Master's students

MASTER PROJECTS

Students with a background in chemistry or physics are encouraged to explore the possibilities of doing a Bachelor or Master research project at the Van 't Hoff Laboratory.

Below you can find brief descriptions of the Master research projects that can currently be completed in our group. Bachelor projects can be found on the Bachelor projects page.

If you are interested in a project or topic, please contact the student coordinator, Alessio Sprockel for more information.

Over the coming couple of weeks, more projects will be added as they are being gathered and finalized. 

  • Ultrasonication Induced Shape Shifting

    In this project, as illustrated in figure 1, we will focus on the effect of ultrasonication treatment on the shape of the pyrophosphate salts. To investigate the mechanics behind shapeshifting, solubility of the salts will be measured.

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    Neshat Moslehi
    FCC PhD

  • Measuring Entropy and Enthalpy of Formation of Electrical Double Layers

    Electrical double layers1 are at the heart of batteries, fuel cells, corrosion, electroplating, and many other electrochemical devices and processes.

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    Joren Vos
    FCC PhD

  • The influence of non-specific DNA on in vitro transcription regulation

    Transcription is the process by which a gene segment on DNA is copied into messenger RNA. This involves  different types of proteins, such as the transcription machinery (RNA polymerase) and regulatory proteins (transcription factors).

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    Amanda van der Sijs
    FCC PhD

  • Hydrophobic polyelectrolytes: Effect of chain architecture

    Hydrophobic polyelectrolytes are a class of pH-sensitive polyelectrolytes containing both hydrophobic and ionizable chemical groups, which present sharp coil to globule (extended to collapsed) transitions.

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    James Martin
    FCC PhD

  • Janus STrIPs Bijels

    Bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels (bijels) have found numerous uses as batteries, filters, tissue engineering scaffolds, ultralight materials, and catalytic microreactors.

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    Mohd Azeem Khan
    FCC PhD

  • Bijel filtration membranes for water treatment

    The decoration of porous membranes with a dense layer of nanoparticles imparts useful functionality and can enhance membrane separation and anti-fouling properties; 

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    Mariska de Ruiter & Henrik Siegel
    FCC PhD