Feature articles – Pagina 7
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EnglishSupercritical goes for complementarity
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) is a chromatography technique with a lot of promise, but it has yet to gain popularity.
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EnglishBizarre chemistry for everyone
Whether you want to learn or see something spectacular, YouTube channel NileRed has interesting videos for everyone.
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EnglishIntracellular antagonists against diseases
The winner of the MCCB PhD Thesis Award 2021 is Dr Natalia Ortiz-Zacarias. The jury found her research to be original, multidisciplinary and ground-breaking.
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EnglishThe two billion bold move that will lead us out of the covid pandemic
We spoke with Pfizer chief Marc Kaptein about the technology of the mRNA platform and the price of vaccines, among other things.
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EnglishCrenarchaeol, a molecule of superlatives
Crenarchaeol is considered an ‘iconic molecule’ in organic geochemistry. Adri Minnaard’s PhD student Mira Holzheimer almost managed to synthesise it.
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EnglishAnalysing the Night Watch with top-notch chemistry
Katrien Keune uses complex, heterogeneous samples to try to better understand pieces of art. She is currently responsible for Operation Night Watch.
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EnglishWhy a PhD is not your only option
For many university students, it may seems like the only option: after your master’s you ‘must’ do a PhD, otherwise your chances on the labour market are limited. But nothing could be further from the truth, as four master’s graduates show.
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EnglishParadigm shift in organic chemistry
A paradigm in organic chemistry that has been in use since 1931 has turned out to be wrong, Amsterdam scientists found. It is not carbon s-p hybridisation, but steric repulsion that causes the variation of e.g. C-H bond lengths. ‘This discovery has been in the making for about twenty years.’
