A circular economy for plastics: lets turn challenges into opportunities Netherlands

With this brochure Holland Circular Hotspot and TNO bring their insights to the international level and share best practices with the hope that it will inspire everyone around the world to take action and kickstart circular development.

Initial solidification dynamics of spreading droplets

When a droplet is brought in contact with an undercooled surface, it wets the substrate and solidifies at the same time. The interplay between the phase transition effects and the contact-line motion, leading to its arrest, remains poorly understood. Here we reveal the early solidification patterns and dynamics of spreading hexadecane droplets....

Verspil het niet: pak de schaduwzijde van plastics met urgentie aan! [don't waste it! solving the dark side of today's plastic]

Plastics (bulk, coatings, and glues), like many other commodities, including metal, wood, glass, and ceramics, are of essential importance to the wellbeing of today’s society. This will not be any different in the decades to come. We expect plastics to remain important due to their unique properties and the possibilities for mass production...

Retrospective detection of exposure to organophosphorus anti-cholinesterases: Mass spectrometric analysis of phosphylated human butyrylcholinesterase

In this paper a novel and general procedure is presented for detection of organophosphate-inhibited human butyrylcholinesterase (HuBuChE), which is based on electrospray tandem mass spectrometric analysis of phosphylated nonapeptides obtained after pepsin digestion of the enzyme. The utility of this method is exemplified by the positive analysis...