Eye-openers

THOMAS REGRA

Regra – Reducing emissions with organic fertilizers

2023-03-15T13:55:00+00:00

Thomas Vos and Robin Coes know what plants need, collect this from various sources and process these sources into a high-quality fertilizer pellet.

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Paques Biomaterials – Natural alternative to plastic

2023-03-08T13:37:00+00:00

Paques Biomaterials developed an alternative to plastic which does not accumulate in the food chain.

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Jos Malda – Printing living cartilage implants

2023-03-01T13:02:00+00:00

Jos Malda uses 3D bioprinting to create living cartilage implants that can replace damaged tissue and restore strength.

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Mike Nuiten – Vegan fungal leather

2023-02-21T14:44:00+00:00

Mike Nuiten explains how you could use the underground network of fungi called Mycelium to produce vegan leather.

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Torwash – Toilets as source for green chemicals

2023-02-16T11:37:00+00:00

Torwash developed a process to convert the sludge into granules that can be used for green chemistry.

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Tim den Hartog – Making chemical industry more sustainable with light

2023-02-08T09:46:00+00:00

We can use light to make the chemical industry more sustainable. Unfortunately, implementation is lagging. 

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Annemarie Maan – Life without stickiness

2023-01-31T14:08:00+00:00

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 Eye-Opener

Leon Smook – Can you smell without your nose?

2023-01-24T12:56:00+00:00

Leon Smook is investigating the possibilities of an artificial nose, which can identify odors at a molecular level.

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Aerocount – Insight into air quality

2023-01-17T15:49:00+00:00

Beate Stevens of Aerocount developed a way to measure the amount and type of particulate matter in the air.

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Tanja Moerdijk ​– Edible packaging from seaweed

2022-12-08T10:09:00+00:00

By using seaweed as the starting material, Tanja Moerdijk creates food packaging that offer more than just a packaging.

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Photosynthetic – Making the fastest microscale 3D printing technology

2022-08-10T12:06:00+01:00

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.

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Synvenio ​– Connecting chemistry and biology

2022-05-05T08:33:00+01:00

Synvenio developed a platform to make chemical methods accessible to researchers with limited chemical knowledge.

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Sobhan Neyrizi – Turning carbondioxide into fuel

2022-03-28T10:00:00+01:00

The air is full of CO2. How nice would it be if we could turn that into fuel? 

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Riccardo Levato – Bio-inkts to print living tissues

2022-02-09T09:03:00+00:00

Living cells in the 3D printer, how do you go about it? Riccardo Levato explains it in 1 minute.

RELEMENT

Relement – Vegetable aromatics for durable coatings

2022-01-12T08:15:00+00:00

Start-up from Bergen op Zoom succeeded in developing the one missing aromatic ingredient.

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Caffe Inc. – Environmentally friendly ingredients made from coffee waste

2022-01-04T15:39:00+00:00

Do you know what percentage of a coffee bean actually ends up in your stomach?

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Isabelle Kohler – Mirror images of designer drugs: does it matter?

2021-11-25T11:19:00+00:00

Chirality plays an important role in drugs. Isabelle Kohler investigates left- and right-handed molecules

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Anja Wilmes – Personalised medicine

2021-11-01T08:43:00+00:00

Medicines sometimes work differently for each person. Anja Wilmes investigates possibilities to make medicines more personal.

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Trevor A. Hamlin – The mechanisms of a chemical reaction

2021-08-24T10:17:00+01:00

Understanding the mechanisms behind chemical reactions allows you to use this knowledge to develop products efficiently and sustainably.

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Barbara Zarzycka – Drug design based on 3D structure

2021-08-24T10:17:00+01:00

Barbara Zarzycka studies interactions between drugs and protein structures and tries to predict the effect of (future) medicines.