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Reedijk Symposium 2015 - Guest Lecturers: Prof. Bas de Bruin & Prof. Dame Carol Robinson 09 October 2015
On Friday October 30th 2015 the sixth annual Jan Reedijk Symposium will be held. The main lectures of the day will be "Catalytic Radical-Type Transfor...
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Designing better catalysts using simple chemical concepts 08 October 2015
An international team of researchers, including Federico Calle-Vallejo of Leiden University’s Institute of Chemistry, have taken the atomic-scale desi...
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2015 awarded to chemist Tatu Kumpulainen 05 October 2015
The Dick Stufkens Prijs for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Dr Tatu S. Kumpulain...
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Cost-effective catalyst converts CO2 into natural gas 02 September 2015
A discovery made in Leiden helps not only to make natural gas from CO2 but also to store renewable energy. Research by Professor Marc Koper and PhD st...
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Fat-free mayonnaise thanks to manipulation of surface tension 11 August 2015
Aqueous solutions of proteins and carbohydrates separate into two parts with an extremely ‘soft’ boundary surface. The surface tension between these t...
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Research shows protein movement is important 20 July 2015
Researchers led by Professor of Chemistry Marcellus Ubbink have recently published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) a...
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Fundamental research on optimal quality tin coatings 14 July 2015
Leiden Professor Marc Koper will be carrying out research on the chemical process underlying tin coating in order to optimise the quality of tin coati...
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Drug development: how can we make it more efficient? 14 July 2015
It takes years to develop new medicines, from the test tube to trials in humans. During the process it often happens that a drug that seems promising ...
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New measuring method facilitates drug research 29 May 2015
Leiden chemical biologists led by Dr Mario van der Stelt have developed a method to facilitate the search for new drugs. This method has allowed them ...
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Marc Koper appointed Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry 13 May 2015
Marc Koper has been selected as one of the six new fellows in 2015 of the International Society of Electrochemistry.
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Hermen Overkleeft wins the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award 07 May 2015
Prof. Hermen Overkleeft has been awarded the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his innovative and insightful development...
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A chemical connection that affects your immune system 13 April 2015
A group of chemists, that includes Sander van Kasteren and Hermen Overkleeft, has discovered that azides, a certain type of chemical compound, can det...
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European roadmap for graphene applications in science and technology 24 February 2015
More than 60 European researchers and industry partners have set out their roadmap for the application of graphene in marketed products. Leiden chemis...
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4 Vici awards for Leiden researchers 13 February 2015
Chemist Alexander Kros and astronomer Joop Schaye are two of the four Leiden researchers who have been awarded a Vici as part of NWO's Innovation Rese...
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Anthe Janssen receives Unilever Research Prize 2014 01 December 2014
Anthe Janssen graduated ‘summa cum laude’ for the master’s programme Chemistry.He used NMR methods to gain insight in the syntheses and behavior of bi...