Tanja Moerdijk

Edible packaging from seaweed

Empty food packaging makes up a large part of our plastic waste, but packaging is also very useful. That's why Tanja Moerdijk is developing packaging materials that are both degradable and edible.

Wessel van der Woude

Recycling 2.0 with plastic analysis

We recycle only a small fraction of all plastic. That's because there are so many different types of plastic. Veridis is developing a technique to determine which types of plastic are in our waste.

Sven Askes

Steering reactions with nanoparticles and light

A lot of catalytic reactions happen by means of very fine powders of silver and gold, called nanoparticles. When we shine light on these nanoparticles during a chemical reaction, very different reaction mechanisms are suddenly possible. Sven Askes uses light and metal nanoparticles to steer reactions in the right direction.