
'Dealing with uncertainty, that’s what we want to teach our students'
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Dynamic polymers as the latest generation of biomaterials
Marle Vleugels defended her PhD thesis at the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on September 14th.

Producing sustainable fertilizer compounds
Dimitra Anastasiadou defended her thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Chemistry on September 14th.
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New model to help valorize lignin for bio-based applications
The new model has been published in the journal Green Chemistry.

Amorphous Silica-Alumina Catalysts for the Conversion of Renewable Feedstocks
Ferdy Coumans defended his thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on September 6th.
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How to make color-changing ‘Transformers’ with polymers
Pei Zhang defended her PhD thesis at the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on August 31st.
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‘It's only when students work with the material that it sticks’

ERC Advanced Grant for René Janssen and his research on more efficient solar cells
Janssen is using the prestigious European top grant, worth three million euros, to develop perovskite solar cells with efficiencies as high…
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Veni-grants for seven TU/e researchers
3D printing of buildings, quantum communication security, AI in education, and models to study aneurysms among the topics to receive NWO…

Talented postdoc Fabian Sobotta received Walter-Benjamin stipendium
Last week Sobotta was awarded a a prestigious personal fellowship to work on forefront polymer science at TU/e the coming years.

Third round National Growth Fund: two projects awarded involving CE&C researchers
A whopping eleven project proposals with a TU/e contribution will receive investment in the third round of the National Growth Fund. In two…

Digitally designed protein works like an anti-freeze for biological material
TU/e researchers, including Ilja Voets, contribute to the development of a new anti-freeze protein that could preserve immune cells and…