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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Hetterscheid

Promotor: Arjen Doelman, Co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer

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.

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

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.

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

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…

It is an established fact that the Standard Model has to be extended to explain the so-called Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) phenomena: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and neutrino flavour oscillations.

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

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

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.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: L. Juurlink

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

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Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk

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.

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

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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.

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Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

The focus throughout this thesis will be on gathering fundamental studies of the detailed structure and composition of the electrode/electrolyte interface effect on the rate and mechanism of key electrocatalytic reactions.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.