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Student projects

Single bubble oxygen reduction

NeuroChip - Nano-electrodes for electrical recordings in human brain cells Techniques to record electrical activity from brain cells are essential for brain research and the screening of potential new drugs against bran disease. We want to explore a new approach to electrically record many single neurons in parallel, with high-resolution, using nano-electrodes on a chip. The main challenge is to integrate the electrodes into the cellular membrane to create a GigaOhm "seal" to prevent leakage of electrical current from the cell.

“Choosing” in chemical engineering and process intensification

Who’s afraid of the big bad needle? Let’s try thermocavitation.

Cavitation from microcrevices in viscoelastic media

Nonlinear oscillations of a microcrevice bubble

Modeling of catalyst particle proximity effect

Self-organisation of binary mixtures of microspheres on (patterned) substrates

Industrial Assignments

Noble metal patterns by controlled dewetting on 3D curved surfaces Solid-state metal dewetting is a process that occurs at higher temperatures, and is one of the causes for catalyst particle agglomeration. The assignment focuses on the construction of various 3D test structures of sizes ranging from nanometers to micrometers, with the goal of studying the effect of local 3D surface curvature on this dewetting process. The experimental work involves silicon microfabrication and thin film deposition, with subsequent metal coating and annealing of the structure.

Miniaturized NMR system

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