… PhD defense Jos Scholte: The viability of liquid metals as a plasma-facing material in nuclear fusion devices Jos Scholte … his PhD thesis titled: 'The viability of liquid metals as a plasma-facing material in nuclear fusion devices'. Date : 3 … the Sun. At this temperature, the hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma: an ionized gas where the electrons are no longer …
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… Festive launch for Brabantian test facility for resistant materials for nuclear reactors … Experiment. The tests conducted at this new research facility bring nuclear energy one step closer through … Experiment. The tests conducted at this new research facility bring nuclear energy one step closer …
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… range of power plant designs by incorporating essential plasma physics processes like equilibrium, transport, … heating & current drive, and stability as well as facility aspects like neutronics, structural mechanics, and … power plants. Some time ago, in 2016, I was at DIFFER for a research internship focused on creating a zero-dimensional …
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… Weekend © DIFFER/Bart van Overbeeke Science is fun Our main research facilities, such as the new PLD4Energy, Magnum-PSI, the Ion Beam Facility and the plasma lab, will be open to the public. Besides lectures for … we need complex computer models? Science is fun Our main research facilities, such as the new PLD4Energy, Magnum-PSI, …
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… for a wide range of applications. An international research team led by Professor René Janssen developed a … write Mengmeng Li and René Janssen from the DIFFER-TU/e research group in the leading journal Nature Communications. Working in an international research team, they point out that these results open up the …
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… of inorganic materials. The microscope is accessible for researchers who want to image newly developed nanomaterials … stand to benefit from the presence of a TEM, including the Plasma Material Interactions group of Thomas Morgan, the Electrochemical … of inorganic materials. The microscope is accessible for researchers who want to image newly developed nanomaterials …
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… on May 9, 2025. A myriad of speakers covered business, research and governmental perspectives on the next and now … development of fusion energy. ‘Within the current Euratom Research and Training Programme, which complements the Horizon Europe programme and focusses on nuclear research and education, the European Commission spends M€ …
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… key challenges in nuclear fusion development. In his PhD research, Bob Kool explored the control of power exhaust in … these configurations for power exhaust control systems. His research can be considered as the first study that clearly … greatly helps to decouple them from each other and the core plasma density, simplifying integrated plasma control. His …
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… experiments yield a new energy record: Q&A with DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel Published on February 08, … A new energy record has been announced by EUROfusion and research institutes involved. What does this record mean? … very hot due to the exhaust. We need to safely cool the plasma (hot gas) down before it reaches the wall, but in a …
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… of Technology will jointly receive 700,000 euros to expand research on water-splitting and alternative renewable energy sources. This was announced by NWO. The researchers aim to take live measurements during … the material, sometimes to the structure, sometimes to the surface," says project leader Anja Bieberle-Hütter from …
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… into fuel Published on May 08, 2015 Most of the worldwide research efforts in solar fuels are directed at the … researchers from the fusion group on nanostructuring surfaces with plasma and on modelling and simulation of interfaces. … Most of the worldwide research efforts in solar fuels are directed at the …
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… improve hydrogen catalysis? Published on July 09, 2026 Research project ‘SaltCat: Can seawater impurities improve … Open Competition Domain Science-XS package 26-2. At DIFFER, researcher dr. Nabil Khossossi aims to identify whether … and sulfate that are generally assumed to poison catalyst surfaces. Image With the SaltCat project researcher dr. …
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… nature of the electrochemical reactions that occur on the surface of colloidal nanomaterials is key in controlling their efficiency and stability. Subtle surface reactions, like the formation of dimers or the local … link in the system. Bio: Arjan Houtepen heads the NCFun research group in the Chemical Engineering department at TU …
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… recent paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, DIFFER researchers Matteo Parente and Andrea Baldi together with … electrical charges to and from metals can be probed using surface plasmon resonances. These are light-driven … nanoparticle. Impossible conclusions ‘Up until now, most researchers interpreted the behavior of these plasmonic …
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… Scientists from the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) have created a database of 31,618 … great promise for energy storage. Among other things, the researchers used artificial intelligence and supercomputers … flow batteries for energy storage. It would be wonderful, researchers from DIFFER in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), …
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