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Louvain-La-Neuve
December 13, 2019
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...
Click to know more November 12, 2019
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....
Click to know more November 08, 2019
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...
Click to know more October 24, 2019
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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