The filamentous bacteria Streptomyces are widespread inhabitants of terrestrial soils.

This project intends to provide the required knowledgebase for the design of novel mild intervention protocols to prevent fungal food spoilage.

The nanoscale structure of a catalyst under reaction conditions determines its activity, selectivity, and stability. For the production of sustainable energy and materials, new catalysts are needed. By understanding the structure-activity relationships of catalysts under reaction conditions, insight…

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.

Before the large scale use of renewable energy sources can be implemented in our society, the storage of electrical energy needs to be tackled. Storage the energy as hydrogen via the reduction of protons is a good option.

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Fungal food spoilage often starts with a contamination with spores. Experimental data strongly indicate the existence of subpopulations of spores with different levels of resistance to preservation methods.

How can cell wall engineering approaches be used to improve streptomycetes for industry to make new antibiotics?

The dissertation describes TEM experiments on heterogeneous catalysts.

In meta-analysis, heterogeneity often exists between studies. In such cases, it is essential to investigate the sources of heterogeneity and understand the relationship between effect size and study characteristics (i.e., moderators).

Heterogeneous catalysis is essential to many industrial applications. These catalysts are often comprised of supported nanoparticles, which contain various different surface sites.

Fundamental understanding of molecular reactions on metal surfaces is important for improving heterogeneous catalysis.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: J.B.F. Juurlink

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Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken, Co-Promotor: R. Felici

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Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Bacteria are highly complex and diverse organisms that have adapted to survive in ecological niches ranging from the most extreme to the most heterogeneous environments.

Promotor: Huub J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

What are the mysteries behind soft condensed matter?

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

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The chemical and structural heterogeneity of toxoid vaccines makes their analysis challenging. However, detailed insights on a molecular level can be obtained by mass spectrometry.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

The term “Lone Actor” has been applied to a variety of violent individuals who are thought to act out of ideological motivations using terrorist tactics.

Methods for accurately computing the interaction of molecules with metal surfaces are critical to understanding and thereby improving heterogeneous catalysis.

Molecular complexes can be used as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction, water oxidation, and/or hydrogen peroxide production.

Curved single crystals provide variable, but well-defined surface structures.

In the research programme Microbial Sciences we perform state-of-the-art research in the field of biotechnology and microbial sciences.

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The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we know little about how this empire emerged from a relatively minor polity in the Tigris region and how it managed to consolidate…

The main aim of this thesis was to unravel the signaling and regulatory networks that drive tumor cell migration during breast cancer metastasis.

What are the circadian disturbances underlying depression vulnerability? How are they related to mood, cognition and sleep ?

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-Promotor: J. de Jongh

Homicide followed by the suicide of the perpetrator often leads to shock and incomprehension. It has been suggested that media reporting on such cases could lead to an imitation effect.

Eine Analyse materieller Kultur römischer Kolonien in der Mikroregion von Suessa Aurunca, Minturnae und Sinuessa

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot, Co-Promotor: A. Alia

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

Nonadiabatic energy transfer from the translational motion (T) of a molecule impinging on metal surface to the metal’s electrons may determine whether the molecule can lose enough energy to adsorb or react.

Promotor: B. van de Water, Co-Promotores: J.H.N. Meerman, F.J. Verbeek