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BatteryNL kick-off
On January 12th 2023, a consortium of companies, multinationals and knowledge institutes attended the kick off meeting for BatteryNL. The MCC group (Peter Ngene and Petra de Jongh) is one of the five founding groups of this consortium, which will work in the coming 8 years on developing next generation batteries based on a better…
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MSc student Juliette Verschoor wins second prize Nederlandse Gasindustrieprijzen 2022
For her MSc thesis, written based on her work in the MCC group with Nienke Visser, Juliette Verschoor was awarded the second prize of the Nederlandse Gasindustrieprijzen 2022. The jury was impressed by the wide variety of experiments she employed in her work to improve the life span of carbon-supported nickel catalysts for the conversion…
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MCC members at SSI-23
At the Solid State Ionics conference (SSI-23) in Boston, USA, four MCC members had the opportunity to present their work. Valerio, Laura de Kort, Peter and Henrik shared their work on solid-state electrolytes and batteries. They also got to see the city, including MIT and Harvard, to both of which they were invited for a…
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Reduced precious metal content in industrial catalysts
Nanoscientists from Utrecht University have devised a new and promising way to make catalysts in which the amount of precious metals needed is reduced by a factor of 10. Those precious metals are scarce, but essential in many existing and future, more sustainable chemical processes. The publication appeared on 8 July 2022 in the renowned…
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Peter Ngene and Petra de Jongh receive HORIZON RESILIENCE grant
AMBHER – Peter Ngene and Petra de Jongh have been awarded a EU HORIZON RESILIENCE grant to develop a more effective ammonia synthesis catalysts, in a collaborative effort of european academic and industrial partners to investigate the potential of green ammonia for seasonal renewable energy storage
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New insights into copper-based, zinc-promoted methanol synthesis catalysts
In a recent article in ACS Catalysis by Remco Dalebout, Petra de Jongh and many other researchers from our group, as well as collaborators from Sorbonne, Utrecht and Paris, new insights into copper-based, zinc-promoted methanol synthesis catalysts are revealed. Using time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy, it is found that on carbon-supported catalysts a major part of…
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Scientists find new way to catalyze ammonia synthesis
Fei Chang, Peter Ngene and Petra de Jongh, together with other researchers from Utrecht and Eindhoven managed to design and make an ammonia synthesis catalysts catalyst that operates under moderate conditions and only contains carbon and potassium, yet rivals that based on scarce metals. The results were published in Nature Catalysis. Read more in Dutch…
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Peter, Henrik, and Maaike present at Electrochemical Society Meeting
In the week of 8-12 October, PhD students Maaike Vink-van Ittersum and Henrik Rodenburg travelled to Gothenburg, Sweden, together with dr. Peter Ngene to present at the 244th Electrochemical Society Meeting.
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MSc student Karen van de Akker receives the second price for the GSNS Thesis Award
For her MSc thesis, titled ‘Morphological Considerations in Templated Porous Ag Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction‘, Karen van de Akker received the second price for the GSNS Thesis Award for her thesis research, based on her research at MCC under supervision of Maaike van Ittersum.
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“Labuitje” 2023
On September 8th, we had our annual “labuitje”! We went canoeing in the morning and paid a visit to Fort Rhijnauwen in the afternoon.
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