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  • Tackling two sustainable key processes at once: plasma-activated electrolyzer reducing water and fixating nitrogen

    … are key processes in providing fuels and chemical feedstock for wide variety of societal purposes. The sustainable … power of adding a plasma to state-of-the-art electrolysis. Future research will focus on unravelling the key species … water and nitrogen , ACS Energy Letters (2019). Go to the News page. …
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  • One polymer to make two semiconductors, by controlling the solvent

    … optical properties and low cost, making them very promising for a wide range of applications. An international research … can also easily be tuned. Conjugated polymers are, for example, attractive semiconductors for photovoltaic … (2019) Authors   Mengmeng Li and René Jansen Go to the News page. …
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  • Making nuclear energy more circular: Thorizon receives 10 million euros from French government for development molten salt reactor

    … Thorizon receives 10 million euros from French government for development molten salt reactor Published on March 26, … first step towards making nuclear energy more circular. The future facility aims to provide clean energy to 250 thousand … het Nederlandstalige persbericht van Thorizon. Go to the News page. …
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  • From castle to campus: DIFFER celebrates 10-year anniversary in Eindhoven

    … Eindhoven followed. Time to celebrate, and to look back and forward. Freshly started as vice president at the Dutch … time, people expect a lot from the scientific community. For DIFFER, being located at the TU/e campus means access to … I’ll be there!” Author: Rianne van Hoek Pictures Go to the News page. …
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  • DIFFER researcher clears up growth of nanostructures on metal surface

    … Helium easily penetrates into the metal lattice where it forms bubbles that push the surrounding metal outwards. In … are undesirable because they reduce the discharge of heat, but in other applications the nanostructures are very … can be stored for use during the dark winter. Go to the News page. …
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  • PhD defense Maria Morbey: Deuterium Dynamics in Lithium Layers: Retention and Release Under Fusion Relevant Plasmas

    … where hydrogen iso-topes, deuterium and tritium, fuse to form helium and a neutron releasing immense energy. On … conditions required for efficient fusion reactions involve heating the fuel, deuterium and tritium, to temperatures … this confinement is through a magnetic cage. The leading concept for magnetic confinement fusion is called the …
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  • Turning any silicon nanocrystal into a white light emitter

    … March 21, 2017 Silicon nanocrystals are promising materials for optical, electronic, medical and renewable energy … PhD study (2009-2013) focused on advanced photon management concepts in solar cells using silicon nanocrystals to … to be used as a solar spectrum absorber. Go to the News page. …
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  • How do we protect the wall of a fusion reactor? ‘By simply looking with a camera we can learn a whole lot’

    … the English tokamak experiment MAST-U (UKAEA, Culham) the heat-reducing capabilities of alternative exhaust shapes are … surprisingly well. It’s worth considering using this concept in a real reactor too.' Super-fast electrons As a … en TU/e . Auteurs: Tijs Wijkamp, Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. …
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  • Fusion Road Show plays at ITER open doors day

    … May 2018 . This special 15 minute edition of the science theatre show was designed as a memorable introduction into … demo's that make up DIFFER's Fusion Road Show presentation for high schools and other audiences. The show's presenter … assembled. (credit: DIFFER / Gieljan de Vries)   Go to the News page. …
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  • Tijs Wijkamp awarded KHMW Price

    … 17, 2020 Tijs Wijkamp won the Shell Graduation Award for Physics 2020 for the master project he carried out at … More information Award Ceremonie KHMW, Young Talent Awards Newsitem TU/e Article Tomographic reconstruction of the … en S. (Saskia) de Boer (verslag).   Go to the News page. …
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  • EUROfusion Enabling Research Project granted

    … loss processes. After having published recently on the heat loss control using a single camera of the MANTIS system … principal investigator. Schematic representation of the new concept to use different gasses (D 2 and N 2 ) … DIFFER research group:  Energy Systems & Control EUROfusion newsitem: EUROfusion awards 16 Enabling Research Projects Go …
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  • Grant for Dinesh Krishnamoorthy for research on controlled nuclear fusion

    … Grant for Dinesh Krishnamoorthy for research on controlled nuclear fusion Published on … real-time. A EUROfusion Engineering Grant (EEG) is intended for top technical talent. The grant covers salary and part … alternative divertors. Source: EUROfusion Go to the News page. …
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  • A Fruitful Marriage between Catalysis and Energy Storage and Conversion Research

    … Research    Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . Many decades of research in heterogeneous … realised that this knowledge might be extremely useful also for the development of new materials for energy storage and conversion, such as in batteries, …
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  • Fotoanodes met een gouden (waterstof)randje / Scaleble photoanodes for gold hydrogen

    … met een gouden (waterstof)randje / Scaleble photoanodes for gold hydrogen Een internationaal team heeft een nieuwe … English An international team has developed a new method for making scalable photoanodes using inexpensive materials for solar hydrogen production, reports ChemSusChem . The …
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  • Fundamental aspects of electrocatalysis

    …    Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . This talk will outline a simple but general analysis for multiple proton-electron transfer reactions, based on … of the overall catalytic reaction, implying an optimal pH for high catalytic turnover, and an associated optimal …
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