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The Oronzio and Niccolò De Nora Foundation Young Author Prize is awarded annually to a scientist of less than 30 years for the best paper of the year published in a journal of the international society of electrochemistry.

Dr. Bijoy Bera, assistant professor within the Transport Phenomena group of Chemical Engineering Department, has been awarded the TU Delft Education Fellowship for the years 2022 and 2023. The Delft Education Fellowship is an initiative from the TU Delft Teaching Academy, and recognizes effort and excellence in educational innovation. Every two years, four Education Fellows are chosen from applicants belonging to all the faculties of the university.

Sandwater, a Nordic venture capitalist and Invest-NL have agreed to a €10 million investment in Delft IMP. This allows Delft IMP to accelerate their nanocoating process to industrial scale enabling more durable batteries and other sustainable applications.

By recognising and valuing researchers in a new way, ZonMw funds research that fits in with the changing role of science in society. In this competition, 16 research teams that set up innovative collaborations that contribute to long-term innovation in science and healthcare will each receive up to 750,000 euros. One of these teams is a collaboration of Pouyan Boukany of Chemical Engineering, TU Delft with LUMC and Erasmus MC.

Adarsh V. Kalikadien completed his MEP in the Inorganic Systems Engineering (ISE) Research Group of Prof. Evgeny Pidko under supervision of Dr. Vivek Sinha. He graduated with a perfect 10. He developed new software that will help in the discovery of new purposeful molecules, such as catalysts that enable the energy transition or drug molecules. He answers some questions in this article.

A publication in ACS Nano on controlled pulmonary administration of Budesonide - modified using Atomic Layer Deposition - a study by PhD student Damiano La Zara and colleagues from the Chemical Engineering department of Delft University of Technology, in collaboration with AstraZeneca.

Last month, a passenger plane flew from Amsterdam to Madrid for the first time, with a mix of ordinary and 500 litres of sustainable synthetic kerosine in the tank. Possibly the first step towards sustainable flying. How is it made from CO2, water and green electricity?

The Faculty of Applied Sciences has attracted four talented international researchers through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships programme of the European Union. The new Fellows are: Anders Barth (Bionanoscience), Baptiste Heiles (Imaging Physics), Josep Ingla-Aynés (Quantum Nanoscience) and José Palomo Jiménez (Chemical Engineering).

Hydrogen is playing an increasingly important role in the transition to a completely sustainable economy. Right now it is already being used on a large scale in industry, but it is also being used more often for sustainable energy storage and as a fuel for large and heavy vehicles in particular. There are plans for converting the existing natural gas network into a hydrogen network. However, under certain circumstances hydrogen is a combustible and sometimes even an explosive gas, so it is important to track down the tiniest hydrogen leaks as quickly as possible. This makes cheap, reliable and small sensors that can quickly detect small amounts of hydrogen of vital importance. Researchers at TU Delft have now developed a material that is extremely suited to this task.

At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is coming into its own.