Researcher
Niko Van den Brande
- Keywords:Materials engineering, Chemistry (incl. biochemistry)
- Disciplines:Polymer processing, Polymeric materials not elsewhere classified, Thermal analysis, Physical chemistry of materials, Polymer composites, Solid state and soft matter chemistry, Functional materials, Chemical characterisation of materials, Polymers and plastics, Molecular and organic electronics
Affiliations
- Physical Chemistry and Polymer Science (Research group)
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From30 Sep 2015 → Today - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From1 Oct 2023 → Today - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From8 Apr 2019 → 30 Sep 2023 - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From1 Oct 2018 → 20 Oct 2022 - Faculty of Engineering (Faculty)
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From22 Jun 2017 → 7 Sep 2017 - Materials and Chemistry (Department)
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From15 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2018 - Chemistry (Department)
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From1 Oct 2009 → 30 Sep 2013 - Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences (Faculty)
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From7 Aug 2007 → 3 Jul 2009
Projects
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- Towards fast self-healing reversible covalent elastomeric and thermosetting networks for sustainable applications. Synthesis and characterization of new Diels-Alder building blocks with fast dynamics and tunable reversibilityFrom1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Design of self-healing living mycelium materials at the intersection between biology and materials science.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO visiting post-doctoral fellowship
- Elucidating the structure-property relations and crystallization kinetics of sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers. Production and analysis of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate)From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Accelerating the Diels-Alder kinetics of self-healing polymer network: new insights from a combined density functional theory and molecular dynamics approachFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- GEAR: Sustainable Material Technologies (SuMaT).From1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in real environment, IOF - mandates
- Diffusion- and mobility-controlled self-healing polymer networks with dynamic covalent bonding. Fundamental study of reversible thermosets from bulk to thin layers.From1 Nov 2019 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Molecular design and characterization of adaptive polymers derived from biomassFrom1 Oct 2018 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic cavities for near-infrared photodetection - rational combinations of novel donor and acceptor materials and dedicated solution processing for high performance devicesFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- On the importance of structural disorder in combination with eutectic mixing for conjugated polymer/fullerene solar cellsFrom1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
- RADESOL - RAtional DEsign of blends for bulk heterojunction SOLar cellsFrom1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2016Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
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- UV Stability of Self-Healing Poly(methacrylate) Network Layers(2022)
Authors: Dorothee Ehrhardt, Jessica Mangialetto, Kurt Van Durme, Bruno Van Mele, Niko Van den Brande
Pages: 1-11 - A PDTPQx:PC61BM blend with pronounced charge-transfer absorption for organic resonant cavity photodetectors – direct arylation polymerization vs. Stille polycondensation(2022)
Authors: Tom Vandermeeren, Quan Liu, Sam Gielen, Dries Theunissen, Siebe Frederix, Melissa Van Landeghem, Zhen Liu, Niko Van den Brande, Jan D'haen, Jochen Vanderspikken, et al.
- Hydrogen-Bond-Assisted Diels–Alder Kinetics or Self-Healing in Reversible Polymer Networks? A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study(2022)
Authors: Jessica Mangialetto, Kiano Gorissen, Lise Vermeersch, Bruno Van Mele, Niko Van den Brande, Freija De Vleeschouwer
- From Slow to Fast Self-Healing at Ambient Temperature of High-Modulus Reversible Poly(methacrylate) Networks. Single- and Dual-Dynamics and the Effect of Phase-Separation.(2021)
Authors: Dorothee Ehrhardt, Jessica Mangialetto, Kurt Van Durme, Bruno Van Mele, Niko Van den Brande
Pages: 9960-9977 - New evidence on the origin of ‘bee structures’ on bitumen and oils, by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM)(2021)
Authors: Johan Blom, Hilde Soenen, Niko Van den Brande, Wim Van den bergh
- Reversible Lignin-Containing Networks Using Diels-Alder Chemistry(2021)
Authors: Marlies Thys, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, Richard Vendamme, Niko Van den Brande
Pages: 9750-9760 - Potential of poly(alkylene terephthalate)s to control endothelial cell adhesion and viability(2021)
Authors: Babs Van de Voorde, Lara Benmeridja, Elena Diana Giol, Louis Van der Meeren, Lana Van Damme, Zhen Liu, Antoniya Toncheva, Jean-Marie Raquez, Niko Van den Brande, Andre Skirtach, et al.
- Towards the understanding of halogenation in peptide hydrogels: a quantum chemical approach(2021)
Authors: Tom Bettens, Valentin Lacanau, Ruben Van Lommel, De Maeseneer Tess, Wouter René Vandeplassche, Jolien Bertouille, Joost Brancart, Thomas Barlow, Tatiana Marianne Woller, Niko Van den Brande, et al.
Pages: 4792-4803 - Phosphonium-based polythiophene conjugated polyelectrolytes with different surfactant counterions: thermal properties, self-assembly and photovoltaic performances(2021)
Authors: Michele Chevrier, Jurgen Kesters, Judith E. Houston, Niko Van den Brande, Sylvain Chambon, Sebastien Richeter, Bruno Van Mele, Thomas Arnold, Ahmad Mehdi, Roberto Lazzaroni, et al.
Pages: 457-466 - Time-Temperature-Transformation, Temperature-Conversion-Transformation, and Continuous-Heating-Transformation Diagrams of Reversible Covalent Polymer Networks(2021)
Authors: Jessica Mangialetto, Robrecht René Verhelle, Guy Van Assche, Niko Van den Brande, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 412-425