Eye-openers
Regra – Reducing emissions with organic fertilizers
Thomas Vos and Robin Coes know what plants need, collect this from various sources and process these sources into a high-quality fertilizer pellet.
Paques Biomaterials – Natural alternative to plastic
Paques Biomaterials developed an alternative to plastic which does not accumulate in the food chain.
Jos Malda – Printing living cartilage implants
Jos Malda uses 3D bioprinting to create living cartilage implants that can replace damaged tissue and restore strength.
Mike Nuiten – Vegan fungal leather
Mike Nuiten explains how you could use the underground network of fungi called Mycelium to produce vegan leather.
Torwash – Toilets as source for green chemicals
Torwash developed a process to convert the sludge into granules that can be used for green chemistry.
Tim den Hartog – Making chemical industry more sustainable with light
We can use light to make the chemical industry more sustainable. Unfortunately, implementation is lagging.
Annemarie Maan – Life without stickiness
How nice would it be if the cleaning of sewers became redundant? That is why Annemarie Maan is doing research into dirt-repellent layers.
Leon Smook – Can you smell without your nose?
Leon Smook is investigating the possibilities of an artificial nose, which can identify odors at a molecular level.
Aerocount – Insight into air quality
Beate Stevens of Aerocount developed a way to measure the amount and type of particulate matter in the air.
Tanja Moerdijk – Edible packaging from seaweed
By using seaweed as the starting material, Tanja Moerdijk creates food packaging that offer more than just a packaging.
Photosynthetic – Making the fastest microscale 3D printing technology
Photosynthetic has created an algorithm for a 3D printer that can make materials at the microscale by shining tiny beams of light into liquid chemicals that thereby become hard polymers.
Synvenio – Connecting chemistry and biology
Synvenio developed a platform to make chemical methods accessible to researchers with limited chemical knowledge.
Sobhan Neyrizi – Turning carbondioxide into fuel
The air is full of CO2. How nice would it be if we could turn that into fuel?
Riccardo Levato – Bio-inkts to print living tissues
Living cells in the 3D printer, how do you go about it? Riccardo Levato explains it in 1 minute.
Relement – Vegetable aromatics for durable coatings
Start-up from Bergen op Zoom succeeded in developing the one missing aromatic ingredient.
Caffe Inc. – Environmentally friendly ingredients made from coffee waste
Do you know what percentage of a coffee bean actually ends up in your stomach?
Isabelle Kohler – Mirror images of designer drugs: does it matter?
Chirality plays an important role in drugs. Isabelle Kohler investigates left- and right-handed molecules
Anja Wilmes – Personalised medicine
Medicines sometimes work differently for each person. Anja Wilmes investigates possibilities to make medicines more personal.
Trevor A. Hamlin – The mechanisms of a chemical reaction
Understanding the mechanisms behind chemical reactions allows you to use this knowledge to develop products efficiently and sustainably.
Barbara Zarzycka – Drug design based on 3D structure
Barbara Zarzycka studies interactions between drugs and protein structures and tries to predict the effect of (future) medicines.
Photo Chemistry
About the birds and the genes
Chinese researchers show which gene in monkeyflowers has been altered so that the flowers no longer produce yellow pigment.
Synthetic painting
Organic chemistry is not always exciting when it comes to using colour: white powders, colourless liquids. But it can also produce beautiful pictures.
What does a brain ‘sound’ like?
We know ultrasounds as grainy grey pictures, but with the latest imaging techniques, they can look like this.
Traitor macrophages light up
Floris van Dalen, PhD student at RadboudUMC, took this image of mouse macrophages acting as a model for TAMs.
Enlightening nerves
Most biological cells are not very special to see unless you pass some fluorescent compounds through them. These brain cells also have an unusual shape.
Soap bubble solar cell
You can see solar panels appearing on more and more rooftops. But Saudi scientists printed a solar cell on a bubble.
Chem brûlée
Most mixtures that chemists create in the lab may not always look special or appetising. But every once in a while, you would be tempted to take a bite of your product.
Light at the end of the tunnel
Everyone’s bowels are different. One person’s gut reacts violently to certain foods or medications, while another’s doesn’t suffer at all.
‘Highest resolution ever’
With AFM, researchers at UCL get close to the reality of the surface of a bacterium.
