The end of TU’s science shop?Custumers for the TU’s science shop, which helps answer scientific questions for non-profit organisations, can no longer be helped.
Most science shop employees have left for other jobs and no new employees were hired. The work council therefore wrote to the executive board this week asking why no new employees have been recruited.
Champagne glasses at Rotterdam station
TU Delft architecture students contributed to architecture bureau Alsop Architects’ new design for Rotterdam’s central train station. William Alsop plans to make major changes to ‘het stationsplein’, which he calls ‘suicide square’, because presently pedestrians must be very careful not to collide with bikes, taxi’s, trams or buses. In Alsop’s design, pedestrians walk on an elevated platform and trams run underground. Eye catchers in Alsop’s design are nine buildings that look like champagne glasses. (for photo, see page 13)
Electrosprays improve artificial hip
Material science student Sander Leeuwenburgh is designing new coatings for artificial hips. He fools bone tissue by making a rough layer of calcium phosphate, a main substance of bones. “Bone marrow rat cell cultures from the lab attach themselves to the coating and in time start to produce a thin layer of bone substances,” he explains. To make the coating, Leeuwenburgh uses electrosprays, thin droplets made in a high electric field. By varying the proportions of calcium, phosphate, and the type of solvent, Leeuwenburgh can make different layers, which can look like a sponge or broccoli. (for photos, see pages 8 and 9)
The end of TU’s science shop?
Custumers for the TU’s science shop, which helps answer scientific questions for non-profit organisations, can no longer be helped. Most science shop employees have left for other jobs and no new employees were hired. The work council therefore wrote to the executive board this week asking why no new employees have been recruited.
Champagne glasses at Rotterdam station
TU Delft architecture students contributed to architecture bureau Alsop Architects’ new design for Rotterdam’s central train station. William Alsop plans to make major changes to ‘het stationsplein’, which he calls ‘suicide square’, because presently pedestrians must be very careful not to collide with bikes, taxi’s, trams or buses. In Alsop’s design, pedestrians walk on an elevated platform and trams run underground. Eye catchers in Alsop’s design are nine buildings that look like champagne glasses. (for photo, see page 13)
Electrosprays improve artificial hip
Material science student Sander Leeuwenburgh is designing new coatings for artificial hips. He fools bone tissue by making a rough layer of calcium phosphate, a main substance of bones. “Bone marrow rat cell cultures from the lab attach themselves to the coating and in time start to produce a thin layer of bone substances,” he explains. To make the coating, Leeuwenburgh uses electrosprays, thin droplets made in a high electric field. By varying the proportions of calcium, phosphate, and the type of solvent, Leeuwenburgh can make different layers, which can look like a sponge or broccoli. (for photos, see pages 8 and 9)
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