She wants to tackle the problem of plastic waste by developing better spectroscopic and microscopic methods to analyze various plastic samples and by developing chemical recycling pathways. The second part of the project aims at recovery of polymer building blocks, other chemical building blocks or hydrocarbon feedstock.
Awards and Scientific Honors
Scientific Awards
NIOK Lecture Award for the best lecture presented during the Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands (2018)
‘Best Presentation’ of the session for the lecture entitled ‘On the dynamic nature of Mo sites for methane dehydroaromatization’ at the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, United States (2018)
Publications
Vollmer, I; Jenks, M J F; González, R Mayorga; Meirer, F; Weckhuysen, B M
Plastic Waste Conversion over a Refinery Waste Catalyst Journal Article
In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 60, no. 29, pp. 16101-16108, 2021.
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Vaksmaa, A; Knittel, K; Asbun, A Abdala; Goudriaan, M; Ellrott, A; Witte, H J; Vollmer, I; Meirer, F; Lott, C; Weber, M; Engelmann, J C; Niemann, H
Microbial Communities on Plastic Polymers in the Mediterranean Sea Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 12, 2021.
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Vollmer, I; Jenks, M J F; Roelands, M C P; White, R J; van Harmelen, T; de Wild, P; van der Laan, G P; Meirer, F; Keurentjes, J T F; Weckhuysen, B M
Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste Journal Article
In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 59, no. 36, pp. 15402-15423, 2020.
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Vollmer, I; Li, G; Yarulina, I; Kosinov, N; Hensen, E J; Houben, K; Mance, D; Baldus, M; Gascon, J; Kapteijn, F
Relevance of the Mo-precursor state in H-ZSM-5 for methane dehydroaromatization Journal Article
In: Catalysis Science and Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 916-922, 2018, (cited By 8).
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Yarulina, I; Wispelaere, K De; Bailleul, S; Goetze, J; Radersma, M; Abou-Hamad, E; Vollmer, I; Goesten, M; Mezari, B; Hensen, E J M; Martínez-Espín, J S; Morten, M; Mitchell, S; Perez-Ramirez, J; Olsbye, U; Weckhuysen, B M; Speybroeck, V Van; Kapteijn, F; Gascon, J
Structure–performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process Journal Article
In: Nature Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 804-812, 2018.
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