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  • A lead test based on solar cell technology

    AMOLF researchers have used the special properties of perovskite semiconductors to develop a simple spray test to demonstrate the presence of lead. Perovskite is a material suitable for use in …

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  • Hot crystals through laser light

    Shells, skeletons, and bones are all made of crystals. To function properly these crystals need to grow at the right time and place. Inspired by these natural processes, AMOLF researchers …

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  • A low-tech way to create high-tech materials

    AMOLF researcher Christiaan Van Campenhout has found a new, simple method to create a material with a regular pattern of crystalline bands. The pattern formed by the crystals is not …

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  • SHINE consortium receives NWO funding to combine the best of two worlds

    A consortium consisting of AMOLF and other academic partners in the Netherlands receives funding from the NWO Research Infrastructure (RI) call for the project ‘Shining light on atomic-scale processes’ (SHINE).

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  • Regular patterns – like those found in nature – now also produced in the lab

    AMOLF researchers have found a new method for producing layered materials. Inspired by nature, they developed a physical-chemical process that yields highly regular microstructures. They describe this in a paper …

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  • ERC Consolidator grant for Wim Noorduin

    AMOLF group leader Wim Noorduin (Self-Organizing Matter) has received an ERC Consolidator grant amounting 2.4 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). In addition to being an AMOLF group …

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  • Crystals beneath a sunbed

    Light-controlled spontaneous growth of nanostructures PhD student Marloes Bistervels from the Self-Organizing Matter research group at AMOLF has managed to use light to very precisely control the formation of nanocomposites …

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  • Kristallen onder de zonnebank

    Licht stuurt de spontane groei van nanostructuren Promovendus Marloes Bistervels van de AMOLF onderzoeksgroep Self-Organizing Matter, is het gelukt om de vorming van nanocomposieten in de vorm van koralen of …

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  • Interview: ‘de kunst van zelforganisatie’

    Bij zijn aanstelling op AMOLF omschreef groepsleider Wim Noorduin zijn groeiende kristalstructuren als ‘een microlandschap om in te verdwalen’. Maar Noorduin wilde niet alleen maar verdwalen; samen met zijn onderzoekers …

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  • Painting with semiconductors

    AMOLF researchers Lukas Helmbrecht and Wim Noorduin have developed a reactive ink that can be painted on an equally reactive canvas. The ink reacts with the material on the canvas …

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