Micro- and nanoplastics are now popping up everywhere: in seawater, snow, food, and even in our bodies. The very smallest particles, in particular, are difficult to measure, meaning we still know too little about ...

In a paper just out in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences describe a method for the late-stage ...

In a paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present a photo-flow strategy to convert readily available, simple alcohol feedstocks ...

In a ‘hot paper’ just published by Angewandte Chemie, an international research team reports the synthesis of graphene nanostructures via π-radical reaction cascades. The paper demonstrates the potential of ...

Researchers led by Prof. Chris Slootweg at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have uncovered an unexpected radical pathway in imidazolium salts. In a paper published in Angewandte Chemie International ...

In a paper in Physical Review Letters, computational chemists Rik Breebaart and Peter Bolhuis at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present a successful computational strategy ...

In a paper in the Journal Macromolecules, researchers at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) led by associate professor Andrea Gargano present a ‘polymer sequencing’ approach for analysing the ...

In a paper just out in Nature Synthesis, researchers led by Prof. Timothy Noël of the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present a breakthrough in autonomous laboratory systems for ...

In a paper in ChemSusChem, researchers at the Biocatalysis group led by Dr Francesco Mutti at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) present a sustainable, enzyme-catalysed method for amide bond ...

Researchers at the Catalysis Engineering group, led by Dr. Shiju Raveendran at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), have developed potassium-doped borophane nanosheets as ...

To Bernd Ensing, Professor of ‘AI for Chemistry’ at the University of Amsterdam's Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Artificial Intelligence will completely transform the way chemical research is ...

NWO has awarded grants to 16 projects in the latest round of the Open Competition ENW-M. Three UvA Faculty of Science researchers have received the grant: Ronald Bruijn, Tati Fernández Ibáñez, and Carlos Fitzsimons. ...

Dr Tati Fernández Ibáñez of the Synthetic Organic Chemistry group at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded an Open Competition Domain Science M grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). ...

The “2026 Prous Institute - Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery” has been awarded to Prof. Timothy Noël, Professor of Flow Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute ...

John van Geuns Fund awards €2500 scholarships for talented (aspiring) students of the Bachelor’s programme in Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Last week, the ...

Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a comprehensive software suite to create accurate models of DNA in biomolecular assemblies. Called ...

The Catalysis Engineering Group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has developed a new robust process for the recycling of mixed plastics waste. A newly developed pilot plant aims to demonstrate how this can be ...

On 27 May, Dr Matteo Damian defended his thesis on novel reactivities and engineering of dehydrogenases, describing his research performed at the Biocatalysis group led by Dr Francesco Mutti at the Van ’t Hoff ...

To better understand how light can drive useful chemical reactions, Dr Bettina Baumgartner of the van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences will join forces with Dr Olesia Kulyk at the Institute of Functional ...

Dr Stefano Polla has been appointed Assistant Professor in Quantum Computing and Simulation for Quantum Chemistry and Materials. He will develop quantum computing algorithms for applications in chemistry, such as the ...