• Daan de Bos’s research at AMOLF awarded best physics bachelor thesis

    We are very proud to share that Daan de Bos has been awarded the SPIN Bachelor Project Award, for his research on self-learning materials with supervisor Marc Serra Garcia at …

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  • New properties discovered in promising optical materials

    Halide perovskites are being studied throughout the world as promising materials for harvesting and controlling light, due to their unique optical and electrical properties. Now, for the first time, researchers …

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  • Infomatter symposium: taking advantage of information in a system

    On Thursday, May 22nd, AMOLF organized the Infomatter Symposium to discuss exciting developments in information processing — ranging from biochemical to mechanical and optical systems. What these systems share is …

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  • Optimizing bit-by-bit operations for energy-efficient computing

    How can we make computing more energy-efficient when nature itself introduces randomness at every step? At the intersection of physics and information science, researchers from AMOLF and Imperial College London …

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  • NWO grant to make perovskites ‘sing’

    AMOLF researcher Fanny Thorimbert has received an NWO grant in the Open Competition ENW-XS call. Together with other researchers in the Nanoscale Solar Cell group — including Sarah Gillespie and …

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  • This soft robot “thinks” with its legs

    A research team from AMOLF created a soft robot that walks, hops, and swims — all without a brain, electronics, or AI. Just soft tubes, air, and some clever physics.

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  • Research shows physical networks become what they learn

    In an article published in Physical Review Letters on April 11th, theoretical physicist Menachem Stern describes his latest findings on physical learning. This is a new research field that connects …

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  • AMOLF researcher Corentin Bisot wins Van Leeuwenhoek Award

    Postdoc Corentin Bisot (Physics of Behavior) has won the Van Leeuwenhoek Award, an initiative of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie (KNVM). The award ceremony took place during the Scientific …

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  • A new mechanism for concentrating light on a chip 

    Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for numerous applications. Researchers from AMOLF, TU Delft, and Cornell University in the …

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  • Soft materials that compute: can mechanics support AI? 

    A team of researchers at AMOLF has unveiled a remarkable discovery in physical computing: a soft, flexible material that can compute - not by electronics, but through its very shape …

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