Flow and bubble formation from pits
The most recent “pit” story, as a collaboration’s result, together with colleagues at TU Darmstad: Bubble nucleation from micro-crevices in a shear flow.
Great news! InkBeams chosen as the Best Tech-Idea by popular vote and Jury from Kijk magazine
Several news-websites replicated the great news, and the printed version of Kijk includes a two-page special report on our idea! From the Kijk magazine website. From the U-today website. From the University of Twente website. A video with an interview (in Dutch) can be seen here:
Best tech-idea of 2017 (popular vote)!
The Dutch magazine KIJK, has nominated my needle-free idea InkBeams, and the popular vote has positioned it at the top of all the selected ideas. Now a group of experts will decide what will happen … Looking forward to it!
Visiting Warsaw to kickstart collaboration
This week I will be visiting my colleague, Prof. Colmenares’s group Catalysis for Sustainable Energy Production and Environmental Protection, from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. I will be giving two lectures supported by the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland within research project Sonata Bis Nr. 2015/18/E/ST5/00306. This project is aimed […]
Bata 2017!
Here the link to this race: The Batavierenrace is the largest relay race in the world and the largest student event of the Netherlands. It is a race over 175 km from Nijmegen to Enschede, divided into 25 stages. 350 teams ( which means 8,500 students) will participate in this race. Afterwards, the biggest student […]
Spreading entrepreneurial ambitions from an academic perspective
In an interview published in the new site of Novel-T, Peter Hoekstra and I share some memories of The Startup Launch 2016. The text can be read here.
BuBble bags shown in Dutch National TV! (De Kennis van Nu).
My colleague (and professor) Michel Versluis, demonstrates how the contact lens of the TV presenter can be cleaned inside the BuBble bag! Enjoy the video here!
Getting “reproducibility” in the bag.
We can now say that “Reproducibility is in the bag”. Together with my collaborators, we came up with a suggestive title for our latest accepted paper in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry: Is reproducibility inside the bag? It is a new collaboration with colleagues from India, Finland, and the visit of an Erasmus-Portuguese student.
Plasma-Liquid Interactions: a review and roadmap, selected as Exclusive Highlight of 2016.
A paper in which I contributed, and appeared in PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, (open access) is the result of scientific discussions during a Lorentz Workshop in Leiden, The Netherlands. (more details here).
Bubbles for Health applications …
In yet another good outcome, I will be collaborating with medical doctors from Medisch Spectrum Twente, Ziekenhuisgroep Twente, Menzis and Universiteit Twente. I am very happy to get this opportunity and look for solutions that can address urgent needs of human beings! Here an item from the University of Twente news. All projects’ descriptions can be seen […]