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Two KIC grants awarded with impact in the food industry and beyond
Two of five NWO KIC grants go to chemistry researchers

Challa Prize Winner Announced!
The Challa Prize 2025 for the best Dutch PhD thesis in the field of polymer chemistry has been awarded, on behalf of the KNCV Section…

Thermochromic Liquid Crystal Oligomers for Solar Infrared Control in Windows
Henk Sentjens successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on April 9th.

Tim Hogervorst and Mert Astam appointed NWO Faculty of Impact fellows
Two ambitious start-ups in cryopreservation and in haptics for the blind will receive financial support and intensive entrepreneurial…

Marina Pilz da Cunha wins the 2025 Marina van Damme Grant
[VIDEO] Marina Pilz da Cunha wins the 2025 Marina van Damme grant. The sholarship amounts to € 9,000 and provides access to a large network…

Granting Intelligence to Liquid Crystal Actuators through Electricity
Mert Orhan Astam defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on the 23rd of January 2025.

NWO funding for SFD spin-off Useeble
Useeble, sprouted from the Stimuli-responsive functional materials and devices (SFD) group, has been awarded a Take-off phase 2 study from…

Winner best lecture ILCC Brazil 2024!

Graphene plus liquid crystals equals ‘Hot Fingers’
Eindhoven researchers have developed a soft robotic ‘hand’ made from liquid crystals and graphene that could be used to design future…

Alfred Saupe Medal awarded to Albert Schenning
On Thursday 14th March, during the German Liquid Crystals Conference 2024 in Essen the Alfred Saupe Medal has been awarded to Albert…

Low-order dynamic modeling for electroactive surfaces
Anahita Amiri defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on…

Thermoplastic liquid crystal elastomer soft actuators
Sean Lugger successfully defended his thesis on September 20th at the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry.