TU Delft research helps to improve Li-ion batteries
Researchers of the TU Delft have shed more light on what happens in the electrodes of Li-ion batteries at the smallest level. These new insights will help to improve the design of the much used Li-ion...
View ArticleA network of directly linked nanocrystals with promising prospects for solar...
Directly connecting semiconductor nanocrystals in a new way allows networks with better electronic properties to be created. The created lead selenide networks are promising and could be used for...
View ArticleThe unique PEARL measuring instrument improves the energy materials research...
Materials research has led to significant technological progress in the last few decades. Society now needs technological solutions for renewable energy, and new storage and conversion materials must...
View ArticleTU Delft students win iGEM competition with bacterial printer
TU Delft students scooped up prizes galore at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in Boston. With their project, ‘Biolinker’, a 3D printer built out of K’NEX that can...
View ArticleSAMOFAR: Thorium in the sustainable energy mix
The Molten Salt Fast Reactor is the only reactor that can efficiently consume thorium and process existing plutonium stocks as well. The fuel is dissolved in a molten fluoride salt that simultaneously...
View ArticleThe coldest mechanics on earth
TU Delft researchers have succeeded in cooling a massive, millimeter-sized vibrating membrane to a temperature of only 34 microkelvin, 34 millionths of a degree above absolute zero, the lowest...
View ArticleMedia hype around iGEM team
News about the iGEM team from TU Delft has featured on the Dutch news, current affairs programmes and even in the Washington Post. The TU Delft students won the overall prize in the International...
View ArticleERC starting grant for Youk and Houtepen
Scientists Hyun Youk and Arjan Houtepen have both received an ERC starting grant from the European Union. They will each receive 1.5 million euros for a new five year research programme.
View ArticleLoophole-free Bell test TU Delft crowns 80-years-old debate on nature of...
In 1935, Einstein asked a profound question about our understanding of Nature: are objects only influenced by their nearby environment? Or could, as predicted by quantum theory, looking at one object...
View ArticleERC starting grant for Caviglia and Gröblacher
Scientists Andrea Caviglia and Simon Gröblacher have both received an ERC starting grant from the European Union. They will each receive 1.5 million euros for a new five year research programme.
View ArticleNature article Hanson and Hensen hits media around the globe
From the front pages of the New York Times, to the New Scientist and the Japan times, the Loophole free Bell test by Ronald Hanson and Bas Hensen was covered by media around the world. All 111 news...
View ArticleNiessen receives Simon Stevin Meesterprijs
Technology foundation STW has awarded the title Simon Stevin Meester 2015 to Professor Wiro Niessen, part-time professor at the department of Imaging Physics. On 5 November 2015, he received a cheque...
View ArticleSeven ERC Starting Grants for TU Delft researchers
Seven TU Delft researchers have been awarded ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The grants (1,5 million euros for five year programmes) are intended to support up-and-coming...
View ArticleERC starting grant for Wehner
Stephanie Wehner has received an ERC starting grant from the European Union. She will receive 1.5 million euros for a new five year research programme into quantum communication networks.
View ArticleExplaining the stripes of the zebra
Researchers from Delft University of Technology have made steps to explain how spatial patterns, like the stripes on a zebra, emerge in a population of cells. This enables them to predict certain...
View ArticleSpoor wins best contributed talk from Rank Prize Funds
Frank Spoor has won the prize for most outstanding contributed talk at the Rank Prize Funds symposium on optoelectronics. Spoor, PhD student at the Optoelectronic Materials section, held his talk at...
View ArticleHanan Al-Kutubi Best Graduate TU Delft
On Thursday, 26 November 2015, Hanan Al-Kutubi MSc from the Applied Sciences faculty was voted Best Graduate for the 2014-2015 academic year.
View ArticleTU Delft sharpens optical images
Researchers at TU Delft have succeeded in improving the capabilities of optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging technique used to gauge retinal health. The researchers, from the faculties of 3mE...
View ArticleTU Delft shuttles individual electrons in 'bucket brigade'
Researchers at TU Delft have succeeded in shuttling electrons one by one through a chain and reading them out at the end of that chain, without disturbing their state during the process. This could...
View ArticleKlokhuis reveals the deathly silence of the ‘dead room’
On 11 January 2016, children’s programme Klokhuis broadcast a feature on Applied Sciences’ dead room. In the series ‘STE’, the TV programme seeks out extremes. Last Monday’s episode went in search of...
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