Oriane de Leuze

Oriane de Leuze is a PhD student in UCLouvain (IMCN), finishing her thesis about charge transport in MXenes and their prospects for gas sensing applications. Since MXenes are 2D materials made of µm-sized flakes, scanning probe microscopy is one of the most important tools of her experimental work. During her PhD thesis, she used the electrical modes of the AFM to obtain nanoscale insights on charge transport mechanisms of MXenes, that she could share with other AFM-enthusiasts on several occasions during the Forum des Microscopies à Sonde Locales (http://www.sondeslocales.fr/). Apart from the excitement to reach the nanoscale with scanning probe microscopy, she always had great pleasure interacting with the AFM-STM community, filled with kind, passionate people always happy to collaborate.

Oriane de Leuze

Recent AFM related papers

• de Leuze O., Berthe M., Hermans S. & Hackens B. (2026) Nanoscale Evidence of Junction-Limited Transport in Ti3C2Tx MXene Small e14361

• de Leuze O., Fernandes F.M., Arib S., Caputo L., Fontes A.P., Nguyen V., Pazniak H., Nysten B., Charlier J., Hermans S. & Hackens B. (2025) Anisotropic charge transport in 2D single crystals of Ti3C2Tx MXenes Communications Materials 6, 186

• Avila L.B., de Leuze O., Pohlitz M., Villena M.A., Torres-Cavanillas R., Ducarme C., Temporao A.L., Coppée T.G., Moureaux A., Arib S., Coronado E., Müller C.K., Roldán J.B., Hackens B. & Abreu Araujo F. (2026) K-ion intercalation memristors in prussian blue analogs revealed by C-AFM for Non-Volatile memory and Neuromorphic Computing arXiv:2601.04724

Biography: Oriane obtained her master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2021, after which she pursued a PhD in the research group of Benoît Hackens, in the Institute of Condensed Matter at UCLouvain. She was introduced to AFM at this time, and more specifically Conductive-AFM.

LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/oriane-de-leuze-608248138 

Instagram: @orianedlz

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