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- [February 26, 2026
### NWO Vici grants awarded to Danqing Liu and Richard Lopata
Danqing Liu plans to develop new liquid crystal polymer materials for touch display technologies to enhance user interactivity, while…](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/26-02-2026-nwo-vici-grants-awarded-to-danqing-liu-and-richard-lopata) - [June 10, 2025
### Two KIC grants awarded with impact in the food industry and beyond
Two of five NWO KIC grants go to chemistry researchers](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/10-06-2025-two-kic-grants-awarded-with-impact-in-the-food-industry-and-beyond) - [May 13, 2025
### Challa Prize Winner Announced!
The Challa Prize 2025 for the best Dutch PhD thesis in the field of polymer chemistry has been awarded, on behalf of the KNCV Section…](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/13-05-2025-challa-prize-winner-announced) - [April 9, 2025
### Thermochromic Liquid Crystal Oligomers for Solar Infrared Control in Windows
Henk Sentjens successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on April 9th.](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/09-04-2025-thermochromic-liquid-crystal-oligomers-for-solar-infrared-control-in-windows) - [March 4, 2025
### Tim Hogervorst and Mert Astam appointed NWO Faculty of Impact fellows
Two ambitious start-ups in cryopreservation and in haptics for the blind will receive financial support and intensive entrepreneurial…](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/04-03-2025-tim-hogervorst-and-mert-astam-appointed-nwo-faculty-of-impact-fellows) - [February 12, 2025
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### Marina Pilz da Cunha wins the 2025 Marina van Damme Grant
[VIDEO] Marina Pilz da Cunha wins the 2025 Marina van Damme grant. The sholarship amounts to € 9,000 and provides access to a large network…](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/12-02-2025-marina-pilz-da-cunha-wins-the-2025-marina-van-damme-grant) - [January 23, 2025
### Granting Intelligence to Liquid Crystal Actuators through Electricity
Mert Orhan Astam defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on the 23rd of January 2025.](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/23-01-2025-granting-intelligence-to-liquid-crystal-actuators-through-electricity) - [January 21, 2025
### NWO funding for SFD spin-off Useeble
Useeble, sprouted from the Stimuli-responsive functional materials and devices (SFD) group, has been awarded a Take-off phase 2 study from…](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/stimuli-responsive-functional-materials-devices/news-sfd/21-01-2025-nwo-funding-for-sfd-spin-off-useeble) - [August 6, 2024
### Winner best lecture ILCC Brazil 2024!](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/stimuli-responsive-functional-materials-devices/news-sfd/06-08-2024-winner-best-lecture-ilcc-brazil-2024) - [June 18, 2024
### Graphene plus liquid crystals equals ‘Hot Fingers’
Eindhoven researchers have developed a soft robotic ‘hand’ made from liquid crystals and graphene that could be used to design future…](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/18-06-2024-graphene-plus-liquid-crystals-equals-hot-fingers) - [March 18, 2024
### Alfred Saupe Medal awarded to Albert Schenning
On Thursday 14th March, during the German Liquid Crystals Conference 2024 in Essen the Alfred Saupe Medal has been awarded to Albert…](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/18-03-2024-alfred-saupe-medal-awarded-to-albert-schenning) - [March 14, 2024
### Low-order dynamic modeling for electroactive surfaces
Anahita Amiri defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on…](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/14-03-2024-low-order-dynamic-modeling-for-electroactive-surfaces)