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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant21 June 2021Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Magic Angle Spinning NMR structure determination in magnetic environments on the cover of SSNMR27 May 2021First author Rubin Dasgupta, PhD student at the Biophysical Organic Chemistry & Macromolecular Biochemistry groups at the Leiden Institute of Chemistr...
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‘Look beyond your own discipline’07 May 2021Good research means looking beyond disciplinary boundaries, said Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Remus Dame in his inaugural lecture ...
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How do plants protect themselves against too much sunlight?22 April 2021That a switching protein plays a role in protecting a plant from too much sunlight was already known, but how exactly was not yet understood. The rese...
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Third time's a charm: ERC Advanced Grant for Marc Koper22 April 2021Electrochemist Marc Koper has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for research into chemical reactions driven by electrodes and el...
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Chemistry research for better chemotherapy Finalist PNAS paper award19 March 2021Last year, chemists Dennis Wander and Hermen Overkleeft contributed to an important discovery about a widely used cancer drug. Their research has now ...
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences16 February 2021The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists...
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi04 February 2021Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the alg...
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Polluted water as a source of fertilizer26 January 2021It may well be possible to remove nitrate from polluted groundwater and at the same time produce ammonia in a sustainable way, according to PhD candid...
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The Erasmus+ grant opens doors18 January 2021What is it like to participate in the Erasmus+ grant programme as a Master's student from Ukraine? Yevhenii Radchenko did an eight-month internship at...
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Density functional theory is an accurate predictor for variation with geometry of barriers for reactions on metals15 December 2020A semi-empirical version of the specific reaction parameter approach to density functional theory (SRP-DFT) has been remarkably successful at predicti...
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Marc Koper wins Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemical Science11 December 2020
Electrochemist Marc Koper has won a special award: the Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemical Science. 'Allen Bard has always been a great example to ...
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Cathodic corrosion: devastating but predictable08 December 2020An indian stepwell on a nanoscale. That is what postdoc Nakkiran Arulmozhi calls the pattern he saw when he corroded a special kind of platinum crysta...
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When semi-local DFT is accurate for dissociative chemisorption on a transition metal surface, and when it is not01 December 2020Density functional theory (DFT) with so-called semi-local exchange has been remarkable accurate for some dissociative chemisorption reactions on metal...
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Ingenious experiment finally reveals how gold oxidises water20 November 2020Using a clever experiment, PhD candidate Shengxiang Yang discovered how gold electrodes convert water into oxygen. He is the first to unravel the mech...