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Guest lecture by dr. Sanggyu Chong

Monday 13/06/2022

Last week on June 9th and 10th, dr. Sanggyu Chong visited the CMM to exchange ideas in small-group and one-on-one discussions with us. Dr. Chong recently started working as a postdoctoral researcher with prof.

Two new FWO postdoctoral fellowships

Friday 03/06/2022

We are proud to announce that two of our postdoctoral researchers obtained a personal fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) for three years to support their independent international research career. Jelle Vekeman started at CMM in October 2020 with the guidance of prof. Toon Verstraelen. Jenna Mancuso arrived at CMM in September 2021 to join the research group of prof.

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Two brand new PhD’s at CMM

Wednesday 27/04/2022

Last week two of our PhD fellows successfully defended their work. Congratulations to both! Elias Van Den Broeck presented his work entitled ‘A Multiscale Modeling Approach to Understand Reactivity and Interactions in Complex Molecular Environments with Applications in Polymer Chemistry’ on Wednesday April 20th, 2022. He was supervised by prof. dr. ir. Veronique Van Speybroeck.

CMM with ULB in Nature Communications

Monday 25/04/2022

Copper-catalyzed radical cyclization of ynamides A collaborative study led by the Laboratoire de Chimie Organique (LCO) at The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) with contributions from the Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM) at Ghent University led to the development and report of a general strategy for and anti-Baldwin radical exo-dig cyclization of nitrogen-containing alkyne substitutes unde…

MOFs the movie: Molecule to nuclei evolution during metal-organic framework formation

Friday 07/01/2022

The Center for Molecular Modeling participated in a collaborative study with the group of Prof. Bert Weckhuysen of the Utrecht University to unravel the pre-nucleation phase directing Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) formation. A paper with Dr.

Shocking news: Oxford-UGent research published in Nature Materials paves the way for a new class of reusable and efficient shock absorbers

Thursday 22/04/2021

An international collaboration between researchers of the Multifunctional Materials & Composites (MMC) Laboratory at the University of Oxford (Yueting Sun, now at the University of Birmingham, Clive R. Siviour, and prof. Jin-Chong Tan) and the Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM) at Ghent University (dr. Sven M.J. Rogge, Aran Lamaire, dr. Steven Vandenbrande, dr. Jelle Wieme, and prof.

CMM research on alkene diffusion in zeolites on cover Angewandte Chemie

Tuesday 23/03/2021

A new publication, entitled ‘Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for the Promotional Effect of Acid Sites on the Diffusion of Alkenes through Small-Pore Zeolites’ has recently been accepted as a hot paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie and has been promoted on the journal cover.

CMM paper on the cover of ChemPhysChem

Friday 20/11/2020

For a new publication, titled "Structural and photophysical properties of various polypyridyl ligands: A combined experimental and computational study", in the ChemPhysChem Journal (Impact factor 3.144), the CMM made the cover for the journal issue of November 2020. ChemPhysChem is one of the leading chemistry/physics interdisciplinary journals for physical chemistry and chemical physics.

CMM in Nature Catalysis on Molecular Palladium in Zeolites

Monday 16/11/2020

Shape selective C-H activation using Molecular Palladium in Zeolites An international collaborative study led by the Centre for Membrane separations, Adsorption, Catalysis and Spectroscopy for Sustainable Solutions (cMACS) at KU Leuven, in collaboration with the Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM) at Ghent University, the Smart Materials Research Institute at the Southern Federal University (Russ…

CMM with UCL London in Nature Materials

Friday 18/09/2020

An international study led by the Chemistry Department at University College London (UCL) in collaboration with the Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM) at Ghent University and the Central Laser Facility (CLF) has made a new and unexpected discovery about industrial catalysts that could help to increase the efficiency of the production of chemical building blocks from non-fossil feedstocks such as …

Quantum Matters/Meet the Modelers

Monday 10/02/2020

Quantum Matters/Meet the Modelers: een informele avond met de doctoraatsstudenten, postdocs, professoren en alumni van het Centrum voor Moleculaire Modellering (CMM). Heb je interesse in fundamenteel onderzoek, maar vraag je je soms af wat de concrete toepassingen zijn?

CMM Teamdays in Vlissingen

Tuesday 19/11/2019

On November 4th and 5th, the Center of Molecular Modelling (CMM) organized two inspiring team days in ‘Strandhotel Westduin’ in Vlissingen at the Dutch coast. These ‘sea classes’ as we call this two-day team event, were attended by 32 of our CMM colleagues, including ZAP, PhD. students, postdoctoral and administrative staff.

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