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World premiere: the first HYDRO_BOT ski jacket

Get rid of sweat at the push of a button

Nov 16, 2018 | The Swiss sportswear manufacturer KJUS presented the world's first ski jacket with an integrated electronic user-controlled membrane on November 15. Thanks to the HYDRO_BOT technology developed together with Empa, the ski jacket actively pumps out sw...
Nationaler Zukunftstag 2018

Begeisterung für Forschung und Technik

Nov 12, 2018 | Am Nationalen Zukunftstag 2018 begeisterten sich rund 100 Kinder für die Forschung an der Empa. Durch die spannenden Workshops in Dübendorf und St. Gallen sollte auch das Interesse an MINT-Fächern bei den Schülerinnen und Schülern gefördert werden.
Searching for traces in the atmosphere

Tracking an ozone killer

Nov 12, 2018 | 35,000 tons of undeclared carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) are released into our atmosphere every year - although applications in which this substance is released into the environment have been officially banned by the Montreal Protocol since 2010. So whe...

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