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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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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Eline Hutter en Ina Vollmer

16 March 2023

The Pathways to Sustainability Conference 2023 with Eline Hutter and Ina Vollmer (UU)

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13 March 2023

ARC CBBC well represented at NCCC

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27 February 2023

Artikel Change Inc: Bezoek aan ARC CBBC hub lab in Utrecht

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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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Image 20230316 140311 795

21 March 2023

The promise of electrochemistry: making coatings from sugars

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George Mathieu Thomas Website

20 December 2022

Making fully biobased paint!

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05 December 2022

Printing packages with light

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Chuncheng Liu en Sophie van Vreeswijk

28 November 2022

Using zeolites to produce chemical building blocks from green methanol

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