nanoEPics

…

Sanli Faez selected member of De Jonge Akademie

Sanli Faez is among the ten new members of the Young Academy. The Young Academy (de Jonge Akademiy in Dutch or DJA) is a dynamic group of active scientists and scholars in the Netherlands with outspoken views about science and scholarship and the related policy. They organises inspiring activities for various target groups focusing on interdisciplinarity, science policy, and the interface between science and society. One of the projects I have been involved in and is supported by DJA is the Climate Helpdesk. …

Spin-off company Dispertech shows its first device in Munich workshop

In its first tech-show presence, our spin-off company Dispertech demonstrates the first commercial prototype that uses our patented nanocapillary tracking technology. Aquiles and Steven were present at the 2nd Autumn Meeting GSEV jointly organised with ASEV with a prototype product, pictured below. …

Bohdan and Zhu participated in the ECCM workshop

Bohdan Yeroshenko and Zhu Zhang, PhD students from the nanoEPics team, got their application accepted to participate in the first ECCM graduate school. They presented two posters from the nanoEPics research and even managed to win the pub-quiz. …

NWO Perspective grant for better visualisation of effectiveness of medication

The international Photonics Translational Research - Medical Photonics (MEDPHOT) consortium will receive an NWO Perspective grant of 5.4 million euros for the program ‘Light for a better view on diseases’. Sanli Faez (Physics) is leading one of the six projects in the consortium. The national consortium consists of four universities (VU Amsterdam, UvA, UU, TU Delft) and TNO, together with three academic hospitals and twelve companies. …

First edition of the Ionics&Iontronics workshop was held in Utrecht

The first Ionics&IontronicsNL workshop was a huge success. More than 50 researchers from accross the Netherlands, and further, participated in this scientific meeting 1- to present the most recent experimental, theoretical, and numerical methods applied to this field (e.g. atomic force microscopy, single-molecule spectroscopy, nanofluidics, dynamic density functional theory) and review some of the existing challenges, both in fundamental research (e.g. understanding nanoscale ion transport) as well as industrial applications (e.g. membrane technology, energy storage). 2- to identify and create synergetic interactions between the microscopic and process-level approaches to these most pressing problems. The invited speakers were Susan Perkin (Oxford), Rob Lammertink (Twente), Maarten Biesheuvel (Wetsus), Ben Erne (Utrecht), Peter Ngene (Utrecht), Serge Lemay (Twente), and Frieder Mugele (Twente). …

Our first report on recording the nanoscale optical contrast of the electric double layer

Our first manuscript using the restructuring of the Electric Double Layer as an optical contrast mechanism is online. In this collaboration with the group of Philipp Kukura (Oxford) and Marc Koper (Leiden), we experimentally demonstrate that restructuring of the EDL at the nanoscale can be detected by dark-field scattering microscopy. Temporal and spatial characterization of the scattering signal demonstrates that the potentiodynamic optical contrast is proportional to the accumulated charge of polarisable ions at the interface and its time derivative represents the nanoscale ionic current. The material-specificity of the EDL formation is used in our work as a label-free contrast mechanism to image nanostructures and perform spatially-resolved cyclic voltametry on ion current density of a few attoamperes, corresponding to the exchange of only a few hundred ions. …

Bohdan Presents in EOS Optofluidics Conference

Nano-EPics PhD-candidate Bohdan Yeroshenko gave a presentation during the European Optical Society conference on Optofluidics during The World of Photonic Congress in Munich, Germany. He presented one of the Nanophotonics Group experiments that allows a high-bandwidth measurement of electrophoretic mobility of a single nanoparticle in the optical tweezers. …