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
25 November 2021
Recently Evren Ünsal has joined the ARC CBBC Executive Board as a representative for Shell, She is also member of the ARC CBBC Communications Workgroup. Evren is an R&D engineer with […]
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25 November 2021
The current economic and social climate, as well as fundamental changes occurring in rapid succession, are causing companies, governments, knowledge institutes, and NGOs to emphasize cooperation for creating a new […]
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09 November 2021
How to put solar energy into a “container” As you may know, the temperatures in both the Antarctic and Arctic are rising, the sea ice is melting. You also may […]
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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
