Features – Pagina 9
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EnglishSafe tattoo ink hurts (entrepreneurs) a lot
Dutch tattoo parlours are currently desperate for REACH-compliant tattoo ink. Since 4 January, their old ink inventory has become unusable, and the alternative is still a long way off.
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English‘Don’t forget that plastic also contributes to a more sustainable world’
Since October 2021 Gijs Langeveld is behind the wheel at the Polymer Science Park. How does he see the future of the PSP under his leadership?
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English‘Many basic aspects of chemistry come together in glycochemistry’
Besides her efforts in outreach, inclusivity, diversity and helping early-stage researchers, Marthe Walvoort is building a career based on sugars.
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EnglishQuantum effects in biology: a load of rubbish or the only explanation?
Entanglement, tunnelling and coherence may also do their work in the warm, messy environment of the biological cell.
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English‘We did not expect to see this within our scientific career’
Science and Nature consider the prediction of protein folding with artificial intelligence to be the scientific breakthrough of 2021.
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EnglishPuzzling for biomarkers with MS and IR lasers
With infrared spectroscopy in a mass spectrometer you can combine the information from both measurement techniques.
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EnglishLooking beyond university
Marina Pilz Da Cunha stepped out of academia after her award-winning PhD for a job at an Amsterdam startup.
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EnglishWhen the risk seems gone
A clear protocol for first responders is needed in order to understand the effects of (minor) chemical accidents and exposure to hazardous materials.
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English120 years of Nobel Prize in Chemistry: from barely news to media frenzy
In 1901, the very first Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the Dutch chemist J.H. van ‘t Hoff. The site of his laboratory recently became National Chemical Heritage.
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EnglishCees Dekker is driven by wonder
Halfway through his career, Cees Dekker shifted his focus to ‘nanobiology’ at the turn of the millennium. A term he coined himself, as a matter of fact.
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EnglishThe energy transition is an issue of righteousness
As a chemist, how do you contribute to an effective and fair energy transition?
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EnglishSupercritical goes for complementarity
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) is a chromatography technique with a lot of promise, but it has yet to gain popularity.
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EnglishBizarre chemistry for everyone
Whether you want to learn or see something spectacular, YouTube channel NileRed has interesting videos for everyone.
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EnglishIntracellular antagonists against diseases
The winner of the MCCB PhD Thesis Award 2021 is Dr Natalia Ortiz-Zacarias. The jury found her research to be original, multidisciplinary and ground-breaking.
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EnglishThe two billion bold move that will lead us out of the covid pandemic
We spoke with Pfizer chief Marc Kaptein about the technology of the mRNA platform and the price of vaccines, among other things.
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EnglishCrenarchaeol, a molecule of superlatives
Crenarchaeol is considered an ‘iconic molecule’ in organic geochemistry. Adri Minnaard’s PhD student Mira Holzheimer almost managed to synthesise it.
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EnglishAnalysing the Night Watch with top-notch chemistry
Katrien Keune uses complex, heterogeneous samples to try to better understand pieces of art. She is currently responsible for Operation Night Watch.
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EnglishWhy a PhD is not your only option
For many university students, it may seems like the only option: after your master’s you ‘must’ do a PhD, otherwise your chances on the labour market are limited. But nothing could be further from the truth, as four master’s graduates show.
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EnglishParadigm shift in organic chemistry
A paradigm in organic chemistry that has been in use since 1931 has turned out to be wrong, Amsterdam scientists found. It is not carbon s-p hybridisation, but steric repulsion that causes the variation of e.g. C-H bond lengths. ‘This discovery has been in the making for about twenty years.’
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Artificial intelligence for photochemistry
The group of Shirin Faraji has developed a toolkit that drastically speeds up calculations on photochemical processes thanks to artificial intelligence.