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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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  • Vibrant Metamaterials2025

    The conference Metamaterials2025 brought together 400 researchers from around the world to share their results and vision. Metamaterials was held at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam from September 2 – 6.

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  • Intestinal surface cells pull rather than push

    Cells on the inner surface of the intestine are replaced every few days. But, how does this work? It was always assumed that cells leave the intestinal surface because excess …

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  • June and July doctorate celebrations

    Fotios Avgidis - Criticality and Diversity in a Bacterial Sensory Network – June 6th Fotios Avgidis successfully defended his thesis ‘Criticality and diversity in a bacterial sensory network’ at Vrije …

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  • Jeroen van Zon appointed professor at Leiden University

    As of 1 September, Jeroen van Zon has been appointed professor at Leiden University. The title of his chair is Quantitative Developmental Biology. Jeroen will continue heading the research group …

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  • Light controls sound in a nanoscale ‘quantum Hall’ metamaterial

    AMOLF group leader Ewold Verhagen and his fellow researchers have taken a major step in creating new forms of materials that make sound waves behave in extraordinary ways. In their …

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  • Future Optical Broadband Systems program funds research in optical sensing technologies

    As co-applicant, AMOLF group leader Ewold Verhagen receives funding from the NWO program Future Optical Broadband Systems to break the existing technological and economic barriers in the application of optical …

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  • Bruno Ehrler appointed new director of AMOLF

    The Board of NWO-I has appointed Prof. Dr. Bruno Ehrler as the new director of AMOLF, the national institute for research on functional complex matter. Effective 1 January 2026, Ehrler …

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