… Jos Scholte tested liquid metal to protect fusion reactor walls Published on June 03, 2025 Future fusion power plants will need wall materials that do not crack or melt under the intense … his PhD research, mechanical engineer Jos Scholte (TU/e and DIFFER) studied if liquid metals can act as a protective …
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… pathway would occur. ACS Energy Letters cover image Credit DIFFER/Erik Langereis/Shutterstock When a CO 2 molecule … and an oxygen atom are released. The oxygen atoms eventually recombine, usually to molecular oxygen. Instead of using two atoms to form … and an oxygen atom are released. The oxygen atoms eventually recombine, usually to molecular oxygen. Instead of …
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… fusiereactor Published on December 01, 2016 FOM-instituut DIFFER start een grootschalig onderzoeksprogramma om de … smeltpunt niet genoeg om het plasma te weerstaan", stelt DIFFERs hoofd fusieonderzoek Marco de Baar. Het wandontwerp … van een fusiereactor nabootsen. De onderzoekers zullen hun technieken testen bij bestaande fusiereactoren in Duitsland, …
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… nearly 14.5 million euros to three projects for the call 'Technology development for circular batteries'. One of … REDOX flow batteries with Large ENergy Density', with DIFFER as one of the consortium partners. The development of … TNO, and University of Twente. More information about the call and the other two awarded projects can be found on the …
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… have the electrons gone? Published on October 16, 2018 So-called plasmonic sensors of noble metal nanoparticles follow … In a recent paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, DIFFER researchers Matteo Parente and Andrea Baldi together … of sunlight in a semiconductor are transferred to metallic contacts and catalysts. The transfer of electrical …
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… measurements by plasma diagnostics expert Ivo Classen at DIFFER. The physicist has been taking detailed temperature … Strong magnetic fields isolate the fuel from the reactor walls, but that is not enough to run a smooth fusion … the simulation can reproduce these kind of instabilities. (Images copyright Physics Today) Go to the News page. …
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… DIFFER Researcher scores Hat-trick Published on October 03, … prizes at the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Fall Meeting 2019, held at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. The conference consisted of 22 parallel symposia. Matteo Parente attended the symposium Q: …
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… 10, 2017 The EUROfusion research consortium has appointed DIFFER group leader Dr. Thomas Morgan as the leader of its new work package on self-repairing liquid metal walls for the exhaust of future fusion reactors. In the first … against the harsh fusion conditions is one of the main challenges to realizing fusion energy. "One exciting concept …
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… on March 30, 2017 Promovendus Stein van Eden uit het DIFFER-fusieprogramma krijgt de prijs voor het beste … (IRVB) ontwikkelde. Bolometrie is een reeks technieken om de stralingsenergie van plasmalicht te meten. … (rechts - credit: M.L. Reinke), waaruit vervolgens de invallende stralingsterm is te berekenen. NEVAC prijs De …
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… energy to deliver safe and sustainable low-carbon energy. DIFFER researchers of the Integrated Modelling and … test over two decades’ worth of advances in fusion and optimally prepare for the start of the international ITER … this refurbishment during which the current ‘ITER-like Wall’ was installed. The reactor wall was replaced by a metal …
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… On 19 January 2026 he successfully defended his thesis called 'Nano-scale Electrode Engineering for Alkaline … Implementation.’ One of the advantages of working at DIFFER, is the opportunity to make use of expertise that … beyond your own team or department. Techniques originally developed to study the extreme conditions inside fusion …
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… camera of the MANTIS system ( link ), a consortium led by DIFFER and EPFL has now scored a crucial follow-up research … 1.5 M€ for carrying out the work on TCV tokamak with DIFFER group leader Matthijs van Berkel as principal … Schematic representation of the new concept to use different gasses (D 2 and N 2 ) simultaneously to control …
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… organized on Monday, 20th May 2019 from 13:00 to 17:30h at DIFFER. These introductory lectures are designed for PhD … postdocs and newcomers to the field, but are open to all registrants. They are included in the general … Particle and heat exhaust in future fusion reactors: challenges and solutions Kai Nordlund (University of …
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… on December 21, 2020 TNO, Utrecht University (UU), and DIFFER will set up new national research communities to … planning, future energy infrastructure, and the business challenge for the energy transition. To speed up the … planning, future energy infrastructure, and the business challenge for the energy transition. Mix of enery carriers: …
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… plasma in a fusion reactor hits the reactor's exhaust wall, dust particles will inevitably erode from the wall and be swept away by the plasma, or ionised gas. But how … fully resolved movies of dust motion in experiments with DIFFER's linear plasma generator Pilot-PSI. The new data …
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