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The Erasmus+ grant opens doorsWhat 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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Marc Koper wins Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemical ScienceElectrochemist 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 predictableAn 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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Ingenious experiment finally reveals how gold oxidises waterUsing a clever experiment, PhD candidate Shengxiang Yang discovered how gold electrodes convert water into oxygen. He is the first to unravel the mech...
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ERC Synergy Grant to unlock sugar codes for health and a sustainable societyHermen Overkleeft and his colleagues Gideon Davies (University of York) and Carme Rovira (University of Barcelona) will receive a 9.1 million euros Sy...
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New insight brings sustainable hydrogen one step closerLeiden chemists Marc Koper and Ian McCrum have discovered that the degree to which a metal binds to the oxygen atom of water is decisive for how well ...
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Dick Stufkens Prize 2020 awarded to physical chemist Mark KoenisThe Dick Stufkens Prize 2020 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry has been awarded to Dr Mark Koenis. Koenis ...
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A synthetic vaccine against meningococcusLeiden chemists recreated the bacterial capsule of meningococcus in the lab. With a few modifications, these capsules can serve as an extra safe and e...
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Three Leiden researchers receive Rubicon Grant for research abroadChemist Liubov Belyaeva, psychologist Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam and LUMC researcher Elisa Giacomelli have received a Rubicon Grand and will therefore ...
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New research shows the limitations of coordination in chemistryA common assumption in chemistry is that the coordination number of a catalyst's surface determines the reactivity of the reaction it catalyses. Strik...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely settingFrom a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Four bold Faculty of Science researchers receive NWO XS grantsFour scientists from the Faculty of Science will receive a grant of up to 50,000 euros in the Open Competition Domain Science - XS from science financ...
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Three new professors for the Leiden Institute of ChemistryWith Sylvestre Bonnet, Jeroen Codée and Remus Dame, the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) will be getting no less than three new professors. Bonnet ...
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Three LUF grants for talented Leiden Science researchersFighting against cancer, antibiotic resistance and disposable plastics: Ahmed Ali, Fredj Ben Bdira, and Valerio Barbarossa receive a LUF grant for the...
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Scientists find strong evidence that wasting syndrome is the same for all organismsAn interdisciplinary team of Leiden researchers has discovered that wasting syndrome, a severe byproduct of tuberculosis, is the same for all humans a...