Tenure track professorship in Chemical reactor science and process design Ghent University
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
Covalent functionalization of graphene, a single layer sheet of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms, is the central focus of this proposal. Graphene has seen intense research interest for its remarkable electronic, optical, and mechanical properties. Naturally, there is a large desire to take advantage of these properties for specific applications by appropriately decorating the surface with molecules of specific functionalities. Graphene, however, ...
Radionuclides have a variety of medical applications as radiopharmaceuticals. The most significant and frequent use is in diagnostic imaging to visualize infected, cancerous or damaged areas (e.g. after a heart attack) in the body. More recently, therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals have gained more interest, particularly in cancer treatment, as the ionizing radiation can target and destroy harmful tumor cells in a precise and selective manner. ...
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The chemical industry is facing several important challenges in the coming decade, mainly as a result of the tremendous impact of society on the environment, but also to maintain current living standards taking in to account the economic viability of chemical processes. These challenges
entail the use of alternative feedstocks compared to the conventional fossil resources, and the design and optimization of chemical ...
Self-healing is a promised technology to improve the durability of concrete structures. The research describes how self-healing concrete behaves in different aggressive conditions, such as frost salt scaling, chemical attacks and water pressure. The extreme conditions will be applied during and after healing, and the latter will provide information on the durability of the healed material.
Immunotherapy is a rising star in the fight against cancer and works by taking off the brakes of the
patient’s own immune system so it can attack cancer more efficiently. While spectacular
responses have been observed in some patients, the majority has little or no reaction to
immunotherapy. However, a subset of tumors that are very responsive to these drugs has now
been unveiled, namely mismatch repair-deficient ...
About 95% of the total energy consumption in Ethiopia is composed of traditional biomass fuels, with only 5% coming from modern energy sources. The annual exploitable reserve woody biomass supply of Ethiopia is estimated over 110.2 million tons. Total potential supply of crop residues has been estimated to be 22.4 million tons per year. It is estimated that 92% of woody biomass is consumed by households. In consequences, the country’s forest ...
The continuous growth of world’s population and the increasing economic industrialization has led to an ever increasing demand to energy and goods. Simultaneously, we are confronted with a foreseeable depletion of cheap oil and sustainability issues for gas and coal conversion. These facts have stimulated the quest for renewable resources. Perhaps their major role as energy supplier may be questioned on the long term, but renewable feedstock ...
Biological control using natural enemies such as arthropod predators and parasitoids has become an important alternative way of pest management. However, the efficacy of biological pest control can be seriously hampered when naturally occurring enemies are not sufficiently abundant or effective. Therefore, naturally occurring beneficial insects are often complemented with the release of commercially-reared natural enemies. Despite these ...