… There is a process that yields over 20 million times the energy per reaction as the combustion of coal, without … and is known as nuclear fusion. Here two atoms are fused to form a new, more stable atom, releasing energy. However, … produces a lot of energy in a small volume. This is great for a power plant, but makes designing the divertor heat …
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… PhD defense: Alex van de Steeg DIFFER PhD researcher Alex van de Steeg will defend his thesis Insight … a circular economy, CO2 reduction powered by renewable energy is recognized as an opportunity to produce sustainable carbon feedstocks for the synthesis of fuels and chemicals. These fuels can be …
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… PhD defense: Qiuhua Liang DIFFER PhD researcher Qiuhua Liang will defend her thesis First-principles study of electrode materials for oxygen evolution . Short introduction to the thesis Electrochemical water splitting is regarded as a promising …
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… fuel system Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . Multi-scale modelling of molten salt fuel … worldwide as key materials for sustainable and low-carbon energy technologies, including for fission reactors, and in … Delft University of Technology Website https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Smith-38 Go to the Events …
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… Modeling and simulation of photo-electrochemical interfaces Published on May 25, 2016 May … Zhang and Anja Bieberle want to identify the limiting processes at the interface and boost performance. In the … challenges hinder progress. To move forward, the two researchers propose a multiscale paradigm which combines …
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… event, an online conference on LGBTI+-inclusivity, the energy transition and their interrelations. This is as good … officer at DIFFER (NK), Léon Ouwerkerk, LGBTI+ coordinator for NWO (LO), and Ana Solvelas da Silva, PhD student at … is still organised in a rather hierarchical way. As a young researcher, you are very dependent on your team leader. …
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… PhD defense: Ray Chandra DIFFER PhD researcher Ray Chandra will defend his thesis Plasma exhaust for fusion reactors: numerical simulation and comparison … named B2.5-Eunomia, as well as the analysis of detailed processes that causes plasma detachment. He revealed that …
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… kerosene project is a European Horizon 2020 funded research project coordinated by DIFFER and carried out in collaboration with KIT (D), Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, VITO (B), Flemish Institute for Technology … hydrogen and hybrid combinations are limited by their low energy density, whilst bio-fuel is limited by the fuel vs. …
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… transfered during chemical reactions and energy conversion processes. In a recent paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, DIFFER researchers Matteo Parente and Andrea Baldi together with … to the recent discovery that metal nanoparticles display catalytic properties that can be modified by shining light …
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… More efficient carbon dioxide splitting for sustainable fuels Published on July 29, 2021 Using … very promising, because the theoretical maximum achievable energy efficiency would be 'only' 50 percent. However, there … in a more energy efficient way. Increased efficiency limit Researchers from DIFFER and Maastricht University have …
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… Radiation Induced Defect Research The RIDER group (Radiation-Induced DEfect Research) … rate, salt composition, impurities etc. influence the performance of structural materials in molten salt … This approach overlooks the complex synergies between these processes that occur in real reactor conditions. We study …
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… Milestone for green kerosene project: First CO2 plasma in KEROGREEN … coordinated by DIFFER and funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program. The engineering and … and oxygen by means of a plasma. The unit is linked to an electrochemically based oxygen separator and a pressure …
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… offering interesting and sometimes unexpected opportunities for collaboration. This notion applies even more strongly to … controlling and sensitive detection that are used in high-energy physics and astronomy, can also be extremely useful in marine research and nanofabrication. There are many more examples. …
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… Signing for gender equality Published on February 09, 2018 To remove … physics community leading to structural change in the research institutes. ‘AMOLF aims to have 25% of its … evaluation by an external gender expert institute (Joanneum Research, Austria) have set the starting point to design …
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… X-rays Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . [please note the different starting time] … nuclear fusion - a process humans want to harness for clean energy production on earth. In the mantle of Neptune, … whose understanding is important for modeling astrophysical processes, pursuing controlled fusion, and to advance the …
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