ScienceLink artikelen in C2W international, 2023
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EnglishWhat to do after a PhD? Exploring options
In this column, Isabelle Kohler explores alt-ac and non-academic positions to inspire PhD students as they prepare for their next career step.
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EnglishGhost of Mesosphere Present
Stratospheric discharges are not only beautiful, they are also the subject of research into what makes them so colourful.
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EnglishFWO Research projects senior 2024
The Flemisch FWO awarded funding for research projects by junior and senior researchers.
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EnglishNanobonds create macrofriction
Friction between silicon surfaces appears to depend mainly on the siloxane bonds that form between the two surfaces.
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EnglishChemistry research ready for Take-off
14 December it was announced which NWO Take-off projects will receive funding. The projects, consisting of feasibility studies and early-stage projects, are designed to see if they have commercial or societal applicability.
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EnglishBlue bead parade
The audience award of the ChemistryViews 2023 Photo Competition went to this atmospheric image of blue calcium alginate ‘beads’.
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EnglishMolecular research wins NWO Open Competition grants and Perspective projects
A large group of KNCV, NBV and NVBMB members had their applications accepted. An overview of the awarded projects.
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EnglishSinterklaas and AI
Isabelle reflects on how AI can affect our lives – from helping us write Sinterklaas poems to impacting the quality of our education system.
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EnglishWater oxidation with copper? Follow the rules!
Chemists in Leiden have established a set of guidelines that can lower the oxidation potential of copper-catalysed water oxidation.
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EnglishHidden intermediates uncovered with NMR
Using specialised NMR methods, you can discover what the reactive intermediates are in reactions of sugar molecules.
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EnglishTassos Perrakis – Proteins for the people
Tassos Perrakis studies the structure of proteins to understand how they interact and how that impacts cancer.
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EnglishFast, safe, simple: SuFEx click chemistry goes with the flow
In a flow system, sulphuryl fluoride can be attached to drug precursors, peptides and proteins quickly, safely and efficiently.
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EnglishMachine learning captures chemical intuition to speed up lead optimization
An implicit scoring model is capable of capturing ‘chemical intuition’, researchers from Novartis and Microsoft write in Nature Communications.
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EnglishAlina Chanaewa – Sensing carbon fibre composite cracks
Eddytec has developed an efficient method to quickly assess carbon fibre composites.
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EnglishGetting integrated in the Dutch academic world as a Swiss free electron
Isabelle Kohler reflects on the aftermath of the Dutch elections and shares her worries about the Balanced Internationalization bill.
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EnglishWatching neuropeptides in action thanks to revolutionary biosensors
Chinese researchers present new biosensors for real-time visualization of neuropeptides in Science.
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EnglishVibrating hairs enable quick release mechanism in mussels
Canadian researchers describe in Science the mechanism by which mussels can detach themselves very quickly.
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EnglishERC Consolidator Grants 2023 announced
Prestigious grants awarded to research into chimeric antigen receptors, metabolomics-based analysis and continuous enzyme evolution.
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EnglishEquilibrium disrupting coating
If you coat the inside of a microfluidic channel with poly-L-lysine, you can use it to influence signals in chemical reaction networks.
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EnglishChiral-at-metal: how to prevent racemisation
DFT calculations can be used to find out why chiral-at-metal complexes lose their chirality and how this can be prevented.