The incandescent bulb is being consigned to history, but people are not warming to energy-saving lighting. A group of researchers at DTU has found an alternative through an unusual partnership outside the research world.
PhD students Roberto Rodes Lopez and Antonio Caballero Jambrina won the first and second prize, respectively, in the best poster competition in connection with the 1st Danish Californian Workshop on Photonics Technologies, held the 28-29 of January at Stanford University.
DTU Fotonik co-arranged a large, succesful workshop in California in January
Praveen Gauravaram, DTU Mathematics, receives the Danish Independent Research Council’s Young Researcher’s Award 2009 for his research on analysis of cryptographic hash functions and protocols that use them.
In order to stay at the national and international forefront on nanofabrication DTU Danchip is awarded funds for the acquisition of a state of the art Electron Beam Lithography tool.
Since an exchange agreement was made last spring between DTU and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the oldest technical university in the USA, the number of students going to the USA on exchange trips is up, as is the number of RPI students coming to DTU.
PhD Course: Space-borne and ground based geodetic techniques for hydrology:
March 1-5, 2010 at DTU Environment.
The Innovation Consortium PROTEUS (PROduct/service-system Tools for Ensuring User-oriented Services) has received a grant of DKK 8.5 million
More efficient administration could give the EU more research for its money. This was the message from President Lars Pallesen during a hearing in the European Parliament.
Matteo Danieli was awarded the Henning Bach Award for Best Poster
HTF funding provides new possibilities with optical fibers
Jesper Glückstad new Fellow of OSA
Best bachelor graduation work in Opto-electronics
PhD position in Centre for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry
Dioxygen activating cobalt complexes applied in catalysis
Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe is the first DTU researcher to receive a sought-after grant from the European Research Council
The winner of this year’s Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award is Prof. Jens Nørskov for his ground-breaking theoretical work in the field of catalysis. Nørskov and co-workers use computational methods to screen for new catalysts that could provide an increase in catalysis activity and selectivity.
From January, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) will make it possible for the entire population to follow the latest technological developments and research results. DTU is involved.
The Danish Council for Strategic Research has granted DKK 22 millions to a strategic research alliance on enabling and governing transitions to a low carbon society.
A biotechnology student in his third semester has decided to create sustainable beer production that may become an interdisciplinary project for the entire DTU in the long term
Three new pieces of ICP Etching equipment are to be installed inside DTU Danchip clean room by mid January, 2010.
Associate Professor Anders Baun from DTU Environment is the University’s very first recipient of the PhD Supervisor of the Year Award. DTU Avisen asked the associate professor what makes a good supervisor.
A student exchange agreement fell into place in October when DTU hosted a visit by South Korea’s leading technical university, KAIST. In the new year, the two universities intend to expand their collaboration with more agreements.
The COWIfoundation has donated a grant for new testing equipment
The ground floor hallway in building 343 is - temporarily - filled with stacks of books. DTU Fotonik's new book has just been delivered from the printer.
Beyond optical horizons - Today and tomorrow with photonics soars a quarter of a century into the future on the wings of imagination as well as scientific expertise.
The research groups of DTU Fotonik each present a vision of what their work might bring to our common future. The visions are substantiated with factual descriptions of the current fields of research.
The future may look like these visions, but it may also go in a different direction.
A team of DTU students recently returned home from MIT with a gold medal for designing a living cell factory that lights up green when it is ready to start production
In future, it will be possible to quickly analyse DNA from pathogenic bacteria via an online so-lution which at same time collects and shows information on species, strains and antimicrobial resistance on web-based world maps. This can contribute to reduce and prevent the global spread of contagious diseases. These are among the perspectives behind the Centre for Molecu-lar Epidemiology which can now be established at Technical University of Denmark thanks to the granting of DKK 36 million in funding from the Danish Council for Strategic Research and a promise of an additional DKK 25 million from project partners.
The information society has come one step closer to a technological generational change after a discovery at DTU Photonics. In the long term, the discovery could help us communicate with each other at higher speeds.
