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TU Delft anniversary dedicated to energy transition

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TU Delft builds decarbonised energy system for the built environment

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Climate adaptation of households compared internationally

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The formation of kidney stones on a microscale

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Delft scientists put the spotlight on combined capture and conversion of CO2

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Zhuo-ming Shia: TU Delft Best Graduate 2021

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Rain Showers grow in size and intensity

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Portraits of Science

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This edition zooms in on the energy transition - what does TU Delft do to help speed it up?

TU Delft Stories

We are very proud of our Stories of Science. These are the ten best read English stories in 2021.

Stories

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Wheelchair owner and companion next to each other thanks to wheelchair attachment

A standard wheelchair is pushed, but if you walk behind it as an attendant, it’s sometimes difficult to keep contact with the person sitting in it, even though it’s a necessity. There’s probably a technical solution to this kind of problem, but then the right people have to know about it.

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Neural networks put the afterburners on skin recovery models

First aid for burn injuries is to cool the area for twenty minutes with lukewarm running water. Math can play an important role in choosing the subsequent, often more intensive, treatment aimed at reducing the probability of permanent damage or even disabilities. But these mathematical models for skin recovery must be fast. By applying neural networks, Marianne Schaaphok increased their speed by more than a million times.

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Planning a city with conflicting values? No problem!

Increasing urbanisation is creating major challenges in spatial planning. Not least because everyone has different priorities when it comes to organising the public space. For his Master's thesis, best graduate of 2021 in the Faculty of TPM, Rico Herzog, mapped out conflicts of values within a city and developed a model to deal with such conflicts; a model intended to help decision-makers to make better urban planning decisions.

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Delft research unravels mystery of motion of cilia

The cilia – tiny hairs – inside our body are important to our health. They help move fluids, such as phlegm from our lungs. Eduardo Gutiérrez Prieto, a master’s student in Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of 3mE at TU Delft, explains through his research how cilia acquire their motion and how multiple of them can synchronize. This insight could lead to the more effective treatment of various illnesses. For example the treatment of smoker’s cough or other diseases of the respiratory system.

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Zhuo-ming Shia: A design process for socially responsible global housing

When there is a global housing shortage, you do not go about creating one new dwelling at a time. Especially when there is a dire need for quality housing, sustainably designed, and befitting the people whom the dwellings are built for. Best Graduate of the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (BK) Zhuo-ming Shia designed a participatory housing design process for Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

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Zooming in on and out of a circular region

Like the energy transition, the transition to a circular economy impacts the way we use space. So how should we go about planning structural reuse and value retention? For students on the Urbanism Master's track, this is not merely a theoretical question. A range of spatial strategies have recently been put forward for a circular South Holland region.

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Is hydrogen-powered air travel the future?

Hydrogen is a sustainable alternative to kerosene-powered air travel because there are no CO₂ emissions. But hydrogen is also associated with challenges and risks, such as the danger of explosion. TU Delft scientist Dr. Ivan Langella aims to use mathematical models, high-fidelity computational simulations and experiments to develop a zero-emission hydrogen-powered engine that will enable aircraft to fly safely and efficiently.

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Dutch lessons in the Chinese Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta in the province of Guangdong in southern China is one of the most rapidly urbanising deltas in the world. More than sixty million people now live in an area approximately half the size of the Netherlands. The pace of developments, combined with the consequences of climate change, are creating a complex set of issues. How can a small country like the Netherlands help out?

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Using smart technology to make fuel out of CO2

Too much CO2 in the air is currently causing a major problem: climate change. If it were up to Peyman Taheri, researcher at Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft, we would be making smart use of surplus CO2 by converting it into a new fuel. A fuel that could power factories and send cars hurtling down the motorway.

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New sensor chips: low-cost, smart and efficient

Imagine using a chip to analyse heart cells, or being notified by a smart plaster if your heart rate gets too high. These are two examples of research that Frans Widdershoven is working on. This fresh new pro-fessor is developing new smart sensors.

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TU Delft's Reactor Institute takes another step forward as a testing ground for innovation

The Reactor Institute Delft (RID) continuously invests in better measuring methods and techniques in order to facilitate pioneering research. We have accelerated this with the OYSTER (Optimised Yield - for Science, Technology & Education - of Radiation) programme.

TU Delft supercomputer officially opened

As of 2022, TU Delft will have its own supercomputer: DelftBlue. The official opening of this DelftBlue supercomputer was on Thursday, January 20th. Researchers, students and education can use the computing power of the Delft High Performance Computing Centre (DHPC) to solve and calculate complex societal issues.

Delft students present new sustainable hydrogen-powered racing car

TU Delft anniversary dedicated to energy transition

SpaceX launches TU Delft mini-satellite: will it survive in space?

ERC Starting Grant for four TU Delft researchers

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Starting Grants for young researchers. Four of them are scientists from TU Delft. This European grant of €1.5 million for a five-year programme is intended to enable individual scientists to build their own teams and conduct groundbreaking research.

Events

January

27

Wind lecture with Prof. Simon Watson (Director of TU Delft Wind Energy Institute)

February

01

e-Refinery Lecture February 1: Hydrogen for our 2030 climate and energy targets
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TU Delft Wind Energy Institute PhD event
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PowerWeb Lecture: How do we unleash the power of digital?
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Wind lecture with Dr. Gerdien de Vries (TU Delft)

April

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NPS17 2022 "Together more Sustainable"
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January

25
Thesis defence

Thesis defence X. Wang
25
Thesis defence

Thesis defence R.P. Fauzia
25
Thesis defence

Thesis defence J.M. Budd
26
Thesis defence

Thesis defence M.J. Visser
26
Thesis defence

Thesis defence M. Liu
27
Thesis defence

Thesis defence H. Zhu

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24 January 2022

TU Delft's Reactor Institute takes another step forward as a testing ground for innovation

21 January 2022

TU Delft supercomputer officially opened

20 January 2022

Delft students present new sustainable hydrogen-powered racing car
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Events

January

25
Thesis defence

Thesis defence X. Wang
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Thesis defence

Thesis defence R.P. Fauzia
25
Thesis defence

Thesis defence J.M. Budd
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