News overview Chemical Engineering and Chemistry

  • April 9, 2025

    Thermochromic Liquid Crystal Oligomers for Solar Infrared Control in Windows

    Henk Sentjens successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on April 9th.

  • April 8, 2025

    Molecular Understanding of Structure-Activity Relationships in Co-Catalyzed CO2 and CO Hydrogenation

    Roos Krösschell successfully defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on April 8th.

  • Microscope image of the green-fluorescent ordered regions after crystallisation in the OLED device. Image: Ritu Chowdhury
    March 13, 2025

    Spinning, twisted light could power next-generation electronics

    Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of…

  • March 4, 2025

    Tim Hogervorst and Mert Astam appointed NWO Faculty of Impact fellows

    Two ambitious start-ups in cryopreservation and in haptics for the blind will receive financial support and intensive entrepreneurial…

  • February 26, 2025

    Advancing data-driven studies of supramolecular polymer systems

    Stef Jansen successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on February 26th.

  • February 26, 2025

    On the direct hydrogenation of CO2 towards formic acid

    Anouk de Leeuw den Bouter successfully defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on February 26th.

  • After six years, Robert-Jan Smits is leaving ¹û¶³´«Ã½. Photo: Vincent van den Hoogen
    February 25, 2025

    Robert-Jan Smits: ‘I mastered the art of persuasion at ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™

  • February 13, 2025

    Functional Phase-Separated Materials with Controlled Nanostructures

    Bart van den Bersselaar successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on February 13th.

  • Click on the photo for a personal message of Marina Pilz da Cunha. Photo: Leonie Voets
    February 12, 2025
    WOMEN IN SCIENCE WEEK

    Marina Pilz da Cunha wins the 2025 Marina van Damme Grant

    [VIDEO] Marina Pilz da Cunha wins the 2025 Marina van Damme grant. The sholarship amounts to € 9,000 and provides access to a large network…

  • February 10, 2025

    Reuse ammonia in hydrogen electrolyzers (REUSE) project receives Open Competition Domain Science – XS grant

    A high-risk/high-gain project exploring novel electrocatalysts for recovering ammonia, a pollutant nitrogen compound mainly derived from…

  • Opening of EIRES by secretary of state Van Veldhoven. (from left to right: secretary of state Van Veldhoven, Mark Boneschanscher, Richard van de Sanden. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    February 4, 2025

    Five years of EIRES: ‘Happy to see our message resonate’

    In 2025, the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES) celebrates its first lustrum. Scientific director Richard van de…

  • Left: Danqing Liu, right: Ghislaine Vantomme Photo: Vincent van den Hoogen
    January 28, 2025

    NWO grant of more than 900K for ¹û¶³´«Ã½ research on haptic technology

    Wearables developed by scientists give blind and visually impaired people feedback through tactile stimuli.