TU Delft Optical Hydrogen Sensing & Thin Film Energy Materials

We have published a new paper in Advanced Science on the Influence of Hydrogen‐Incorporation on the Bulk Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding in Palladium. This is a truly collaborative work, with scientists from Oxford University,… Read more

Ziqing won the price for best hydrogen related paper of 2025! Her paper on detecting hydrogen at low temperatures published in Advanced Functional Materials won the price: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202420087Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Into the cold with… Read more

During the TU Delft Clean Tech Conference, our PhD candidate Ilse van Ogtrop won a prize for their poster: Congratulations! The poster ‘Tantalum-Based Optical Hydrogen Sensing Materials’ by Ilse van Ogtrop and collaborators Herman Schreuders,… Read more

In our latest publication, we show how free-standing palladium nanoparticles with a size of about 5 nm embedded in a fluorinated polymer matrix can be synthesized using magnetron codeposition and a subsequent annealing step. Indeed,… Read more

Ilse van Ogtrop, PhD candidate in our group, published her first paper of her PhD. In her paper, she explains how she has successfully tailored the properties of Tantalum as hydrogen sensing material by alloying… Read more

Over the past years, we have worked towards realizing metal-hydride hydrogen sensors to temperatures as low as -60 C. This is relevant for applications in artic environments, near liquid hydrogen storage facilities and in hydrogen-powered… Read more

Lars Bannenberg (RST) receives the Waterman Prize of 2025 for ‘his groundbreaking work in sustainable technologies that improve both the environment and strengthen the economy. In recent years, he has made undeniable progress in hydrogen… Read more

We congratulate Daan Verhoeff on winning the first prize for his thesis on optical hydrogen sensors, which he wrote during his studies at Delft University of Technology. This thesis, titled ‘Towards a Practical Hydrogen Sensor;… Read more

Our new publication ‘Metal hydride hydrogen sensing materials from 28 °C to 270 °C’ was recently published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy! Check it out here! Read more

At the SXNS17 in Grenoble, Lars presented the complety renewed and upgraded neutron reflectometer at the TU Delft Reactor Institute. Compared to before, it can measure up to 30x faster owing to the installation of… Read more