PhD student Willem Noteborn has investigated supramolecular structures. These can be useful for the loading of medicines and signalling molecules rega...

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...

Leiden based chemistry student and chess grandmaster proposes molecular system for development of artificial leaf

Miriam Moester joined the LIC in November as lecturer Academic Writing Skills for the MSc students Chemistry & LST. She will teach the course AWR in t...

Are you interested in working with an international team of researchers, with an experimental setup at the forefront of instrumental development? Join...

Leiden and Jülich researchers discovered an elegant and simple approach to improve the sensitivity of graphene biosensors. These so-called ‘next gener...

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...

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...

Annelot van Esbroeck-Weevers, PhD student at the Molecular Physiology research group at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, headed by Dr. Mario van der...

Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2017 Havinga Medal. She is awarded for her eminent and original contributions ...

Cars are equipped with catalysts to disarm toxic exhaust gases. Platinum plays an important role there. Leiden physicists and chemists have now for th...

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...

Surface Reaction Barriometry: Methane Dissociation on Flat and Stepped Transition-Metal Surfaces.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This awa...

American philanthropist Dr Raymond Sackler has died at the age of 97. Dr Sackler was a psychiatrist and developer of medicines, with which he made his...