The meaningofchemistry

Chemistry in Focus / 11 – 11 – 11 | Stijn Cornelissen / s.cornelissen@zininzin.com / 06-45304174

Google Scholar hits

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Me (2)JP Lange (125)EW Meijer (978)I Manners (902)

DN Reinhoudt (1370)N Tirelli (143)GJ Vancso (431)

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[ChemicalEngineering]

2001 – 2008

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[Sustainableenergy]

2008 – 2010

Bio-ethanol,algae,

thermal conversion

[Meaningful andfun projects]

2010 – now

Bringing people together

Find the win-wingame

[Supporting an annual think thank of 20 students in cracking societal challenges]

[www.nationale-denktank.nl]

[Starting up a product label for mass products from waste materials]

[www.verdraaidgoed.nl]

[Ask me for more info!]

[Training scientists to structure their science into a story]

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Net industry turnover in NL

Source: CBS

Chemical industry and refineries

Food industry

Electrotechnical and machine industry

Metal industry

The rest

(2009, billions €)

(79.4)

(63.8)

(36.9)

(24.7)

(51.2)

(79.4)

Before Feb 2008 Feb 2008 - Dec 2009 Jan 2010 - Oct 20110

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Number of current swimming world records by period in which they were set

Source: Wikipedia

[Presence of elastane-nylon/polyurethane swimsuits]

[Launch] [Ban]

Tiger shark in: nature (left); artwork by Damien Hirst (right)

~ £ 6,000 ~ £ 6,250,000

[1000-fold price increase by ~23,500 liters of formaldehyde solution]

Source: Wikipedia

Source: NREL / Wikimedia Commons

Trust me, you are in there!

Source: ethanol.yolasite.com/

Refine the refinery!