Projects
Books from the Low Countries in Colonial Colombia and Bolivia KU Leuven
The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. The knowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively in the shape of printed books and engravings. On the other side, the printed book was the medium by excellence by which European knowledge was taken to the most remote parts of the earth. Printing houses in the Southern Netherlands played an ...
Microchip based Impedance Sensors for in situ Evaluation of evaluation of Bacterial Biofilm Formation (See2B). KU Leuven
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Biofilms are complex, highly variable, surface-associated communities of microorganisms, embedded in a self-produced matrix. Within biofilms bacteria are up to 1000 times more tolerant to antibiotics, disinfectants and other stresses.[1] Several factors contribute to this increased tolerance, such as protection by the biofilm matrix, slow growth and low metabolic activity of bacteria within biofilms, biofilm ...
Scaling up multiphase photoreactions utilizing repetitive structures KU Leuven
Photochemistry has many benefits such as high selectivity, mild reaction conditions and access to new reaction pathways. A high selectivity reduces the number of downstream processes required to obtain a product with the desired purity. Furthermore, it is expected that energy costs will increase, making energy-intensive processes, where high temperatures and pressures are used, less feasible. New reaction pathways can reduce the required ...
Upgrading the Flexure-based Microgap Rheometer for Microrheological Investigation of Soft Particle Glasses KU Leuven
Microrheology can probe the behaviour of complex fluids, different than the behaviour on bulk or macroscopic scale. In this work, the rheological behaviour of soft microgel particle pastes has been studied comprehensively. Though systems similar to the P(NIPAM-co-AA) pastes that are used here have been researched in macroscopic flows, the addition of a geometrical confinement had yet to be examined. The FMR is a thin film sliding plate ...