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Louvain-La-Neuve

IMCN/iMMC seminar - Koen BINNEMANS

Solvometallurgy: an emerging branch of extractive metallurgy Koen Binnemans KU Leuven, Department of Chemistry, Celestijnenlaan 200F, P.O. Box 2404, B-3001 Leuven (Belgium). E-mail: Koen.Binnemans@kuleuven.be The seminar will start by a series of 3 minutes pitch of 5 or 6 PhD students...
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IMCN seminar - Brigitte VAN TIGGELEN

Dr. Brigitte VAN TIGGELEN Science History Institute (Philadelphia – USA) Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences (UCLouvain) ABSTRACT L’année internationale du Tableau périodique des Eléments Chimiques (International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements - IYPT) a...
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IMCN thesis defence - Antonin DESMECHT

"Anionic functionalization of carbon nanotubes and catalytic applications" By many regards nanocarbons have demonstrated themselves of great interest thanks to their remarkable properties. However, nanocarbons often need to be chemically altered for their process or to tune those properties....
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IMCN seminar - Prof. Vincent MEUNIER

IMCN Seminar Prof. Vincent MEUNIER Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, USA) ABSTRACT The realization that the world cannot be fully understood using the classical laws of physics led to the first quantum revolution early in the twentieth century.  One hundred years...
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IMCN thesis defence - Valentin SMEETS

"New synthetic approaches to efficient Ti-SIO2 epoxidation catalysts" The epoxidation of olefins is a subject of considerable fundamental and industrial interest as epoxides are involved in the manufacture of a wide range of valuable commercial compounds. This reaction is typically catalyzed...
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