MESA+ News

8 May 2013 - Bellenmatras verlaagt weerstand op vloeistofchip Onderzoekers van het onderzoeksinstituut MESA+ van de Universiteit Twente hebben met een minuscule ‘vloeistofchip’ voor het laten zien hoe kleine gasbelletjes de wrijving met een stromende vloeistof beïnvloeden.

7 May 2013 - PhD student wins prize at international conference ECCE 2013 Vic van Dijk won third prize with his poster presentation on the ninth European Congress of Chemical Engineering. For Vic‟s PhD research, he would like to functionalize the enormous internal surface of a polymeric filtration membrane.

7 May 2013 - Workshop Electronically-active Interfaces The workshop entitled “Electronically-active Interfaces" is organized for Ph.D.-students in materials research. This workshop addresses the exciting new materials science that is currently explored in the field of electronically-active interfaces.

26 Apr 2013 - 26 april vanaf 15.30 uur: Live college Nanotechnologie Waarom nano de wereld gaat veranderen? Nieuwsgierig geworden naar de rol van nanotechnologie in het dagelijks leven en wat het in de toekomst kan brengen?

25 Apr 2013 - Professor Subramaniam new director of FOM Institute AMOLF As of September 2013 Professor Vinod Subramaniam will fulfil the role of Scientific Director of the prestigious FOM Institute AMOLF.

23 Apr 2013 - Cover article in Small for membrane protein experimentation Nanotechnologists at the University of Twente MESA+ have developed a microfluidic platform for experimentation on cell membranes and individual membrane proteins.

21 Apr 2013 - 13 May: Prof. Billy Todd will visit the University of Twente On Monday May 13th, Prof. Billy Todd from the Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia, will give a presentation at the University of Twente in the inter-faculty and inter-institute M&M Computational Science Seminar series.

17 Apr 2013 - Basic science in evaporating droplets What happens if you slowly evaporate a droplet containing dissolved particles? The question sounds simple, but it involves a surprising amount of basic physics and mathematics. Hanneke Gelderblom of the University of Twente devoted a full four years of research to this problem.