A team of researchers from the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have developed a powerful computational approach for modelling of liquids and vapours. A paper in Physical Review Letters describes how they ...

An international team of researchers led by Prof. Bob van der Zwaan of the University of Amsterdam and TNO Energy and Materials Transition have quantified the role of the ‘hydrogen economy’ in making our society more ...

In a paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences report an efficient and practical electrochemical cyclopropanation method in ...

Researchers at the Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-inspired Catalysis group led by Prof. Joost Reek have devised a novel concept for catalysis which enables transient control during the course of a reaction. ...

In a paper in Nature Communications, researchers at the Flow Chemistry group led by Prof. Timothy Noël present a novel and efficient deoxygenative photochemical alkylation method for transforming secondary amides ...

In a joint project, researchers at the University of Amsterdam and KWR Water Research Institute have developed and tested a novel analytical procedure for the environmental analysis of persistent and mobile organic ...

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling polycotton ...

In an international cooperation, researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam and Zurich have tested the limits of molecular photocages that can release their cargo upon activation with near-infrared light. In a ...

Researchers at the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a groundbreaking, sustainable method for synthesizing benzyl-tert-butylamine, a compound widely used in pharmaceuticals and fine ...

Computational chemist Dr Ioana Ilie of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences and her PhD student Massimiliano Paesani have developed a versatile modular model for simulating the behaviour of soft ...

Stefano Bonciolini of the Flow Chemistry group won a poster prize at the 5th Swiss Industrial Chemistry Symposium held 31 January in Basel, organized by the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS).

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling polycotton ...

On 8 Januari, Dr Antonio Pulcinella obtained his doctorate with the distinction ‘cum laude’ after defending his thesis on ‘Photocatalytic strategies for the valorization of feedstock chemicals in batch and flow’. ...

Dr Giulia Giuibertoni of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded € 40,000 ‘Take-off’ funding from the Dutch Research Council NWO. Together with Prof. Sander Woutersen, she will use the ...

A multidisciplinary research team coordinated by Maarten van Bommel, professor of Conservation Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded 900,000 euros funding by the Dutch Research Council NWO ...

Dr Jocelyne Vreede of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences (HIMS) is part of a research team that has just been awarded funding from the Dutch Research Council NWO to take the next steps in developing ...

PhD student Kefan Wu of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has won a ‘2023 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad’. Established by the China Scholarship Council ...

On 11 December, Dr Stefan Zondag defended his thesis on the design, characterization and application of continuous-flow photoreactors. He received his doctorate with the distinction ‘cum laude’, honouring his ...

Pauline Tenblad and Jasper Schuurmans of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have won prizes for best lecture and best poster, respectively, during the concluding symposium of the Innovative ...

The 2024 edition of the annual ChemAI symposium, held 29 November in Lab42, was a great success. It attracted around 250 participants, completely filling the largest available conference room. It was also the closing ...