Smartphones that rejuvenate, floating wind turbines and quantum entanglement: seven Delft researchers have received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

Battle mountain
After a year of preparation, demos and a just-missed world hour record, the Delft Human Power Team departs for its main challenge on Friday.

Polders are soggy and swampy, and so is the Dutch policymaking approach called the polder model, Shi Nan (25) believes. For her Master’s thesis Nan investigated whether a policymaking instrument – a serious game, called ‘the World-Café’ – could pull the Dutch out of the administrative swamp.

Range anxiety holds people back from buying electric vehicles. But what if the road itself would keep the batteries charged?
In the laboratory, MSc student Swagat Chopra places his model car above a square coil of electric wire.

It’s the dream of every computer manufacturer: being able to cheaply produce a flexible and stretchable display. Shou-En Zhu believes this is possible using graphene.

Genetics talkshow
The Delft iGEM (genetically engineered machine) team kicks off the new season with a talkshow on Thursday 1 September.

Dr Marijke Melles (Industrial Design Engineering) created the cover together with her partner Robert Morcus. Melles searched the internet for a strong image that would capture people’s attention.