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  • September and October doctorate celebrations

    Katharina Till - Cotranslational Folding and Assembly at the Single-Molecule Level – September 18  During her doctoral research in the Biophysics group of Sander Tans, Katharina studied the dynamics of protein folding and the …

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  • Soft robots that remember

    Alberto Comoretto and his colleagues in the Soft Robotic Matter group at AMOLF have created soft robots that can remember past events - without using computers or electronics. Instead, their …

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  • AMOLF opens its doors to the public for Wetenschapsdag

    What a wonderful Wetenschapsdag we have had on October 4th! The visitors were enthusiastic and eager to take part in lab tours, workshops, and other activities. Many were returning guests, …

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  • AMOLF-ARCNL PhD collaboration brings to light new nanostructure metrology technique

    The joint PhD program between AMOLF and ARCNL continues to prove its strength in combining fundamental physics with industrial relevance. Falco Bijloo’s research, recently published in ACS Nano, showcases the …

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  • New algorithm improves ability to track movements of cells in organs

    Frustrated by the time cost of manually checking cell tracking data, AMOLF PhD student Max Betjes developed an algorithm to more efficient cell-tracking analysis. He validated this automated analysis on …

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  • New breakthrough in measuring information flow

    We are proud to share that AMOLF researchers have published a new paper in Physical Review Letters, entitled “Exact Computation of Transfer Entropy with Path Weight Sampling.” The study presents …

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  • Water molecules under control: AMOLF researchers open new path to sustainable industrial chemistry

    Researchers at AMOLF have demonstrated vibrational strong coupling in water layers only a few nanometers thick at metal surfaces. The study, published in Advanced Optical Materials and led by group …

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  • Tiny thermometers: measuring heat flow dissipating via nanoparticles

    How do materials behave when heated with light at the scale of billionths of a meter? Researchers at AMOLF and Kobe University have developed a method to watch this process …

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  • Cathodoluminescence research advances measurements of light matter interactions

    Researchers in the Photonic Materials group have published their latest findings using cathodoluminescence techniques to measure free electrons moving along a metal surface. The paper ‘Angle-resolved cathodoluminescence interferometry of plasmonic …

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  • One rulebook to fold all proteins

    Inside living cells, ribosomes produce roughly five hundred brand-new protein chains every second, and each one must fold into the right 3D shape - or risk disease. New research shows …

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