They are around us everywhere, fuelling our cars, phones, and laptops, yet we know so little about batteries. Dr Marnix Wagemaker explains how he will use his recently earned Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros to investigate the inner workings of batteries.
With a tobacco retailer on every corner and youth loitering on the street smoking on every bench, you would expect that growing up in a deprived neighbourhood would increase the probability of kids ending up smoking. Delft researchers showed otherwise.
Physicist Erik Verlinde (UvA) shook up the physics community with his new theory of emergent gravity, an adaptation of the current gravitational laws of Newton and Einstein. On invitation by the VvTP, Verlinde will give a public lecture in the Aula on Tuesday March 8th.
TU Delft researcher Wouter Terra is doing research on cyclists. Using special bubbles and lasers, he is measuring what no one has ever done before: the airflow around a cyclist.
A ceramic-like material made from mussel shells that can be used in 3D printing and recycled over and over again. Industrial Design Engineering student Joost Vette (24) turned a waste product into something useful.
TU Delft students are braving the cold today in a bunker near Rijswijk to test the latest version of their Nimbus rocket engine. It’s the power house of the Stratos III rocket that will be launched in July and that will help the students retake the height record, they hope.
De Universiteit Utrecht ontvangt veruit de meeste beurzen van onderzoeksfinancier NWO. Bij de Europese Unie hebben andere instellingen meer succes. Ook de TU Delft doet het in Europa beter dan bij NWO.
Accelerating the rooftop revolution is the personal and corporate mission of Sungevity’s founder Roebyem Anders. She shared her passion and experience in the lecture series ‘Meet the Energy leaders’.
Ships that have reached their end-of-life are sold to recycling yards. For commercial reasons, most of the large ocean-going vessels are dismantled on the beaches of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Plasma gasification is a waste-to-energy technology that may help increase the prices offered by green shipyards.
