When it comes to enhancing the sustainability of plastic beverage bottles, consumers are willing to pay a bonus for bio-based alternatives - the more so when the alternative is visually distinctive. This follows from ...

In a recent article in the RSC journal Chemical Communications, researchers of the Catalysis Engineering group led by associate professor Raveendran Shiju show how the surface crystalline phases of titania play a ...

Analytical Scientists at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff institute for Molecular Sciences together with colleagues from TNO have demonstrated for the first time that chemical warfare agents react with plant ...

An international team of scientists from the Rijksmuseum, the universities of Amsterdam and Antwerp, CNRS/ENS Paris-Saclay and the European Synchrotron ESRF, have discovered lead formate in Rembrandt’s masterpiece ...

Researchers at the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of Amsterdam), in cooperation with researchers at Wuhan University (China), ...

Researchers of the University of Amsterdam, together with colleagues at the University of Queensland and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research, have developed a strategy for assessing the toxicity of chemicals using

In a recent paper in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group led by Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter take an important step towards the production of fully biobased, rigid polyesters. ...

Applying chemical engineering principles to the field of art conservation, Jorien Duivenvoorden – PhD candidate at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences supervised by Joen Hermans and Katrien Keune – ...

Researchers Fran Pope, Noë Watson, Antoine Deblais and Gadi Rothenberg at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) unravel the complexities of concentrated borohydride salt solutions that can be used as a medium to store ...

Research of Eric Schuler and co-workers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group features at the cover of Green Chemistry, a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Together with colleagues from the Catalysis ...

At the Annual Symposium of Amcel, the Amsterdam Centre for Electrochemistry, two awards will be presented: the ‘Amcel Award’ for best PhD thesis and the ‘Amcel BSc thesis award’ for best BSc thesis. The symposium ...

Thursday 12 January saw the kick-off of the BatteryNL consortium that aims to develop the next generation of batteries within eight years. Prof. Bob van der Zwaan of UvA’s Sustainable Energy Technology group is one ...

On 26 December, 2022, Prof. C. Boelhouwer passed away at the age of 99. Kees Boelhouwer founded research in Chemical Engineering at the University of Amsterdam and led this from the start in 1962 until his retirement ...

Dr Tomáš Šolomek has been appointed as tenure track researcher in the Molecular Photonics group of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS). His research focuses on how the topology of organic ...

Prof. Wybren Jan Buma of Molecular Photonics at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences will take part in research using the new Dutch quantum supercomputer. Together with Prof. Luuk Visscher of Theoretical ...

The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded funding of 760,000 euros for research into the mathematical modelling of thin polymer films. In the PRONTO project, computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam ...

Chemist Dr Joen Hermans has been appointed as an assistant professor of Conservation Science at the University of Amsterdam. This position is a joint initiative by the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and ...

The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded funding of a million euros for a cooperation between chemistry research groups at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), to develop ...

On Friday 25 November, the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) opened its doors to high school students and their teachers. In an engaging program of lectures, lab tours and workshops, the visitors ...

UvA alumnus Milo Cornelissen has won a Unilever Research Prize 2022 for his graduate work in the field of synthetic chemistry. He received the award Thursday 24 November during an award ceremony at Unilever's Foods ...