Antoine van der Heijden

Antoine van der Heijden

Functie:
Senior Scientist at TNO and Professor at TU Delft on Functional Design and Processing of Advanced Materials
Antoine van der Heijden

The part-time chair focuses on innovative and intensified processing techniques that can be applied to modify, functionalize and process (energetic) materials.

Professorship chair

Functional design and processing of advanced materials (Delft University of Technology).

Research area

The part-time chair 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.

Top publications

  • A.E.D.M. van der Heijden, Developments and challenges in the manufacturing, characterization and scale-up of energetic nanomaterials – a review, Chemical Engineering Journal 350 (2018) 939-948, 10.1016/j.cej.2018.06.051
  • D. Irimia, J.J. Shirley, A.S. Garg, D.P.A. Nijland, A.E.D.M. van der Heijden, H.J.M. Kramer and H.B. Eral, Influence of laser parameters and experimental conditions on non-photochemical laser induced nucleation of glycine, Cryst. Growth Des. 21 (2021) 631-641
  • M.C.J. van Ramshorst, G.L. Di Benedetto, W. Duvalois, P.A. Hooijmeijer and A.E.D.M. van der Heijden, Investigation of the failure mechanism of HTPB/AP/Al propellant by in-situ uniaxial tensile experimentation in SEM, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 41 (2016) 700-708

Den Haag - Ypenburg

Ypenburgse Boslaan 2
NL-2496 ZA The Hague

Postal address

P.O. Box 480
NL-2501 CL The Hague