Physical Chemistry and Polymer Science

Last week, Fatemeh Sahraee succesfully defended her PhD under the proud supervision of Joost Brancart and Guy Van Assche. She developed two novel strategies to tackle the intrinsic trade-off between electrical conductivity and #selfhealing behaviour for various types of stretchable sensors in collaboration with co-workers from #Brubotics and form the #SHERO_FET and #SUBLIME projects. Her hybrid composites show a synergistic improvement of the electrical properties and self-healing and she developed a novel blending strategy to protect #liquidmetal #electronics from both water and oxygen. European Commission BruBotics - Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB Faculty of Engineering #VUB #SUME #FWO Research Foundation Flanders - FWO

Aurélie Van Wylick heeft recent haar doctoraat verdedigd onder de gezamelijke supervisie van Lars De Laet, Eveline Peeters en Hubert Rahier. Ze geeft graag een glimps van het multidisciplinair onderzoek dat ze deed in nauwe samenwerking tussen #ARCH, #MICR en #FYSC en de vrijheid die ze daarbij kreeg om te groeien als onderzoeker en als persoon. We zijn enorm blij dat Aurélie nog wat langer aan de #VUB blijft om zelf verder te groeien en anderen te helpen groeien zoals zij dat deed. Videoboodschap via https://lnkd.in/e3JdDZeA Volg haar vooruitgang via https://lnkd.in/e3YdaXWN VUB Faculty of Engineering VUB Architectural Engineering VUB Research Group of Microbiology (MICR) #SUME #FWO Research Foundation Flanders - FWO

Last week, Fatemeh Sahraee successfully defended her doctoral thesis challenging the trade-off between electrical conductivity and #selfhealing for flexible electronics. Under the proud supervision of Joost Brancart and Guy Van Assche and in collaboration with her co-workers at #BruBotics and the #SHERO_FET and #SUBLIME projects. She developed a hybrid #composite #technology to synergistically improve the electrical conductivity and self-healing performance for piezoresistive sensors and #blends as encapsulants for #liquidmetal electronics with resistance against both oxygen and water. European Commission VUB Faculty of Engineering #VUB #FWO Research Foundation Flanders - FWO

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We are proud of Hannelore Geeraert, who is one of our most active and reputed #science outreachers. She is an example to our #FYSC colleagues and many peers, as she shares an accessible insight into her research into #PHA #biopolymers via this 'Science Figured Out' video. The video was recorded as part of the VUB Doctoral Derby, where she won first place! SciMingo VUB Research VUB Faculty of Engineering #FWO Research Foundation Flanders - FWO

Postdoctoral researcher Jessica Mangialetto developed a mechanistic model that describes the effect of vitrification on the dynamic reactivity of Diels-Alder-based thermoreversible polymer networks under the supervision of Niko Van den Brande, supported by (former) #FYSC colleagues Robrecht Verhelle and Guy Van Assche. The mechanistic model and related reaction kinetic parameters were used to simulate time–temperature-transformation (TTT) and continuous-heating-transformation (CHT) diagrams that are versatile tools for the prediction of the effect of diffusion limitations or the planning of time–temperature cure programs for curing and property optimization, especially in view of the design and processing of these self-healing and reprocessable materials. More detials via https://lnkd.in/eS-G6Ptj. #FWO Research Foundation Flanders - FWO TA Instruments VUB Faculty of Engineering #VUB

October 8, 2024, all graduate's of the past academic year, both our engineers and our fresh doctors, were celebrated at the City Hall of Brussels, on the magnificent Grand Place, on the occasion of the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Congratulations to all our graduates.

Little over a week ago, #FYSC #BruBotics and #SURF colleagues shared their research on #selfhealing #polymers, stretchable #sensors and flexible #electronics at the Functional Materials Engineering conference by Wim Deferme from imo-imomec (Hasselt University and imec). Congratulations to Valentina Lozano Betancur for winning the oral presentation award during your first year as a PhD student! You make your promoter Joost Brancart very proud and Seppe Terryn who was there to accept the honours was visually very happy for you as well. European Commission #SHINTO_EIC BruBotics - Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB Faculty of Engineering Research group Electrochemical and Surface Engineering #VUB #FWO Research Foundation Flanders - FWO #SUBLIME

Last night, Aleix Costa Cornellà successfully defended his doctoral thesis focused on improving the #sustainability of the #selfhealing #polymers previously developed at #FYSC from a holistic point of view, under the proud supervision of Guy Van Assche and Joost Brancart. He validated his patented materials in various applications with #BruBotics colleagues, VKC-Centexbel and University of Cambridge and continued maturing his technology. European Commission #SMART_ITN #SHINTO_EIC VUB Faculty of Engineering #VUB

This summer, Kivanc Kacmaz joined the #FYSC laboratory of the #SUME research group as a doctoral researcher on the SIM ICON project #Photo-AUP in collaboration with allnex, Ghent University, FERTIKAL and Tenco DDM. The project explores novel photocurable resins in view of attaining biodegradable photopolymers for #additivemanufacturing, #coatings and many more. VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship #VLAIO VUB Research #VUB #WeAreVUB