Antoine van der Heijden

Research area

The research area focuses on innovative and intensified processing techniques that can be applied to modify, functionalize and process (energetic) materials.

Specific research topics comprise the development of encapsulated materials and alternative, ‘green’ and environmentally benign compounds replacing currently used toxic ingredients; sustainable synthesis routes avoiding the use of toxic or hazardous precursors; rheological behaviour of high solid load compositions during additive manufacturing; improvement of current processing techniques using innovative methods as well as process intensification concepts e.g. using external (electric, electromagnetic, acoustic) fields.

These topics provide the fundamental input to several of the research topics within the Dept. Energetic Materials, like 3D-printing of (energetic) compositions, crystallization of insensitive energetic materials and environmentally benign synthesis routes.