducers for Volatile Organic Compounds Detection

Author(s): Aleksandra Hernik, Masaya Sugihara, Rob Ameloot, Izabela Naydenova
Published in: British and Irish Conference on Optics and Photonics 2024, 2025
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/BICOP.2024.F5B.4

Sensory Properties of CuO/Cu₂O Nanostructures Coated with Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks

Author(s): Rajat Nazpal, Maxim Chiriac, Masaya Sugihara, Dinu Litra, Nicolai Ababii, Nicolae Magariu, Cristian Lupan, Veaceslav Zinicovschi, Rob Ameloot, Oleg Lupan
Published in: 2024 E-Health and Bioengineering Conference (EHB), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EHB64556.2024.10805729

Holographic VOC Sensors Enabled by MOF Nanoparticles Functionalization

Author(s): Aleksandra Hernik, Masaya Sugihara, Ajay Padunnappattu, Liam Tubridy, Norbert Stock, Rob Ameloot, Izabela Naydenova
Published in: Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2025 (FiO, LS), 2026
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/FIO.2025.FTH3B.3

Thermal effects on the VOC-sensitive polydimethylsiloxane holographic gratings

Author(s): Aleksandra Hernik, Faolan R. McGovern, Patrick Iftime, Izabela Naydenova
Published in: Photosensitive Materials and their Applications III, Issue 2, 2024
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3029518