Projects
Investigation of biodegradable polyesters for food packaging applications Hasselt University
Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693), the Antwerp à la Mode Painter: Fashion and Dance in Southern Netherlandish Genre Painting, 1645-1685'. KU Leuven
Summary
This dissertation focuses on the genre paintings by the Antwerp artist Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693). Janssens is by far the only painter from the second half of the seventeenth century in the Southern Netherlands who specialised in the depiction of dance, corporality, music and leisure of high society. In contrast to his fellow Northern Netherlandish genre painters, there has barely been any scholarly attention paid ...
Expansion of applications of ab initio methods for transition metal complexes. KU Leuven
Prevention of secondary caries adjacent to tooth restorations in composite. KU Leuven
Polymerization of a composite restoration is accompanied by volumetric shrinkage, due to closer packing of the molecules when the polymer network is formed. This shrinkage can generate stress within the material, the surrounding tooth structure and at their mutual interface; as a consequence it may result in micro-cracking, interfacial de-bonding, gap formation and eventually secondary caries. The magnitude of the stress depends on the ...
Programmable three-phase four-quadrant Powersource - 180kV Ghent University
One of the major objectives of ABB n.v. Power Quality Products (ABB) is the development of products to improve the quality of the electrical power supply, amongst which filtering systems. As a consequence, this division of ABB has a lot of experience in the field of electrical systems in presence of non- linear loads. Historically, the main goal of the development of active filters by ABB was to reduce the harmonic loading of electrical ...
Innovative numerical optimization methodologies for the design of high-performance heat sinks. KU Leuven
The cooling of electronic devices is essential to guarantee their functional performance and operational lifetime. Due to continued miniaturization and integration of transistors in packaged chips, the heat dissipation rate has surpassed the limits of classical air-cooled heat sinks. This has triggered a lot of research towards alternatives for high heat flux cooling.
Liquid cooling with micro heat sinks is one ofthese candidate ...
Sensitive probing of surface charging processes based on the electrokinetics of single colloidal particles Ghent University
The Center for Nano- and Biophotonics sets up research lines in the area of nanoparticles, microlaser technology and optical switches, biosensors, bio-spectroscopy, scanning of biomaterials, electro-optical particle manipulation and active nanophotonic implants.
Objectives
A. Fundamental research on charging mechanisms in nonpolar colloidal suspensions
In nonpolar liquids such as oil, colloidal particles carry almost no ...
Re-designing organizations to increase agility: how can firms reconfigure their organization models to compete in a dynamic, post-Covid world KU Leuven
“In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.” Jeff Bezos, 2018 In 2020, Covid-19 irrevocably changed the world. Many of the shifts initiated by the crisis, post-globalization, teleworking, contactless consumerism - to name but a few – will be ...