A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique used to visualize the inside of cells and to study specific protein complexes. Within this thesis, I describe the use of various cryo-EM techniques to gain insight into the structural changes of the human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, as it…

Promotor: Jelle S. Kaastra Co-promotor: Jelle de Plaa

Bio-energie met koolstofafvang en -opslag is een veelbelovende methode om CO2 uit de atmosfeer te halen en tegelijkertijd energie op te wekken. Maar deze methode is controversieel, omdat er veel grond en water voor nodig is.

On a structural level, the properties featured by a majority of mechanical metamaterials can be ascribed to the finite number of soft internal degrees-of freedom allowing for low-energy deformations.

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This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

Promotor: F. Arbab

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond

Geometric phases lead to a nontrivial interference result when an electron's different quantum mechanical paths choices encircle a magnetic coil in an Aharonov-Bohm experiment.

This dissertation consists of two parts, each of which considers a different research area related to random interval maps. In the first part we are interested in random interval maps that are critically intermittent.

Spectroscopic studies on fluorescent single molecules in organic condensed matter does not only provide information about the molecule itself, but also its near environment. By suppression of phonon-induced broadening of spectral lines through cooling to low temperatures, small changes in the spectral…

Has the industrial sector in China effectively been decarbonizing in recent years, across different regions and subsectors, and is it plausible that it will reduce its CO2 emissions in conformity with national and internationally pledged emission goals?

This thesis addresses the problem of designing performance and energy efficient embedded streaming systems, that is, systems which process a stream of input data coming from the environment and generate a stream of output data going into the environment.

With increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and their detrimental effect on the global climate, modern society needs to push for more renewable energy sources. Storing widely accessible and abundant solar energy in chemical bonds in the form of molecular fuel via artificial photosynthesis…

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that a measurement collapses a wavefunction onto an eigenstate of the corresponding measurement operator.

Wat zijn de belangrijkste thema's in het uitvoeren van systemen voor bio-energie ?

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

We have conducted a full spectral line survey of the 3-13 micron region of two massive protostars, AFGL 2591 and AFGL 2136, for the first time at high spectral resolution.

In the last decade, the redox interconversion between metal thiolate and disulfide compounds has been extensively investigated for copper, but not for other transition metal ions.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: L. Juurlink

Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

Promotor: T.J. Aartsma, Co-promotor: R.N. Frese

The research presented in this thesis makes use of small molecules (as H2 , D2 and O2 ) on well-defined single crystal surfaces (flat Pt(111), flat Cu(211) and curved Pt(111)) to elucidate the role of surface structure and degrees of freedom in the reactant in specific surface reactions.

Promotores: Prof.dr. F.P. Israel, Prof.dr. P.P. van der Werf

The work described in this thesis focuses on the development of linear or cyclized peptide probes against protein N-methyltransferases to characterize their specific binding behavior, providing further binding details for inhibitory activity study.

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

Solar energy harnessed by plants and algae has great potential to be converted into biofuels for future generations.

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is responsible for light absorption and excitation energy transfer in plants and photosynthetic algae, while in high light it undergoes conformational changes by which it quenches excitations to prevent photodamage.

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.

Sustainable energy from wind and solar is most readily available near the sea.

The key characteristic of active matter is the motion of an emergent collection (such as a flock of birds), which is driven by the consumption of energy by its active components (i.e. individual birds).

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

Promotores: A.P. IJzerman, H.W.T. van Vlijmen