International – Pagina 10
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InternationalElexel: 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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InternationalThe 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.
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InternationalTowards 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.
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International‘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.
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InternationalCircus
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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InternationalA 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).
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InternationalTime 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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InternationalBecoming 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.
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InternationalCreating 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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InternationalBiophotonic ‘windows’ enable symbiosis
Several molluscs have developed benificial relationships with symbiotic, photosynthetic algae. Heart cockles boast advanced biophotonic structures in their shells that operate like optic fiber cables to catch and transmit the incoming sunlight.
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InternationalTricky protein modification with potential
Lysine crotonylation is an understudied yet very interesting post-translational modification which has great medical potential.
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InternationalHow to embrace feedback as an academic writer
Isabelle Kohler shares practical strategies to help early-career researchers and students not only survive feedback but also embrace it as a powerful tool for growth.
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InternationalMaking square drug fragments under pressure
1,2-substituted cyclobutanes can be easily prepared under high pressure and are interesting building blocks for drug development.
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InternationalBiocompatible labelling for PET scans
A Franco-Belgian team has developed a gallium-18F complex for PET scans that can also be attached to biomolecules. It could be turned into an 18F radiolabelling kit.
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InternationalThe symmetry of bees lies within
Nature is full of symmetry, though often only on the outside, but recently an international team discovered that honeybees also build the inside of their nests symmetrically. As well as being aesthetically pleasing, this has practical advantages.
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InternationalIt’s not just about money
The government’s massive budget cuts are sparking deep concern across academia. In this column, Isabelle Kohler outlines the primary effects of these cuts on research, higher education, and innovation, with a specific focus on PhD students.
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InternationalThe Thinking Game takes you behind the scenes at DeepMind
The documentary The Thinking Game follows newly minted Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis and his team during the development of AlphaFold.
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InternationalPure iron carbide phase nurtures alpha-olefins
Careful pretreatment of your iron catalyst enables the highly efficient production of chemical building blocks in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor, an Eindhoven-Beijing team reports in Nature (after a 5-year reviewing period).
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InternationalWhen persistence bears fruit: from invisible effort to visible success
As she celebrates her first year writing for C2W International, Isabelle Kohler reflects on how persistent effort can shape our professional journey. She draws parallels between her writing activity and PhD journey, both relying on invisible work behind visible achievements.
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InternationalPodium: Ludovic Jourdin
Our members form the beating heart of our societies. Here, we regularly highlight one of them. This time, it’s NBV-member Ludovic Jourdin.