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The role of bubble formation in sustainable hydrogen production 10 August 2023The sustainable production of hydrogen could potentially be made more efficient by adding a cleverly chosen salt to the process. Researchers at the Le...
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New research facility for the energy transition 09 May 2023Leiden University is part of a Dutch consortium that will receive 4.7 million euros from NWO to build a facility that makes controlled, thin layers of...
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Two thesis awards for research on electrochemical reactions 20 April 2023Understanding the proces of electrochemical reactions is essential to improve the technology for the energy transition. Fuel cell cars, for example us...
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This is how physicists contribute to the energy transition 10 March 2023Studying surfaces of solid materials: it may not seem relevant to energy consumption, but it is. Marcel Rost studies how platinum electrodes wear out....
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Hunt for cheap metals that help store sustainable energy 29 November 2022Storing energy is one of the biggest challenges in the energy transition. Hydrogen could be a solution. Chemist Daan den Boer is researching how to ma...
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Electrochemistry for renewable energy 29 March 2022Imagine we could convert the greenhouse gas CO2 into synthetic fuels using sustainable energy. This would enable us to reduce the amount of CO2 and at...
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Sabine Wenzel wins first Surface Science Young Investigator award 02 February 2022Ever did something for the first time and got an award for it? Sabine Wenzel did. Her research about the surface of zinc oxide won her the Surface Sci...
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Century-old electrochemistry law gets update 19 January 2022
The Gouy-Chapman theory describes what happens near an electrode when it is in contact with a salt solution, but this description does not match real...
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors 14 October 2021Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have...
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Chemist Marc Koper receives Spinoza Prize for research on electrolysis 03 September 2021Professor Marc Koper researches how you can use electrical energy to make or break chemical bonds. He has just been awarded a Spinoza Prize, the Nethe...
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Leiden chemists improve electrochemical production of sustainable chemical building blocks 16 August 2021If you could convert CO2 into building blocks for other molecules with the help of electricity, you could make the chemical industry considerably more...
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Third time's a charm: ERC Advanced Grant for Marc Koper 22 April 2021Electrochemist Marc Koper has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for research into chemical reactions driven by electrodes and el...
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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 2020An 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 water 20 November 2020Using a clever experiment, PhD candidate Shengxiang Yang discovered how gold electrodes convert water into oxygen. He is the first to unravel the mech...