Together with Per Zetterlund (University of New South Wales) a perspective on dispersed phase polymerization has been published in the leading journal Macromolecules (SCI-IF 2017: 5.914). More details can be found at: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01037

The kinetic Monte Carlo platform as available at LCT has been utilized to understand minemulsion radical polymerization of styrene and N-vinylcaprolactam in collaboration with Prof. Pich (DWI Aachen & Aachen-Maastricht institute for biobased materials). Focus is on the interplay of the chain length and particle size distribution. Authors for this publication in Reaction Chemistry and Engineering (SCI-IF 2018: 3.935) are Y.M Marien, P.H.M. Van Steenberge, A. Pich, and D.R. D’hooge.

During a collaboration between the LCT and the Chemical Engineering Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LCT researcher Pieter Plehiers contributed to the software that allowed a robot to semi-autonomously carry out the full process of synthesizing a target chemical – including suggesting a limited number of synthetic routes with a high evaluated likelihood of success and automatically configuring a continuous flow setup, based on the selected synthesis and required unit operations.