TU/e student team Solar Team Eindhoven has reached the end point of their 1,000km test drive, from northern Morocco to the Sahara, with the world's first off-road solar car Stella Terra.

A student team from the Eindhoven University of Technology has developed the world’s first car to be structurally built from bio‐composites. On the 17th May TU/ecomotive presented their fourth concept car, Lina. The car's entire chassis, body and interior are made from bio‐based materials. Weighing just 310kg, the city car is very efficient and can seat four people. In recent years, improving efficiency has been the main focus...

Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology and Kent State University have developed a material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To this end, they clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangular frame. When illuminated it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world's first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fi...

A study demonstrates proof-of-concept for combining computational design and simulation tools with 3D printing technology to produce self-expandable polymer stents that can grow with pediatric patients, are biodegradable, and require only a minimally-invasive procedure for implantation. This innovative method is described in an article in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.

When building with molecules, it is important to understand how they stick to each other. The problem is that the methods used to measure this are an influencing factor on the process. In Nature Communications, researchers at TU Eindhoven, led by Professor Bert Meijer, present a method that excludes this influence and which can measure how fast small molecules detach from a larger molecular entity dissolved in water. What is special about th...

To produce drugs sustainably and cheaply, anywhere you want. Whether in the middle of the jungle or even on Mars. A 'mini-factory' whereby sunlight can be captured to make chemical products. Inspired by the art of nature where leaves are able to collect enough sunlight to produce food, chemical engineers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have presented such a scenario. They describe their prototype reactor - consciously shaped as a lea...

Recognising the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been working with the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven to develop a method to enable a computer to scan esophagus images for signs of esophageal cancer. With exceptional results: the computer recognises early cancer with almost as much accuracy as top specialists, of which there is only a handful. The results are published in ...

Place this thin layer of plastic in the sun and it begins to oscillate irregularly all by itself. Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the Humboldt University in Berlin present this material – the first that moves spontaneously under the influence of daylight – in the journal Nature Communications. According to the researchers, this pliable plastic is suitable as a self-cleaning surface, for example for solar...

Plants and trees soak up water in the soil by letting it vaporise through pores in the leaves. Scientists at TU/E have now taken this principle to develop a sweat sensor through which the sweat itself flows at a steady rate and is analysed. Using laser micro-manufacturing, they made minuscule structures in flexible plastic and integrated a small analytic chip. Their work overcomes an important hurdle towards the development of flexible sweat sens...

Use your computer without the need to start it up: a new type of magnetic memory makes it possible. This 'MRAM' is faster, more efficient and robust than other kinds of data storage. However, switching bits still requires too much electrical power to make large-scale application practicable. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have discovered a smart way of solving this problem by using a 'bending current'. They publish their...

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology claim that such sensors could help advance the nascent IoT industry. Increasingly tiny chips that measure temperature, light, and air pollution are being deployed around cities and in smart homes and offices. One the biggest hurdles is to make these sensors battery-free.

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and FOM Foundation have presented a very promising prototype of a solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity in the Nature Communications journal. The Gallium Phosphide (GaP) enables the solar cell to produce hydrogen gas, a clean fuel, from liquid water.