Researchers and students of the Department of Civil Engineering managed to excite one of the two twin towers of the European Court of Justice Tower in Luxembourg to a level of approximately 3 mille-g acceleration . The test is the core of a MSc project of DTU Byg
DTU receives DKK 3,8 mil.from the Proof-of-Concept Fund
An international collaboration, with both Thomas Frederiksen, a former PhD at DTU Nanotech, and Associate Professor Mads Brandbyge from DTU Nanotech results in a new understanding of electrical current on the Nanometer Scale.
DTU Nanotech was well represented at SBR2009
PhD Course: Space-borne and ground based geodetic techniques for hydrology:
March 1-5, 2010 at DTU Environment.
In August 2009 Dr. Michael Frenkel from the NIST/TRC, co-developer of the ground-breaking software ThermoData Engine (TDE), visited DTU Chemical Engineering and gave the seminar ‘Global Information Systems: Application to the Field of Thermodynamics’. In an interview after the seminar, Dr. Frenkel outlined the specifics of the ThermoData Engine and explained why it has unique capabilities for bringing collection, validation, evaluation, and distribution of the scientific data to new levels.
Fredrik Persson a former PhD student from DTU Nanotech (now a postdoc at Chalmers) receives the “Direktør Peter Gorm-Petersens Mindelegat”.
DTU Danchip, National Center of Micro- and Nanofabrication, attracts another international company to its state-of-the-art facilities.
Researchers from the Network Technology and Service Platform group presented a one and a half hour tutorial on reliable future networks at the prestigious conference DRCN (Design of reliable Communication Networks) in Washington D.C..
Dedication and success through many years - always characterized by caring, experience, good judgement, vision, kindness and politeness - has now given Palle Jeppesen the Order of the Dannebrog.
South Korea’s leading technical university, KAIST, has shown a keen interest in DTU and visited the university in Lyngby, north of Copenhagen, on Monday 26 October.
In November Professor Howard A. Stone from Princeton University in the USA will be visiting DTU to give this autumn’s Ørsted Lecture.
Campus life in Lyngby just got better. Seven days a week, from 08:00 to 22.00, døgnNetto opens its doors to students, supplying them with a range of staple convenience goods.
Cameras on Danish commercial fishing vessels can reduce fish discards, thus paving the way for more sustainable fishing. This is borne out by a pilot project at DTU Aqua which has generated considerable international interest.
John Woodley, Professor at KT since 2007, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Royal Academy of Engineering is the UK's National Academy of Engineering and brings together the UK's most distinguished engineers from all disciples. John is one of a small number of engineers elected, who are no longer resident in the UK. There are in total 1381 current Fellows.
On september 23. Professor Wolfgang Arlt from the department of Separation Science & Technology at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg held the seminar 'Thermodynamics needed in climate protection' as part of the departmental seminar series at DTU Chemical Engineering.
The High-Speed Optical Communications group breaks the world record in data transmission. Again.
DTU Fotonik has broken the record in the amount of data that can be transmitted by a single laser. It is a record in serial transmission.
New Honors student tutored by Morten Bache
DTU Fotonik seeks qualified candidates for a number of vacant PhD positions.
The first batch of students doing Denmark’s only elite study programme in mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have just begun their studies.
Experts from eight DTU departments join forces in the new research initiative CASE – Catalysis for Sustainable Energy. CASE aims to design catalysts for the future storage of energy from renewable sources.
Scientist from the EU-funded EELIAD project has by attaching pop up satellite tags (PSAT) to eels, revealed the first stage of the European eels mysterious migration to the Sargasso Sea. The results are published this week in Science.
DTU Civil engineering is hosting a Workshop in Sustainable Buildings Monday 28th - Tuesday 29th September, as part of The Graduate School in Sustainable Energy.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has expressed interest in an instrument from Risø DTU that may prove useful in explorations of the red planet.
Antonio Caballero (1st year PhD student), Darko Zibar, and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy have produced a paper that has been accepted as a postdeadline contribution at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) being held in Vienna, Austria, on September 20 – 24, 2009.
DTU updated its visual identity last year and introduced a colorful frieze of numbers and symbols as part of DTU’s image to the outside world. The frieze is a decorative element that reflects a flow of thoughts, ideas and solutions and therefore illustrates the creativity and innovation that characterize DTU.
