MCEC Annual Meeting 2018

This year’s MCEC Annual Meeting will be held on 4 and 5 April 2018 at
The Gallery
Hengelosestraat 500
7521 AN Enschede

11.00 – Welcome and registration

11.30 – Opening

11.45 – Introduction of two new PhDs/PDs: Alejo Aguirre & Vamsi Spandan Arza
12.05 – Invited lecture

Sander Huisman (UT): Heat convection in bubbly vertical convection and future plans (abstract)

12.40 – Lunch

13.40 – Four 20-minute presentations by:

Ahmed Ismail (UU): X-ray spectroscopy characterization of water splitting photoanodes

Jeroen Vollenbroek (UT): Droplet Microreactor: High-throughput activity screening of FCC Ecat catalyst particles

Aura Visan (UT): Catalytic induced flows or how to produce more with less catalyst

Roderigh Rohling (TU/e): The Diels-Alder cycloaddition over transition metal exchanged faujasites

15.00 – Coffee break

15.15 – First poster session

16.15 – Scientific discussion: either with a joint walk or via progress meetings in small groups

17.45 – Dinner

19.15 – Evening lecture

Barry Fitzgerald (TU Delft): Secrets of Superhero Science (abstract)

*

 5 April 2018

08.30 – Introduction of two new PhDs: Maarten Bransen & Valerii Muravev

08.50 – Three 20-minute presentations by:

Ivan Devic (UT): Stopping sliding droplet with the chemical step

Evgeny Uslamin (TU/e): Chemistry of the aromatization of furanic compounds on zeolites 

Aditya Sengar (TU/e): Convection-Diffusion-Reaction modelling for multicomponent species

09.50 – Coffee break

10.05 – Four 20-minute presentations by:

Alvaro Moreno Soto (UT): The nucleation rate of single O_2 nanobubbles at Pt nanoelectrodes

Maxim Masterov (TU/e): Numerical simulation of bubble columns using hybrid turbulence models

Freddy Oropeza Palacio (TU/e): Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) for functional  characterization of photoelectrodes

Christa van Oversteeg (UU): Colloidal copper based nanocrystals for photocatalytic applications

11.25 – Second poster session

12.30 – Lunch

13.30 – Invited lecture

Freddy Rabouw (UU): Coupling nanoparticles to plasmons on a silver surface (abstract)

14.15 – Coffee break

14.30 – Four 20-minute presentations by:

Laurens Mandemaker (UU): Unravelling the nucleation and growth of MOF thin-films

Giulia Fiorucci (UU):  Out-of-equilibrium crystallization: oscillatory shear on long range repulsive colloids    

Paolo Lovreglio (TU/e): Experimental and numerical study of flow in packed beds of spherical particles

Rama Kotni (UU): Supraparticles for catalysis (provisional title)

15.50 – Wrap-up and ceremony*: the MCEC Poster Prize 2018

16.15 – Closing

* Poster committee: Sander Huisman, Jan Philipp Hofman en Jovana Zecevic