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Environmental taxes make companies invest in research
Christian Thomann, associate professor and one of the researchers behind the study. Published Oct 24, 2022Companies with emissions affected by environmental taxes invest more in research and development. This is shown in a new international study by two Indek researchers.
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Royal visit at SciLifeLab
The King and Queen of the Netherlands, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Maxima, and The King and Queen of Sweden, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia visiting the national research infrastructure SciLifeLab. Charlotte Stadler, SciLifeLab/KTH is Head of the National Spatial Proteomics Facility and presented the facility together with Tony Ullman, research engineer. Photo: SciLifeLab Published Oct 19, 2022On 12 October, the Swedish Royal couple visited the national research infrastructure SciLifeLab together with the King and Queen of the Netherlands, to learn more about technologies to study cells and...
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Researchers can help cut down global data center power consumption
Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology Published Oct 17, 2022Researchers have discovered a way to reduce power consumption in data centres significantly. They offload computation by converting particular types of commodity Network Interface Cards into processor...
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”That he alone receives the prize shows his greatness”
Peter Savolainen. Photo: KTH Published Oct 05, 2022Peter Savolainen, Head of the department Gene Technology, did his postdoc in Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo’s lab at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. Here, he remembers his time there and comm...
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Grand slam at Grand Prix for KTH researchers
Tomas Rosén won first place in the Researcher's Grand Prix in Stockholm. Photo: Vetenskapens hus Published Oct 05, 2022It went well for KTH in the Researcher’s Grand Prix in Stockholm – robotics researcher Sanne van Waveren came in second place and Tomas Rosén from Fibre processes claimed victory. ”Now, it feels very...
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Awarded doctoral student studies biofuels from inedible crops
Teun Kuil, doctoral student at the department Industrial Biotechnology, has been awarded for his abstract and presentation. Photo: Jon Lindhe. Published Oct 04, 2022Teun Kuil, doctoral student at the department Industrial Biotechnology, has received the 2022 ESBES award for the combination of best abstract and presentation. “It was a big surprise and I feel hono...
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They want to help robots collaborate
Published Sep 28, 2022Imagine that you are riding in a self-driving car in a city. Out of sight, someone gets off a bus and starts walking out into the street. Your car can only react to what it can see, which means that y...
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Algae waste to become food and cosmetics in circular EU project
Amparo Jimenez Quero, researcher at the Division of Glycoscience at KTH. Published Sep 28, 2022Each year, large amounts of macro and microalgae are produced over the world, but the waste from the production is discarded and not made use of. A new EU project coordinated by KTH aims at finding wa...
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A “power bank” for renewables
Foto: Kyoto Group - Heatcube Published Sep 28, 2022Imagine a factory with a giant "power bank" charged with renewable energy when the availability is good and electricity prices low. To be discharged as heat when sun and wind are scarce and prices hig...
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A toolbox for the 4th Industrial Revolution
Emmanuel Francalanza from University of Malta, Project manager for Icarus, explains and demonstrates the Mobile Training Unit which has been developed within the Icarus project. Published Sep 20, 2022Digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) etc, provide new opportunities for the manufacturing industry. But the industry often lacks skills and knowledge whe...
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Loop of energy can save costs in industry
The 3D printed heat exchanger prototype Published Sep 08, 2022KTH researchers from different disciplines join forces to create a sustainable loop from electricity to waste heat, and back to electricity. This saves operating costs for energy-intensive industries ...
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From implantable medical devices to spintronics-based systems
Published Aug 10, 2022The use of new implantable medical sensors in the body requires new ways of supplying them with energy. Ana Rusu’s group develops smart and energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems towards min...
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New catalyst can provide cheaper and more efficient production of hydrogen
Hao Yang and Mårten Ahlquist. Photo: Sabina Fabrizi and Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Jun 22, 2022Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have participated in developing a new, very effective catalyst for the oxidation of water into oxygen and hydrogen. The results, which have recently be...
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New Horizon Europe project aims at reducing emissions from the agricultural sector
Assistant Professor Shareq Mohd Nazir. Photo: Åsa Karsberg: KTH Published Jun 15, 2022Researchers at the Department of Chemical Engineering are collaborating with other European partners to develop and implement technologies that could significantly reduce emissions of methane and nitr...
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KTH researchers behind breakthrough set to halve data centre energy consumption
Published Jun 14, 2022Researchers at KTH have found a way to improve the efficiency of the world’s internet servers. By co-ordinating data traffic, they have succeeded in increasing the speed of computations and data trans...
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Energy research helps boost heat pumps in the U.S.
Nelson Sommerfeldt is a small-town kid working as a researcher in exotic Stockholm. Published Jun 07, 2022Researcher Nelson Sommerfeldt is spreading the impact of Swedish energy research. With the U.S. University Michigan Tech, KTH now helps decarbonize home heating on a new continent.
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"Double-layer geodesic and gradient-index lenses"
Published Jun 02, 2022We met up with Professor Oscar Quevedo-Teruel and Dr Qiao Chen to congratulate their recent work,"Double-layer geodesic and gradient-index lenses" recently published in Nature Communications.
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Adjustable visors with 4D printing method
Researchers at KTH suggest a new post-processing method for visors, enabled by closed-loop controlled 4D printing that further can shape the printed visor to any size. Published May 17, 20223D printed protective visors are often uncomfortable for the user. With a new printing method – closed loop controlled 4D printing – the visors can be shaped to any customized size to make them more c...
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Unexpected bonds between covid and inorganic surfaces
Quantum mechanical modeling predicts strong interactions between glucosides of the tip of the S1 subunit of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and inorganic surfaces. These interactions depend largely on the type of surface and on the presence of surface bound water. Published May 04, 2022By using quantum mechanical modeling KTH has revealed how the covid virus interacts with inorganic surfaces. And the virus reacts a little bit different than expected.
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Knots that can solve the problems of the future
Fredrik Schaufelberger. Photo: Åsa Karsberg, KTH Published Apr 21, 2022A new type of molecular knot that forms weaves recently led to a publication in the scientific journal Science. ”It was a satisfying aesthetic form. This type of knot exists everywhere in celtic myth...
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