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Meet the directors


Interview with the current director Prof. Dr. Dirk Vanderzande and the former directors Prof. Dr. L. Stals, Prof. Dr. L. De Schepper and Prof. Dr. Harry Martens.
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Expertise - UHasselt

Expertise

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  • Synthesis and characterization of tailor-made polymer materials from controlled polymerization techniques
  • Development of novel versatile polymerization protocols
  • Efficient polymer ligation reactions for assembly of complex macromolecular structures and post-modification of materials
  • Soft-Ionization mass spectrometry analysis of synthetic polymers for structural characterization and mechanistic studies
  • Determination of kinetic rate coefficients in radical polymerization
  • Pulsed-Laser Polymerization
  • Kinetic modeling of polymerization processes via the program package PrediciĀ®
  • Online electron spin resonance spectroscopy for monitoring transient radicals during polymerizations
  • Study of the effects of transfer to polymer reactions in acrylate radical polymerization and development of control strategies to suppress or utilize such side-reactions