COMS2009 was the 14th annual conference on commercializing micro- and nanotechnology with speakers and guests from around the world.
The next breakthrough in drug research could come from an ancient Chinese recipe.
A team of researchers at DTU Photonics Engineering has set the world record in laser efficiency with a green laser diode that is green in more ways than one.
Associate Professor Peter Bøggild was rewarded with the prestigious Danish award called AEG Elektronprisen 2009 for his unique work within Nanointegration.
It is with great pleasure we can welcome Alan Friis as new Deputy Director at DTU Nanotech
As one of two women at DTU, Associate Professor Beata Kardynal of DTU Fotonik is a recipient of a research grant (more than 4 million kroner) from The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
The latest issue of Science features a report by - among others - Jørn M. Hvam and Mike van der Poel.
Paper by the 2008 CAMD Summer School in Electronic Structure Theory and Materials Design on the cover of the Journal of Chemical Physics 131, Issue 1.
Professor Sten Bay Jørgensens retirement from DTU ultimo June 2009 was marked by an honorary seminar where colleagues, industrial partners, peers, friends and current and former students paid homage to a highly esteemed scientist and teacher.
The workshop, titled 'Combustion, Carbon Capture and Storage', took place at DTU on May 28 2009 and was organized for specially invited experts from academia, governmental organizations and related industries. The workshop was part of a series of thematic workshops held by DTU in preparation for DTU's climate conference on September 17 and the climate conference – COP15 – due to be held in Copenhagen in December. At the workshop combustion and CCS-technologies were presented as seen from both technical, economic, political and environmental perspectives and the outlook was discussed in a subsequent panel discussion, which will form the basis for a recommendation concerning combustion technologies in future power plants, industrial plants and ships.
DTU Fotonik scientists were granted funding on a whopping 22 % of their applications in the spring application round this year.
At DTU, around one in every eight students is from abroad, which is the highest proportion in Denmark and far above the national average for universities. The Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation and the Confederation of Danish Industry are very pleased, but they also stress the importance of sending Danish students abroad
Research in hyperspectral image analysis for food inspection.
The first Collective Meeting of Nordic Physics Associations is held at DTU
The Wind Energy Division at Risø DTU receives DKK 25 million for a new national research infrastructure
The US Department of Energy has granted DKK 100 million to a new research centre in which researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will be participating. The Danish researchers will be contributing to the development of new renewable energy technologies in collaboration with Stanford University in California
Professor Mogens Henze, Director of DTU Environment, has been appointed Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Malaysia
Application deadline August 15, 2009
Modern chemical engineering was founded at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA. In April, Professor Ole Hassager from DTU Chemical Engineering, was invited to give the prestigious Bird/Stewart/Lightfoot Lecture
DTU Fotonik's Birgitte Thestrup and Carsten Dam Hansen are part of the group that has received this year’s Elforsk Pris. The prize was given for a project that promises better and more energy efficient lighting for our streets and parks.
Besides DTU Fotonik the project is run by several firms and Albertslund Kommune.
DTU Danchip offers access to the new critical point dryer
DTU Danchip dedicate LPCVD Nitride Furnace for stoichiometric nitride deposition
Students from DTU Civil Engineering and the Arctic Technology Centre – ARTEK have developed transportable, environmentally friendly tourist cottages for the Arctic regions
The technology behind DTU’s combined heat and power plant on Nordvej in Lyngby is so promising that Energinet.dk has granted funding for a similar but much larger plant at the Hadsund district heating plant.
The DTU team FLSmidth Roadrunners and their eco-vehicles the Dynamo and the Innovator performed impressively at the unofficial world championships in fuel economy, the Shell Eco-marathon.
The team brought home two first places and a new world record
The US Department of Energy has granted DKK 100 million to a new research centre in which researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will be participating. The Danish researchers will be contributing to the development of new renewable energy technologies in collaboration with Stanford University in California.
40 years ago, Jesper Mygind was appointed to DTU Physics.
Speed breaker receives 30.000 kroner
DTU Danchip participated at the Sensor and Delivery Systems Seminar
May 6th saw another NanoDay with approx. 300 researchers and PhD students in attendance.
