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Shan, M. (author), Geng, Xiumei (author), Imaz, Inhar (author), Broto-Ribas, Anna (author), Ortín-Rubio, Borja (author), Maspoch, Daniel (author), Ansaloni, Luca (author), Peters, Thijs A. (author), Tena, Alberto (author), Boerrigter, Marcel E. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)Membrane technology has attracted great industrial interest in carbon capture and separation owing to the merits of energy-efficiency, environmental friendliness and low capital investment. Conventional polymeric membranes for CO<sub>2</sub> separation suffer from the trade-off between permeability and selectivity. Introducing porous fillers...review 2024
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Bleeker, J.J. (author), van Kasteren, Celine (author), van Ommen, J.R. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)To make green hydrogen more economically attractive, the energy losses in alkaline electrolysis need to be minimized while operating at high current densities (1 A cm<sup>−2</sup>). At these current densities the ohmic resistance and gas bubbles effects contribute largely to the energy losses. To mitigate the gas bubbles losses, we...journal article 2024
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Dischinger, Sarah M. (author), Miller, Daniel J. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author), Kingsbury, Ryan S. (author)Dense polymer membranes enable a diverse range of separations and clean energy technologies, including gas separation, water treatment, and renewable fuel production or conversion. The transport of small molecular and ionic solutes in the majority of these membranes is described by the same solution-diffusion mechanism, yet a comparison of...review 2024
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Schalkers, M.A. (author), Dankers, K.T. (author), Wimmer, M.T. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)The rapid growth of quantum technologies requires an increasing number of physicists, computer scientists, and engineers who can work on these technologies. For educating these professionals, quantum mechanics should stop being perceived as incomprehensible. In this paper we contribute to this change by presenting a pedagogical model for...journal article 2024
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Ligthart, N.E.G. (author), Prats Vergel, G. (author), Padding, J.T. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)CO2 conversion is an important part of the transition towards clean fuels and chemicals. However, low solubility of CO2 in water and its slow diffusion cause mass transfer limitations in aqueous electrochemical CO2 reduction. This significantly limits the partial current densities towards any desired CO2-reduction product. We propose using...journal article 2024
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van Bortel, G.A. (author), Hackauf, U.D. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author), van Gameren, D.E. (author), Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (author), Van Eekelen, Bregje F. (author), Asselbergs, M.F. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Groen, E.J. (author), Kloosterziel, A. (author), Spoor, K. (author)“De woningcrisis biedt kansen. De kans om een duurzaam en langdurig gezond woonklimaat te realiseren.”<br/><br/>Woningnood is geen nieuw verschijnsel in ons land. Al in de negentiende eeuw leidde snelle bevolkingsgroei en verstedelijking tot een huisvestingstekort; de woningwet van 1901 moest daar een eind aan maken. In de wederopbouwjaren na de...report 2024
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Baumgartner, L.M. (author), Goryachev, A. (author), Koopman, C.I. (author), Franzen, David (author), Ellendorff, Barbara (author), Turek, Thomas (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)CO2 electrolysis might be a key process to utilize intermittent renewable electricity for the sustainable production of hydrocarbon chemicals without relying on fossil fuels. Commonly used carbon-based gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) enable high Faradaic efficiencies for the desired carbon products at high current densities, but have limited...journal article 2023
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Ma, X. (author), Albertsma, J. (author), Gabriels, Dieke (author), Polat, S. (author), Snoeks, Casper (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Eral, H.B. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author), van der Veen, M.A. (author)Large amounts of carbon monoxide are produced by industrial processes such as biomass gasification and steel manufacturing. The CO present in vent streams is often burnt, this produces a large amount of CO<sub>2</sub>, e.g., oxidation of CO from metallurgic flue gasses is solely responsible for 2.7% of manmade CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. The...review 2023
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Kroesen, M. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author), Griesdoorn, F. (author)The European Union strives to align research and innovation to the values, needs and expectations of society to address societal challenges. To support this alignment the European Union endeavours to make Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) part of the governmental policies on science and technology of its member states. If the European...journal article 2023
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Vermaas, D.A. (author), Kortlever, R. (author)Electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> capture is promising for closing the carbon cycle but needs technological advances. In a recent issue of Nature Energy, a novel chemistry for electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> capture is presented, demonstrating low energy consumption and high purity with virtually no degradation. This finally allows competition...journal article 2023
