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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’ 08 February 2019
His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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Two cum laude distinctions for storing renewable energy 05 February 2019
Both Leon Jacobse and Thom Hersbach from Marc Koper's research group obtained their PhDs cum laude. They both investigated changes on the surface of a...
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SUNRISE: from sunlight to smart city 01 February 2019
The European Project SUNRISE, ‘Solar energy for a circular economy’, has been selected as one of the six Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) within...
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Leiden starts exchange with Poland 17 January 2019
Leiden University has started a collaboration with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. The project includes the exchange of students and sta...
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Unraveling the mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis 14 January 2019
Leiden chemists discovered a new mechanism which might explain how multiple sclerosis shifts to a more severe form. Their findings contribute to unrav...
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Chemists solve persistent problem after four decades 11 January 2019
After almost four decades, Leiden and Eindhoven chemists have resolved the discussion about the correct model for the simplest chemical reaction in he...
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Roxanne Kieltyka in NRC: 'My dream is a gel for every cell' 07 January 2019
Roxanne Kieltyka was interviewed for NRC and talks about squaramides, cell cultures and Goldilocks.
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Chemical bond versus electromagnetic waves 21 December 2018
Vibrating carbon monoxide molecules adsorbed at the surface of a salt crystal stop moving after a few milliseconds. Scientists now discovered this is ...
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Droplet formation caught on camera 20 December 2018
Those pesky raindrops that get you wet on your way to work, are formed high up in the sky from clouds of water vapour. The process of nucleation descr...
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Promotional video for LMCat project released 14 December 2018
The European FET-Horizon2020 LMCat project of Dr. Irene Groot has released a promotional video showing the role graphene could play in our daily lives...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 2018 13 December 2018
Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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Cutting and pasting with graphene 10 December 2018
To date it has proved very difficult to convert the promises of the miracle material graphene into practical applications. Amedeo Bellunato, PhD candi...
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Building molecules with sustainable energy 15 November 2018
The E2CB programme has been launched to bring CO2 emissions to zero by 2050. The goal: to produce all raw materials for the chemical industry from sus...
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NWO TOP grants for two Leiden chemists 12 November 2018
Using photosynthesis to generate energy, or using enzymes to effectively produce biofuel; Leiden chemists Huub de Groot en Hermen Overkleeft have both...
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2018 awarded to chemical physicist Stefan Vuckovic 05 November 2018
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2018 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) will be awarded to Dr Stefan Vuckov...