The Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC) is the Netherlands’ national research centre for circular and sustainable chemistry. We bring together representatives from industry, academia and the government to greenify the chemical industry. Our research themes are energy transition, feedstock transition and materials transition.

Research themes

Windmill

Energy transition

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Feedstock

Feedstock transition

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Recycling

Material transition

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Chemistry from the Lab to the People

Chemistry (molecules)

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Read about our researchers and how we are accelerating the transition to a sustainable society.

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01 June 2023

Industrielinqs Vlogs by Thomas Freese and Tessa de Koning Gans

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25 May 2023

Eye Opener David Rieder - The Great Catalyst Bake Off

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12 May 2023

Catalyst cleans up CO2 better with different preparation; mechanism behind old concept revealed

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12 April 2023

Eye Opener Tizian Ramspoth: how to improve coating technique sustainability with catalysts

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30 March 2023

It’s always sunny in Groningen: storing energy with water and sunlight

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Eye Opener David Rieder

25 May 2023

Eye Opener David Rieder - The Great Catalyst Bake Off

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Science News 16x9 final73

16 May 2023

Catalyst cleans up CO2 better with different preparation; mechanism behind old concept revealed

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Tizian

13 April 2023

Eye Opener Tizian Ramspoth: How to improve coating technique sustainability with catalysts

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Thomas Freese

30 March 2023

It’s always sunny in Groningen: storing energy with water and sunlight

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21 March 2023

The promise of electrochemistry: making coatings from sugars

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