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Prof. dr. Cees Dekker wins the Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for his seminal contributions to single-molecule biophysics, including the application of nanotechnology to biological systems, developing single-molecule techniques leading to breakthroughs in DNA and protein sequencing with nanopores, novel insights in DNA-protein interactions and chromosome organisation, and experimental demonstration of DNA loop extrusion predicted by Prof. Mirny, as well as the development of synthetic cells.

On 16 May, Viktor Haaksman will defend his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at TU Delft. Together with a large public-private consortium, he developed granular sludge technology that allows existing wastewater treatment plants to increase their capacity without large-scale new construction.

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.

To stimulate real-world application of protein research at the TU Delft Bionanoscience department, the Dutch Scientific Organisation (NWO) has appointed researcher Carlos de Lannoy as fellow of the Faculty of Impact.

The future of information technologies lies in quantum information technologies, which promise a big leap forward in computation and communication. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded an €850,000 Open Technology Grant to a consortium that will develop central building blocks for future quantum computers. The consortium, led by UvA-physicist Peter Schall, will consist of the University of Amsterdam, TU Delft and industry partners Toyota and Quix.

Roman Barth is named member of the 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows, along with thirty-one other early-career researchers. He will use powerful deep learning-based algorithms to design new candidates for a promising, but difficult to identify, class of drugs.

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.

AMOLF researchers, in collaboration with Kobus Kuipers from Delft University of Technology, succeeded to bring light waves to a halt by deforming the two-dimensional photonic crystal that contains them. The researchers showed that even a subtle deformation can have a substantial effect on photons in the crystal. This resembles the effect that a magnetic field has on electrons.

Examining tissues, cells, and proteins under a microscope helps us prevent and combat diseases. To study this, we need to precisely determine the dimensions of the biological structure. However, a biological sample may appear flatter under the light microscope than it actually is. Researchers at Delft University of Technology have now demonstrated for the first time that this distortion is not constant, contrary to what many scientists have assumed for decades. The breakthrough, published in Optica, confirms a prediction by Nobel laureate Stefan Hell from the 90s. With an online calculation tool and software, every researcher can now determine the correct depth of a biological sample.