International – Pagina 29
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InternationalVegan spider silk
Researchers have developed a sustainable and plant-based alternative material for disposable plastics, imitating the structure of spider silk with soya proteins.
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InternationalCrenarchaeol, 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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InternationalAnalysing 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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InternationalConcentrated sunlight helps CO2 conversion
With plasmonic nanoparticles and somewhat concentrated sunlight, you can convert CO2 to CO much more efficiently without having to use high temperatures.
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InternationalWhy 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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InternationalParadigm 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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InternationalCopper pyramids catalyse ethylene glycol production
Australian researchers have discovered that copper atoms in pyramid-like structures selectively convert CO and CO2 into ethylene glycol (C2H6O2).
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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.
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Bye bye Debye
For almost a century nobody wanted to burn their fingers on the Debye-Hückel theory. Now, Maarten Biesheuvel is putting a bomb under it.
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Artificial heart: where organs and robotics meet
A European research team from Amsterdam and Eindhoven is developing an artificial heart that ‘fuses’ with the human body.
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Electrochemical gardening
On a zinc disc-electrode, you can plant a micro-garden by corroding it in a sulfuric acid solution, without the need of a green thumb.
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InternationalLive visualisation of battle between cell and virus
With the new imaging technique VIRIM, you can follow the course of a virus infection in greater detail than ever before.
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Mobile replication machinery comes to a halt
Certain sequences on the genome can stop the motile start proteins of DNA replication.
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‘The chemical industry in the Netherlands wants to be a leader in sustainability’
Right before the Dutch elections, the VNCI together with the VNPI organised an election debate in January.