Name "Responsible (Organisation)" "Activity (Organisation)" "Affiliation (Researcher)" "Kathleen Lava" "Tom Verstraten" "Applied Mechanics" "Nicolaas Bernardus Roozen" "Soft Matter and Biophysics" "Luiz Alberto Naveda" "Jan Van Bocxlaer" "Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dean's Office of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Laboratories of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Bio-analysis" "Pieter Naert" "Michael Wübbenhorst" "Soft Matter and Biophysics" "Sergei Glavatskih" "Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering" "Chromatographic Organic Trace Analysis" "The research group develops and tests polymer coatings for use in sensors. These electrode coatings are used in potentiometric HPLC and CE detectors for the determination of organic products and more recently, for measurements in batch. The materials for the coatings are obtained from Flemish and foreign laboratories (UGent, Gdansk University, Warsaw university and our own Chemistry Dept.). These materials are specially designed ionically conducting polymers and (to a lower extent) electronically conducting polymers. Receptor molecules are incorporated in these coatings. These new materials are adapted to the needs of the user, sometimes via organic synthetic methods (""materials design""). Physico-chemical models and computational methods (Molecular Mechanics) are used to predict their behaviour. They are developed and tested to be used for the sensitive determination of (bio)organic substances in complex biological matrices. Recent applications are done with the pharmaceutical industry." "Soft Matter and Biophysics" "Patrick Wagner" "Absorption characteristics of materials used in building and room acoustics. Airborne and impact sound insulation of buildings and building elements. Noise reduction in buildings and factories. Studies of sound propagation outdoors and traffic noise. Environmental noise impact assessment studies. Thermal conductivity through building and insulating materials. Thermal, thermo-elastic and acoustic properties of anisotropic liquid crystalline and polymeric materials and layered structures. Non-destructive detection of subsurface defects in materials. Laser ultrasonics."