Projects
Yeast cell surface display of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes to degrade PET and pretreat PET-containing organic side streams prior to black soldier fly larvae rearing (PETyFLY) KU Leuven
applied as packaging material. Given their frequent use, combined with the lack and/or failure of recycling programs, these plastics and their fragmented variants, i.e., micro, and meso plastics, are ubiquitously present in organic side streams. For example, PET plastics have been found in residual valuable biomass derived from the food industry, supermarkets, and restaurants. Should this biomass be used as feed for rearing insects, these PET ...
Yeast cell surface display of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes to degrade PET and pretreat PET-containing organic side streams prior to black soldier fly larvae rearing (PETyFLY) KU Leuven
Worldwide, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most frequently used synthetic polyesters, being applied as packaging material. Given their frequent use, combined with the lack and/or failure of recycling programs, these plastics and their fragmented variants, i.e., micro, and meso plastics, are ubiquitously present in organic side streams. For example, PET plastics have been found in residual valuable biomass derived from the food ...
FWO-SB-Beurs: Innovating Yeast Display for the selection of nanobodies for difficult targets Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tardis II: total area display sensor II Ghent University
In this project BARCO to develop a base platform for precise 2D sensor system that can be used for luminance and color measurements (medical) display systems. The sensor must be able to perform these measurements in different locations of the display surface.
Excitons and Excitonic Complexes in Colloidal Nanocrystals: Impact of Dimensionality, Crystal Structure and Surface (CONEX) Ghent University
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) have become an established optical material with applications in opto-electronics, nanophotonics and quantum technologies. NCs combine a suitability for solution-based processing and tunable materials properties, for example through the NC size or dimensionality (0D, 1D, 2D). Such characteristics have a direct impact on the excitons and excitonic complexes created in NCs by light absorption, and understanding the ...
Sensitive probing of surface charging processes based on the electrokinetics of single colloidal particles Ghent University
The Center for Nano- and Biophotonics sets up research lines in the area of nanoparticles, microlaser technology and optical switches, biosensors, bio-spectroscopy, scanning of biomaterials, electro-optical particle manipulation and active nanophotonic implants.
Objectives
A. Fundamental research on charging mechanisms in nonpolar colloidal suspensions
In nonpolar liquids such as oil, colloidal particles carry almost no ...
H2-MHytic: H2 BY MEMBRANE INTEGRATED HIGH SURFACE AREA NANOMESH TECHNOLOGY VITO (Flemish institute for technological research)
Renewable electricity production has developed enormously in recent decades and has since become the lowest-cost option. One of the main challenges concerns the integration of these time-unstable production sources into the electricity supply network ("grid"), while avoiding peak production destabilizing this network. Local sources of renewable electricity, such as wind farms, ...
Surface modification of plant protein based nanoparticles: a tool to improve their functional properties KU Leuven
Interest in replacing animal by plant proteins in food systems is increasing. For various reasons, such replacement is unfortunately not straightforward. A main hurdle in this regard is the often limited solubility of plant proteins in aqueous media, which notably reduces their applicability in many foods. A possible solution is to produce protein nanoparticles (NPs) that are colloidally stable in aqueous systems. The solubility profile of ...
Study of the antifungal mode of action of plant defensins using single cell analysis KU Leuven
Yearly, invasive fungal infections (IFIs), such as candidemia and invasive aspergillosis, cause 1.7 million deaths worldwide and this number is still increasing, which can be mainly explained by the increase of the at-risk population, being immunocompromised patients, and the increased use of modern medical devices, such as implants and catheters. Mortality rates associated with IFIs are high (up to 50%) and the number of currently used ...