Dr Anouk L'Hermitte

Anouk L'Hermitte is a Research Associate in the group of Dr Alexander Forse, focusing on the development of functionalised carbon-based adsorbents for direct air capture (DAC).

She obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London under the supervision of Prof Camille Petit (2023). Her PhD work focused on the synthesis, surface functionalisation and characterisation of boron nitride-based materials for adsorption-based processes, with a focus on post-combustion CO₂ capture and thermal energy storage. Prior to her PhD, she worked in industry for a couple of years, received an MPhil in Advanced Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (2016), and a diplôme d'ingénieur (~MSc) from ESPCI Paris, France (2015).

Publications:

1. A. L’Hermitte, H. Azzan, M. H. N. Yio, A. K. Rajagopalan, D. Danaci, T. Hirosawa, T. Isobe & C. Petit (2023) “Effect of Surface Functionalization on the Moisture Stability and Sorption Properties of Porous Boron Nitride”, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 352, 112478.

2. A. L’Hermitte,^¶ I. Itskou,^¶ S. Marchesini,^¶ T. Tian^¶ & C. Petit (2023) “How to tailor porous boron nitride properties for applications in interfacial processes”, Accounts of Materials Research, 4, 143-155 (^¶: authors contributed equally).

3. H. Azzan,^¶ A. K. Rajagopalan,^¶ A. L’Hermitte, R. Pini & C. Petit (2022) “Simultaneous Estimation of Gas Adsorption Equilibria and Kinetics of Individual Shaped Adsorbents”, Chemistry of Materials, 34, 6671-6686.

4. Y. Xiong, T. Tian, A. L’Hermitte, A. S. J. Mendez, D. Danaci, A. E. Platero-Prats & C. Petit (2022) "Using silver exchange to achieve high uptake and selectivity for propylene/propane separation in zeolite Y”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 446, 137104.

5. A. L’Hermitte, D. M. Dawson, P. Ferrer, K. Roy, G. Held, T. Tian, S. E. Ashbrook & C. Petit (2021) “Formation Mechanism and Porosity Development in Porous Boron Nitride”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 27429-27439.

6. T. Tian, J. Hou, H. Ansari, Y. Xiong, A. L’Hermitte, D. Danaci, R. Pini & C. Petit (2021) “Mechanically stable structured porous boron nitride with high volumetric adsorption capacity”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, 13366-13373.

7. J. Stafford, N. Uzo, U. Farooq, S. Favero, S. Wang, H.-H. Chen, A. L’Hermitte, C. Petit & O. K. Matar (2021) “Real-time monitoring and hydrodynamic scaling of shear exfoliated graphene”, 2D Materials, 8, 025029.

8. Z. Ye, G. E. M. Schukraft, A. L’Hermitte, Y. Xiong, E. Brillas, C. Petit & I. Sires (2020) “Mechanism and stability of an Fe-based 2D MOF during the photoelectro-Fenton treatment of organic micropollutants under UVA and visible light irradiation”, Water Research 184, 115986.