The International Conference on Molecular Systems Engineering (ICMSE 2019 August 18-20) will take place in Nijmegen and will bring together world leaders in the field. The highlight of the week will be the presentation of the 2019 Netherlands Awards for Supramolecular Chemistry given to Chad Mirkin and Helma Wennemers. We wish to see many of […]
Vote for the book “Makers van Leven” of Esther Thole, the story of our lives!
The magazine New Scientist organizes an election for the best science book of the past year and ‘Makers of Life’ is in the list! This is the link to the election: https://newscientist.nl/blogs/best-populairscientific-book-2018-stem-nu/ […]
Tom de Greef was appointed Hoogleraar Biofysische Chemie at Radboud University. Congratulations Tom!
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Luc Brunsveld was awarded a NWO ECHO grant
Luc Brunsveld, Professor Chemical Biology at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at TU/e, was awarded with an ECHO grant for his research plans on drug targets based on nuclear receptors. Congratulations Luc! […]
ERC Starting Grant for Sander Wezenberg
Sander Wezenberg (RUG) has been awarded with an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. The ERC awards these prestigious personal grants of EUR 1.5 million to excellent researchers in order to stimulate groundbreaking research in Europe. The title of the scientific reasearch is: “From light-stimulated anion receptors to transmembrane carriers and pumps”. More information about ERC Starting […]
Wilhelm Huck and coworkers publish in Nature Nanotechnology
Prof. Wilhelm Huck and dr. Evan Spruijt (RU) and coworkers publish on dissipative adaptation in driven self-assembly in Nature Nanotechnology. They show that open compartments are used to modulate the rates of dissipative self-assembly by restricting the absorption of energy from the environment. This might eventually provide a general route to dissipatively adapting nanosystems exhibiting […]
Gerard Roelfes and coworkers publish in Nature Chemistry
Prof. Gerard Roelfes (RUG) and coworkers publish an article in Nature Chemistry on the creation of designer enzyme for hydrazone and oxime formation featuring an unnatural catalytic aniline residue. The incorporation of an unnatural amino acid that feature unique reactive side chains significantly expand the catalytic repertoire of designer enzymes. This facilitates an ideal starting […]
First copy ‘Makers van Leven’ handed over to Bert Meijer
The first copy of ‘Makers van Leven‘ by Esther Thole (science journalist and editor at NEMO-Kennislink) was handed over to prof. Bert Meijer in Eindhoven. The book includes a preface of prof. Ben Feringa and addresses the complex question of ‘What is life?’ and ‘How can we imitate life’. Esther Thole discusses with many chemists, including FMS […]
Bert Meijer and coworkers publish in Nature
Bert Meijer (TU/e) and coworkers published a letter in Nature entitled ‘Potential enthalpic energy of water in oils exploited to control supramolecular structure’. More information can be found at the TU/e website, as well as in a Volkskrant article (in Dutch). The full article can be found here. […]
Sander Wezenberg and Ben Feringa publish in Nature Communications
FMS staff members Sander Wezenberg and Ben Feringa (both RUG) published their recent research results in Nature Communications. The article reports on a supramolecularly directed rotary motion in a photoresponsive receptor. The motor was designed such that the rotation is directed by a chiral guest molecule that is able to non-covalently bind to a light-responsive […]
