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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 201505 January 2016During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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Book: The Colours of Energy16 December 2015Huub de Groot is one of the 55 authors for the book The Colours of Energy. The book consists of Essays on the Future of Energy in Society in which lea...
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Reedijk Symposium 2015 - Guest Lecturers: Prof. Bas de Bruin & Prof. Dame Carol Robinson09 October 2015On Friday October 30th 2015 the sixth annual Jan Reedijk Symposium will be held. The main lectures of the day will be "Catalytic Radical-Type Transfor...
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Designing better catalysts using simple chemical concepts08 October 2015An international team of researchers, including Federico Calle-Vallejo of Leiden University’s Institute of Chemistry, have taken the atomic-scale desi...
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2015 awarded to chemist Tatu Kumpulainen05 October 2015The Dick Stufkens Prijs for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Dr Tatu S. Kumpulain...
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Cost-effective catalyst converts CO2 into natural gas02 September 2015A discovery made in Leiden helps not only to make natural gas from CO2 but also to store renewable energy. Research by Professor Marc Koper and PhD st...
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Fat-free mayonnaise thanks to manipulation of surface tension11 August 2015
Aqueous solutions of proteins and carbohydrates separate into two parts with an extremely ‘soft’ boundary surface. The surface tension between these t...
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Research shows protein movement is important20 July 2015
Researchers led by Professor of Chemistry Marcellus Ubbink have recently published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) a...
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Fundamental research on optimal quality tin coatings14 July 2015Leiden Professor Marc Koper will be carrying out research on the chemical process underlying tin coating in order to optimise the quality of tin coati...
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Drug development: how can we make it more efficient?14 July 2015It takes years to develop new medicines, from the test tube to trials in humans. During the process it often happens that a drug that seems promising ...
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New measuring method facilitates drug research29 May 2015
Leiden chemical biologists led by Dr Mario van der Stelt have developed a method to facilitate the search for new drugs. This method has allowed them ...
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Marc Koper appointed Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry13 May 2015Marc Koper has been selected as one of the six new fellows in 2015 of the International Society of Electrochemistry.
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Hermen Overkleeft wins the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award07 May 2015Prof. Hermen Overkleeft has been awarded the 2015 Jeremy Knowles Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his innovative and insightful development...
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A chemical connection that affects your immune system13 April 2015
A group of chemists, that includes Sander van Kasteren and Hermen Overkleeft, has discovered that azides, a certain type of chemical compound, can det...
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European roadmap for graphene applications in science and technology24 February 2015More than 60 European researchers and industry partners have set out their roadmap for the application of graphene in marketed products. Leiden chemis...