The remarkable combination of silicon chips with beating heart muscle cells promises interesting applications, ranging from drug toxicity tests to self-powered implants, says professor Ronald Dekker.
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 research to filter background noise for cell phones and hearing aids?
An explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed eleven workers and is threatening to become an environmental disaster. Ships, airplanes and robots are currently being deployed to try to minimise the damage.
Name: Olga di Ruggero (29)Nationality: ItalianSupervisor: Assistant professor Alexander de Haan (TPM) Subject: Public acceptance of hydrogen as a future energy carrierThesis defense: In two years“Hydrogen, like other biofuels, is not an energy carrier that exists in nature.
The work on the new Delft railway line is the most challenging tunnelling project ever for Peter Gossink, director of the contractors’ consortium Crommelijn.
It’s not clear how long the volcanic eruption on Iceland will last. Dr. Andy Hooper, of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering’s remote sensing department, is now trying to figure this out. He’s currently processing the data of the activity inside the volcano.
PhD student Jeroen Oostinga has published leading scientific papers on the bizarre behaviour of electrons in single-atom layered carbon sheets, known as graphene. But his group has now left for Geneva. “A loss for Delft”, says his PhD supervisor.
Last week’s opinion page of New Scientist magazine featured an article by an American physicist, describing the huge energy costs of a simple Google search query.
Sewage water is regarded as waste, but according to professor Jules van Lier it should be viewed as a valuable source of energy and fertilizers.
