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van Esser, Beer (author)High-level waste can be radiotoxic for thousands of years and should be carefully handled to prevent accidents. The research for geological disposal of radioactive waste focuses on the construction and durability of a geologic disposal facility in Dutch clays or salts. One of the challenges is assessing these host rocks’ capability to retard...master thesis 2022
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Zegers, Samuel (author)In several experiments, enzymes have shown an in increase in diffusivity in the presence of their substrate. The enhancement in diffusivity ranged from as low as 28% for urease to 80% in the case of alkaline phosphatase. There are two main competing theories. One asserts that catalytically driven boosts propel the enzyme forward in ‘leaps’,...bachelor thesis 2022
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Tellez Angel, Natalia (author)In the built environment, the continuous growth and expansion of urban areas worldwide have become alarming. The built environment is continuously developing in an unsustainable manner, and in the mid-term future, resources will be scarce if practices are not changed. Therefore, new building materials and methods need to be implemented to...master thesis 2022
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Benónísdóttir, Ragnheiður (author)Microchips are made from circular silicon discs called wafers and are manufactured with photolithography. A critical step of a photolithography process is when a wafer with a photoresist is placed on a wafer table (WT) and exposed to light to form patterns that build up components of an integrated circuit (IC). The dimensions of the IC are in...master thesis 2022
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Erdös, M. (author)In this thesis, molecular simulations of porous materials are performed, ranging from testing theories using simple models to predicting thermodynamic properties of realistic complex systems. Porous materials such as zeolites, MOFs, and cyclodextrins (CDs) are studied for waste water treatment and energy related applications. The purpose of the...doctoral thesis 2022
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Bekkema, Bart (author)Radiometals re-emerge as a promising alternative in nuclear imaging. Cyclotron production of such radiometals using liquid targets solve critical impurity problems seen with current conventional production methods. Purification employing liquid-liquid extraction in microfluidic environments has recently been investigated. Fluid behaviour in...master thesis 2022
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Kardux, Famke (author)Spinal fusion is a surgical treatment involving stiffening parts of the spinal column to eliminate any relative motion and improve spine stability. A critical part of spinal fusion surgery is the placement of pedicle screws because it is highly complex and can damage the vascular structures and nerves near the vertebrae. To prevent complications...master thesis 2022
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Oudhof, Nathalie (author)Every year, thousands of women are diagnosed with breast cancer. To increase their survival chance and improve the treatment plans available, it is important to accurately predict the patient's response to treatment. For HER2+ breast cancer patients, normally a set number of chemotherapy rounds are administered. However, perhaps some patients...master thesis 2022
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Linne, C. (author)To bind two entities together, an attractive interaction is needed. In biological systems, such interactions are often between ligands and receptors. But this interaction constantly breaks and forms because it is (too) weak. To ensure a lasting bond, the system can form multiple weak bonds that form an overall strong bond – similar to velcro. An...doctoral thesis 2022
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Zandstra, Bart (author)Hydrogen is more and more recognized as an essential component for a sustainable future. Because of its versatility, hydrogen is a promising energy carrier for decarbonization of various sectors. However, to realize the promising sustainable characteristics of hydrogen as a carbon-free energy carrier, hydrogen production through zero-carbon...master thesis 2022
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Terwindt, Maurits (author)This thesis looks into the link between the Volkswagen emission scandal, or dieselgate, and the strong rise of electric vehicles in the years following that event. In order to investigate this, a framework is build that describes the process of an innovation (the electric vehicle), taking over from an incumbent technology (fossil fuel cars), in...master thesis 2022
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van Pelt, Tess (author)Introduction: Although being the most advanced spinal stabilization method, pedicle screw fixation has an increased number of complications compared to other surgical procedures, due to the complex spinal anatomy, large inter-patient anatomical variability, and the highly vulnerable surrounding tissue of the spine. Screw fixation strength can be...master thesis 2022
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Burdyny, T.E. (author), Sassenburg, M. (author), de Rooij, R. (author), Nessbit, Nathan (author), Kas, R. (author), Chandrashekar, S. (author), Firet, N.J. (author), Yang, K. (author), Liu, K. (author), Blommaert, M.A. (author), Kolen, M. (author), Ripepi, D. (author), Smith, W.A. (author)Continued advancements in the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 (CO 2RR) have emphasized that reactivity,selectivity, and stability are not explicit material properties butcombined effects of the catalyst, double-layer, reaction environ-<br/>ment, and system configuration. These realizations have steadily built upon the foundational work...journal article 2022
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Goyal, N. (author), Taeihagh, Araz (author), Howlett, Michael (author)A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an extensive literature, the extent to which it has used the policy innovation perspective – entailing policy entrepreneurship or invention, policy diffusion, and...review 2022
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Kolen, M. (author), Ripepi, D. (author), Smith, W.A. (author), Burdyny, T.E. (author), Mulder, F.M. (author)The nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) is a promising pathway toward the decarbonization of ammonia (NH3) production. However, unless practical challenges related to the detection of NH3 are removed, confidence in published data and experimental throughput will remain low for experiments in aqueous electrolyte. In this perspective, we analyze...review 2022
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van den Berg, L. (author), Toja Ortega, S. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), de Kreuk, M.K. (author)Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is an advanced biofilm-based technology for wastewater treatment. Diffusion of substrates into the granules is a key aspect of this technology. Domestic wastewater contains soluble organic substrates of different sizes that could potentially diffuse into the granules. In this study, the relation between the...journal article 2022
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Würthner, Laeschkir (author), Brauns, Fridtjof (author), Pawlik, G. (author), Halatek, Jacob (author), Kerssemakers, J.W.J. (author), Dekker, C. (author), Frey, Erwin (author)Self-organized pattern formation is vital for many biological processes. Reaction-diffusion models have advanced our understanding of how biological systems develop spatial structures, starting from homogeneity. However, biological processes inherently involve multiple spatial and temporal scales and transition from one pattern to another...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The cohesive and adhesive performances of bituminous materials significantly affect the service life of asphalt pavement. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method has been proved as an effective tool to predict the thermodynamics parameters of different multisubstance and multi-phase bitumen models during different diffusion, self-healing,...review 2022
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Corstanje, M.A. (author), van der Meulen, F.H. (author), Schauer, M.R. (author)A continuous-time Markov process X can be conditioned to be in a given state at a fixed time T>0 using Doob's h-transform. This transform requires the typically intractable transition density of X. The effect of the h-transform can be described as introducing a guiding force on the process. Replacing this force with an approximation...journal article 2022
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Novoa Munoz, Mauricio (author), Howell, Bryan F. (author), Hoftijzer, J.W. (author), Rodríguez Díaz, José Manuel (author), Zhang, Wendy (author), Kramer, Nikolaj (author)Digital technologies have enabled design sketching to expand into new applications and domains. Inevitably, these new forms of visualisation require re-evaluating how we use drawing to see, visualise, understand, and fabricate products and services in design education and the profession. This paper presents a selection of discoveries after...conference paper 2022