Co-PI
Utrecht University
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research activities
Research largely involves the solid-liquid interface, typically between water or oil on the one hand and glass, rock, or nanoparticles on the other. In conventional materials the presence of these interfaces only gives small corrections to material properties, but in nanomaterials, with their huge surface area as large as a square kilometre per litre, these solid-liquid interfaces completely change and dominate the properties. This gives rise to a plethora of new physical phenomena with a variety of potential applications in e.g. water desalination, harvesting and storing electric energy, micro- and nano-fluidics, and catalysis.
Theory: classical and multiscale methods