Publications and communications of Cédric Malherbe

Malherbe, C., Lermann, H. N., Hutchinson, I. B., McHugh, M., Edwards, H. G. M., Demaret, L., & Eppe, G. (08 July 2026). Larvikite as a Lunar Analogue: Combining Raman Spectroscopy and XRF for In Situ Mineralogy Investigations [Paper presentation]. 17th GeoRaman, Brazil.

Malherbe, C., Rensonnet, A., & Eppe, G. (July 2026). Raman spectroscopy for probing extreme chemical systems: from high-temperature molten salts to super-acidic room temperature ionic liquids [Paper presentation]. 10th EuChemS Chemistry Congress: ECC10 – EuChemS 2026, Antwerp, Belgium.

Malherbe, C., Rensonnet, A., & Eppe, G. (July 2026). How Many Neighbors? Alkali cation solvation in [BMIm][NTf₂] revealed by Raman spectroscopy [Paper presentation]. EUCHEMSIL 2026: 30th EUCHEMS Meeting, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Verdin, A., Stiernet, P., Lejeune, L., Monbaliu, J.-C., Hermans, S., Eppe, G., & Malherbe, C. (2026). Controlling Gold Nanoparticles Aggregation in Continuous-Flow Microreactors for Robust Production of Ultrasensitive NIR SERS Nanotags. ACS Applied Nano Materials. doi:10.1021/acsanm.5c05506

Rensonnet, A., Ebardo, I., Lange, A., Hunt, P., Taubert, A., & Malherbe, C. (2026). The fate of the proton in protic and aprotic ionic liquids: acidity and ion transfer studied by Raman spectroscopy [Paper presentation]. 30th EUChemS Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Rensonnet, A., Ebardo, I., Lange, A., Hunt, P., Taubert, A., & Malherbe, C. (2026). The fate of the proton in protic and aprotic ionic liquids: acidity and ion transfer studied by Raman spectroscopy [Paper presentation]. 10th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC10), Antwerp, Belgium.

Demaret, L., Hutchinson, I. B., Lerman, H. N., McHugh, M., Eppe, G., & Malherbe, C. (2025). Knife-Edge Technique Using Raman Spectrometers to Determine the Effective Laser Spot Size on Powders: Implications for Planetary Exploration. Applied Spectroscopy, 37028251404964. doi:10.1177/00037028251404964

Ratz, T., Fourneau, E., Sliti, N., Malherbe, C., Baret, A., Vertruyen, B., Silhanek, A., & Nguyen, N. D. (23 October 2025). Crystalline transitions and point defects in (N, Mg)-doped copper oxide thin films deposited by radiofrequency magnetron sputtering [Poster presentation]. TCM-TOEO 2025, Rethymno, Greece.

Rensonnet, A., Eppe, G., & Malherbe, C. (10 September 2025). Hammett acidity functions via Raman spectroscopy as a tool to probe the acidity levels of ionic liquids [Paper presentation]. ILMAT2025.

Baret, A., Ratz, T., Fourneau, E., Sliti, N., Malherbe, C., Vertruyen, B., Silhanek, A., & Nguyen, N. D. (September 2025). Crystalline phase transitions and point defects in nitrogen and magnesium-doped copper oxide thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering under optimized pressure conditions [Poster presentation]. Belgian Crystallography Symposium - 13, Leuven, Belgium.

Malherbe, C., Hutchinson, I., Lerman, H., McHugh, M., & Eppe, G. (10 July 2025). Characterising the composition of olivine and iron oxides in a sample of the Sericho meteorite by Raman spectroscopy using Principal Component Analysis. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 56 (11), 1345. doi:10.1002/jrs.70019

Daem, N., Maho, A., Colson, P., Spronck, G., Malherbe, C., Hoang, T. H., Ghazzal, M.-N., He, G., Lang, F., Cloots, R., & Dewalque, J. (July 2025). Effect of cations substitution in lead-free double perovskite Cs2AgBiBr6 solar cells. Next Materials, 8, 100655. doi:10.1016/j.nxmate.2025.100655

Rensonnet, A., Eppe, G., & Malherbe, C. (2025). Influence of the Hammett Base Concentration on Acidity Levels in Ionic Liquids Using Raman Spectroscopy and Hammett Acidity Functions. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. doi:10.1002/jrs.6807

