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Opening Event Three New Leiden Wall Formulas 16 November 2017
The inner city of Leiden has gained three new wall formulas. On Wednesday 22 November at 15:30 in the Klein Auditorium, alderman Robert Strijk will re...
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Sander Blok wins LION Image Award 2017 10 November 2017
Sander Blok has won the third edition of the annual LION Image Award. He created a colorful image of gold nanoparticles with a low-energy electron mic...
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics Ladies Day 08 November 2017
On Thursday 9 November, Leiden University organized its annual Physics Ladies Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, we put th...
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Michel Orrit receives Spinoza Prize in Royal Theatre 13 September 2017
On September 12, Michel Orrit received his Spinoza prize in the Royal Theatre in The Hague from OCW Secretary of State Sander Dekker. With the award c...
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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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New Alzheimer’s research method uses muons 06 September 2017
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. This makes fundamental research on the precise cause of the illness of vital importance. One...
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Solution to distortion effect STM scanning 27 June 2017
STM scanning experiments on poorly conducting materials are challenging, and can cause a distortion effect. A new model corrects for this effect, allo...
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Spinoza Prize for Michel Orrit, Professor of Spectroscopy 16 June 2017
It is partly thanks to Leiden professor Michel Orrit that we are today able to study individual molecules. He just missed winning a Nobel Prize, but i...
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Physicists image individual molecules by watching them absorb light 13 April 2017
Molecules are extremely hard to see in visible light, especially without using fluorescence. Leiden physicists have now made their optical technique s...
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New way of tracking nanoparticles 06 April 2017
Nanoparticles are widely used, but their effect on the environment is unclear because they are hard to track. Leiden physicists have developed a new m...
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Gold nano-antennas reveal single molecules’ electrochemical properties 27 February 2017
Individual molecules are extremely hard to see through feeble fluorescence. Tiny gold nanorods serve as new antennas to intensify their signal 500 tim...
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Interactions in Designer Materials Unveiled 29 November 2016
Graphene and other layered materials combine into completely new substances. Leiden physicists establish the ground rules for designing such materials...
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Making flawless graphene coatings 28 November 2016
Graphene, the ultra-thin wonder material just a single carbon atom in thickness, holds the promise of such impressive applications as wear-resistant, ...
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LEELIS Conference on future of computer chips 15 November 2016
A collaboration of physicists and chemists organized the LEELIS conference on new computer chip technology in Amsterdam on 10-11 November. Leiden phys...
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Opening event wall formulas Snellius and Lorentz 26 October 2016
On Thursday 3 November Leiden University will celebrate the official opening of two wall formulas in the city centre. As of now, Snell’s law and the L...