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    Methane pyrolysis: A balancing act on multiple levels

    2024-12-03T13:44:00Z

    Researchers from Utrecht, Eindhoven and Delft are teaming up with several industrial partners in a five-year multilateral ARC CBBC project to carry out optimisation at both atomic and reactor scale of methane pyrolysis.

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    Functional coatings are the future

    2024-12-02T12:31:00Z

    If you ask ARC CBBC researchers, future coatings will be able to adapt to light, temperature or chemicals and even be self-healing. 

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    Elexel: Accelerating electrochemical innovation

    2024-12-02T12:22:00Z

    Marie Brands just went for it. Driven by her passion for sustainability, she founded Elexel, an independent electrolyzer testing and scale-up service company. Though it is still in its early stages, she dreams big. 

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    The rise of electrosynthesis

    2024-12-02T12:13:00Z

    Electrosynthesis is gaining traction as an interesting method to enable sustainable production processes. For example, by creating relevant chemical building blocks from carbohydrates. 

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    Towards the Refinery of the Future

    2024-12-02T12:02:00Z

    Defining the future of the chemical industry is a good start, but realizing these visions will prove challenging. We asked Bas de Bruin, Guido Mul and Atsushi Urakawa, all of them PIs within ARC CBBC, to share their ideas on how we can turn that envisioned future into reality.

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    ‘It is important to know the industrial conditions’

    2024-12-02T11:35:00Z

    With the end of her PhD track in sight, Sofie Ferwerda explains how she navigates the worlds of academia and industry in her research, which includes a collaboration with BASF.

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    Circus

    2024-12-02T11:14:00Z

    You won’t see editor-in-chief Esther Thole charging down a black slope. But when it comes to mindblowing science, she can stomach steep descents and sharp curves. 

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    A passion for Green Chemistry

    2024-12-02T11:13:00Z

    When you’re driven by something bigger than yourself, it’s hard to put your work down, says Thomas Freese (32). 

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    Time for chemistry to change lanes

    2024-12-02T11:07:00Z

    To keep pace with a rapidly changing world, the chemical industry will have to reinvent itself, says Bert Weckhuysen, scientific director of the ARC CBBC consortium. 

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    Becoming a 21st century chemist

    2024-12-02T10:46:00Z

    Combining transdisciplinary challenge-based education with design thinking creates a unique environment for students to learn skills that will help them navigate sustainability transitions.

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    Creating colours

    2024-12-02T09:35:00Z

    Colour is an intriguing phenomenon, as it is truly in the eye of the beholder. To create that sensation of colour, nanometer-scale particles need to be structured in just the right way.