Stiernet, P., Verdin, A., Svanberg Frisinger, M. S., Grignard, B., Malherbe, C., Yuan, J., Monbaliu, J.-C., & Detrembleur, C. (21 January 2025). Rapid CO2 coupling to propargylic alcohols: unlocking the production of α-alkylidene cyclic carbonates via continuous flow. Green Chemistry, 27 (3), 722 - 730. doi:10.1039/d4gc05716c

Ratz, T., Fourneau, E., Sliti, N., Malherbe, C., Baret, A., Vertruyen, B., Silhanek, A., & Nguyen, N. D. (13 January 2025). Correlation between Material Properties, Crystalline Transitions, and Point Defects in RF Sputtered (N,Mg)-Doped Copper Oxide Thin Films. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 7 (2). doi:10.1021/acsaelm.4c01396

Malherbe, C., Hutchinson, I., LERMAN, H., McHugh, M., & Eppe, G. (2025). PCA as a simple tool to characterize the composition of olivine and other oxide minerals from a meteorite sample interrogated by Raman spectroscopy [Paper presentation]. 16th GeoRAMAN Conference, Greece.

Lange, A., Arwish, S., Rensonnet, A., Elamin, K., Abdurrokhman, I., Wojnarowska, Z., Rosenwinkel, M., Malherbe, C., Schönhoff, M., Zehbe, K., & Taubert, A. (2024). 3D Printable Polymer Electrolytes for Ionic Conduction based on Protic Ionic Liquids. Chemphyschem: A European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry, 202400849. doi:10.1002/cphc.202400849

Rensonnet, A., Eppe, G., & Malherbe, C. (31 July 2024). Implementation of the Hammett Acidity functions in Raman spectroscopy for determining the acidity level accessible in ionic liquids [Poster presentation]. 28th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy – ICORS 2024.

Rensonnet, A., Eppe, G., & Malherbe, C. (25 April 2024). Probing the acidity level of ionic liquids: implementation of the Hammett acidity functions in Raman spectroscopy [Poster presentation]. 29th EUCHEM conference on molten salts and ionic liquids (EUCHEMSIL 2024), Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, Spain.

Malherbe, C., Rensonnet, A., & Eppe, G. (April 2024). Studying the solvation of the proton in imidazolium ionic liquids using Raman Spectroscopy [Paper presentation]. 29th EUCHEM Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids (EUCHEMSIL), Spain.

Farcy, A., Lambert, S., Poelman, D., Yang, Z., Drault, F., Hermans, S., Drogui, P., Heinrichs, B., Malherbe, C., Eppe, G., Verdin, A., & Mahy, J. (2024). Influence of crystallographic facet orientations of sol-gel ZnO on the photocatalytic degradation of p-nitrophenol in water. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. doi:10.1007/s10971-023-06301-9

Rensonnet, A., & Malherbe, C. (2024). Experimental determination of solvation free energy of protons in non-protic ionic liquids using Raman spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. doi:10.1039/d3cp04741e

Malherbe, C., Rensonnet, A., & Eppe, G. (2024). Evaluating the solvation energy of the proton in super-acidic imidazolium ionic liquids using Raman Spectroscopy [Paper presentation]. 28th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy – ICORS 2024, Italy.

Petit, G., Malherbe, C., Bianchi, P., & Monbaliu, J.-C. (2024). Innovative Chalcogenide Transfer Agent for Improved Aqueous Quantum Dot Synthesis. Chemical Science. doi:10.1039/d4sc01135j

Verdin, A., Malherbe, C., Eppe, G., Arnould, Q., Delhotte, D., Baeten, V., & Pierna, J. A. F. (2024). Raman Spectroscopy. In Non-invasive and Non-destructive Methods for Food Integrity. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-76465-3_5

Rensonnet, A., Tipping, W. J., Malherbe, C., Faulds, K., Eppe, G., & Graham, D. (2023). Spectral fingerprinting of cellular lipid droplets using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and chemometric analysis. Analyst. doi:10.1039/d3an01684f

Delaunois, Y., Tits, A., Grossman, Q., Smeets, S., Malherbe, C., Eppe, G., van Lenthe, G. H., Ruffoni, D.* , & Compère, P.*. (2023). Design Strategies of the Mantis Shrimp Spike: How the Crustacean Cuticle Became a Remarkable Biological Harpoon? Natural Sciences. doi:10.22541/au.167199666.61851387/v1
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Valentin, M., Coibion, D., Vertruyen, B., Malherbe, C., Cloots, R., & Boschini, F. (21 December 2022). Macroporous Mannitol Granules Produced by Spray Drying and Sacrificial Templating. Materials, 16 (1), 25. doi:10.3390/ma16010025

Müller, W., Malherbe, C., De Pauw, E., & Eppe, G. (18 October 2022). An overview of Surface-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization mass spectrometry and its application to the biological research area [Paper presentation]. SRC Scientific Day 2022, Liège, Belgium.

