2004 Award Winners:

"Benelux Travel Awards"

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Belgian Award (5000 Euro)

Drs. Ir. Cedric Gommes
Liege University
Laboratory for Chemical and Catalytic Engineering

Project :
Microstructure of silica gels and of metallic catalysts supported on silica
synthesized with organically modified co-reactants

Host Institution :
Princeton University, USA

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Dutch Award (5000 Euro)

Drs. Ir. Gerald Spijksma
Twente University
Department of Inorganic Materials Science

Project :
The effect of modifying ligands on metal alkoxide precursors and
derived sol-gel materials

Host Institution :
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala, Sweden