Energy and Sustainability

On 14 June 2024, a team of RUG and Hanze students will compete in the RDW Self Driving Challenge. This year, the students are competing in a new category where they have to provide their own car that has to perform various, complex tasks.

Ben Feringa and colleagues argue for leadership and systemic change in laboratories.

University of Groningen chemists created an enzyme with boronic acid at its reactive centre. This approach can produce more selective reactions with boron, and allows the use of directed evolution to improve its catalytic power. The new-to-nature enzyme was presented in the journal Nature on 8 May.

Research group IREES receives NWO-KIC grant for research into sharing and repairing

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Gravitation grant to ANION, the research programme that Professor Moniek Tromp of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering, UG) is a partner in. ANION, Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands, will study the electrochemical processes that are important for large-scale energy transition. Tromp has been awarded 2.9 million euros for her research in ANION.

Elisabetta Chicca studied how instects navigate, which can come in handy when developing energy-effecient robots.