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Petra, Jessi, Suzan, Oscar, and Maaike head to EuropaCat 2023
Dr. Petra De Jongh, dr. Jessi van der Hoeven, Suzan Schoemaker, Oscar Brandt Corstius, and Maaike van Ittersum visited Prague, Czech Republic, to present lectures at the EuropaCat congress in August.
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BatteryNL consortium starts in 2023
The BatteryNL consortium, in which Petra de Jongh and Peter Ngene lead the research line on improving batteries via interface design strategies, started on 12 January 2023. We look forward to contributing to the development of safer and more energy dense lithium-based batteries to meet the world’s need for electric energy storage.
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Jessi van der Hoeven awarded the KNCV Van Arkel prize
Jessi van der Hoeven was awarded the KNCV Van Arkel prize at the Soft Matter session of the NWO CHAINS conference for her thesis “Gold based Nanorods, Tuning the Structure for Catalysis and Sensing”. The van Arkel Prize is awarded for the best thesis in the field of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the past…
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We are proud of our MCC group members shining at the NWO CHAINS2021 conference!
Nong and Peter partook as chairs of the parallel sessions, Nienke and Valerio gave excellent talks, and Luc, Oscar, Just, Laura, Maaike, Hidde and Daan were poster presenters discussing their work in the virtual Gather Town world!
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Prof. dr. ir. Krijn de Jong says farewell to Utrecht University
On Friday 15 October 2021, prof. dr. ir. Krijn de Jong gave his farewell lecture in the Domkerk. The lecture can be found here (starting after 18 minutes).
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New group members Tom Welling and Lappawat Ngamwongwan
Since last summer (2021), we have been reinforced by Tom Welling, who works on gas-cell EM studies of methane decomposition during carbon nanomaterial growth as a postdoctoral fellow, and Lappawat Ngamwongwan, a new PhD student who combines machine learning and DFT to study electronic and ionic transport in battery materials.
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Physical lectures starting again after Covid-19
After a Covid-19 induced year of mostly online lectures, physical lectures have finally started again. Last week saw the first lectures of both the Advanced Catalysis and Nanomaterials courses with great attendance. This brings a great relief to both students and lecturers to which online education posed an obstacle. We are looking forward to the…
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Savannah, Kristiaan, Min and Nienke travel to Paris for first conference since covid-19 started
As life is slowly getting more normal again, Savannah, Kristiaan, Min and Nienke had the chance to travel to Paris last week for their first real-life conference since the start of the pandemic! The scope of the CISCEM conference was to discuss in-situ electron microscopy, which is used to image materials on the nanoscale under…
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Remco Dalebout returns as technician to MCC
June 2021, we welcomed Remco Dalebout back into our group as technician specialised in chemical analysis. Previously, he was a PhD candidate in our group.
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Welcome Masoud, Claudia, and Yuang!
Since the beginning of 2022 we have welcomed three new PhD candidates in our group. They are Masoud Lazemi, Claudia Keijzer and Yuang Piao. Masoud works on X-Ray spectroscopy, specifically femtosecond XAS and RIXS of transition metal oxides using X-Ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs). He is supervised by Frank de Groot and Uwe Bergmann (University…
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