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Material databases contain valuable information for energy researchers, but searching them was time consuming. DIFFER researcher Süleyman Er and colleagues now developed a way to make multiple databases interoperable. The result is published in the journal Nature Scientific Data.  

Are you a teacher? Would you like to learn more aboute fusion? On 1 October 2021, FuseNet is organising its 2nd European Fusion Teacher Day. After the seminal edition in October 2020, FuseNet and a group of 15+ participating countries are organising a second event for secondary school teachers along the width and breadth of Europe and across three time zones.

Using renewable electricity and carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO) can be produced as a source of sustainable fuels. Driving this process with high temperature is regularly dismissed as not very promising, because the theoretical maximum achievable energy efficiency would be 'only' 50 percent.

A new, multi-wavelength imaging (MWI) camera diagnostic fitted on tokamak MAST Upgrade, will offer scientists a picture of the impact that the machine’s Super X divertor design has on the hot, charged plasma. The tool is based on MANTIS, a diagnostic tool developed by DIFFER.

DIFFER and University of Twente (UT) have started a long-term collaboration on the fabrication and investigation of thin films for the energy transition. Applications are for example in the field of conversion and storage, like electrodes for water splitting or fuel cells.