An international team of researchers, including Prof. Bob van der Zwaan at the University of Amsterdam, has made a comprehensive, robust assessment of the role of hydrogen in Europe’s energy transition. In a paper in ...

In a paper that has just been published by Nature Communications, researchers at the Flow Chemistry group led by Prof. Timothy Noël present a new approach towards the design of photoreactors. Combining digital twins ...

In a paper in Chemistry Europe, computational chemists at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences led by Dr Ioana Ilie and Prof. Tom Grossmann at the Georg‐August‐Universität Göttingen (Germany) show how ...

Researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and KU Leuven have demonstrated that metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can actively influence the structure and catalytic activity of enzymes confined within their ...

Scientists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have used AI to significantly speed up the search for better heat storage materials—an important step toward more sustainable energy systems. In a paper in the Nature ...

In a paper published this summer by Chemical Science, PhD candidate Rens Ham MSc of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences together with Dr Bettina Baumgartner and Prof. Joost Reek present a synthetic ...

A recent article by researchers at the Flow Chemistry research group led by Prof. Timothy Noël has been highlighted as a Hot Paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie. It provides a prime example of how simple kinetic ...

PhD candidate Eline Kempkes and her supervisor Dr Alberto Pérez de Alba Ortíz at the Computational Chemistry group of the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed an automated framework for ...

In a paper in the RSC journal Chemical Communications, Analytical Scientists at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present a meta-analysis of hundreds of LC-MS methods and thousands of compound ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are now popping up everywhere: in seawater, snow, food, and even in our bodies. The very smallest particles, in particular, are difficult to measure, meaning we still know too little about ...

Linseed oil. The Old Masters used it for their paints, Forbo Flooring Systems in Assendelft produces linoleum from it. Searching for insights into the chemistry of curing linseed oil, the company found Dr Joen ...

On 15 October, chemist Dr Jasper Schuurmans obtained his doctorate with the distinction ‘Cum Laude’. In his thesis on “Photon management and reactor engineering for photochemical synthesis and scale-up”, he presents ...

The Dick Stufkens Prize 2026 for best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Dr Lars van der Zee for his thesis “Single electron transfer processes in frustrated ...

In a project that has started this month, Prof. Wybren Jan Buma of Molecular Photonics has teamed up with the companies MassSpecpecD and Pi Imaging to develop a system for fast analysis of samples containing chiral ...

Parkinson's disease is a progressive brain disorder that is currently incurable. In a research project conducted by the UvA MMD TechHub, scientists from our Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences and Van 't Hoff ...

Dr Amanda Garcia at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has been awarded €450,000 funding by ChemistryNL for research in cooperation with the company Brineworks. The awarded project aims to ...

The Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has installed new state-of-the-art analytical equipment for the characterisation of biomacromolecules, nanoparticles and complex heterogeneous samples. On ...

According to the recently published global ‘Research Collaboration Index 2026’, chemistry research at the University of Amsterdam is highly collaborative. With more than 500 joint works over the last five years, ...

Meet Nano Hybrids, a startup company from the UvA Faculty of Science that focuses on the sustainable production of nanoparticles for gas sensing and biotech applications. Their unique production method originated in ...

Today, at the opening of the Dutch parliamentary year (‘Prinsjesdag’), Minister Rianne Letschert of Education, Culture and Science wears a spectacular hat and shoulder ornament inspired by the chemical research of ...