Our lab has a vacancy for a PhD position in the area of self-healing polymer coatings. The position is part of a NWO-funded CHIPP project (coordinated by m2i), entitled “Nanostructured self-assembled functional materials” (NanoFun), and is part of large network of 4 universities and 6 companies that are involved in this project.
For more details on the vacancy and to apply, please go to our university’s website.
(Click on this news item to be able to open the link to the website).
Last week, Friday December 22, Sophie van Lange successfully completed her BSc thesis project, entitled: Synthesis and Rheological Characterisation of Dynamic Polymers. During her thesis project Sophie was co-supervised by Joshua Dijksman, assistant professor at our neighbouring Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter. In her project Sophie demonstrated that imine-based polymer networks display self-healing behaviour.
Our paper “Highly Specific Binding on Antifouling Zwitterionic Polymer-Coated Microbeads as Measured by Flow Cytometry“, describing work by Esther van Andel and Ian de Bus, has been published (as ASAP) in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. The paper describes the preparation of magnetic micron-sized beads coated with zwitterionic sulfobetaine polymer brushes that display strong antifouling characteristics. These coated beads can then be equipped with recognition elements of choice, to enable the specific binding of target molecules.
Our website is (finally) live! Check out the various sections, and don’t forget to come back later to check for updates.