Syuzanna Harutyunyan (RUG) has received a European Research Council (ERC) consolidator award of € 2 million for Lewis acid promoted copper catalysis to functionalize and dearomatize arenes. Professor Harutyunyan currently concentrates her research on the development of new and more efficient chemical processes that can be used in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical or agrochemical industries. […]
Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart receives The Netherlands Award for Supramolecular Chemistry
On November 18, 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, professor sir Fraser Stoddart received The Netherlands Award for Supramolecular Chemistry at the TU/e during his lecture “My Journey to Stockholm” at Studium Generale. Professort Stoddart is currently making a lecture tour through The Netherlands organized by FMS. Pictures by Satyaki Chaudhuri […]
Patricia Dankers and Bert Meijer present at NEMO Kennislink Live
FMS members prof. Bert Meijer and prof. Patricia Dankers (TU/e, ICMS) together with prof. Marileen Dogterom (TUD) discussed in a NEMO Kennislink Live edition on ‘Kunnen we voor schepper spelen? Hoe de wetenschap leven probert na te maken’. More information can be found here and the live radio podcast can be found here (in Dutch). […]
Tom de Greef and coworkers publish in Nature Communications
FMS staff member Tom de Greef (TU/e) and coworkers recently published their work on hierarchical control of enzymatic actuators by using DNA-based programming in Nature Communications. To date their approach shows one of the most advanced DNA-based circuits in terms of complexity and versatility. […]
Bert Meijer, Patricia Dankers and coworkers publish Chem Soc Rev on supramolecular polymeric biomaterials
Bert Meijer (TU/e), Patricia Dankers (TU/e) and coworkers published a review article on the advances in the field of supramolecular polymers towards multi-component biomaterials to be applied in the field of regenerative medicine. […]
Prof. Wilhelm Huck member of Academia Europaea
Professor Wilhelm Huck (RU Nijmegen) was appointed as a member of the Academia Europaea, a European society of world leading scientists. More information can be found here. […]
Voets and coworkers reconstruct the structure of 1.5 MDa Adhesin
Dr. Ilja Voets (TU/e) and coworkers publish in Science Advances where they report that they managed to unravel the structure of a 1.5 MDa Adhesin protein, which is a bacterial protein involved in ice binding. It is the first detailed structure at the molecular level of a bacterial adhesin. This work might contribute to the […]
Focal Projects within FMS granted
In order to strengthen the science between the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry (RUG), the Institute for Molecules and Materials (RU) and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (TU/e), a call for faculty members of the FMS Research Center was opened. We are happy to announce that all submitted proposals were granted, which are all listed […]
ERC Proof of Concept Grant for Ilja Voets
Ilja Voets (TU/e) received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant to demonstrate the potential use of antifreeze protein coatings on a commercial scale. More information can be found here. […]
FMS researchers co-author work published in Nature
FMS researchers Bert Meijer (TU/e) and Ghislaine Vantomme (TU/e) contributed to the work by TU/e researchers that was recently published in Nature. In their work they developed new plastics that can move upon the exposure to light. An impressive video of the material can be found here. For more details on the work, find the paper here. […]
