Hetty Helsmoortel houdt van chemie en verhalen. Geen wonder dat het mengsel tussen beide een kettingreactie van extase in je brein ontketent. Met haar vertelstijl weet ze complexe scheikunde toegankelijk te maken voor iedereen. Geen droge theorie, wel boeiende vertellingen om mensen te inspireren en enthousiasmeren.

Op heldere wijze duikt Hetty in geheime oorlogsschepen, botox, het Atomium, heliumballonnen of de kunstcollectie van Peggy Guggenheim. Want chemie is werkelijk overal. Dat wordt...

Looking at Central European building projects illustrates an awareness of sustainability and the need to save energy. This trend is based on the finiteness of natural resources, and is thus wise to follow. Developments in this region including passive house technologies, and energy plus solutions that create more energy than they use have become realisable. But it is not increasing technological knowledge alone that supported these developments; the Central European climate makes it possible ...

This doctoral thesis presents research on the integration and transfer of knowledge from the specialized field of urban microclimatology into the generic field of urban design. Both fields are studied in order to identify crosslinks and reveal gaps. The main research question of the research is: How can the design of urban neighbourhoods contribute to microclimates that support physical well-being and what kind of information and form of presentation does the urban designer need in order to m...

The research reported in this dissertation contains three complementary and overlapping parts:

One, “findings”: It assesses the factors of urban morphology that contribute to increased rates of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, and the ways they interact. It finds a significant but underrepresented set of factors, distinct from but relating the factors at the individual building scale and the scale of regional transportation systems.

Two, “strategies”: It assesses the methodologies...

Plastics worden wel eens dé uitvinding van het industriële tijdperk genoemd. Tot 1856 worden alle materialen gemaakt door de natuur op een of andere manier te bewerken. De naar de VS uitgeweken Gentenaar Leo Baekeland neemt in 1907 het patent voor zijn uitvinding van de eerste synthetische kunststof: bakeliet. De isolerende, hitte- en vochtbestendige eigenschappen worden al snel gewaardeerd in de industrie. Maar ook in huishoudelijke context: stopcontacten, stofzuigers, scheerapparaten, str...

Wolpert's Principles of Development, the latest edition of the prize-winning textbook, opens up the fascinating field of developmental biology to undergraduates studying biology, medicine and veterinary science. By focusing on the underlying developmental processes which are shared by diverse organisms, the textbook lays the foundation for deep understanding.

The solutions manual to accompany Organic Chemistry provides fully-explained solutions to problems that accompany each chapter of the second edition of the book.

A guide to exploring the world of maths. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, it goes on to deal with inconceivably big numbers in more dimensions than you ever knew existed.

First published over 40 years ago, this was the first text on the identification of organic compounds using spectroscopy. This text is now considered to be a classic. This text presents a unified approach to the structure determination of organic compounds based largely on mass spectrometry, infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and multinuclear and multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

The key strength of this text is the extensive set of practice and real-data problems (in C...