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LIC master's programmes website

Student information about the Chemistry and Life Science & Technology MSc programmes is available on the LIC Master's website.

Marc Koper awarded the Hellmut Fischer Medal

Marc Koper is the 2012 recipient of the Hellmut Fischer Medal of DECHEMA, the German Society for Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. The Fischer Medal is awarded every three years to “younger scientists for work that has contributed towards extending

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Rubicon grant for Gerbrand van der Heden

Gerbrand van der Heden received a Rubicon grant for his proposal "Molecular diagnostics; overcoming target inhibition in nucleic acid-templated ligation reactions".

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Scaling relations in PRL

A paper by Federico Calle-Vallejo et al. on the nature of scaling relationships between the binding energies of atoms to metal surfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.116103

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18.5 miljoen euro voor grootschalige NMR onderzoeksfaciliteit

Het programma ‘uNMR-NL’, een project om een 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer in Nederland te plaatsen voor chemisch onderzoek heeft 18,5 miljoen euro ontvangen om deze grootschalige faciliteit op te zetten. Dit wordt vanmiddag in Utrecht bekend gemaakt door staatssecretaris Zijlstra van OCW en Jos Engelen, voorzitter van NWO. De deelnemende partners stellen hun hoogstaande techniek, apparatuur en expertise beschikbaar voor andere onderzoekers in Nederland.

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Gold electrocatalysis on the cover of Nature Chemistry

The paper “The promoting effect of adsorbed carbon monoxide on the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst” by Paramaconi Rodriguez, Youngkook Kwon and Marc Koper

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