Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

Promotor: Arjen Doelman, Co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer

Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk

One of the effects of climate change is the phenomenon of desertification, a process that occurs in semi-arid and arid areas and causes land degradation as well as vegetation loss. Due to the lack of resources, vegetation self-organizes to sustain itself by forming large-scale spatial patterns.

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

This thesis describes the use of a combined approach of computational and experimental techniques to gain novel insights to understand the glycosylation reaction and its reactive intermediates.

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

This thesis has shed light on some of the ways in which the local electrolyte composition can differ from the bulk and how these changes in the local reaction environment can determine the activity and/or selectivity of two important electrocatalytic reactions, namely, electrochemical CO2 reduction…

The glycosylation reaction is a pivotal reaction in creating new and complex oligosaccharides.

Promotor: T.J. Aartsma, Co-promotor: R.N. Frese

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman

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

The research presented in this thesis makes use of small molecules (as H2 , D2 and O2 ) on well-defined single crystal surfaces (flat Pt(111), flat Cu(211) and curved Pt(111)) to elucidate the role of surface structure and degrees of freedom in the reactant in specific surface reactions.

A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

Hetterscheid

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotores: G.W. Canters, T.J. Aartsma

In this thesis chemical and physical processes in the ice mantles on interstellar dust grains are studied.

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

In this thesis we study bistable reaction-diffusion equations on lattice domains.

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are used as a current carrying substrate in investigation of current-induced forces in a low-temperature STM (chapter 2).

Several techniques are explored for going beyond the born-oppenheimer static surface model for molecule-surface reactions.

In this thesis, we study travelling waves in stochastic reaction-diffusion equations. We extend techniques from the deterministic theory for travelling waves to apply to the stochastic version, which allows us to compute the stochastic wave speed and shape, and draw conclusions on the stability of the…

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz, Co-Promotores: S. Ioppolo, H.M. Cuppen

In this dissertation iron-based homogeneous catalysts were synthesized, characterized and investigated for water oxidation activity.

Kieltyka

Catalysis is of extreme relevance in the production of everyday materials and plays a central role in many aspects of our life.

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

The redox-conversion reaction of metal-disulfide and metal-thiolate complexes are important, as they may shed light on electron-transfer reactions that often occur in Nature.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotors: A.I. Yanson, L.B.F. Juurlink

Sustainable energy from wind and solar is most readily available near the sea.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel, M. van Heel

To design the ideal water oxidation catalyst, understanding of the catalytic mechanism and decomposition pathways is essential.

Promotor: V. Vitelli, Co-promotor: J. Paulose

Synthetic microswimmers take an important place within the interdisciplinary field of active soft matter.

Bicarbonate buffer is largely found in nature due to its ability to regulate pH variations around neutral values. As the pH changes, so does the speciation of the buffer.

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

This thesis investigates the relations between metabolism and anatomy through the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Multicopper oxidase, laccase, can efficiently reduce oxygen to water and are mostly used in the enzymatic biofuel cells.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.W.M. Frenken

Promotor: T. Schmidt

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

Dissociative chemisorption is an important reaction step in many catalytic reactions.