Category Archives: VROM

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• ‘Fat glass is our baby’
  PhD candidates Faidra Oikonomopoulou and Telesilla Bristogianni received the Innovation Award from the Society of Façade Engineering for the Crystal Houses in Amsterdam. MRVDV Architects designed the glass façade for a shop in the classy Amsterdam P.C. Hooftstraat. The Crystal Houses façade was commissioned by Ashendene- Leeuwenstein. Glass innovator Professor Rob Nijsse (Faculties of Civil […]
• ‘Data is the new doping’
  The use of data in the training of athletes has only just begun. Sensors and statistics are boosting performances. The Data Science & Sports Seminar brought people together from universities, sports and companies in a series of short updates on how data science is used in sports. The presentations fell roughly into two categories: data […]
• Smart photochip for cheaper PET-scans
  PET-scans can detect early tumours. A new detector module, co-developed by Dr Veerappan, makes PET-scanners cheaper, better and faster. Future patients will benefit, said Professor Edoardo Charbon. Patients with suspected tumours receive an injection of a substance that cancer cells imbibe. The simplest option is glucose for these ever-hungry cells. The injection carries an unstable […]
• Transforming materials
  In collaboration with Harvard University, two TU Delft students have built a 3-D material with controllable shape and size. Metamaterial made from extruded cubes (Photo: Bas Overvelde) Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch. PhD student Bas Overvelde MSc […]
• From wet waste to green gas
  At 600 degrees and 250 bars, supercritical water rips organic molecules apart, producing gas from wet biomass. PhD candidate Onursal Yakaboylu modelled the process. Too much manure and dwindling gas production – that sums it up for the Netherlands in 2016. A new technology called ‘supercritical water gasification of wet biomass’ has the potential to […]