In a paper recently published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, Dr Saer Samanipour of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) reports on the chemical analysis of municipal wastewater as a ...

Researchers at the HIMS research group Analytical Chemistry and the Centre for Analytical Sciences Amsterdam (CASA) have successfully developed 3D-printed channels for chromatographical separation of small molecules. ...

In a paper just accepted in the RSC flagship journal Chemical Science, researchers of the HIMS Molecular Photonics group present a first in-depth VCD study of mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes as prototypical ...

In a recent paper in ChemCatChem, HIMS researchers show that the amphoteric nature of titanium aminotriphenolate complexes (combining a Lewis acidic metal centre with a Brønsted basic ligand site), in combination ...

A paper on 'Hydrogenase mimics in M12L24 nano‐spheres to control overpotential and activity in proton reduction catalysis' has been published as a communication in Angewandte Chemie. It describes research on ...

A paper on 'Regioselective Hydroformylation of Internal and Terminal Alkenes via Remote Supramolecular Control' has been published as a 'Hot Paper' by Chemistry, a European Journal. The work is the result of joined ...

Easily produced, nature-like nanostructures of cobalt phosphide are highly effective catalysts for the electrolysis of water, according to research performed by chemist Ning Yan and his team at the University of ...

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam have established the catalytical activity of ultramarine pigment in experiments where methanol was dehydrated to dimethyl ether. They ...

By performing experiments on Tubifex worms bought at the local pet shop, researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered that the wiggling motion of living worms gives rise to surprising physics. The ...

In a paper just published in the journal Joule, scientists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and TNO Energy Transition present an analysis of learning curves in energy technology and conclude that a focus on ...

In a current paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) present a new method for the generation of 8-membered ring compounds based on ...

Although dioxazolones were discovered nearly 70 years ago, these substrates have recently gained attention in the field of transition-metal catalysis. In a recent paper in ACS Catalysis, PhD student Kaj van Vliet ...

In a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers of the HIMS group for Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-Inspired Catalysis explore the redox-chemistry of supramolecular M6L12 and M12L24 ...

Researchers from the Biocatalysis group at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present the first account of applying immobilised ω-aminotransferase enzymes in neat organic ...

UvA chemistry master students Peter Jungbacker and Tess van Teijlingen, working at the Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, have studied the pros and cons ...

In a recent paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences settle the debate on the ligand redox non-innocence in ...

Thanks to a clever chemical design, researchers at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have succeeded in making a very fast molecular machine. The moving parts shift more ...

In a recent paper in Sciences Advances, researchers from the University of Amsterdam present new experimental insight into how lubrication works. They have developed a new method using fluorescent molecules to ...

According to a team of American and Dutch researchers, the structure of water-stable Metal-Organic Frameworks is less static than it might appear. In the current edition of Nature Chemistry, they report the use of in ...

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have developed a new device for measuring the kinetics of gas-producing reactions. This simple benchtop device, of ...