Marleen Kamperman

Glue inspired by nature

Some animals have extraordinary and clever properties, for example a spider can make a very thin and strong material for a spider web. Marleen Kamperman researches the chemical principles of these kind of natural processes and wants to imitate them for smart applications.

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.