Müller, W., Mc Cann, A., Arguelles Arias, A., Malherbe, C., Quinton, L., De Pauw, E., & Eppe, G. (08 June 2022). Imaging interspecies interactions in bacterial co-cultures using nanostructured DIUTHAME membranes in laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry [Poster presentation]. 70th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Minneapolis, United States - Minnesota.

Maia, M., Mc Cann, A., Malherbe, C., Far, J., Cunha, J., Eiras-Dias, J., Cordeiro, C., Eppe, G., Quinton, L., Figueiredo, A., De Pauw, E., & Sousa Silva, M. (2022). Grapevine leaf MALDI-MS imaging reveals the localisation of a putatively identified sucrose metabolite associated to Plasmopara viticola development. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 1012636. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.1012636

Pinzone, M., Nordoy, E. S., Eppe, G., Malherbe, C., Das, K., & Collard, F. (June 2021). First record of plastic debris in the stomach of a hooded seal pup from the Greenland Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 167, 112350. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112350

Thangaraj, V., Dewalque, J., Maho, A., Spronck, G., Malherbe, C., Aqil, A., Cloots, R., Colson, P., Jérôme, C., & Debuigne, A. (05 December 2020). Carbon-coated porous TiO2 layers templated by core-shell polymer particles: film processing and charge transfer resistance assessment. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 606, 125390. doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125390

Müller, W., Verdin, A., De Pauw, E., Malherbe, C., & Eppe, G. (2020). Surface‐assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging: A review. Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 1-48. doi:10.1002/mas.21670

Piffet, C., Vertruyen, B., Caes, S., Thomassin, J.-M., Broze, G., Malherbe, C., Boschini, F., Cloots, R., & Mahmoud, A. (2020). Aqueous processing of flexible, free-standing Li4Ti5O12 electrodes for Li-ion batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal, 397. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2020.125508

Emonds-Alt, G.* , Mignolet, B.* , Malherbe, C., Monbaliu, J.-C., Remacle, F., & Eppe, G. (2019). Understanding chemical interaction between phosphonate-derivative molecules and silver surface cluster in SERS: a combined experimental and computational approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. doi:10.1039/C9CP01615E
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Jungers, T., Mahmoud, A., Malherbe, C., Boschini, F., & Vertruyen, B. (11 March 2019). Sodium Iron Sulfate Alluaudite Solid Solution for Na-ion Batteries: Moving Towards Stoichiometric Na2Fe2(SO4)3. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7, 8226-8233. doi:10.1039/C9TA00116F

Defize, T., Thomassin, J.-M., Ottevaere, H., Malherbe, C., Eppe, G., Jellali, R., Alexandre, M., Jérôme, C., & Riva, R. (22 January 2019). Photo-cross-linkable coumarin-based poly(ϵ-caprolactone) for light-controlled design and reconfiguration of shape-memory polymer networks. Macromolecules, 52 (2), 444-456. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02188

Emonds-Alt, G., Mignolet, B., Malherbe, C., Monbaliu, J.-C., Remacle, F., & Eppe, G. (2018). A combined study of the binding of Glyphosate on silver nanoparticles and implications for SERS [Poster presentation]. Journée de département 2018.

Caes, S., Malherbe, C., Krins, N., Arrebola, J.-C., Henrist, C., Cloots, R., & Vertruyen, B. (2013). Lithium transition metal (Ti, Nb, V) oxide mesoporous thin films: contrasting results when attempting direct synthesis by evaporation-induced self assembly. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 172, 87-94. doi:10.1016/j.micromeso.2013.01.015

Malherbe, C., Robert, T., Gilbert, B., Magna, L., & Olivier Bourbigou, H. (2008). Tentative of determination of the acidity level in room temperature ionic liquids by electrochemical methods. ECS Transactions.