Researcher
Niko Van den Brande
- Keywords:Materials engineering, Chemistry (incl. biochemistry)
- Disciplines:Polymer processing, Polymeric materials not elsewhere classified, Thermal analysis, Physical chemistry of materials, Polymer composites, Solid state and soft matter chemistry, Functional materials, Chemical characterisation of materials, Polymers and plastics, Molecular and organic electronics
Affiliations
- Physical Chemistry and Polymer Science (Research group)
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From30 Sep 2015 → Today - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From1 Oct 2023 → Today - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From8 Apr 2019 → 30 Sep 2023 - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From1 Oct 2018 → 20 Oct 2022 - Faculty of Engineering (Faculty)
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From22 Jun 2017 → 7 Sep 2017 - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From15 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2018 - Chemistry (Department)
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From1 Oct 2009 → 30 Sep 2013 - Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences (Faculty)
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From7 Aug 2007 → 3 Jul 2009
Projects
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- Towards fast self-healing reversible covalent elastomeric and thermosetting networks for sustainable applications. Synthesis and characterization of new Diels-Alder building blocks with fast dynamics and tunable reversibilityFrom1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Design of self-healing living mycelium materials at the intersection between biology and materials science.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO visiting post-doctoral fellowship
- Elucidating the structure-property relations and crystallization kinetics of sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers. Production and analysis of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate)From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Accelerating the Diels-Alder kinetics of self-healing polymer network: new insights from a combined density functional theory and molecular dynamics approachFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- GEAR: Sustainable Material Technologies (SuMaT).From1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in real environment, IOF - mandates
- Diffusion- and mobility-controlled self-healing polymer networks with dynamic covalent bonding. Fundamental study of reversible thermosets from bulk to thin layers.From1 Nov 2019 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Molecular design and characterization of adaptive polymers derived from biomassFrom1 Oct 2018 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic cavities for near-infrared photodetection - rational combinations of novel donor and acceptor materials and dedicated solution processing for high performance devicesFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- On the importance of structural disorder in combination with eutectic mixing for conjugated polymer/fullerene solar cellsFrom1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
- RADESOL - RAtional DEsign of blends for bulk heterojunction SOLar cellsFrom1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2016Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
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- Thermal behaviour below and inside the glass transition region of a submicron P3HT layer studied by fast scanning chip calorimetry(2016)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 59-66 - Isothermal Crystallization of PC61BM in Thin Layers Far below the Glass Transition Temperature(2015)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 5614-5623 - Isothermal structure development in submicron P3HT layers studied by fast scanning chip calorimetry(2015)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 39-44 - Self-assembled conjugated polyelectrolyte?surfactant complexes as efficient cathode interlayer materials for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells(2015)
Authors: Michèle Chevrier, Judith E. Houston, Jurgen Kesters, Niko Van den Brande, Ann E. Terry, Sébastien Richeter, Ahmad Mehdi, Olivier Coulembier, Philippe Dubois, Roberto Lazzaroni, et al.
Pages: 23905-23916 - A Time Dependent DFT Study of the Efficiency of Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics at the Interface with PCBM(2014)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Gregory Van Lier, Fabiana Da Pieve, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele, Frank De Proft, Paul Geerlings
Pages: 52658-52667 - Partially miscible polystyrene/ polymethylphenylsiloxane blends for nanocomposites(2011)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Cor E. Koning, Paul Geerlings, Gregory Van Lier, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 775 - Functionalized Dithienylthiazolo[5,4-d]thiazoles For Solution-Processable Organic Field-Effect Transistors
Authors: Sarah Van Mierloo, Karolien Vasseur, Niko Van den Brande, Ayse E. Boyukbayram, Bart Ruttens, Silvio D. Rodriguez, Edith Botek, Vincent Liégeois, Jan D'haen, , et al.
Pages: 923-930 - All-conjugated cationic copolythiophene “rod-rod” block copolyelectrolytes: synthesis, optical properties and solvent-dependent assembly
Authors: Amandine Thomas, Judith E. Houston, Niko Van den Brande, Julien De Winter, Michèle Chevrier, Richard K. Heenan, Sébastien Richeter, Ahmad Mehdi, Bruno Van Mele, Philippe Dubois, et al.
Pages: 3352-3362 - Improved Photovoltaic Performance of a Semicrystalline Narrow Bandgap Copolymer Based on 4H-Cyclopenta[2,1-b:3,4-b ']dithiophene Donor and Thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole Acceptor Units
Authors: Sarah Van Mierloo, Afshin Hadipour, Mark-Jan Spijkman, Niko Van den Brande, Bart Ruttens, J Kesters, J. D'haen, Guy Van Assche, Dago M De Leeuw, Tom Aernouts, et al.
Pages: 587-593