For 19 scientists in Belgium and The Netherlands, good news arrived just in time for the summer holidays as they were granted an ERC Proof of Concept grant.
A biorefinery waste product can be easily processed into functional powders and tough polymers, Leuven researchers show in ChemSusChem.
If you attach the TEMPO catalyst to an electrode, it can replace the role of platinum in the oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde.
Ten projects have been awarded €6 million each by the National Growth Fund program Circular Plastics NL to make circular plastics.
If you put gold nanoparticles in a graphene shell, you can see the molecules on the gold surface with an electron microscope, even in a liquid.
Chemists in Nijmegen have developed a reservoir computing system that uses the formose reaction to perform complex calculations, Nature reports.
Harmful bacteria? Don’t be too quick to judge, because sometimes toxins can also be protective.
Researchers in Wageningen have become the first to create catch bonds in the laboratory, which become stronger when force is applied to them.
A team of scientists from Twente was able to solve a hundred-year-old riddle concerning the formation of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) with NMR.
Chinese researchers describe how an antimalarial drug inhibits the excess production of ‘male’ hormones, which is a hallmark symptom of PCOS.
Electrochemistry may be an underexplored option for recycling plastic waste, researchers show in a review in Chemical Science.
Graphitic carbon nitride is able to replace iridium as a photocatalyst in cross coupling reactions, greatly reducing cost and carbon footprint.
Researchers from Ghent have developed a scalable method to make silicone elastomers fully recyclable.
Veronique Van Speybroeck will be awarded the 2024 Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences for her pioneering computational work on catalysts.
Pyrene-based covalent organic frameworks and blue light can be used to make imines in an environmentally friendly way.
Bacteria swim with flagella, and a clever switching system allows them to aim at a target. New research shows how the flagellar drive changes direction.
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has added 17 new members, including three KNCV members.
Silicon, germanium and tin versions of carbenes make good hydrogen activators for hydrogenation reactions, quantum calculations show.
Researchers in Groningen have built a variant of boric acid into an enzyme, a first in the world of designer enzymes.
Seventeen young researchers have recently been awarded a Rubicon Grant in the third and final round of 2023.