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Calibrating a computational microscope


A team of computational chemists at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences of the University of Amsterdam and the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge has developed a new method of seeing molecular motions by incorporating experimental kinetic rate constants into molecular simulations. The results were recently published in the Proceedings […]

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UvA researchers collaborate on new Handbook of Porous Materials


State-of-the-art reference work on synthesis, characterisation, and industrial application A group of authors including researchers and alumni from the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have just completed a four-volume reference work covering the fundamentals and key applications of porous materials. This “Handbook of Porous Materials” will be published in November by World […]

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How does the accessibility of DNA affect the expression of genes?


Dr Jocelyne Vreede of the Computational Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has received an NWO KLEIN-2 grant for a four-year project investigating how the shape and compactness of DNA affect the expression of genes. In cooperation with Prof. Willem Kegel, professor of Self-organizing Systems at Utrecht University, experimental, theoretical […]

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Loading-dependent water effects on the structural properties of water stable MOFs


According to a team of American and Dutch researchers, the structure of water-stable Metal-Organic Frameworks is less static than it might appear. In the current edition of Nature Chemistry, they report the use of in situ experiments and computational methods to investigate hydrolytic MOF stability. They explain their observations by means of a dynamic structural […]

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