Danny Broere

A chemical toolbox for the future

Oil is an important raw material for many products, but unfortunately it is not very sustainable. There are alternatives where plant based waste serves as a raw material, but this requires a different chemical approach. That is why Danny is researching possibilities to use tricks from nature so that we no longer need oil.

Eva Blokker

Modelling molecules on the computer

To make plastics, you need an initiator. That is a molecule that splits in two, allowing the chain reaction for the long chain of the plastic to start. But the initiators that are being used now release undesirable volatile substances and a lot of heat. Therefore, Eva is using computer simulations to look for new initiators.

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.