Nano brush will 'smell' food freshnessA coating made of nano size hairs, a polymer brush, has many more potential applications than the current ones, according to Sissi de Beer of the University of Twente. Until now, the brushes are mainly used when immersed in liquids. Using them in air instead is promising, but there are some fundamental questions that have to be answered first. For this curiosity-driven research, De Beer receives a grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). At the same time, together with two students who are finalists of the Holland Chemistry Student Competition, she works on a first application: detecting food freshness, for avoiding waste.Read more
‘Innovative optical chip fabrication, from front to end’Optical integration on chip is awaiting a bright future. Jinfeng Mu, who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on June 7th, hopes to be part of this exciting, yet unforeseeable, road ahead. In his PhD work, performed at the Optical Sciences Group, he focused on diverse functionalities, brought together on one single optical chip. ‘Collaborating with cleanroom experts and spin-off company experts, served as a powerful tool for my research,’ Jinfeng says. ‘By gradually learning up-to-date fabrication technologies, I was able to test unprecedented optical functionalities. I combined these on a double layer chip platform.’Read more
Nano brush will 'smell' food freshness
‘Innovative optical chip fabrication, from front to end’
Boosting light-based computing
Two UT researchers backed by ERC to bring research findings to market
Mikado in a nano box
Getting a smart tattoo without using any needle
Grant for spectral unraveling of EUV lithography light sources
Nanotechnology inspired by the brain
Center for Brain-inspired Nanosystems (BRAINS) in U-today
Putting photons in jail
Vici grant for Devaraj van der Meer
START-UP grant for David Marpaung
