Magazine for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer

What are the hot topics in research? What is Empa’s role in all this? Our magazine EmpaNews answers these questions with interviews, portraits and exciting reports from the lab. EmpaNews isn’t intended only to disseminate information, but also to make it fun to read about!

EmpaNews April 2012 (complete issue as PDF, 2 MB)
Volume 10 / Issue 36
Focus: Wood - a sustainable resource

• Heavy beams, ultra-thin fibres, bio-tuning of wood (selection of articles)
• Poster: Wood research in Switzerland
  
  further articles in this issue:
• Laser technology helps to clean diesel exhaust
• Monitoring system for bedridden persons

Videoclips to articles (in german language)

• Wood research at Empa 
• Hightech-textiles for hiking
• Engine lab for ecological drivetrains