'New Horizons in Designer Materials' aims to open new directions to design high-performance materials in a fundamental approach. The research projects within this programme should aim to act as nuclei for new academic research groups in the Netherlands for the design and development of future materials. Therefore, the projects have to be scientifically conceptual and fundamental and highly innovative and will be performed by an excellent postdoctoral researcher with the ambition and the potential for a tenured academic career in the Netherlands.
The selected research projects were introduced during the 3TU.HTM Kick-off Symposium 'Dutch Materials' in Utrecht on 6 October 2015.
- Understanding structure formation in hierarchical hybrid materials through in situ liquid phase microscopies - prof.dr. Nico Sommerdijk (TU/e)
- "From Flatland to Spaceland“: Towards Advanced, 3-Dimensional Materials Bottom-Up, from Polymer Decorated Nano- and Microstructures - prof.dr. Julius Vancso (UT) & prof.dr. Bert de With (TU/e)
- Reversible crosslinking: a potent paradigm for designer materials - dr. Kees Storm (TU/e) & dr. Wouter Ellenbroek (TU/e)
- Communicating surfaces - dr. Danqing Liu (TU/e)
- Superconducting Carbon Nanotubes composite as Vertical Interconnect for Qubit Integration at Cryogenic Temperature - prof.dr. Kouchi Zhang (TUDelft)
- Metamaterials with tunable dynamical properties - dr. Varvara Kouznetsova (TU/e) & prof.dr. Marc Geers (TU/e)
Activities
- 13 October 2017 - Poster presentations at the 4TU.HTM annual symposium Dutch Materials 2017
All projects
- 18 April 2017 - Guest Lecture Prof. C.P. Wong (Georgia Tech) - ECTM 2017 Spring Event (TU Delft)
Project: Super Conduction Nanotubes - 13 October 2016 - Poster presentations at the 4TU.HTM annual symposium Dutch Materials 2016
All projects - 19 September 2016 - Workshop Liquid crystal as functional material, with Prof. Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University) as one of the invited speakers (TU/e)
Project: Communicating Surfaces - 6 July 2016 - Lecture TU Delft Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon University): Macromolecular Engineering by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Project: 'From Flatland to Spaceland' - 5 February 2016 - Twente Polymer Colloquium with Prof. Krysztof Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon University): Nanostructured Functional Polymers by Taming Free Radicals
Project: 'From Flatland to Spaceland' - 4 February 2016 - TU/e Colloquium with Prof. Krysztof Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon University): Organic/Inorganic Hybrids by ATRP
Project: 'From Flatland to Spaceland' - 6 October 2015 - Kick-off Symposium Dutch Materials 2015, presentation of the six projects within the research programme New Horizons in Designer Materials.