Vivian Yam

OLEDs to save energy

Right now we are using incandescent lighting, like the tungsten lamp and so on, which are highly energy inefficient, because most of the energy is lost as heat. We are therefore very much interested in organic light emitting diodes, OLEDs. Vivian Yam talks about her research towards this topic.

Anika Nagelkerke

A miniature body in a lab

If you are ill, you want a medicine to get well again. Before we can give that medicine to you, we research the exact effects on laboratory-grown cells. The most used method for this is a petri dish, where we grow one layer of cells to which we can add the medicine. But you are not a petri dish. Therefore, we need more relevant methods to grow cells, to mimic illness in a better way.

Javier Garcia-Martinez

More fuel from oil

Refineries produce a lot of CO2. Of course, they prefer to produce transportation fuels. Chemistry, and in particular catalysis, can be used to make this process more efficient. By improving catalysts, more of the crude oil that is in the barrel goes on to produce gasoline and diesel, and less CO2 is produced.