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On the road to renewable fuel 02 February 2018
Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere and fertilizers in the groundwater have negative consequences for our environment. With an electrochemical process...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018
With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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New insights on graphene 20 December 2017
Graphene floating on water does not repel water, as many researchers believe, but rather attracts it. This has been demonstrated by chemists Liubov Be...
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Mario van der Stelt appointed Professor of Molecular Physiology 19 December 2017
Mario van der Stelt has been appointed Professor of Molecular Physiology at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry with effect from 1 November 2017.
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017
Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...
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DNA as a supramolecular building block 08 December 2017
PhD student Willem Noteborn has investigated supramolecular structures. These can be useful for the loading of medicines and signalling molecules rega...
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A close view of a light-stress sensor in photosynthesis 01 December 2017
Plants use sunlight to perform photosynthesis, but with too much light they have to dim their activity and protect their cells against photo damage. T...
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Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry awards PhD project to David Klein 21 November 2017
Leiden based chemistry student and chess grandmaster proposes molecular system for development of artificial leaf
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Graphene sensors detect HIV DNA 26 October 2017
Leiden and Jülich researchers discovered an elegant and simple approach to improve the sensitivity of graphene biosensors. These so-called ‘next gener...
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Interview with Huub de Groot for Leiden Open Access Blog 25 October 2017
Open Access means shared responsibility for research programs. An interview with Prof. Huub de Groot for the Leiden Open Access Blog in the scope of t...
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Dick Stufkens Prize 2017 awarded to chemist Sven Askes 16 October 2017
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2017 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) is awarded to Dr Sven Askes. In hi...
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Annelot van Esbroeck wins Best Oral Communication Prize 21 September 2017
Annelot van Esbroeck-Weevers, PhD student at the Molecular Physiology research group at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, headed by Dr. Mario van der...
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Joanna Aizenberg awarded the 2017 Havinga Medal 18 September 2017
Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2017 Havinga Medal. She is awarded for her eminent and original contributions ...
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Mechanism captured behind platinum catalyst 07 September 2017
Cars are equipped with catalysts to disarm toxic exhaust gases. Platinum plays an important role there. Leiden physicists and chemists have now for th...
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Faculty of Science kicks off academic year sustainably with electrocatalysis and a surprise 05 September 2017
In a full lecture hall C1 the Faculty of Science started off the new academic year on Tuesday 5 September. The theme of the meeting was, just as it ha...