Chemical building blocks for a sustainable future

ARC CBBC is the Dutch national research center that investigates chemical building blocks for novel sustainable energy and materials. We are a public-private organisation in which academic, industrial and governmental partners are cooperating intensively. Our many research projects focus on three themes.

Functional materials & specialties

Coatings

Energy carriers

16 January 2019

Emissions of carbon dioxide dramatically reduced in new chemical production process

Chemists at Utrecht University have managed to utilise cobalt as a catalyst for the production of basic chemicals from natural gas. In doing so, they have reduced the carbon dioxide […]

13 December 2018

Krijn de Jong receives honorary professorship in China

Krijn de Jong was given an honorary professorship at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai. De Jong is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at the Debye […]

06 November 2018

Fluorescent ‘breathalyzer’ makes optimisation of catalysts much easier

A breath test instead of a blood test. That’s how much easier it is to use the test for industrial catalysts developed by chemists at Utrecht University. The test uses […]