Pauling Fellow
Pauling Fellow

Biography

Dr. Lambeets is a Pauling Fellow working with the Molecular Bioimaging and Cellular Dynamics team in PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. Lambeets has a strong background in heterogeneous catalysis, atom probe microscopy (APM) techniques and CO2 valorization. His expertise includes the fabrication of catalytically active model nanoparticles and the CO2 hydrogenation on their surface at the molecular scale using field ion microscopy, field emission microscopy, and in situ atom probe tomography. This approach aims to understand the synergistic influences existing between CO2 hydrogenation and its catalyst’s surface structure.

Dr. Lambeets is also pushing the limits of APM to study surface phenomena in the presence of a very high electric field and the development of the in operando APM dedicated to mapping surface reactions in real-time at the molecular scale.

Research Interest

  • Heterogeneous catalysis

  • Surface science

  • APM

  • CO2 valorization

  • Corrosion

Education

  • PhD in Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles 

  • MA in Chemistry, Université Libre de Bruxelles 

  • BA in Chemistry, Université Libre de Bruxelles 

Awards and Recognitions

  • M&M Postdoctoral Students Awards, Microscopy Society of America (2020) 

  • Solvay Awards (2018, 2019)

  • Erwin Müller Outstanding Young Scientist Award, International Field Emission Society (2018) 

Publications

2020 

Kautz E.J., Lambeets S.V., Perea D.E., Gerard A.Y., Han J., Scully J.R., Saal J.E., Schreiber D.K. 2021. “Element Redistribution During Early Stages of Oxidation in a Ni38Cr22Fe20Mn10Co10 Multi-Principal Element Alloy” AMI: Scripta Materialia 194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2020.10.051. 

Owczarek S., Lambeets S.V., Bryl R., Barroo C., Croquet O., Markowski L. and Visart de Bocarmé T. 2020. “Oxygen Adsorption, Subsurface Oxygen Layer Formation and Reaction with Hydrogen on Surfaces of Pt-Rh Alloy Nanocrystal.” Topics in Catalysis 63, 1522-1531. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-202-01394-w. 

Kautz, E. J., B. Gwalani, S. V. M. Lambeets, L. Kovarik, D. K. Schreiber, D. E. Perea, D. Senor, Y.-S. Liu, A. K. Battu, K.-P. Tseng, S. Thevuthasan, and A. Devaraj. 2020. “Rapid Assessment of Structural and Compositional Changes During Early Stages of Zirconium Alloy Oxidation.” npj Materials Degradation 4 (1): 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-020-00133-6.  

Lambeets, S. V., E. J. Kautz, M. G. Wirth, G. J. Orren, A. Devaraj, and D. E. Perea. 2020. “Nanoscale Perspectives of Metal Degradation Via in Situ Atom Probe Tomography.” Topics in Catalysis 63, 1606-1622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-020-01367-z.  

Lambeets, S. V., T. Visart De Bocarmé, D. E. Perea, and N. Kruse. 2020. “Directional Gateway to Metal Oxidation: 3D Chemical Mapping Unfolds Oxygen Diffusional Pathways in Rhodium Nanoparticles.” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (8): 3144-3151. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00321.  

2018 

Jacobs, L., C. Barroo, N. Gilis, S. V. Lambeets, E. Genty, and T. Visart de Bocarmé. 2018. “Structure Reactivity Relationships During N2O Hydrogenation over Au-Ag Alloys: A Study by Field Emission Techniques.” Applied Surface Science 435: 914-919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.11.184.  

Owczarek, S., S. V. Lambeets, C. Barroo, R. Bryl, L. Markowski, and T. Visart de Bocarmé. 2018. “Oxygen Assisted Morphological Changes of Pt Nanosized Crystals.” Topics in Catalysis 61 (12-13): 1313-1322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-018-0984-4.  

2017 

Gilis, N., P. Jai, S. V. Lambeets, E. Genty, C. Barroo, and T. Visart De Bocarmé. 2017. “Chiral Adsorption Studied by Field Emission Techniques: The Case of Alanine on Platinum.” New Journal of Chemistry 41 (14): 6638-6645. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nj01202k.  

Lambeets, S. V., C. Barroo, S. Owczarek, L. Jacobs, E. Genty, N. Gilis, N. Kruse, and T. Visart De Bocarmé. 2017. “Adsorption and Hydrogenation of CO2 on Rh Nanosized Crystals: Demonstration of the Role of Interfacet Oxygen Spillover and Comparative Studies with O2, N2O, and CO.” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121 (30): 16238-16249. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02217.  

2014 

Barroo, C., N. Gilis, S. V. Lambeets, F. Devred, and T. Visart De Bocarmé. 2014. “Oxygen Assisted Reconstructions of Rhodium and Platinum Nanocrystals and Their Effects on Local Catalytic Activity of Hydrogenation Reactions.” Applied Surface Science 304: 2-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.01.158.  

Barroo, C., S. V. Lambeets, F. Devred, T. D. Chau, N. Kruse, Y. De Decker, and T. Visart De Bocarmé. 2014. “Hydrogenation of NO and NO2 over Palladium and Platinum Nanocrystallites: Case Studies Using Field Emission Techniques.” New Journal of Chemistry 38 (5): 2090-2097. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3nj01505j.  

2013 

Hubert, J., C. Poleunis, A. Delcorte, P. Laha, J. Bossert, S. Lambeets, A. Ozkan, P. Bertrand, H. Terryn, and F. Reniers. 2013. “Plasma Polymerization of C4Cl6 and C2H2Cl4 at Atmospheric Pressure.” Polymer 54 (16): 4085-4092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2013.05.068.