Projects

Below a small selection of possible bachelor and master projects is given.
More information on a Bachelor or Master thesis at the Van 't Hoff laboratory can be obtained here or from Janne-Mieke Meijer (tel. 253 36 50)

• Water-water Pickering emulsions - Mark Vis / Ben Erne (Ma)
• Scattering and rheological properties of block copolymer micelles in a polymer melt – Remco Tuinier (Ma)
• Depletion in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures: the effect of non-hard spheres on the phase behavior – Remco Tuinier (Ma)
• Colloid diffusion through a polymer solution – Remco Tuinier (Ma)
• Phase behavior of a suspension of rod-like colloids plus interacting polymer chains – Remco Tuinier (Ma)
• Self-organization of chemically anisotropic colloids - Chris Evers / Willem Kegel (Ma)
• Gefunctionaliseerde pickering emulsies - Roel Baars / Albert Philipse (BaMa)
• Interactions between charged colloids – Rob Kortschot / Ben Erné (Ma)
• Packing of cubic colloids by dispersion filtration - Sonja Castillo / Dominique Thies-Weesie / Albert Philipse (BaMa)
• Nanodeeltjes met een elektrisch dipoolmoment - Ben Erné (Ba)
• The stability of silica colloids at high temperatures - Sonja Castillo / Dominique Thies-Weesie / Albert Philipse (Ba)

    The following proposals are currently conducted:

• Study on the synthesis of multiple sizes and shapes of magnetite nanaoparticles and their magnetic properties - Susanne van Berkum/Ben Erne/Thomas Hartman
• Polarized light microscopy study of the goethite smectic phase in an external magnetic field – Anke Leferink op Reinink / Andrei Petukhov / Wingjohn Tang
• Preparation of ‘Colloidal Emulsions – Joost Wolters / Willem Kegel / Ingo van ‘t Oor
• Model Systems for Self-Organization - Epoxide Functionalized Anisotropic Colloids – Bas van Ravensteijn / Willem Kegel / Susan van Rossum
• Colloidal self-propelling particles - Chris Evers / Willem Kegel / Frans Dekker
• Magnetic photonic crystals – Janne-Mieke Meijer / Andrei Petukhov / Samia Ouhajji
• Defects in thermo-sensitive colloidal crystals – Janne-Mieke Meijer / Andrei Petukhov / Cesare Benedetti
• Self-assembly of colloidal cubes – Janne-Mieke Meijer / Andrei Petukhov / Albert Philipse / Vera Meester
• Second virial coefficient in nanoparticle dispersions- Jos van Rijssel/Ben Erné/ Vincent Peters
• Self-assembly of cubes at the interface – Julius de Folter / Willem Kegel /Eline Hutter
• Shear induced structure in phase separated polymer solutions - Hans Tromp /Carlo van Overbeek 
• Catalytic hematite cubic colloids - Sonja Castillo / Dominique Thies-Weesie / Albert Philipse /Lisette Pompe
• Colloidal Cobalt Nanoparticles – Jaakko Timonen / Jos van Rijssel / Ben Erné /Tim Gombault
• Preparation of colloidal pyrophosphates - Mikal van Leeuwen / Willem Kegel / Jenneke Pandelaar
• Size control over aqueous magnetite nanoparticles – Susanne van Berkum / Ben Erné / Suzanne Verkleij 
• Synthesis and self-assembly of surfactant-like colloids - Joost Wolters / Willem Kegel / Fabian Hagemans
• Gibbsite Liquid Crystals studied in Real Space and Time – Anke Leferink op Reinink / Andrei Petukhov / Elleke van Harten 
• Experimental study of stripe phases formation from isotropic repulsive interactions - Laura Rossi / Albert Philipse / Rick de Groot
• Defects in Thermosensitive Colloidal Crystals - Janne-Mieke Meijer / Jan Hilhorst / Andrei Petukhov / Daan Verwijmeren

    The following proposals were recently conducted:

Preparation of colloidal pyrophosphates - Mikal van Leeuwen / Simone Droog   
Phase behaviour and structure formation of charged silica cubes at low ionic strength - Laura Rossi / Albert Philipse / Joen Hermans
Stabiele pickering emulsies - Roel Baars / Albert Philipse / Emily van den Berg
Simultaneous measurement of rotational and translational diffusion of anisotropic colloid with an integrated fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) setup - Bonny Kuipers / Mark van de Ven
Van der waals interactions between nanoparticles - Jos van Rijssel / Ben Erné / Marte van der Linden
Tunable attractions directing liquid crystal and glass formation in clay colloid mixtures - Henk Lekkerkerker / Jasper Landman
Self assembly of colloidal cubes - Janne-Mieke Meijer / Laura Rossi / Fabian Hagemans
Colloidal cubes at interfaces - Julius de Folter / Robin Geitenbeek
Liquid crystal structures of gibbsite platelets in an electric field - Anke Leferink op Reinink / Anne Berends
Size control over magnetite nanoparticles prepared in aqueous media - Susanne van Berkum / Jacobine van Hest
De rol van colloidale interacties in de vorming van binaire kristallen - Jos van Rijssel / Tamara Valkenburg
Measuring the influence of light on the permanent electric dipole moment of semiconductor nanoparticles using dielectric spectroscopy - Rob Kortshot / Casper van der Wel
• Micro phase separation in mixed shape colloidal suspensions - Dzina Kleshchanok / Mark Vis
• Fluorescent Magnetic Microspheres for MRI - Ben Erné / Kanvaly Sanogo Lacina / Inge Zuhorn / Bob Luigjes / Albert Philipse / Aldo Brinkman