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While worldwide attention is mainly focused on reducing CO2 emissions and reducing energy consumption in order to combat climate change, insufficient attention is paid to the consequences of a shortage of materials. This mainly concerns so-called critical materials, materials that are crucial for our well-being and our economy. "Fortunately, there is a growing awareness that we need to pay much more attention to this," said Erik Offerman

There will be cheap and green hydrogen, says Ad van Wijk, professor of Future Energy Systems.

PhD candidate Andrea Mangel Raventos thinks we need more women in leadership positions in science and technology.

It is industrial waste, the main cause of climate change and ... a commodity that is worth money. Captured CO2 is increasingly proving itself as a building block for all kinds of useful things, from peppers to medicines.

Origami enables the creation of three-dimensional structures from flat two-dimensional shapes. While the traditional Japanese art uses paper as its medium, materials scientists are employing this concept to construct three-dimensional structures from other materials but so far only with flat surfaces.

Engineers from the Bio Inspired Technology Group (BITE-Group) of TU Delft used the so-called laying wasp of the parasitic wasp as a source of inspiration to build thin needles for medical applications. They studied the operation and built various prototypes. “We now have needles of 0.45 millimeters thick, which is only three times as thick as a human hair. The needle is flexible and steerable and automatically travels through the tissue, "says Professor of Medical Instruments & Bio Inspired Technology Paul Breedveld.

"In the design and production of metal structures, all aspects of the project are generally taken into account. Unfortunately, corrosion management can often be neglected”, says Prof. Arjan Mol.

Hydrogen cars can act as a buffer in a sustainable energy system.

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After 10 years of preparation, everything came together when tagged instruments were used in a real operation for the first time last February.

A look into the care of the future with Medical Delta, a partnership between the universities and academic hospitals of Leiden and Rotterdam and TU Delft.

Delft flow experts have made a model of how air pollution from the A13 is spreading through neighboring Overschie. The DisTUrbE project (dispersion in the turbulent urban environment) tests the effectiveness of measures against air pollution.

Mining, using and disposing. We have never done anything else. But according to Erik Offerman, things have to change. He wrote a book about it for (future) engineers.

TU Delft, Shell and various Top Consortia for Knowledge and Innovation (TKIs) are investing 5 million euros in the development of electro-conversion technology to make the petrochemical industry more sustainable.

“This is not your standard innovation lecture”, says Barry Fitzgerald. There'll be quizzes, film trailers and more in the BingeWatch Academy starting Thursday night 14 March.

"Acceleration is proportional to forces and stresses in tissues. And with that, normative for the risk of injury, "says Riender Happee, who works at TU Delft and specializes in research into car collisions.

If ships and other transport systems exchange information with each other, the infrastructure can be used much more efficiently and sustainably. That is what Rudy Negenborn, professor of Multi-Machine Operations & Logistics, will give his inaugural address at TU Delft on 15 March 2019.

One successful study after another appears to have a different outcome if the experiment is repeated. To learn what such a repeat study says, Delft researchers also made one: do pupils betray someones emotions?

In the operating room of the future, all movements of the surgeon are followed with chips. It must improve safety for patients.

The replacement of chromium-6-containing paints by chromium-free paints is not yet so simple, experts say.

It is a room of just forty square meters that you just pass by at TU Delft. You do not realize that the mecca of bicycle science is home here. Worldwide, the developments that are being done here are being watched. The last discovery is a bicycle simulator, which has to save lives...

Inflatable bracelets could help prevent ships from capsizing when damaged. Delft students calculated how this extra safety measure can be achieved.

For Barry Fitzgerald, superheroes like Iron Man are no longer fantasy. He aims to use technology to create actual superhuman powers that have a positive influence on society.

At the Antonius Hospital in Sneek, patients are no longer admitted to the rheumatology outpatient clinic for months. The cause: doctors are at odds with each other. Specialists who are fighting: not for the first time. We go back to 2006, to the Radboud Hospital in Nijmegen. We look back with Jan Klein, Professor of Patient Safety at TU Delft, and at the time researcher on the situation in Nijmegen for the Healthcare Inspectorate.

The same mechanism that enables a parasitic wasp to lay her eggs inside a caterpillar without killing it could one day help surgeons operate deep inside the human brain or reach tumors in parts the body that are currently inaccessible.

Pacemakers run out of batteries after around 7 years, so wearers undergo several open-heart operations during their lifetime to replace them. The solution? The heart itself.

Henk Polinder (MTT) has radio talk on challenges of wave energy extraction in NOS Radio 1 Journal. (Dutch)

Henk Polinder (MTT) has radio talk on challenges of wave energy extraction in NOS Radio 1 Journal. (Dutch)