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Looking Back at 2024 ... Very Best Wishes for 2025 from ARC CBBC! We look back at a lot of scientific progress made by our PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and scientific staff. It was again a great year for ARC CBBC with a lot of results, as evidenced by a.o. doctoral

Reflecting on Two Decades of Change in Research I became a Royal Society of Chemistry member in 2004, when Chemistry World was first launched. To mark Chemistry World 20th anniversary, Phillip Broadwith asked 20 of us to look back at the last two decades of our careers in chemistry. Some

New Recycling Techniques Aim to Give Colorants a Second Life Over the next five years, we will investigate how colorants from plastic bottles can be recycled more effectively. We received a research grant from the initiative Circular Plastics NL (CircularPlasticsNL), funded by

Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials with Special Consideration of the Measurement of Determining Parameters In recent decades, molecular diffusion in nanoporous materials, including zeolites, has become an exciting topic in the field of physical chemistry. This was the starting

Utilizing Operando Catalyst Regeneration to Uncover Insights in the Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Process The methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) catalyst deactivation is reversible, and deactivating coke molecules can be removed via regeneration experiments. Regeneration of small-pore

Da Vinci Project: Educating Sustainability Change-Makers with Transdisciplinary Challenge-Based Learning and Design Thinking Some Background: This Article & Cover in The Journal of Chemical Education (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…) discuss the learning outcomes of The Da Vinci

γ-Stearolactone Ring-Opening by Zeolites for the Production of Branched Saturated Fatty Acids In this Catalysis Sci & Tech article, we report on the improvement in γ-stearolactone ring-opening activity of Beta zeolites by a favorable change in the Brønsted to Lewis acid site ratio,

Operando UV–Vis Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy Insights into the Methane Dehydroaromatization Reaction over Mo/H-ZSM-5 Catalysts In this Journal of Catalysis article, we show that by combining operando UV–Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy with chemometrics it is possible to

Chitosan Microsphere-Supported Catalysts: Design, Synthesis & Optimization for Ethylene Polymerization Polyolefins are the main building blocks for consumer products. In this article, published in Materials Advances, chitosan, a biopolymer that can be derived from abundant

Correlating Heterogeneities in Support Fragmentation to Polymer Morphology in Metallocene-Based Propylene Polymerization Catalysis We report on a hierarchical clustering method to study the effect that silica supports induce on the fragmentation behavior & final polymer

Chitosan as Support Material for Metal-Organic Framework based Catalysts Highly porous chitosan-based carriers for a zirconium-based metal-organic framework as an active phase were synthesized via two different methods, a one-pot synthesis route, and a post-synthetic

Impact of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Catalysis Focus Review Article in ACS Nano (ACS Nano) on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in the Field of Catalysis More information: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Utrecht University MCEC Research Center ARC CBBC Abstract: Catalysis stands as

The Coking of a Solid Catalyst Rationalized with Combined Raman and Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy Combined Raman, fluorescence & fluorescence lifetime microscopy allows to study the coke formation process of an industrial equilibrium catalyst for fluid catalytic cracking. The

Surface Carbon Formation and its Impact on Methane Dry Reforming Kinetics on Rhodium-Based Catalysts by Operando Raman Spectroscopy Kinetic measurements, combined with operando Raman spectroscopy and ex situ microscopy characterization provided new insights on the carbon

Highly Dispersed ZnO Sites in a ZnO/ZrO2 Catalyst Promote Carbon Dioxide-to-Methanol Conversion In this article we have examined how ZrO2 crystal phases influence CO2 hydrogenation to methanol over ZnO. ZnO on tetragonal zirconia (ZrO2-t) showed higher activity and selectivity

Catalytic Pyrolysis of Polyethylene with Microporous & Mesoporous Materials: Assessing Performance & Mechanistic Understanding The pore accessibility and activity have been assessed with a set of microporous and mesoporous catalyst materials for polyethylene pyrolysis. It was

Ethylene Polymerization over Metal-Organic Frameworks-Supported Zirconocene Complexes Zn-based Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are investigated as material for supporting the metallocene complex Cp2ZrMe2. We present data in which the organic linker has been varied to investigate