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The board of the Soft Matter section invites KNCV members to submit nominations for the KNCV Van Arkel Prize for scientific work completed in the calendar years 2024 and 2025.

Deadline: Friday, 1 May 2026, before 9 a.m.

The problem with plastic recycling is that discarded plastic is dirty, which hinders the process. However, according to co-founder Diederik Jaspers, the company Obbotec has a solution.

Mattijs Maris, from the start-up company Zereau, wants to install filters in toilets to remove medicines and related raw materials from wastewater.

Jeroen Glansdorp is developing scanning technology that can identify the types of plastic contained in mixed waste, enabling more effective recycling.

Hannah Roth creates tiny filters to filter water or blood and tries to combine materials to improve the filtration properties.

Marc Lankveld explains how start-up Tasseikan is producing an important building block for PEF, the biobased plastic that can replace PET.

Yosta de Stigter is working on a rapid, luminous STD test.

‘Well deserved’ and ‘It was only a matter of time’. That, in a nutshell, is the reaction from the MOF community to today’s award of the Nobel Prize to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. ‘Thanks to Kitagawa and Yaghi, I’m never bored.’

BioBTX has developed technology to sustainably manufacture high-performance materials by converting waste into chemical building blocks.