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The secret to Rembrandt’s impasto unveiled

Rembrandt van Rijn revolutionized painting with a 3D effect using his impasto technique, where thick paint makes a masterpiece protrude from the surface. Thanks to the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France, three centuries later an international team of scientists led by TU Delft and the Rijksmuseum have found how he did it.

TU Delft designs environmentally-friendly ‘kitchen for life’

At TU Delft, a prototype of a ‘circular kitchen’ has been developed, which has a significantly reduced impact on the environment. The kitchen will be presented on Thursday 17 January.

Gas turbines: vital for the transition to renewable energy sources

Gas turbines are mainly known as the jet engines that are used to propel aircraft. But they are also the workhorses in the huge power plants that supply electricity to our factories and houses.

First books published in TU Delft Open Textbook project

On 12 December 2018, the TU Delft Library will present the first open textbooks to be developed as part of the project of the same name. A wide range of educational material including lecture notes, old examinations and video recordings is already available as OpenCourseWare, as is the material in the MOOCs (free online courses).

Exhibition The Age of Standards

January

Thesis defence M.A. Cohen: 3D cavity

Thesis defence A. Singh: energy exchanges

Thesis defence A.C.P. Oude Nijhuis: wind

Thesis defence J.M. Bracher: yeast

Thesis defence Ü. Kilincsoy: seat design

Thesis defence N.N. Carr: binder

Inaugural speech prof. dr. J. Groeneweg (TPM): Just culture

Thesis defence I. Barcelos Carneiro M Rocha: composites

Thesis defence T.W. Stone: darkness

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Ionica Smeets – Alumnus of the year 2018

Week of the Circular Economy stories

Algorithms against Alzheimer’s

Plastic-free Rivers

Researchers discover mechanism disrupting CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

Using drones to simplify 3D film animation

TU Delft researchers visit Great Barrier Reef to rehabilitate coral

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Kobus Kuipers wins Physica Prize 2019

Umincorp opens market for lower cost plastics recycling