Dr.ir. N.A.M. Besseling

Biography

• 2007-
  Universitair Hoofddocent (~ Associate Professor)
• Section NanoStructured Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
• 2002 - 2007
  Universitair Docent (~ Assistant Professor)
• Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• 1997 - 2001
  KNAW Research Fellow
• Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• 1995 - 1996
  Post-doctoral Research Fellow
• Surfactant Science Group, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, UK
• 1993 - 1995
  Research Scientist
• Akzo-Nobel Central Research Laboratories, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
• 1993
  Doctorate of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
• Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
• Thesis title: Statistical thermodynamics of fluids with orientation-dependent interactions; applications to water in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems.
• Thesis supervisors: Dr. J.M.H.M. Scheutjens and Prof. J. Lyklema.
• 1987 - 1988
  Obligatory social service (instead of military service).
• 1986
  MSc Molecular Sciences, Wageningen University

Research interests

• Physics and Physical Chemistry of soft matter including colloids, interfaces, thin films, polymers in solution and at interfaces, self assembly.
• Combining theory (statistical mechanical modelling) and experimental research.
• Special focus: effects and behaviour of reversible supramolecular (living) polymers and associative fluids in interfacial and colloidal systems.

Teaching activities

• Lecture course Molecular Thermodynamics (CH3141), an introduction to Statistical Mechanics for MSc Chemical Engineering students.
• Lecture course Structure and Dynamics of Polymers (CH4131MS).
• Contribution to lecture course Supramolecular Chemistry (NS3021).
• Supervision of student team in the course Product Design (LO3).
• Creativity Coach for student team in the course Conceptual Product/Process Design (CPD).

Key publications

• Y. Yan, A. de Keizer, A.A. Martens, C.L.P. Oliveira, J.S. Pedersen, F.A. de Wolf, M. Drechsler, M.A. Cohen Stuart, and N.A.M. Besseling, Polypeptide Nanoribbon Hydrogels Assembled through Multiple Supramolecular Interactions, Langmuir, 25(22):12899{12908, 2009.
• W. Knoben, N.A.M. Besseling, and M.A. Cohen Stuart, Long-Range Depletion Forces induced by Associating Small Molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett., 97(6):068301/14, 2006.
• J. van der Gucht, N.A.M. Besseling, and G.J. Fleer, Equilibrium Polymers at Interfaces: Analytical Self-Consistent-Field Theory, Macromolecules, 37(8):3026-3036, 2004.
• W. K. Wijting, N.A.M. Besseling, and M.A. Cohen Stuart, Wetting in a Colloidal Liquid-Gas System, Phys. Rev. Lett., 90(19):196101/1-4, 2003.
• J. van der Gucht, N.A.M. Besseling, and M.A. Cohen Stuart, Surface Forces, Supramolecular Polymers, and Inversion Symmetry, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124(21):6202{6205, 2002.
• N.A.M. Besseling, Theory of Hydration Forces Between Surfaces, Langmuir, 13(7):2113{2122, 1997.

Secondary employment

None