On May 20th we celebrate that Søren Hjort and Erik Hansen have both been employed in the public sector for 25 years.
ITMAN - DTU Informatics Graduate School ITMAN, announces two PhD scholarships within planning and evaluation of radio-therapeutic treatment of head-and-neck cancer using PET/CT scanning in co-operation with Copenhagen University Hospital, Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) at Hvidovre Hospital and the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. Submission deadline: May 15, 2009.
The High-Speed Optical Communications group has again broken a world record. This time it was the world record in data transfer speed of pure serial binary data. They have broken the “terabit barrier” and achieved a transfer speed of 1.28 terabit per second (or 1.280 gigabits per second corresponding to 1.280.000.000.000 bits).
PhD student Anders Dohn Hansen from DTU Management Engineering has together with Esben Kolind been awarded a prize for best thesis in the years 2006/2007.
Two papers written by Saeema Ahmed and Sofiane Achiche from DTU Management Engineering were together with three other papers selected for the ICoRD09 International Conference of Research in Design to be mentioned for best quality and maturity.
The university’s international employees can get help to understand the Danish culture on a course entitled ’Meeting Denmark’
DTU wants up to 500 foreign students a year to attend the university’s two-year international MSc programs
Polyteknisk Forening (PF) – the students’ union – wants to help its international fellow students enjoy staying in Denmark
The DKK 120 million that DTU recently received from the Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation will go towards establishing a new research initiative, CASE (Catalysis for Sustainable Energy), which will solidify Denmark’s leading role within the development of sustainable energy solutions. As per March 1st, 2009 Søren Dahl joins the new center as Deputy Director with responsibility for the overall coordination of the four project areas.
DTU has been nominated number five on the respected and scientific Leiden Ranking of the 100 largest European universities.
Professor Rafiqul Gani, DTU Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Computers & Chemical Engineering (CACE) since January 1st, 2009.
The Center for Arctic Technology is investigating whether Greenlandic sharks can be a useful resource for biogasification in the future.
Professor Jens Kehlet Nørskov receives the award in recognition of his groundbreaking research in surface reactivity and heterogeneous catalysis.
The Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander has just given DKK 120 million to researchers at the Technical University of Denmark. The money will go towards finding new ways of harnessing the power of the sun and the wind. Headed by Professor Jens Kehlet Nørskov the new research center will solidify Denmark’s leading role within the development of sustainable energy solutions.
For the last 40 years, Professor Jørn Hvam has contributed to research, education and innovation within the fields of semicondutors and optics. It is largely due to him that DTU has long maintained a leading position in ultra-fast dynamics in semiconductors.
Three researchers from DTU Management Engineering, section for Safety, Reliability and Human Factors participate in an EU project together with Risø DTU. The project is titled ”Blastworthy textile-based luggage containers for aviation safety” (FLY-BAG).
Every autumn, the Departmant of Management Engineering offers a course in interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and after the end of the course McKinsey & Company awards the three best business plans from the course with DKK 10,000, 5,000 and 3,000 respectively.
This year, associate professor Morten Bache from DTU Fotonik was among the receivers of the prestigious “Young Researchers Award”. It was handed out by The Danish Councils for Independent Research (DFF) on January 29, 2009. The award is given to highly talented young researchers (below the age of 35) who have submitted proposals to one of the scientific research councils under DFF.
A new climate observatory is to be mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station. The observatory will study phenomena that may influence the Earth’s climate, e.g. the lighting that shoots up vertically from the clouds to heights of 80 km.
GMC is based on the largest Strategic and Management Competition in the world, where university students from all over the world in groups compete for developing the most successful virtual company by making decisions within areas of sales, production, product development, investments, economics and human resources.
Realdania has granted 3.1 million to a three-year research project between DTU Management Engineering and the Benchmark Centre for the Danish Construction Sector.
Associate Professor Claus Helix Nielsen joins Nobel Laureates in Stockholm.
DTU’s National Food Institute in Mørkhøj is heading a major EU research project entitled Biotracer. The project is developing new methods for tracing pathogenic microorganisms in food and feed products.
