Today the awareness about anthropogenic waste and litter in the marine environment is rising. There is evidence on the threat to marine ecosystems through plastic litter, all over the world. To understand this issue better citizen science projects, help to gather data about the distribution and origins …

Electric pulse fishing is a very promising and innovative solution instead of using tickler chains such as beam trawling, to enable the catch flat fish. Bottom-trawling activities on the marine ecosystem cause the scrape of the surface or dig into the seabed. The penetration of the gears produce the …

Rob van Haren is lector van de lectoraten Transitie Bioeconomie en Art & Sustainability. Het onderzoek binnen Transitie Bioeconomie richt zich op drie thema's: Transitie groen ondernemerschap; Transitie groene procestechnologie en ingredienten en Transitie groene producten. Binnen deze onderzoekslijnen …

Inland surface water systems are characterized by constant variations in time and space. The increased pressure, of natural or anthropic origin, as a consequence of climate change, population growth and urban development accentuate these changes. Effective water management is key to achieve European …

Materials with semiconducting properties are present in every microelectronic device and form the backbone of our information society. Commonly used inorganic semiconductors are poorly modular and their production is expensive and energetically demanding. Moreover, the use of metals and critical raw …

Take a chance to help people living in poverty! In 2016 and 2017; I conducted two different research projects in Gitega, Kigali-Rwanda. Gitega is a neighborhood in Kigali-Rwanda where sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, timely law enforcement, maintenance of housing, transportation, …

Urban flooding has become a key issue for many cities around the world. The project ‘INnovations for eXtreme Climatic EventS’ (INXCES) developed new innovative technological methods for risk assessment and mitigation of extreme hydroclimatic events and optimization of urban water-dependent ecosystem …

In this article we investigate the change in wetting behavior of inkjet printed materials on either hydrophilic or hydrophobic plasma treated patterns, to determine the minimum obtainable track width using selective patterned μPlasma printing. For Hexamethyl-Disiloxane (HMDSO)/N2 plasma, a decrease in …

Synthetic fibers, mainly polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyamide (PA), polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and polypropylene (PP), are the most widely used polymers in the textile industry. These fibers surpass the production of natural fibers with a market share of 54.4%. The advantages of these fibers are …

Since cooperation between the province of Zuid-Holland and Hebei started in 1993, the science and technology cooperation had been carried out in many fields. The central objective of this thesis is to contribute to the cooperation of integrating groundwater management by a better understanding of groundwater …