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
1 - 10 of 12
- 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
21 - 30 of 49
- Reversible covalent polymer layers for sustainable performance enhancement of photovoltaics(2021)
Authors: Dorothee Ehrhardt, Niko Van den Brande, Bruno Van Mele
- Self-Healing in Mobility-Restricted Conditions Maintaining Mechanical Robustness: Furan–Maleimide Diels–Alder Cycloadditions in Polymer Networks for Ambient Applications(2020)
Authors: Dorothee Ehrhardt, Jessica Mangialetto, Jolien Bertouille, Kurt Van Durme, Bruno Van Mele, Niko Van den Brande
Pages: 1-24 - Self-healing UV-curable polymer network with reversible Diels-Alder bonds for applications in ambient conditions(2020)
Authors: Dorothee Ehrhardt, Kurt Van Durme, Johan Jansen, Bruno Van Mele, Niko Van den Brande
Pages: 1-9 - Phase Behavior in the Active Layer of Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaics: State Diagram of p-DTS(FBTTh2)(2):PC71BM(2020)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Maxime Defour, Dries Devisscher, Pieter Verstappen, Gunter Reekmans, Jan D'haen, Wouter Maes, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 7566-7577 - Comparative study on the effects of alkylsilyl and alkylthio side chains on the performance of fullerene and non-fullerene polymer solar cells(2020)
Authors: Zewdneh Genene, Asfaw Negash, Birhan A. Abdulahi, Raghavendran Thiruvallur Eachambadi, Zhen Liu, Niko Van den Brande, Jan D'haen, Ergang Wang, Koen Vandewal, , et al.
- Diffusion- and Mobility-Controlled Self-Healing Polymer Networks with Dynamic Covalent Bonding(2019)
Authors: Jessica Mangialetto, Audrey Cuvellier, Robrecht René Verhelle, Joost Brancart, Hubert Rahier, Guy Van Assche, Niko Van den Brande, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 8440-8452 - Ladder-type high gap conjugated polymers based on indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene and bithiazole for organic photovoltaics(2019)
Authors: Asfaw Negash, Zewdneh Genene, Raghavendran Thiruvallur Eachambadi, Pieter Verstappen, Niko Van den Brande, Jurgen Kesters, Jan D'haen, Ergang Wang, Koen Vandewal, Wouter Maes, et al.
Pages: 211-217 - Analysis of bulk heterojunction organic solar cell blends by solid-state NMR relaxometry and sensitive external quantum efficiency – Impact of polymer side chain variation on nanoscale morphology(2019)
Authors: Dries Devisscher, Gunter Reekmans, Jurgen Kesters, Pieter Verstappen, Johannes Benduhn, Niko Van den Brande, Laurence Lutsen, , Dirk Vanderzande, Koen Vandewal, et al.
Pages: 309-314 - Homocoupling Defects of a Small Donor Molecule for Organic Photovoltaics: Quantification of the Eutectic State Diagram by Rapid Heat–Cool Differential Scanning Calorimetry(2019)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Maxime Defour, Zhen Liu, Pieter Verstappen, Erik Nies, Wouter Maes, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 22634-22642 - Probing Organic Thin Films by Coherent X-ray Imaging and X-ray Scattering(2019)
Authors: Nilesh Patil, Theyencheri Narayanan, Leander Michels, Eirik Torbjorn Bakken Skjonsfjell, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Niko Van den Brande, Raf Claessens, Bruno Van Mele, Dag Werner Breiby
Pages: 1787-1797