A collaboration between researchers of the Catalysis Engineering group (HIMS) and Self-Organizing Matter group (AMOLF) leads to the first catalytic application of nickel coral-like architectures for CO2 conversion at ...

Researchers from the Catalysis Engineering (CatEng) and Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (HCSC) groups at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), together with their international ...

A collaboration between the Catalysis Engineering and Heterogeneous Catalysis & Sustainable Chemistry groups at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences leads to new layered materials with advanced catalytic ...

Researchers at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have demystified one of the fuzziest parameters in heterogeneous catalysis: the Arrhenius pre-exponential factor. Using clever catalyst design ...

Biodegradable plastics have an important role to play in the greening of our society and in the transition to a circular economy, say Dr. Layla Filiciotto and Prof. Gadi Rothenberg from the Van 't Hoff Institute for ...

In a publication just designated as 'hot paper' in Angewandte Chemie, HIMS researchers shed new light on the mechanism of reactions involving frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs). They demonstrate that within FLP chemistry, ...

In a publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Prof. Bob van der Zwaan of the Van 't Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences presents the first example of a learning curve for microwave ovens, which follows a ...

In a paper just accepted in ACS Applied Nanomaterials, HIMS researchers report on the nanoscale assembly of copper oxide and palladium nanoclusters as a straightforward, cheap and clean approach for making catalysts. ...

Methane hydrates are the single biggest source of fossil fuel on planet earth and play a role in climate change. The molecular process of their formation is not known and heavily debated. In a paper in the Journal of ...

In a paper in Chemistry, A European Journal, HIMS researchers present a dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cell that combines light-driven hydrogen production with chemical oxidation of an organic compound (benzyl ...

In a recent publication in Chemistry, A European Journal, researchers at the HIMS research group Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-Inspired Catalysis report on catalytic sulfimidation using a highly active and ...

The transition towards bio-based feedstocks and circular processes requires new concepts and especially new active, selective and stable catalytic materials. These are often discovered by accident, rather than made ...

There's serious room for improvement in managing the waste of the city of Amsterdam. Many waste flows in the city are linear and unsustainable, and the recycling rate of organic waste is quite low. These observations ...

Prof. Bas de Bruin contributed to a German study on the electronic structure of a platinum(II) metallonitrene that has just been published in Nature Chemistry. The study shows that - in contrast to intuition - ...

In a study just published in Catalysis Science & Technology, HIMS researchers shed light on two important aspects of selective ethene oligomerization catalysts: the nature of the active species (e.g. neutral or ...

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 ...