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The Erasmus+ grant opens doors 18 January 2021
What 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 metals 15 December 2020
A 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 Science 11 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 predictable 08 December 2020
An 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 not 01 December 2020
Density 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 water 20 November 2020
Using 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 society 05 November 2020
Hermen 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 closer 19 October 2020
Leiden 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 Koenis 15 October 2020
The 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 meningococcus 06 October 2020
Leiden 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 abroad 30 September 2020
Chemist 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 chemistry 24 September 2020
A 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 setting 07 September 2020
From 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 grants 31 August 2020
Four 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 Chemistry 31 August 2020
With Sylvestre Bonnet, Jeroen Codée and Remus Dame, the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) will be getting no less than three new professors. Bonnet ...