In the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC), founded in 2016, the companies AkzoNobel, BASF, Nouryon and Shell and the universities of Eindhoven, Groningen and Utrecht are working with the support of the Dutch government and scientists from other academic institutions on far-reaching research to find solutions to counteract greenhouse gas emissions and create a sustainable society.
Sharing a common vision of sustainability, our new generation of scientific talent aims to build the chemistry for the future.
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Our many research projects focus on three themes:
Functional materials & specialties
Coatings
Energy carriers
05 December 2022
Can we make food packaging more sustainable? Sterre Bakker (TU/e) recently published her results in journal ACS Applied Optical Materials. In collaboration with BASF, she looked at waterborne coatings that […]
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01 December 2022
Aleksandra Wawrzyniak (UL) Aleksandra is a new PhD student in the group of Prof. Marc Koper. She grew up in Poland, and moved to Berlin when she was 19 to […]
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28 November 2022
Chuncheng Liu (TUD) and Sophie van Vreeswijk (UU) joined forces, and published their work in the Chinese Journal of Catalysis. Chuncheng’s research is focused on using green methanol as feedstock […]
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Programme directors
Professor of Organic chemistry and molecular sciences
University of Groningen
Professor of Inorganic chemistry and catalysis
Utrecht University
Professor of Multi-scale modelling of multiphase flows
Eindhoven University of Technology
