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17 September 2017

Students Delft & Amsterdam win cycle race in USA and set new Dutch speed record

Cyclist Aniek Rooderkerken broke the Dutch speed record for women last Saturday, clocking 121.5 km/h to win the World Human-Powered Speed Challenge in the Nevada desert. In this competition for the most innovative cycles and riders from all over the world, Rooderkerken was riding the VeloX 7: a high-tech aerodynamic recumbent bike designed and built by the Human Power Team, a group of students from TU Delft and VU Amsterdam.

Herman Terryn receives American award for preventing corrosion of materials

Herman Terryn, part-time professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, will receive the ‘H.H. Uhlig corrosion award’ on 3 October for his pioneering research on the corrosion of metals. Preventing corrosion is extremely important because corrosion causes huge economic damage. The award will be presented during a conference of the Electrochemical Society in National Harbor (Washington , DC).

Using chemistry to close the CO2 cycle

Create fuels out of it, with the aid of green electricity. If we want to make the world more sustainable, then we need to find a solution for CO2. Professor Wiebren de Jong (TU Delft) from the Department of Process & Energy (Large-Scale Energy Storage section, LSE) is working hard on this problem.

Reading tissues with light

It’s important during cancer operations that the tumour is completely removed. Surgeons have to largely rely on their senses during the operation. According to Benno Hendriks, part-time professor of optics for minimally invasive instruments at TU Delft and research fellow at Philips Research in Eindhoven, we can do better.

Autonomous boats

In 2030 the captain will be sitting somewhere onshore instead of on his ship. From his sophisticated wheelhouse, which will look like the inside of an air traffic control tower, he will survey all ships that want to enter the port of Rotterdam.

A diet for steel

If it were up to Erik Offerman, steel would go on a diet. He believes that half of the alloying elements in steel are superfluous. A diet would be more sustainable, better for the environment and make it easier to recycle steel.

Photonics for faster Internet

A major challenge in photonics is the accurate alignment of photonic chips, lenses and mirrors that are used in miniscule devices. Researcher Marcel Tichem works on a method to let this part of the assembly take place inside the device itself, known as on-chip assembly.

Making precise structures at the smallest scale

Imagine a tiny sensor setting off an alarm when a healing wound gets infected, or the effects of an experimental drug being tested not on a human or animal, but using a tiny chip packed with biological cells and sensors. The biomedical field is more and more turning to technology at the smallest scales.

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