News and calendar
News and calendar
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09 February 2024
Bonds that strengthen under tension built in the lab for the first time
- A material that does not break, but rather becomes stronger when you exert force on it. Counterintuitive, but Martijn van Galen succeeded in building... -
02 February 2024
Working with fibre hemp: a handbook for farmers and the whole supply chain
- Thanks to the new Handbook Fibre Hemp and accompanying wiki, anyone interested in working with a sustainable alternative for textiles and construction... -
01 February 2024
CCU: Carbon Capture and Utilisation for renewable chemicals and materials
- In order to mitigate climate change, carbon dioxide emissions need to be reduced. One of the options is to capture and store the emitted CO2 (CCS).... -
31 January 2024
Shellfish as a source of protein and health-promoting compounds
- An international consortium is joining forces in a public-private partnership (PPP) to develop methods to utilise all components of shellfish, such as... -
25 January 2024
ERC Proof of Concept grant to extract valuable salts from wastewater
- Louis de Smet, professor in the Organic Chemistry chair group at Wageningen University & Research, has been awarded a Proof-of-Concept grant of... -
19 January 2024
Creating a new, sustainable plastic using physics
- For the past three years, PhD candidate Sophie van Lange has been dedicated to one clear goal: producing plastic that is both hard and sustainable.... -
06 January 2024
Students turn waste into protein
- A group of Wageningen students won the Rethink Waste international student challenge with their idea for making high-quality protein powder out of... -
21 December 2023
Gudrun Thorkelsdottir wins Unilever Research Prize for work on microplastics from car tyres
- In November 2023, Wageningen University & Research student Gudrun Thorkelsdottir was honoured with the Unilever Research Prize, following a... -
18 December 2023
SeaHydrogen: Combining Hydrogen, Fresh Water, Minerals and Electricity Production from Seawater
- Water producing instead of using, that is one of the key elements of SeaHydrogen, a Nexus approach that Wageningen Food & Biobased Research is... -
13 December 2023
Making palm oil friendlier for environment and people
- The establishment of new palm oil plantations can result in deforestation, and sometimes also the draining of swamps. This causes a decrease in...