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Bleeker, J.J. (author), Kahn, A.P. (author), Baumgartner, L.M. (author), Grozema, F.C. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author), Jager, W.F. (author)Spatiotemporal pH imaging using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is an excellent technique for investigating dynamic (electro)chemical processes. However, probes that are responsive at high pH values are not available. Here, we describe the development and application of dedicated pH probes based on the 1-methyl-7-amino...journal article 2023
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Umbrello, S. (author), Bernstein, Michael J. (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author), Resseguier, Anaïs (author), Gonzalez, Gustavo (author), Porcari, Andrea (author), Grinbaum, Alexei (author), Adomaitis, Laurynas (author)Various approaches have emerged over the last several decades to meet the challenges and complexities of anticipating and responding to the potential impacts of emerging technologies. Although many of the existing approaches share similarities, they each have shortfalls. This paper takes as the object of its study Anticipatory Ethics for...journal article 2023
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Baumgartner, L.M. (author), Kahn, A.P. (author), Hoogland, Maxime (author), Bleeker, J.J. (author), Jager, W.F. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)Electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> reduction poses a promising pathway to produce hydrocarbon chemicals and fuels without relying on fossil fuels. Gas diffusion electrodes allow high selectivity for desired carbon products at high current density by ensuring a sufficient CO<sub>2</sub> mass transfer rate to the catalyst layer. In addition to CO...journal article 2023
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Petrov, K.V. (author), Santoso, A. (author), Ryzhkov, Ilya I. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)Polymeric ion-exchange membranes (IEMs) are key to many electrochemical processes, but their intrinsic selectivity limitations restrict scale-up possibilities. Nanofluidic IEMs, based on inorganic rigid materials and charged nanopores, offer a promising alternative. We present design criteria for selective nanofluidic membranes. We used...journal article 2023
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sharifian, rezvan (author), van der Wal, H. C. (author), Wagterveld, R. M. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)To assist reaching net-zero emissions, the dissolved carbon in the ocean can be extracted to enable an indirect air capture. An electrochemical bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED) is a sustainable method for such capture. The BPMED enables a pH-swing that manipulates the oceanic carbonate-equilibrium using electricity. However, at...journal article 2023
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Seskir, Zeki C. (author), Umbrello, S. (author), Coenen, Christopher (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)As quantum technologies (QT) advance, their potential impact on and relation with society has been developing into an important issue for exploration. In this paper, we investigate the topic of democratization in the context of QT, particularly quantum computing. The paper contains three main sections. First, we briefly introduce different...journal article 2023
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Blake, J.W. (author), Konderla, V. (author), Baumgartner, L.M. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author), Padding, J.T. (author), Haverkort, J.W. (author)The use of gas diffusion electrodes that supply gaseous CO<sub>2</sub> directly to the catalyst layer has greatly improved the performance of electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> conversion. However, reports of high current densities and Faradaic efficiencies primarily come from small lab scale electrolysers. Such electrolysers typically have a...journal article 2023
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Vermaas, P.E. (author), Wimmer, M.T. (author), Lomas, J.D. (author), Almudever, Carmen G. (author), Scappucci, G. (author)This magazine is both an introduction into quantum computing and an exploration of its impact on our world. It follows on from our 2019 magazine on the quantum internet. Since 2019, much progress has been made in quantum technologies worldwide. In 2020, for instance, the first European quantum computer came online in Delft. Although this is...report 2022
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van Heesch, Maran (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)De economische en nationale veiligheidsbelangen van Nederland worden beide gediend door snel toegang tot de eerste generaties van grotere operationele quantumcomputers. Het leveren van een sleutelbijdrage aan een Europees project voor het bouwen van deze quantumcomputers lijkt daarvoor het beste middel.report 2022
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Sullivan, Ian (author), Goryachev, A. (author), Digdaya, Ibadillah A. (author), Li, Xueqian (author), Atwater, Harry A. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author), Xiang, Chengxiang (author)In the version of this article, there were errors in Fig. 2a and d. In Fig. 2a, we have changed Cu2+ to Cu(0) in the revised version. While the two references cited in our paper used Cu2+ in their schematics,1,2 we believe that Cu(0) is the correct representation for the electrochemically mediated amine regeneration (EMAR)3. To be clear, the...journal article 2022