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Science 15 mei 2012

'Life engineering needs technology base'

'Life engineering needs technology base' The new field of synthetic biology sits in between huge promises of 21st century sustainable production of food, fuels & materials versus tinkered solutions. “We need to develop technology standards.”
Opinion please 10 mei 2012

Solar boat around the world

Solar boat around the world September 2010 a Swiss electrical engineer left Monaco to travel around the world for the first time ever with a solar boat. Last week he completed his journey.

Science 10 mei 2012

Clinical trial holmium therapy was successful

Clinical trial holmium therapy was successful Terminal liver cancer patients have received an experimental radiotherapy involving highly radioactive microspheres at the Utrecht Medical Centre. At sufficient doses, the liver tumors were eradicated while side effects proved minimal.
Science 10 mei 2012

Autonomous and wireless Smart lollipop

Autonomous and wireless Smart lollipop An invention by Mina Danesh brings the use of autonomous wireless transmitters a step closer. For her dissertation, she built an antenna incorporated into a solar cell of a small autonomous wireless system for the first time.

Proposition 10 mei 2012

Proposition - Delta 14

Proposition - Delta 14 Using UV absorbance spectroscopy to analyze the thermal hydrolysis kinetics of a UV labile compound seems impractical. ‘Multicomponent and dissipative self-assembly approaches: towards functional materials’, PhD-thesis by Job ...
Short news 10 mei 2012

Short news science - Delta 14

Inventor award Professor Biotechnology Mark van Loosdrecht and his colleagues, Merle Krista de Kreuk and Joseph Heijnen, are nominated for the European inventor award. The team is one of three nominees in the award’s research ...

Science 10 mei 2012

TU team in US fly & spy competition

TU team in US fly & spy competition Aerospace Engineering students are competing for the best autonomous flying and long-term observing robot. The UAVForge competition will be held on a hilly training site in Georgia from May 9 to 19.
The graduate 10 mei 2012

Cooking rice on rice waste

Cooking rice on rice waste The gasification cooker that IDE graduate Rob Hoebe (MSc) developed has the potential of turning the environmental burden of rice waste into productive and health-protecting fuel.

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