News 2021

24 December 2021

ICC Christmas Song out now!

To celebrate the Christmas season, a few colleagues (Anne-Eva, Joyce, Thimo, Jim & Thomas) created the ICC Christmas song which you can listen to here. Enjoy!  

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09 December 2021

A needle in a haystack: weeding out dead catalyst

Publication in Nature Catalysis Catalysts are important materials that are used to increase the resource and energy efficiency of chemical reactions and processes. Although catalysts operate in cycles that normally […]

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07 December 2021

ICC Researchers solve mystery of ‘structure-insensitive’ catalytic reactions

A team of researchers from the ICC group at Utrecht University has solved one of the fundamental mysteries in catalysis: the paradox of structure insensitivity. The work was a collaboration […]

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26 November 2021

Jim de Ruiter wins poster award at INTERECT 2021

Jim de Ruiter has won the Poster Award for his poster “Time Resolved Spectral Footage of CO2 Electroreduction on Copper Catalysts” during the INTERECT conference in Valencia, organized by nanoGe.

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26 November 2021

ICC-alumna Charlotte Vogt wins Clara Immerwahr Award

ICC-alumna Dr. Charlotte Vogt was awarded the 2022 Clara Immerwahr Award by UniSysCat, a cluster of excellence atfour universities and four research institutes in the Berlin/Potsdam area. The Clara Immerwahr Award […]

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13 November 2021

ICC lab outing: graffiti!

Photo taken during the Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis Lab Outing at IKEA Utrecht. This image was made following all Covid-19 regulations in force at the time of the event. The group […]

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22 October 2021

Ward van der Stam wins Best Lecture Award at the online NanoGe Fall Meeting 2021

During the online NanoGe Fall Meeting Ward van der Stam presented the combined work of PhD student Jim de Ruiter and postdoctoral fellow Hongyu An in the lecture entitled ‘Probing the dynamics of CO2 electroreduction with time-resolved Raman […]

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14 July 2021

Freddy Rabouw receives VIDI-grant

Freddy Rabouw was awarded a VIDI grant from the NWO Talent Scheme. The VIDI grant, for researchers who have already conducted several years of research after their PhD, involves a […]

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05 July 2021

ARC-CBBC hub explained

Ina Vollmer and Matteo Monai, ICC’s new assistant professors (see May 1 news item) have prepared a video explaining the tools and techniques available at the Utrecht ARC-CBBC hub. The ARC […]

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28 May 2021

Bert Weckhuysen Awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship

Bert Weckhuysen was awarded a prestigious Comenius Senior Fellowship award which will allow him to expand the Bachelor-phase Da Vinci Project (an interdisciplinary honours programme on sustainability developed with a […]

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11 May 2021

And then there was light: the sun powers new chemistry

In an article that appeared in de Telegraaf today, ICC researchers Eline Hutter, Matteo Monai, and Bert Weckhuysen are interviewed about the conversion of CO­2 to methane using sunlight. Although […]

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11 May 2021

Where has all the plastic gone? Ina Vollmer & Florian Meirer interviewed about plastic in the environment

Ina Vollmer and Florian Meirer have been interviewed for an in-depth article about plastic in the environment: 99 percent of all the plastics in the ocean is missing. We know […]

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05 May 2021

Clothing kills the virus

The Covid-pandemic has demonstrated that we need to be ready for rapidly spreading threats, like a new biohazard, but also pollutants, or toxins. This is especially important for the front-line […]

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05 May 2021

Bert Weckhuysen explains smell of asphalt processing plant on Radio1

Neighbors of an Asphalt-processing plant in den Bosch are concerned about the smell emanating from the plant, and fear for exposure to benzene. Bert Weckhuysen was interviewed to explain how […]

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01 May 2021

Matteo Monai and Ina Vollmer appointed assistant professors at ICC and ARC CBBC

The ICC scientific staff was recently expanded with two new tenure-track assistant professors: Ina Vollmer and Matteo Monai, presently post-docs at ICC, will join the team of ICC and ARC […]

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01 May 2021

Utrecht researchers show how to detect nanoplastics in sea water

Degrading plastic waste ends up in the sea as very small particles, that can be harmful to aquatic life but also eventually to humans. It is very difficult to study […]

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22 April 2021

Bert Weckhuysen speaks out on research funding

In an interview in DUB, the news site of Utrecht University, Bert Weckhuysen speaks out on the funding system for academic research. What is needed, is a sustainable model for […]

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22 April 2021

Reinventing Chemistry Together: Successful anniversary symposium of ARC-CBBC

In ARC-CBBC, industry, academia and government cooperate to redesign the chemical industry, and drastically reduce its environmental footprint. Led by Bert Weckhuysen (UU-ICC), Hans Kuipers (Eindhoven University) and Nobel-Prize winner […]

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21 April 2021

Freddy Rabouw receives support for KIEM GOCHEM project

Freddy Rabouw has been awarded 50 k€ for his new KIEM project “Bright red light thanks to smart energy conversion”. He will implement the project together with Seaborough Research B.V., […]

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14 April 2021

New research group founded – MCC website released

On January 1st, a new research group was founded, called Materials Chemistry and Catalysis (MCC). More information on this new group can be found at https://materialschemistryandcatalysis.org. The Inorganic Chemistry and […]

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07 April 2021

Charlotte Vogt selected for Forbes 30 under 30 – Appointed Assistant Professor at Technion, Haifa

ICC-graduate Charlotte Vogt was selected for the prestigious Forbes 30 under 30 Europe 2021 list. Charlotte was selected in the Science and Healthcare section of the list, for her studies […]

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16 March 2021

Extended Pore structure in zeolite crystals visualized in Angewandte VIP-paper

Zeolites are the active ingredients of many industrial catalysts. The have very small pores, that are just large enough to let specific molecules access their active sites. However, these narrow […]

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06 March 2021

Erik Maris and Iris ten Have win poster and presentation awards at the 2021 NCCC conference

ICC was very successful at the online 2021 Netherlands Catalysis and Chemistry Conference this year: Erik Maris has won the Poster Award for his poster “Making more efficient zeolites: Visualizing […]

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19 February 2021

Poster Award for Sophie van Vreeswijk from the Faraday Discussions

PhD student Sophie van Vreeswijk has received a Poster Award during the Faraday Discussions. Her poster entitled “Atom Probe Tomography and Operando Spectroscopy Reveal Nano-scale Compositions, Clustering and Conking Behaviour […]

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12 January 2021

Bert Weckhuysen appointed Honorary fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society

Bert Weckhuysen was recently appointed Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society. He was elected for his contributions in the use of in-situ spectroscopy technology to study catalytic processes, as […]

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