1,963 search results for “dark energy” in the Public website
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Van Marum Colloquia
The "Van Marum Colloquia" are a collaborative lecture series between the LION and LIC institutes, focusing on fundamental and applied surface science.
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Why fundamental science matters
Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 March 2016 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Faculty of Science.
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Electrons give resist layer electrical charge
Leiden physicists found a surprising interaction between electrons and a resist layer. The resist appears to charge and discharge due to incoming electrons. Publication in Physical Review Letters.
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Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE)
How are night spaces imagined, produced, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in Europe? This research project considers this question in eight European cities: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cork, Galway, Lisbon, London, Rotterdam. Authorities have historically wrestled with the issue of night-time…
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Resolution of electron microscope greatly improved
The use of a new type of detector has generated a strong improvement in the resolution of electron microscopes. The 'low-energy electron microscope' (LEEM) can now be used for research on the thinnest possible materials. The tests with the detector represent the first result of the ESCHER project.
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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The energy and material related impacts of the transition towards low- carbon heating
PhD defence
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Automated Machine Learning for Dynamic Energy Management using Time-Series Data
PhD defence
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assessment and guidance for the future development of offshore wind energy
PhD defence
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Superlattices in van der Waals materials A Low-Energy Electron Microscopy study
PhD defence
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Energy Governance in Brazil: Meeting the international agreements on climate change mitigation
PhD defence
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Low energy electron transmission through layered materials and chiral organic films
PhD defence
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Stéphanie Noach receives a Fulbright grant
Stéphanie Noach, PhD within LUCAS, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for her PhD project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contemporary Latin American Art' at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.
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‘Food is the elephant in the room for human water use’
From treatment plants to hot showers, emissions from water use in the U.S. are equal to 50 million cars driving around for a year. In The Washington Post, staff writer Tik Root consults different experts to learn about ways to reduce our water consumption. He also speaks with Leiden environmental scientist…
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Using zebrafish to target the Achilles’ heel of cancer
Exploiting metabolic vulnerabilities to identify anticancer compounds in zebrafish synthetic lethality screens.
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Surface and Interface Science
The nanoscale structure of a catalyst under reaction conditions determines its activity, selectivity, and stability. For the production of sustainable energy and materials, new catalysts are needed. By understanding the structure-activity relationships of catalysts under reaction conditions, insight…
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Quantum dynamics of H2 on metal surfaces: researching the role of surface atoms
This research focuses on the (Quantum) Dynamics (QD) of the reactive scattering of H2 from metal surfaces.
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Liveable Planet
Crises like climate change and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet. That’s why sustainability is an important topic in research and education across Leiden University. On this website you read how scientists from many disciplines work together in researching sustainability.
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’
What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what researchers, artists and the residents of Leiden are going to investigate during Seeing Stars Leiden on 25 September. ‘Leiden is the ideal place for…
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Nanowire based Tandem Solar Cells
In this project innovative technology for photovoltaics cells is developed and analysis of ecological and health related risks are explicitly accounted for.
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Solution for Critical Raw Materials - an European Export Network (SCRREEN)
Where and how are critical materials currently used and how can this information be used to develop scenarios about their future demand.
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Perfect for designing new molecules
Even a small quantum computer should be able to simulate exactly the properties and behaviour of new molecules. This would take chemistry to an entirely new level. Better solar panels, more powerful batteries, saving lots of energy in the chemical industry: the applications have the potential to transform…
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Leiden University College
What is my contribution to the world? This is what students and researchers at Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) ask themselves every day. They want to make a difference with their teaching and research in the four global challenges of ‘Peace and Justice,’ ‘Sustainability,’ ‘Diversity’ and ‘…
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Vision on sustainability 2030
Leiden University is aware of its role in society and wants to create a green, healthy and inclusive campus and have a positive impact on the field of climate and circularity.
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C.J. Kok Jury Award for Thesis of the Year
Isotopes on exoplanets, a more efficient memory for data centres or new molecules that work against the Zika virus and HIV. Which PhD candidate has written the most impressive dissertation of 2023? The jury of the C.J. Kok Jury Award faces the challenging task of deciding that. Meet the nominees of…
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Towards artificial photosynthesis: resolving supramolecular packing of artificial antennae chromophores through a hybrid approach
Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot
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Biophysical Organic Chemistry
The long term goal of the Biophysical Organic Chemistry/SSNMR group, headed by Prof. Huub de Groot, is to reach an understanding of structure, dynamics and functional mechanisms of membrane proteins and self-organized biological assemblies and to translate this knowledge into new concepts for nano-devices,…
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Systems and security
Researchers at LIACS are working to devise the computers of tomorrow that will be the backbone of the Cloud and Edge computing paradigms as well as the Internet of Things. In this respect, we are involved in research and development of high performance computing systems, embedded & real-time computing…
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Metals in Catalysis, Biomimetics & Inorganic Materials
Coordination chemistry is the chemistry of metal atoms
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Computational Drug Discovery
Research in this group, headed by Gerard van Westen, focusses on computational methods integrated in different parts of the drug discovery process. More specifically, topics include innovative treatments for cancer, selectivity modeling, translational research, allosteric modulation, drug resistance…
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Urban
Urbanization brings benefits like housing and jobs but also challenges like biodiversity loss. CML's Urban research program uses science to create sustainable cities, focusing on the built environment (circular economy, urban mining) and enhancing urban nature for biodiversity and human benefits.
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Research
Industrial Ecology
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Nuclear Quantum Effects in Solid Water
Ice, the solid state of water, plays an important role on our planet as well as the entire universe.Despite the fact that an individual water molecule has a very simple structure, its chemical bonding in the solid phase can be surprisingly complex.
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Imagining Justice for Syria: Water Always Finds Its Way
On 29 april 2020, Beth Van Schaack defended her thesis 'Imagining Justice for Syria: Water Always Finds Its Way'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. C. Stahn.
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Orion's Dragon and Other Stories
Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.
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Aria of the Dutch North Sea
Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn
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Dormancy in stochastic interacting systems
Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.
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Disorder and interactions in high-temperature superconductors
This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.
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Sustainability
Leiden University is a integral part of the community and contributes to a sustainable society. Over the coming years our University will become even greener.
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Improvisations in phototrophy
Microbial rhodopsins are photosensitive pigments implemented in the growth and adaptation of a large population of microorganisms.
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Creating a sustainable Humanities Campus
During the development of the Humanities Campus, as many 'green choices' as possibile are being made. This concerns the buildings as well as the surrounding area. Making the campus more sustainable is measured using the BREAAM.NL method.
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Development of highly accurate density functionals for H2 dissociation on transition metals
Metals surfaces form a group of effective catalysts for the reaction of small molecules such as hydrogen (H2).
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Pair configurations to molecular activity coefficients: PAC-MAC
This thesis provides an overview of the development of the Pair Configuration to Molecular Activity Coefficient (PAC-MAC) model.
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Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
Together@FGGA – Together towards a safe, inclusive and balanced work environment
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On the Power Efficiency, Low latency, and Quality of Service in Network-on-Chip
In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.
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Origami metamaterials : design, symmetries, and combinatorics
In the first part of this thesis we study the geometry of folding patterns.