… the Netherlands Online event organised by EASAC, KNAW and DIFFER How does the transition to sustainable energy … of our energy supply? And what does this mean specifically for the Netherlands? During this online event, the key … for the coming years. In this central discussion, all speakers address the question of how the energy …
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… Vapor shielding can regulate temperature of fusion reactor walls Published on March 26, 2019 A heat shield of liquid metal automatically limits the temperature of a fusion reactor's inner … the incoming heat load. PhD candidate Peter Rindt (TU/e and DIFFER) tested 3D-printed prototype holders for liquid metal …
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… machine MAST Upgrade and at the Dutch research institute DIFFER have made important progress in two key areas. How … power of a nuclear fusion reactor across the vessel wall, an additional divertor can be installed at the top of the machine. This so-called double-null …
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… First-ever look inside a palladium nano-battery Published on April 19, 2016 16 April … Nature Materials , nanomaterials researcher Andrea Baldi at DIFFER and colleagues at Stanford University present a new … transitions is key to optimize a wide range of technologically relevant processes, from energy storage in batteries, …
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… in water: What’s my reference? Published on August 08, 2019 DIFFER researchers Murat Sorkun, Abhishek Khetan and … colorless and transparent chemical substance is vital for all known forms of life, although the water molecules … the solubility of chemical substances in water is usually not a straightforward task. This is essentially because …
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… Show plays at ITER open doors day Published on May 29, 2018 DIFFER presented its Fusion Road Show science demos to over … a wooden toothpick on fire, he has just produced a glowing ball of plasma in the microwave and captured it inside a … with magnetic fields and keep them away from our reactor walls." Using a kitchen microwave (don't try this at home!) …
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… Mihalis Tsampas each explore an artificial leaf approach to DIFFER’s solar fuels theme. In their five year programs, … Bieberle: Take a walk outside: sunshine, wind - all that energy is available, and we are not using it. Yet! … physics... I think that over the next years, when we’re all in the same building, the current research groups will …
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… into the clean energy carrier hydrogen. Researchers from DIFFER, Delft University of Technology and Twente University … the area of a photoelectrochemical cell, the more reaction sites where hydrogen can be produced. To that end, … or further apart. Anja Bieberle: "These stepwise variations allowed us to know the exact differences between the …
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… parts and products. Using a great variety of numerically controlled machines and a healthy dose of … asked for by the scientists. Metals, plastics, ceramics, different bonding techniques, modifications on existing parts, all expertize is readily available to be drawn upon by the …
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… PhD defense: Artur Perek DIFFER PhD researcher Artur Perek will defend his thesis … the potential to provide a clean, inherently safe and virtually inexhaustible source of energy. Magnetic confinement … fluxes, which will have to be mitigated to technologically feasible levels. Variations in the shape and topology …
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… for fuel Published on March 13, 2022 Alex van de Steeg (DIFFER and TU/e) mapped CO2 plasmas to figure out the … to study CO2 plasmas generated in a microwave using so-called laser scattering diagnostics ,” says Van de Steeg. … more fuels afterwards. “Two reactions lead to almost all splitting: collisions of CO2 molecules with other …
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… by heating it to a plasma with a microwave. Researchers at DIFFER can, but nobody really understands the processes that take place in the … – and the electron transport equation which is usually solved numerically by implying many assumptions and … with a microwave. Researchers at DIFFER can, but nobody really understands the processes that take place in the …
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… of Chemistry, the collaboration between FOM Institute DIFFER, RU Nijmegen and TU Eindhoven demonstrate how they … the fossil The end goal of solar fuels research is to have all the benefits of natural gas or other fuels, without … This 'reverse combustion' always costs energy; the challenges is efficiency. Simply turning up the heat until the …
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… its energy to promote the growth of a thin shell of a different metal around them. PhD student Rifat Kamarudheen … to try to disprove their existence and demonstrate that all the observed reactivity was due to pure heating … silver ions in solution and prevented the formation of metallic silver shells on top of the gold nanoparticles at room …
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… for day- to week-long storage. Süleyman Er, head of DIFFER’s Chemical Energy department, leads a work package … and affordably for several days. The project focuses on so-called redox flow batteries: systems that generate … we have developed a specialized computational workflow called RedCat, which integrates machine learning and …
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