Projecten
Europees opleidingsnetwerk voor zero-waste valorisatie van bauxietresidu KU Leuven
To tackle its (critical) raw material dependency, Europe needs comprehensive strategies based on sustainable primary mining, substitution and recycling. Freshly produced flows and stocks of landfilled industrial residues such as mine tailings, non-ferrous slag and bauxite residue (BR) can provide major amounts of critical metals and, concurrently, minerals for low-carbon building materials. The European Training Network for Zero-Waste ...
Membraanplatform van de volgende generatie voor ultrasnelle zuivering bij biologische verwerking KU Leuven
De zuivering van biofarmaceutica is een essentiële stap in
biomedische toepassingen. De grote marktvraag leidt tot een 10-
voudige toename van de stroomopwaartse productie, waardoor het
knelpunt in de productie verschuift naar stroomafwaartse verwerking,
waar harskolommen dominant zijn maar grote hindernissen bij
opschaling ondervinden vanwege de hoge materiaalkosten,
ultrahoge druk en weerstand tegen ...
Verbetering van de chemie dankzij scheiding door membraanprocessen KU Leuven
Two of the major hurdles for the chemical industry transition toward the “chemical factory of the future” are the ability to design (i) efficient and selective catalytic transformations of renewables and (ii) eco-efficient separation processes to retrieve and purify the product(s) and catalyst(s). Future generations of researchers (academic &industry) will need to be trained and equipped with these expertise that constitute the main goal ...
Enantioselectiviteit aan oppervlakken: covalente enting als nieuw hulpmiddel voor chirale oppervlaktemodificaties. KU Leuven
Chiral surfaces have received considerable attention in the recent past since they play an important role as substrates for chiral separations and enantioselective heterogeneous catalysis. One of the most frequently used approaches to design and fabricate chiral surfaces is the adsorption and self-assembly of chiral or prochiral molecules on surfaces, which can be studied with sub-molecular resolution by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). ...
Chiraal geïnduceerd spin-selectiviteitseffect KU Leuven
Chirality is often considered as a structural properties of molecules, but the concept also applies to elementary particles having a non-zero spin, i.e. electrons at rest are achiral but they acquire a helicity (chirality) in the direction of motion. Consequently, electrons are filtered according to their spin when crossing chiral materials. This newly uncovered chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect is surprisingly large. Spin ...
Covalente chirale functionalisatie van grafiet voor enantioselectieve toepassingen KU Leuven
An object, or a molecule is said to be chiral if it can be distinguished from its mirror image. Chirality plays an important role in many areas of chemistry, biology, and physics. Many chemical processes involving solid surfaces such as catalysis, crystallization, adsorption, and so forth, are sensitive to chirality. Thus, surfaces are not fertile playground studying chirality, but they can also be used to promote the separation of ...
Het Europese medische isotopenprogramma: productie van zeer zuivere isotopen door massascheiding KU Leuven
PRISMAP - The European medical isotope programme: Production of high purity isotopes by mass separation proposes to federate a consortium of the key European intense neutron sources, isotope mass separation facilities and high-power accelerators and cyclotrons, with leading biomedical research institutes and hospitals active in the translation of the emerging radionuclides into medical diagnosis and treatment. PRISMAP will create a ...
Supercapatterijen van hiërarchisch gestructureerde natuurlijke materialen KU Leuven
We geloven dat we nieuwe energieopslagapparaten kunnen ontwikkelen die hybriden zijn tussen traditionele supercondensatoren en batterijen die supercapatteringsapparaten worden genoemd