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Joint research of Empa and PSI

Green fuels for aviation

Feb 25, 2021 | Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the partner institute Empa have started a joint initiative called SynFuels. The goal is to develop a process for producing kerosene from renewable resources. In this way liquid fuel mixtures of the h...
Siloxene: a new Empa spin-off

The "Crispr/Cas" for the chemical industry

Feb 18, 2021 | After a successful career in research at Empa, Matthias Koebel has now ventured into the private sector and founded the start-up Siloxene. The young entrepreneur has a construction kit filled with a miracle material, a lot of know-how and – despite t...
Radioactive waste repository

Modeling eternity in the rock laboratory

Feb 16, 2021 | Cement is one of the key materials for the safe storage of radioactive waste. What is needed is an almost infinite durability of the containers. Empa researchers are therefore analyzing material systems that can handle this task.
 
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