Research News
22 March 2023
New microchip links two Nobel Prize-winning techniques

Physicists at Delft University of Technology have built a new technology on a microchip by combining two Nobel Prize-winning techniques for the first time. This microchip could measure distances in materials at high precision, for example underwater or for medical imaging. The instrument could lead to new techniques to monitor the Earth’s climate and human health. The work is now published in Nature Communications.
16 March 2023
Winner TU Delft Energy Paper Award

Maarten van den Broek (DCSC) is the winner of the TU Delft Energy Paper Award with the development of an algorithm that ensures a higher energy yield from wind farms.
15 March 2023
TU Delft crowns best climate and energy publication

Een algoritme dat voor een hogere energieopbrengst van windparken zorgt én een onderzoek waaruit blijkt dat niet alleen brandstofverbruik maar ook seizoenseffecten een belangrijke rol spelen bij het optimaliseren van vliegroutes en vlieghoogtes. Dit zijn – in één zin samengevat – de twee grote winnende publicaties van de Beste Climate & Energy Paper Award. De awardceremonie, die woensdag 15 maart plaatsvond op de TU Delft, stond volledig in het teken van grote en kleine innovaties die een bijdrage leveren aan het versnellen van de energietransitie en het beteugelen van klimaatverandering.
09 March 2023
New facility: The VideoBox

Record your own video's in the DIY VideoBox in the TU Delft Library! Available for all TU Delft students, lecturers, researchers and staff for free.
08 March 2023
Aimée Sakes joins board NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences

The board of the NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) appoints dr. ir. Aimée Sakes as new board member. She will join the board as of 1 April 2023.
07 March 2023
Rudy Negenborn’s vision on autonomous ships in Nature

Nature published an article ‘Autonomous ships are on the horizon: here’s what we need to know’ about autonomous ships that highlights research gaps in six key areas. Rudy Negenborn and his co-authors touch upon critical challenges in the development and deployment of autonomous ships in practice, that are not receiving sufficient attention in research and innovation.
03 March 2023
New tool for organ repair: curvature of the environment

28 February 2023
TU Delft presents the eight best Climate Action & Energy Papers

Record temperatures, floodings and melting sea ice: radical weather events are becoming more frequent and have a devastating effect on our planet and our lives. By accelerating the energy transition and climate action TU Delft, together with its partners, tries to prevent climate change and contain its consequences. With the election of the Best Climate & Energy Paper, TU Delft is highlighting a number of large and small innovations that contribute to this.
28 February 2023
Sergio Grammatico has been awarded an NWO ENW-M1 grant

Sergio Grammatico, Associate Professor at the Delft Centre for Systems and Control (DCSC) has been awarded an individual NWO ENW-M1 grant of € 365.000 for his research project on wind farm control and optimization. NWO ENW-M grants are intended for curiosity-driven scientific research.
20 February 2023
D-STANDART project makes lightweight composites more durable

Advanced composites are gaining ground in many areas, also in aerospace and in the wind energy sector, as they are lightweight and help to save energy. What is still missing are accurate and fast pre-production methods to optimise the durability of such large-scale composite structures. TU Delft researchers contribute to the recently launched EU-funded project D-STANDART led by the Netherlands Aerospace Centre Royal NLR.
17 February 2023
Fully floating and scalable Delft prototype brings Hyperloop a step closer

16 February 2023
Clear conditions for rapid growth of university spin-offs

Universities will use standard deal term principles for the transfer of intellectual property to spin-offs.
16 February 2023
The Ship Hydromechanics lab welcomes the upgraded Wave-Flume Tank

A number of internal relocations have taken place in the 3mE building the past year and one of them was the relocation of the Wave-Flume Tank. The tank has been moved from building section J to the API hall nearby in Leeghwaterstraat to create space for projects being conducted in the Fluid Mechanics Lab. The Wave-Flume Tank has returned home: at the Ship Hydromechanics Lab.
14 February 2023
Rapid change of friction causes tactile ultrasound illusion

Michaël Wiertlewski, Assistant Professor at the Cognitive Robotics Department, and his colleagues have created a glass plate that can quickly change its friction. It does this with an actuator that releases waves of ultrasound to vibrate the plate. Their research is published in the ‘Royal Society Interface journal’.
14 February 2023
Vijayendra Umesh Shastri has been awarded an NWO-XS grant

Vijayendra Umesh Shastri from the Precions and Microsystems Engineering Department has been awarded a NOW-XS grant for his quantitative de-cellurarization with single-cell resolution project.