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Over the past few years, a team of scientists and technicians from the TU Delft Reactor Institute have been working on a large-scale upgrade and modernisation of the Delft reactor. The result is a state-of-the-art facility where researchers and students from around the world can now conduct faster and more advanced research. The milestone was officially celebrated on Thursday 17 October 2024.

On Thursday 10 October, Delft University Fund organised the 2024 Marina van Damme Grant Award Ceremony. Three female Delft alumni stood the chance to win the coveted grant of € 9,000,-. After three impressive pitches and a short jury meeting, Prof. Marina van Geenhuizen, chair of the jury, announced that it was Natalia Vtyurina for winning the 2024 Marina van Damme Award!

More advanced and faster research is possible with the commissioning of the cold neutron source and the improved instruments of TU Delft Reactor Institute (RID) as of 27 June 2024. The first results of research are expected in October 2024, around the official reopening of the reactor.

TU Delft, Erasmus MC and University of Lausanne have received a 1 million grant to develop a new treatment using electrons called VHEE: Very High Energy Electron.

Team of TU Delft researchers has been optimizing the structure of car battery electrodes. Read the full story in the publication in Cell Reports Physical Science. “A phase inversion strategy for low-tortuosity and ultrahigh-mass-loading nickel-rich layered oxide electrodes”

What determines the cycle life of batteries? And, more importantly, how can we extend it? An international research team led by TU Delft has discovered that local disorder in the oxide cathode material increases the number of times Li-ion batteries can be charged and discharged. Their results have been published in Nature.

At Wednesday 24th of April TU Delft hosted a meeting for Director General Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), students and others interested in the nuclear sector.

From Monday 15 to Thursday 18 April 2024, the follow-up Integrated Safety Assessment of Research Reactors (INSARR) mission was conducted at TU Delft Reactor Institute.

Delft researchers are developing batteries that can charge faster, offer more stable storage and are made from sustainable materials that are widely available. In doing so, they offer a cheaper alternative to lithium-ion batteries that consist of rare materials and have a high CO2 footprint.

TU Delft leads HEAT4ENERGY, a European consortium, dedicated to develop thermomagnetic devices and novel materials to harvest heat from data centres, food, pulp and paper industries and convert this waste heat to electricity. This project ticks all the boxes: energy transition, decarbonising, low and high power devices for conversion of waste heat to electricity, energy storage, finding alternatives for critical raw materials, developing new materials and most important of all: training of a next generation of European experts.