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  • One polymer to make two semiconductors, by controlling the solvent

    … important materials because of their special electronic and optical properties and low cost, making them very promising … to yield different optoelectronic properties. Precisely tuning the solvent can be used to generate clearly different … (2019) Authors   Mengmeng Li and René Jansen Go to the News page. …
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  • Vidi grant Thomas Morgan for liquid fusion reactor walls

    … the surface." Liquid metal (tin) exposed to the hot, dense plasma of DIFFER's previous research facility Pilot-PSI. The liquid self-regulates its surface temperature: if the plasma deposits more heat on the liquid … can sea water solve the world's energy problem?   PREVIOUS NEWS ON LIQUID METAL WALLS Metal vapour to protect fusion …
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  • PFMC-17 Conference on Plasma Facing Materials

    … PFMC-17 Conference on Plasma Facing Materials The performances of fusion devices … and of future fusion power plants strongly depend on the plasma-facing materials and components. Resistance to heat and particle loads, compatibility in plasma operations, thermo-mechanical properties, as well as …
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  • DIFFER researcher clears up growth of nanostructures on metal surface

    … open up possibilities for the large-scale storage and conversion of sustainable energy in the form of chemical compounds: solar fuels. Such fuels have no net CO2-emission and therefore offer opportunities for the transport … can be stored for use during the dark winter. Go to the News page. …
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  • Sixteen exceptional scientists receive the EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grant

    … and ion density profiles for the optimization of runaway electron benign termination'. The ERG grants cover part of … evolution of He-related defects created at reactor-relevant temperatures and their influence on tritium retention in … experimental parameter regimes Author: EUROfusion Go to the News page. …
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  • Where have the electrons gone?

    … charge is transfered during chemical reactions and energy conversion processes. In a recent paper in the Journal of … A new interpretation is needed to explain the observed optical effects.’ Cartoon of a plasmonic nanoparticle used … Chemistry C, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b05003 Go to the News page. …
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  • Making green hydrogen more affordable: PhD researcher Ameya Ranade demonstrates practical, scalable concept

    … conditions inside fusion reactors, specifically helium plasma have been repurposed to create better, longer-lasting … surface area and performance for (electro)chemical conversion. Secondly, commercially available Ni-based alloys … Design, Optimization to Scalable Implementation Go to the News page. …
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  • DIFFER scientists invent new way to produce oxygen on Mars

    … of researchers, including scientists from DIFFER, present a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the … help", adds Vasco Guerra. Channeled energy "When bulletlike electrons of the plasma collide with a carbon dioxide … , publisher of the Journal of Applied Physics Go to the News page. …
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  • Design students turn ion beam facility into artwork

    … colors. Those colors are a reference to the colors of a plasma that is generated in the tube. The other side will be … geologists, archaeologists and art researchers. Electronics developers have already used the facility to … part of the institutes organization of NWO. Dutch original news item: …
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  • Start of ITER reactor assembly

    … fusion project in the world and will produce its First Plasma in 2025. The reactor is designed to demonstrate the … superconducting magnets of niobium-tin at their operating temperature near absolute zero. All that to build a magnetic … of the ITER tokamak. Image: ITER Organization Go to the News page. …
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  • Vibrant atmosphere during SCOM workshop

    … of the strong coupling involving organic molecules and optical cavities . The workshop was opened by photonics … near semi-transparent mirrors. Since before, I worked on electron transport in carbon nanotubes, this workshop is a … Jaime Gómez Rivas wins prestigious Vici grant Go to the News page. …
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  • PhD Defense: Jos Scholte tested liquid metal to protect fusion reactor walls

    … tokamak ASDEX-Upgrade at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics IPP near Munich. To verify that his design … a noticeable cooling effect. That is not automatically good news, because the fusion fuel should not be cooled to below fusion temperatures. Inspection photos also showed liquid tin …
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  • Exhaust control for SPARC: DIFFER and Commonwealth Fusion Systems join forces for future fusion energy

    … which will effectively decouple the heat flux from the core plasma in the reactor and the power on the divertor tiles.” … to the activities that take place before the start of SPARC plasma operations. In the future, the scope could be … meer dan 2 miljard dollar aan kapitaal opgehaald. Go to the News page. …
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  • Living and breathing energy research

    … technique for Tokomaks, enabling the real time capturing of emission lines of the fusion plasma. That technique is now … For example, we breathed new life into the Electrochemical Conversion & Materials community, which was a rather … energy storage by means of a thermal battery.”   Go to the News page. …
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  • Probing interlayer interaction in Van der Waals materials

    … developed in our lab. At the basis is a low-energy electron microscope (LEEM). With this unique instrument, we probe the reflection of electrons with tunable energies 0-30 eV. Not only does this … our instrument with a groundbreaking form of transmission electron microscopy (eV-TEM), which probes at extremely low …
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