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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- Homocoupling defects in porphyrinoid small molecules and their effect on organic solar cell performance(2019)
Authors: Mathias Kelchtermans, Jasper Deckers, Jeroen Brebels, Jurgen Kesters, Pieter Verstappen, Raghavendran Thiruvallur Eachambadi, Zhen Liu, Niko Van den Brande, , Laurence Lutsen, et al.
Pages: 48-55 - Diketopyrrolopyrrole-based terpolymers with tunable broad band absorption for fullerene and fullerene-free polymer solar cells(2019)
Authors: Asfaw Negash, Zewdneh Genene, Raghavendran Thiruvallur Eachambadi, Jurgen Kesters, Niko Van den Brande, Jan D'haen, Huguette Penxten, Birhan A. Abdulahi, Ergang Wang, Koen Vandewal, et al.
Pages: 3375-3384 - Fast scanning chip calorimetry study of P3HT/PC61BM submicron layers: structure formation and eutectic behaviour(2019)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Guy Van Assche, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 277-282 - Glass Structure Controls Crystal Polymorph Selection in Vapor-Deposited Films of 4,4 '-Bis(N-carbazolyI)-1,1 '-biphenyl(2018)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Ankit Gujral, Chengbin Huang, Kushal Bagchi, Heike Hofstetter, Lian Yu, Mark D. Ediger
Pages: 5800-5807 - Single-step solution polymerization of poly(alkylene terephthalate)s: synthesis parameters and polymer characterization(2018)
Authors: Elena Diana Giol, Niko Van den Brande, Bruno Van Mele, Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Peter Dubruel
Pages: 292-300 - Probing the bulk heterojunction morphology in thermally annealed active layers for polymer solar cells(2017)
Authors: Niko Van den Brande, Nilesh Patil, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Raf Claessens, Guy Van Assche, Dag Werner Breiby, Bruno Van Mele
Pages: 319-326 - Elucidating Batch-to-Batch Variation Caused by Homocoupled Side Products in Solution-Processable Organic Solar Cells(2016)
Authors: Tim Vangerven, Pieter Verstappen, Nilesh Patil, Jan D'haen, Ilaria Cardinaletti, Johannes Benduhn, Niko Van den Brande, Maxime Defour, Vincent Lemaur, David Beljonne, et al.
Pages: 9088-9098 - X-Ray Nanoscopy of a Bulk Heterojunction(2016)
Authors: Nilesh Patil, Eirik Torbjorn Bakken Skjonsfjell, Niko Van den Brande, Elvia Anabela Chavez Panduro, Raf Claessens, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Bruno Van Mele, Dag Werner Breiby
- High-Permittivity Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Interlayers for High-Performance Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells(2016)
Authors: Jurgen Kesters, Sanne Govaerts, Geert Pirotte, Jeroen Drijkoningen, Michèle Chevrier, Niko Van den Brande, Xianjie Liu, Mats Fahlman, Bruno Van Mele, Laurence Lutsen, et al.
Pages: 6309-6314 - Extremely robust and post-functionalizable gold nanoparticles coated with calix[4]arenes via metal-carbon bonds(2016)
Authors: Ludovic Troian-Gautier, Hennie Valkenier, Alice Mattiuzzi, Ivan Jabin, Niko Van den Brande, Bruno Van Mele, Julie Hubert, Francois Reniers, Gilles Bruylants, Corinne Lagrost, et al.
Pages: 10493-10496