Excessive vibrations on long footbridges induced by human movements are a major problem. Researchers from the Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Sheffield are developing a stochastic model, which can predict vibrations in a certain project.
Attitudes to driving under the influence are as frosty as a winter’s day according to most motorists in the Department of Transport’s comprehensive survey of the correlation between road accidents and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
How do we ensure a stable energy supply while taking climate issues into account? In the new Risø Energy Report 7, leading experts from both DTU and abroad have put together a number of recommendations.
The Italian researcher Guido Tosello's PhD project was chosen as the best of the year. The research was carried out at DTU Mechanical Engineering and involved studies of the production of micro components of plastic, called polymers.
In a new research project researchers aim to find more efficient methods for generating extremely short femtosecond laser pulses in the important visible and near-infrared regimes. These pulses can today only be generated in research laboratories with bulky, fickle state-of-the-art lasers operating complex setups. A simpler and more efficient method is needed in order for these pulses to be used in the industry and for medical purposes. Of possible applications are ultra-fast spectroscopy of molecular vibrations and non-invasive surgery on living cells.
Does a cell sense that it is alive? Does a cat? A new DTU course will be helping students answer such questions
Lars Kai Hansen and Tobias Andersen, ISP, have received DKK 200,000 from ”Direktør Dr.Techn. A. N. Neergaard og Hustrus Fond” for EEG equipment.
Results of DTU Nanotech and DTU Fotonik collaboration featured on the cover of the APL December 8 issue.
DTU has established an elite programme within the context of the Master in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Both excellent international and Danish students who fulfil the admission requirements are encouraged to apply.
DTU Rector, Lars Pallesen, is currently on tour, presenting the University's new strategy to all employees. In December, he will be presenting the strategy in English.
On the 25th and 26th of November 2008 the DIODE group at DTU Fotonik held a two-day LED industrial course in Oticonsalen at DTU. Around 80 people from Danish lighting companies, electronics suppliers, engineers and designers participated in the course.
A Fiber Laser team at DTU Fotonik has this year published a paper:
J.T.Kristensen, A.Houmann, X.Liu, and D.Turchinovich
Low-loss polarization-maintaining fusion splicing of single-mode fibers and hollow-core
photonic crystal fibers, relevant for monolithic fiber laser pulse compression Optics Express16, 9986 (2008)
DTU Informatics has received the final decision on the bachelor programme in technical sciences, software technology.
The symposium celebrated the 150-year anniversary of Helmholtz’s seminal paper on vortex dynamics.
The PH lamps are designer classics which will light our homes for many years to come. But when you calculate their output in terms of energy and lighting, the PH lamps are about to be surpassed by new designer lamps based on diode lights.
IT and Telecom companies to kick-start research project to drive cost efficient WDM PON technology and the European Commission funds the new project with Euro 3 million.
Professor Anne S. Meyer advises young women researchers to just do it, as you can easily combine a normal life with a research career. She received this year's Grundfos Award
First Scandinavian OSA Student Chapter established by
DTU Fotonik and DTU Physics.
At the Open House event, DTU Informatics was represented by staff and students from Software technology, IT & Health and MatTek.
On October 1st, professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail gave a lecture on 4D visualization of chemical reactions at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Zewail is known as a pioneer within femtochemistry and received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1999 for his research in the field
Doctors and researchers hope to use new fiber lasers to develop an effective and easily accessible treatment for cataracts
Together with eight collaborators from six different countries, the section for Safety, Reliability and Human Factors has had an application of almost DKK 30 millions approved by the EU Commission.
Ulrik Lund Andersen and Mikael Lassen are part of the team behind a new publication in Nature Physics.
The article was released on November 2nd 2008. Access the article through this link.
The OPNET 2008 Best Technical Paper Award goes to Network Technology and Service Platforms researchers.
The first DTU Fotonik Travelling Summer School took place in Colombia in August this year. It will not be the last Travelling Summer School.
There are no scalpels needed in the new cataracts treatment, that DTU Fotonik has been part of developing.
A group of DTU Fotonik Students: Mads Lykke Andersen, Per Lunnemann Hansen, Alexander Huck, Martin Schubert and Stephan Smolka have managed to establish the first Scandinavian OSA Student Chapter.
