A new material featuring a big temperature jump when subjected to a magnetic field will enable competitive magnetic cooling.
De Pers reports on the market introduction of a steel plug, which, if installed in a fuel tank, is said to lower fuel consumption by some 10 percent.
Name: Jeroen Pruyn (31)Nationality: DutchSupervisor: Professor Ubald Nienhuis (faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)Subject: Modeling the shipbuilding industry and freight transportThesis defense: In two years“Dutch shipyards are active all over the world.
“Actually, you’d have to ask my friend what inspired her”, says Dr Xing Lan Liu, of the faculty of Applied Sciences. Her friend, Kateryna Naumova, a fashion designer, made an acryl painting on an old pizza box, which she then used as the basis for the cover.
At the chemical engineering department, a new version of the Nanosafety Guidelines gives researchers clues as to how to cope with possible risks associated with nanoparticles.
Introduced as ‘the new magic wands’, movement-based interfaces for Playstation and X-box are meant to add an extra dimension to gaming. But they could be cool scientific tools as well.
In disaster training, the maximum number of victims should be helped with the limited means available. The iPod-based victims that Steven van Campen developed will actually ‘die’ when not properly cared for.
Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to the Sunshower?
Delft researchers succeeded in substantially prolonging an electron spin’s quantum state by using microwave pulses to shield it from surrounding perturbations.
