Magazine for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer

What are the hot topics in research? What is Empa’s role in all this? EmpaNews answers these questions with penetrating interviews, portraits of researchers which bring them to life, exciting reports from the lab and surprising images from the world of science and technology. That’s because EmpaNews isn’t intended only to disseminate information, but also to make it fun to read about!

EmpaNews January 2012 (complete issue als pdf)
Volume 10 / Issue 35
Focus: Smart buildings

Videoclips and podcasts in addition to the printed articles 

• Instruments from the fungus laboratory
  - Bio-tuning for excellent sound
• Muscles made of plastic
  - Long stacked EAP actuator
• "Steam blasting" with real gold
  - Gold-plated clothes
• This way, please!
  - Plastic muscles for mobile phone cams

EmpaNews September 2011
Volume 9 / Issue 34
Focus: How to use resources efficiently

EmpaNews May 2011
Volume 9 / Issue
Focus: International Year of Chemistry

EmpaNews February 2011
Volume 9 / Issue 32
Focus: Nanotechnology and its instruments