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High-Speed Train Research Pulls into the Station
Published Feb 02, 2012The Gröna Tåget (Green Train) study is approaching its final destination. The potential benefits of future high-speed trains presented by researchers include increased revenue for train operators, few...
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Microfluidics and Nanotech Research Aims for New Cancer Diagnostics
Published Feb 01, 2012KTH is home to a new research project in droplet microfluidics and nanowire technology, aiming to develop techniques for rapid detection of cancer cells circulating in patients’ blood. The team has se...
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A Man of Magnetism
Published Jan 30, 2012Physicist Stefano Bonetti prepares to move from KTH to Stanford on a two-year post-doctoral fellowship studying the smallest and fastest magnetic phenomena known to science.
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Better Insulation for Durable Transformers
Published Jan 30, 2012Arun Venkatamaran’s degree project on insulation for electrical transformers spans a range of fields, from computer simulations and design to construction and electrical power. Collaborating with a ch...
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Managing Distant Network Equipment with Text Messages
Published Jan 16, 2012A group of KTH students has developed an SMS-based remote management system for network devices located in inaccessible areas.
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Fighting Childhood Cancer with a Nanotech Capsule Therapy
Published Jan 13, 2012Researchers from KTH’s Microsystem Technology Lab are working with colleagues at Karolinska Hospital to develop and test a nanotechnology capsule for precise delivery of stem cell medicine. The aim is...
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KTH to Host New Smart Grids Centre
Published Jan 13, 2012KTH has been selected to anchor the new Swedish Centre for Smart Grids and Energy Storage (SweGRIDS), bringing academia together with industry and public utilities to tackle the European Union’s ambit...
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KTH Spin-off Wins Boeing Order
Published Jan 04, 2012The Swedish engineering company Novator AB, a spin-off from KTH’s Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, has landed a major order from the giant American aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
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Innovation Scholarship for Superabsorbent Polymer
Published Jan 02, 2012Two KTH researchers have won a City of Stockholm Innovation Scholarship for an eco-friendly, high-efficiency and renewable superabsorbent polymer.
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Trash-to-Energy Project in Bolivia Wins Funding
Published Dec 16, 2011KTH researchers have received the coveted “Nordic Climate Facility Grant” for a sustainability project in Bolivia that transforms domestic and industrial waste into energy.
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Improving Measurement of Elasticity in Steel
Published Dec 15, 2011It’s not easy to determine the elastic properties of steel by experimenting on single crystals. But now a KTH research team has developed new theoretical methods to bind resilience properties to the s...
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Career Report: Engineers Find Jobs Even in a Recession
Published Dec 15, 2011Despite the turbulent economy, almost every graduate of KTH Royal Institute of Technology finds a job within two years. The university’s 2011 Career Report shows that nearly 70 percent of recent grads...
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Making Molecular Energy Visible
Published Dec 14, 2011KTH researchers and their colleagues from France and Japan have found a method to reveal previously unknown details of the atomic binding process.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Visits KTH
Published Dec 12, 2011A University of California Professor, the 1997 Nobel Physics Prize winner and President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Energy paid a visit to KTH on December 8 — all in one person. Spending an afternoon ...
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Nobel Winner for Quasicrystals to Speak at KTH
Published Dec 08, 2011It’s a story of vindication: for years, Israeli researcher Dan Shechtman was ridiculed by his peers for claiming that he had discovered a new form of crystalline structure—one that conventional wisdom...
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Transport Day: Building Bridges from Research to Government & Industry
Published Dec 07, 2011The KTH Transport Day – Partner Collaboration Conference on November 30 brought together some 300 participants to build partnerships and learn how today’s transportation research aims to meet coming c...
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A Social Robot in a Fur Cap
Published Nov 30, 2011The talking robotic head Furhat will be presented by KTH researchers at the RobotVille Festival in London December 1-4.
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Swedish-Swiss Partnership in Accelerator Science
Published Nov 29, 2011KTH, Stockholm University and Uppsala University have signed an agreement with two leading Swiss research institutions covering technology development for the next generation of free-electron lasers a...
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Prizes Finance Students’ Solar Company
Published Nov 28, 2011Hjalmar Nilsonne is making good on an entrepreneurial dream — and winning prizes — with the newly established company Black Silicon Solar. All while he’s still a student at KTH.
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KTH Joins Australian Low-Carbon Research Centre
Published Nov 28, 2011The KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment has agreed to be an international partner in a new Australian research centre aimed at developing tools to reduce urban carbon emissions.
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