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AMOLF group leader Bas Overvelde and his collaborators working on the Holland Hybrid Heart project have developed a new concept for a total artificial heart with several significant advantages. This so-called LIMO Heart prototype has a fluidic transmission mechanism that enables a relatively small and efficient device. The researchers published their results in Science Advances on July 2nd.
We’re excited to announce that Megan Farrell has been awarded the Off Road grant by ZonMW to carry out innovative immunology research in the lab of Kristina Ganzinger.
The European Research Council (ERC) announced that AMOLF group leader Erik Garnett is one of the recipients of an ERC Proof of Concept grant. Erik and three other researchers at AMOLF have developed a fully optical technique to measure processes in halide perovskite semiconductors. The sum of the Proof of Concept grant is €150.000, which will be used to develop prototype instruments.
An international team of researchers with AMOLF group leader Bas Overvelde, has taken the first steps towards developing a new type of artificial heart that combines soft robotics with advanced biomaterials. This so-called ‘Hybrid Heart’ has been published in the journal Nature Communications on June 3rd.
On June 29th, former AMOLF director Frans Saris passed away. This sad news has touched many people, including AMOLF colleagues and alumni.
On June 19, AMOLF director Huib Bakker congratulated group leader Said Rodriguez on his honorable and well-deserved recognition as an Outstanding Referee. The honor comes from the American Physical Society (APS), which named Said one of its 2025 Outstanding Referees in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the peer review process in physics.
Burak Demirbas – Stress-induced protein dynamics and growth arrest in C. elegans during development – May 16thBurak Demirbas with PhD committee and his familyBurak…
An AMOLF collaboration with CWI and DIFFER has received funding from NWO-I to launch a joint project: HELIOS: AI-guided materials discovery facility for solar energy materials. On Friday, May 23rd, representatives from the three institutes gathered for the kick-off meeting to discuss the roadmap toward developing a highly efficient multilayered halide perovskite solar cell.
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 AMOLF. Organized by the Dutch National Association of Physics Students (SPIN) and the Dutch Physics Association (NNV), the award is presented at NNV’s yearly FYSICA event for the best physics bachelor thesis in the Netherlands.
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 have observed optical nonlinearity in a halide perovskite crystal under continuous laser illumination. With the discovery of these properties, published in Nature Photonics, researchers at AMOLF expand the possibilities for studies of atomic structure, electronics, and communication technologies.
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 that they do not rely on conventional computers. This is a significant advantage, given that the energy cost of computing is rising much faster than that of energy production.
On May 7th, AMOLF NanoLab hosted an Operator Day for fellow operators from the four NanoLabNL locations in the Netherlands. In the afternoon, groups from Groningen, Delft, Eindhoven, and Enschede arrived to meet their colleagues and share experiences. The program included a mix of lectures, discussions, and lab tours.