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The Laboratory for Chemical Technology (LCT) integrates chemical science and engineering in its research on catalysis, polymerization, kinetics, reactor design and process design. LCT is part of the Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University in Belgium and member of the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry (CSC) of Ghent University. LCT aims at research excellence and bottom-up innovation in the framework of technological, industrial, and societal challenges.

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29-07-2024

Lennert D’Ooghe was awarded by the International Association of Catalysis Societies

Lennert D’Ooghe was awarded by the International Association of Catalysis Societies to facilitate his participation in ICC2024.

17-04-2024

New research partnership between LCT and Mura Technology

LCT and Mura Technology have signed a 5-year research partnership involving the construction of a continuous flow, pilot scale testing facility, which will be used for a range of research programmes to evaluate hard to recycle polymers, including complex composite materials. More information can be found in the press release available at https://muratechnology.com/news/mura-partners-with-ghent-universitys-lab....

12-08-2023

Perspective article in Science by Prof. Kevin Van Geem

A perspective article on plastic waste recycling authored by Prof. Kevin Van Geem has been published in Science.

The article can be found at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj2807

27-10-2022 FWO doctoral fellowships
27-10-2022 Awards for LCT master thesis students
27-10-2022 Minivoetbal team
27-10-2022 I&EC Research 2022 Excellence in Review Awards
15-02-2022 Cover article in Polymer Chemistry
24-09-2021 Cover article in Nature Materials regarding polymer network design
07-09-2021 LCT Synchrotron Team Performs two QXAS Campaign in Times of COVID-19
06-09-2021 Laurien Vandewalle is awarded an FWO postdoctoral fellowship and a BAEF postdoctoral fellowship to visit Stanford University
06-04-2021 Coupled matrix-based Monte Carlo to unravel complex polymerization kinetics
29-03-2021 Molecular insight in the rate-enhancing effect of water and silanols in amine catalyzed aldol reaction

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