News

The design of nuclear fusion systems involves many complex challenges. Lots of aspects need to be solved concurrently, and there are many problems that affect each other. Dependency structure modelling is needed in this process, says DIFFER PhD candidate Torben Beernaert.

With the progress of industrialization, the demand for energy has become increasingly enormous, and traditional fossil fuels cause serious environmental pollution. Hydrogen (H2), as a clean energy source, is environmentally friendly. Among the various methods, using sunlight to directly split water to produce H2 is undoubtedly the most attractive.

Cooling the exhaust of a fusion reactor involves many physical reactions. A computer model helps, but how do you make a model of something so complex? Jesse Koenders, PhD candidate at DIFFER, conducted experiments on the TCV research tokamak at the Swiss Plasma Centre in Lausanne.

Recently a brand new VSP-P1 nanoprinter from VSParticle has been successfully installed at DIFFER. As nanoparticles are of great importance for scientific research, this cutting-edge nanoprinting technology helps DIFFER to take research on energy materials a step further.

“The committee concludes that the research is of outstanding quality and is well-received by peers as well as potential industrial partners and users” and “DIFFER is well-equipped for the future” can be read in the assessment report of DIFFER, carried out as part of the Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP).