Eye-openers
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EnglishRegra – 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.
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Paques Biomaterials – Natural alternative to plastic
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
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
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
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
We can use light to make the chemical industry more sustainable. Unfortunately, implementation is lagging.
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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.
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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.
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Aerocount – Insight into air quality
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
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
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
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
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
Living cells in the 3D printer, how do you go about it? Riccardo Levato explains it in 1 minute.
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Relement – Vegetable aromatics for durable coatings
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
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?
Chirality plays an important role in drugs. Isabelle Kohler investigates left- and right-handed molecules
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Anja Wilmes – Personalised medicine
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
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
Barbara Zarzycka studies interactions between drugs and protein structures and tries to predict the effect of (future) medicines.
