On Friday, January 24, the first-ever joint doctorate degree of the MCEC Research Center was granted to Jeroen Vollenbroek. Jeroen Vollenbroek received his PhD degree from both the University of Twente and Utrecht University.

Collaboration
The PhD thesis of Jeroen Vollenbroek proofed a fine marriage between microreactor technology and catalysis. Each chapter is based on the collaboration between Prof. Albert van den Berg from the BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip group of the University of Twente and Prof. Bert Weckhuysen from the Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis group of Utrecht University.

MCEC
The thesis was realized in collaboration with Anne-Eva Nieuwelink (UU) who, like Jeroen Vollenbroek, conducts research at the Netherlands Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC).

Microreactor Technology and Catalysis
Jeroen Vollenbroek: ‘The aim of the thesis was to develop microreactors using droplet microfluidics for the high-throughput screening of single catalyst microparticles. Together with Anne-Eva (Nieuwelink), we developed microreactors in which catalyst particles can be screened for their catalytic activity and the most active particles can be sorted out.’

Please find more information about the thesis of Jeroen Vollenbroek, entitled ‘Microreactors for single catalyst particle diagnostics – Measuring catalytic activity at high-throughput in multi-phase flows‘, on the website of the University of Twente.

Source: website MCEC