Projects
Water Forced in Hydrophobic Nano-Confinement: Tunable Solvent System KU Leuven
Water is the sustainable solvent of excellence but its high polarity limits the solubility of non-polar compounds. Confinement of water in hydrophobic pores alters its hydrogen bonding structure and related properties such as dielectric constant and solvation power. Whether this special state of confined water can be rendered useful in chemical processes is hitherto underexplored. The original idea of this project is to modulate water solvent ...
Non-linear dielectric response in ferroelectrics within the elastic regime and its applications in memory cells KU Leuven
With the discovery of a ferroelectric phase in HfO2 about a decade ago, a new line of research has emerged for the application of ferroelectrics in nonvolatile memory cells as well as in the context of machine learning such as in-memory computing. Considering the very low power consumption of the ferroelectric switching mechanism, this line of research fits perfectly in the current trend towards less power-hungry and therefore more ...
Investigating the local structure of topological crystalline insulators using channeling techniques KU Leuven
For decades, ferromagnetic semiconductors have captured the scientific community's interest, harnessing in a single material the carrier's charge as in a semiconductor and the spin as in a ferromagnet. Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) are among the most well-studied families of ferromagnetic semiconductors, and pioneered multiple spintronic device concepts exploring the interactions between spin, electric current, and light. Mn-doped ...
Spoken Corpus of the Southern-Dutch Dialects (GCND) Ghent University
This application proposes the creation of the first corpus of spoken Dutch dialects. The project aims at making accessible a unique collection of dialect recordings from 768 places in Belgium, France and the south of the Netherlands, 740 of them originally recorded between 1963 and 1976, with speakers that are generally non-mobile, rural, unschooled and born around 1900. For the GCND, the recordings are transcribed – urgent in times of ...
Afwerkersbeurs Emmanuel Van der Schueren Karolina: Characterization of an aggressive and microbiota-dependent colon cancer model Ghent University
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a frequently lethal disease with very heterogeneous outcomes and drug responses. We recently developed a new, fast and fully penetrant in vivo mouse model of spontaneous CRC based on the lEC-specific mono-allelic expression of the EMT transcription factor ZEB2. ZEB2, an E-box binding transcription factor, is a crucial driver of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). ZEB2 was initially described as a factor ...
Evaluation of Alternative Vertical Transistors for 3D NAND Applications KU Leuven
The need for reliable, cheap and dense memory devices has never been so important specially with the inception of Internet of Things (IoT) which will
require further expansion in data storage solutions. Flash NAND technology has been playing a crucial role in this on-going expansion and has become
a driving force in the semiconductor industry. This memory is cost-effective, dense, robust, and non-volatile. This technology suffers, ...
Matrix metalloproteinases in optic nerve regeneration: functions and substrate identification. KU Leuven
Dysfunction of the central nervous system (CNS) after injury or in neurodegenerative diseases increasingly impairs life quality in our aging society. Also optic neuropathies, like glaucoma, are becoming increasingly prevalent in our elderly population, affecting over 60 million people worldwide. They are characterized by retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axonal degeneration and death, ultimately resulting in irreversible blindness because adult ...