Latest News Open menu Search rss Open menu 10 November 2022 Mimicking life: a breakthrough in non-living materials Researchers at the Eelkema Lab have discovered a new process that uses fuel to control non-living materials, similar to what living cells do. The reaction cycle can easily be applied to a wide range of materials and its rate can be controlled – a breakthrough in the emerging field of such reactions. Read more 04 November 2022 Making salt water fresh on Lampedusa Since last week, a large-scale demo installation in Lampedusa is producing drinking water, salts and chemicals from seawater in an environmentally friendly way. Project leader Dimitris Xevgenos: “This is the first time that we’re producing these marketable products at pre-commercial scale in Europe together with the right actors, including the use of waste heat. People can come and actually see it running.” Read more 26 October 2022 ERC Synergy Grant to unravel the formation of protein complexes A prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth 9.4 million euros has been awarded to a team of researchers that aims to elucidate a new mechanism to explain how protein complexes are formed. Read more 25 October 2022 TU Delft in 21st position in THE Engineering & Technology rankings For the fourth time in a row, TU Delft ranks 21st in the Engineering & Technology rankings of the Times Higher Education Subject Rankings 2023 published today, 25 October. This is the most relevant category for a university of technology like TU Delft. Read more 24 October 2022 Dutch government confirms €60M investment into cellular agriculture The Dutch government has confirmed that it will allocate €60 million to support an ecosystem around cellular agriculture, the technology to produce animal products such as meat and milk proteins directly from animal and microbial cells. Read more 20 October 2022 New heat pump material to combat global warming Current coolant gases from air conditioners and fridges either contribute a significant amount to global warming, or otherwise they are dangerous to use. Bowei Huang and Michael Maschek from the Delft company Magneto are working on a safe and environmental friendly alternative for cooling: a unique solid material for heat pumps. Read more 18 October 2022 MIMOSA project develops a multi-recycling strategy for spent nuclear fuels Anna Smith, Martin Rohde en Danny Lathouwers van het TU Delft Reactor Instituut nemen deel aan het MIMOSA-project dat een multi-recyclingstrategie zal ontwikkelen voor verbruikte splijtstoffen van lichtwaterreactoren op basis van gesmolten-zouttechnologieën. Read more 05 October 2022 Gijsje Koenderink and Sjoerd Stallinga receive funding from NWO Open Technology Programme The NWO has awarded over 4.5 million euros to six projects through the Open Technology Programme, including the SUSTAINER project of Gijsje Koenderink and the Digital Pathology in 3D project of Sjoerd Stallinga. Read more 20 September 2022 New radiolabelling method for personalised cancer treatment Researchers from TU Delft have found a new method to efficiently make nano carriers loaded with radioactive salts for both medical imaging and treatment. Because the assembly of these nano carriers is incredibly simple, the innovation is very suitable for clinical research and treatments of cancer patients. Read more 08 September 2022 NWO ENW – XL grant for research into razor-thin magnets Last July, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has assigned a large-scale grant to a consortium of physicists of the TU Delft, the University of Groningen and Utrecht University within the Open Competition of the NWO Domain Science (ENW). The fundamental research project of the consortium will give insight into spectacular, newly-discovered magnets with a thickness of only a few atoms. Read more ... Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 You are on page 13 Page 14 Page 15 ... Stay connected linkedin twitter Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page