101-Databar now has 60 computers each with two screens on the first floor.
The first DTU Fotonik Travelling Summer School will take place in Colombia in August this year. The summer school will be hosted by the Faculty of Telecommunications and Computer Sciences of the
Pontificia Bolivariana University of Colombia in Medellin, Colombia.
In a new project at DTU and the University of Copenhagen, scientists will attempt to attain control over the smallest particles of light – photons. The supercomputers of the future as well as unbreakable codes are some of the possible end results of this undertaking.
DTU Fotonik has undergone extensive changes this year. There are now 17 research groups, which are arranged into 4 clusters. The previous five Research Areas of COM•DTU, Nanophotonics, Networks, Systems, Coding, and Fibers and Nonlinear Optics no longer exist. Research at DTU Fotonik now takes place in the following clusters and groups:
Fiber optical measuring systems make it possible to measure sound and vibrations with great accuracy. The Danish High technology Foundation grants 14 million kroner for research into optical measurement
DTU Fotonik has just installed a new high-power femtosecond laser. It is the most intense laser in Denmark
New Center of Excellence under the leadership of Jesper Mørk of DTU Fotonik
On Thursday January 24, associate professor Ulrik Lund Andersen received a Young Elite Researcher Award of DKK 200,000 from the Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation for his work in fundamental quantum physics.
Both the students and teachers must know the rules for cheating in academic assignments. The Inspiration Seminar at LearningLab DTU focused on the problem of cheating
In these days (16th and 17th of January) the Networks and Systems Areas participate in the ALPHA kick-off meeting. ALPHA is a new European ICT project, which focuses on new services for the home users, the access network and in-house cabling. Some of the technologies in question are plastic fibres, radio over fibre, integration of wireless access and fibre access. In addition, easy configurable and self-configurable management of the home access network is very important and part of the project objectives.
On December 4, Professor Emeritus Peter Leth Christiansen received an honourary doctorate from the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kiev, Ukraine.
The first ever International GPAW Code Sprint was held on November 16, 2007 at the Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD).
The Physics Teachers' Day on November 15 was a great success - as usual! Link to pictures.
Erik Mosekilde has co-edited the new release: 'Biosimulation in Drug Development' from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Read
more.
The Grundfos Award 2007 was given to Jens Kehlet Nørskov of the Department of Physics at DTU on September 24 for his groundbreaking research within nano materials.
List of seminars in the Physics Seminar Series in the fall of 2007.
Paper by three COM-DTU Networks researchers awarded with travel grant at ChinaCom 2007. ChinaCom is being positioned as a premier international conference in the field of communication, networks and internet applications.
On June 8th CAMD and CINF hosted a symposium to celebrate Jens Nørskov and Ib Chorkendorff's 20 short years at DTU...
The director of the
The Lundbeck Foundation’s Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design and of
NanoDTU Professor Jens K. Nørskov has received the Mulliken Medal at the University of Chicago.
Steen Christensen, PhD student from the Center CAPEC at the Department of Chemical Engineering (KT) at DTU, has won "The Third Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge" in the category 'State Conditions Transferability'.
Researchers at CAMD and at CINF have employed computational combinatorial screening to investigate new materials for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. The screening was confirmed experimentally by synthesis and characterization of a promising candidate material, a BiPt surface alloy.
The Department of Civil Engineering (BYG•DTU) has strengthened its research and education with the employment of two new associated professors to match the growing importance of wood in the construction industry.
During her visit to DTU on September 25, the Chinese Vice Prime Minister Chen Zhili found time to visit building 312
Researchers at CAMP have developed a first principles method to predict the activity of alloys for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.The method accurately reproduces trends in experimental activities for a series of platinum-based alloys.
Friday the 28’th of april Professor Klavs Flemming Jensen from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was conferred the honorary degree “doctor technices honoris causa” at DTU. John VIlladsen who was Professor Jensen’s supervisor when he was a student at KT in the 70’ies gave the speech at the conferral which took place at the official part of the DTU annual celebration.
A. P. Møller Foundation donates 100 million Danish Kroners to Danish nano research