At the HIM group, we are working on hard on designing the future! Our development of material technologies aimed at interactivity with humans and devices is a prime example of the promising innovations that merit a place at the Dutch Design Week. This design event is the largest in Europe and draws in curious visitors […]
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The HIM group is proud to announce that Jiahui Dong, a Post-Doctoral researcher within the HIM group, has been selected as the winner of the European Powder Metallurgy Association’s (EPMA) 2023 Powder Metallurgy Thesis Competition in the PhD category for her research on “Mg bone: ink extrusion-based additive manufacturing of Mg implants ”. In her
Technology is a crucial factor in the develop of a society both economically and socially. Robbert Dijkgraaf, minister of education, culture and science of the Netherlands shed light on this topic through his LinkedIn post, recognizing the potential of research groups like HIM in creating positive impact. He specifically mentioned the work of our group
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At the HIM group, we celebrate our work as artfully as we do our research! Marking the end of another year of hard work with the coming of late summer, the HIM group embarked on an artistic journey to The Hague. With full minibuses and high spirits, the HIM group visited the Escher museum in
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Demonstrating the power of HIM at the MaterialenNL conference All of the HIM family congratulates our PhD student Duygu for her presentation at the NWO Physics conference on the 4th of April. Her presentation regarding her research on the photothermal snap-through of liquid crystalline networks captivated an audience of 1450 physicists from all over Netherlands.
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Another inspiring afternoon was had at the TU/e with Dr. Danqing Liu’s presentation of her group’s recent work at the IPM colloquium. The pride of the group members in seeing their work presented to a broader audience was palpable. In fact, PhD students from Danqing’s group were seen beaming uncontrollable smiles as their work went
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History was made as Mert Astam, Dr. Danqing Liu’s PhD student, won both the public vote and jury’s prize for best pitch at the 3rd ICMS PhD publication competition. Mert’s win of the public vote was announced first by the jury and was met with modest cheering from his group. Mert’s group suspected this win
Learning by doing: it’s never too early! Read More »
“Why do I do what I do?” is an ancient and universal question humanity frequently asks itself. For the researchers at the TU/e, the answer is very clear: positive social impact. The strong motivation towards this goal was reflected in the latest meeting on the technologies for people with deafblindness, organized by prof. Astrid Kappers
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Danqing and her group were going about their daily business around the department of chemical engineering and chemistry (CE&C) until Danqing noticed a familiar face at the staircase… it was her PhD student, Dongyu! Regularly, this would not be a very special occurrence, yet what Danqing saw was not Dongyu herself, but a great testament
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The H.I.M. group congratulates PhD student Pengrong Lyu on freshly published paper on robotic pick-and-place operations in multifunctional liquid crystal elastomers! Make sure to catch all the details here. Pengrong’s work highlights the potential of liquid crystal materials in the soft robotics scene and has been shared by Advanced Sciences News themselves. In fact, Pengrong’s