Refinery of the Future
This special edition, produced in collaboration with the consortium ARC CBBC, explores the concept of the “Refinery of the Future”, a crucial yet challenging vision. Would it be possible to build a fully fossil-free refinery that could meet post-2050 demands by employing new feedstocks, new energy sources and new processes? You’ll find answers to this question and much more in this special.
Features
Features
Methane pyrolysis: A balancing act on multiple levels
Researchers from Utrecht, Eindhoven and Delft are teaming up with several industrial partners in a five-year multilateral ARC CBBC project to carry out optimisation at both atomic and reactor scale of methane pyrolysis.
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Towards the Refinery of the Future
Defining the future of the chemical industry is a good start, but realizing these visions will prove challenging. We asked Bas de Bruin, Guido Mul and Atsushi Urakawa, all of them PIs within ARC CBBC, to share their ideas on how we can turn that envisioned future into reality.
Functional coatings are the future
If you ask ARC CBBC researchers, future coatings will be able to adapt to light, temperature or chemicals and even be self-healing.
The rise of electrosynthesis
Electrosynthesis is gaining traction as an interesting method to enable sustainable production processes. For example, by creating relevant chemical building blocks from carbohydrates.
Photo Chemistry
Photo Chemistry
Creating colours
Colour is an intriguing phenomenon, as it is truly in the eye of the beholder. To create that sensation of colour, nanometer-scale particles need to be structured in just the right way.
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Interviews & People
Time for chemistry to change lanes
To keep pace with a rapidly changing world, the chemical industry will have to reinvent itself, says Bert Weckhuysen, scientific director of the ARC CBBC consortium.
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A passion for Green Chemistry
When you’re driven by something bigger than yourself, it’s hard to put your work down, says Thomas Freese (32).
‘It is important to know the industrial conditions’
With the end of her PhD track in sight, Sofie Ferwerda explains how she navigates the worlds of academia and industry in her research, which includes a collaboration with BASF.
Becoming a 21st century chemist
Combining transdisciplinary challenge-based education with design thinking creates a unique environment for students to learn skills that will help them navigate sustainability transitions.
Editorial
Editorial
Circus
You won’t see editor-in-chief Esther Thole charging down a black slope. But when it comes to mindblowing science, she can stomach steep descents and sharp curves.
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Start-up
Elexel: Accelerating electrochemical innovation
Marie Brands just went for it. Driven by her passion for sustainability, she founded Elexel, an independent electrolyzer testing and scale-up service company. Though it is still in its early stages, she dreams big.
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Timed batch inputs increase yield
A team from Nijmegen and Amsterdam has published a model-driven strategy in Nature Chemistry for adding the right substances to reaction chains at the right time. This time-dependent dosing strategy not only makes complex reactions more efficient, but can also make them more cost-effective.
Storage cabinet for developmental proteins in egg cells revealed
Egg cells contain a large number of proteins that aid in embryonic development. They store this supply in specific storage complexes, but the exact structure of these complexes remained unclear for a long time. In Nature, researchers from the Hubrecht Institute now present a close-up view of these ‘protein cabinets’.
Lithium from geothermal energy: a lost cause or worth the effort?
Europe wants to start mining more critical raw materials itself. The best-known of these is lithium. In Germany, it is extracted from deep underground along with hot water. ‘Logically, we do this in the areas with the highest lithium concentrations.’
Synthetic rods mimic bacterial turbulence
Researchers at the University of Twente have designed self-propelled rods to study how bacteria move collectively. Their size and shape anisotropy were found to be decisive factors in their collective behavior. The study made the cover of Science.
Ice cream
Every now and then, it’s good to be reminded of the magic of chemistry, says our Meme & Molecule-columnist Sjoerd Rijpkema.
Know yourself by building your personal profile
Most early-career scientists can describe their research in detail, but stumble when asked who they are beyond their research. Isabelle Kohler makes the case for building a personal profile – and breaks down the three aspects that shape it: your life mission, your drives, and your competencies.
New, affordable version of robotlab works quickly and systematically
Chemists in Amsterdam recently launched RoboChem Flex in Nature Synthesis: an autonomous laboratory system that performs syntheses using flow chemistry and analyzes the results to determine the optimal conditions. And it’s up to the user to decide what ‘optimal’ means.
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