At the beginning of March the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) awarded Empa scientist Veronika Meyer, who retired in April 2015, the title of «Distinguished Woman in Chemistry».

The building work on the new Solar Fitness & Wellness unit is making steady progress. From August onwards, users will be able to enthusiastically indulge their sporting passions and then afterwards no less...

On 1st February 2017 a fourth Empa scientist was awarded the title of Distinguished Senior Researcher. Bernd Nowack, an environmental scientist in the institution’s Technology and Society lab, is now entitled to use this...

Des chercheurs de l'Empa à St-Gall ont développé des fibres optiques plastiques suffisamment souples pour fonctionner comme capteurs dans des textiles. Des applications sont envisagées en médecine ou dans les vêtements...

Researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin, Empa and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have, for the first time, been able to observe minute, ultrafast atomic oscillations in a crystal...

Two students are now living in the NEST unit Vision Wood. Communications intern Ramona Ronner visited Patryk Spera and David Norris in their very unusual flat, and talked to them about their life in a research...

Upon application of the ETH Board, on 22 February 2017 the Federal Council reappointed Empa CEO Gian-Luca Bona for another four year-period. His third term of office will start on 1 September 2017.

Six ans après sa première parution, la seconde édition du Swiss Cleantech Report a été présentée aujourd’hui devant la presse à Zurich. Elle met en lumière les atouts de la Suisse dans le domaine des cleantech, et...

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to make these changes; the entropy of the molecule is changed and,...

On February 2nd the EU approved Empa’s «COFUND» application for financial support to the tune of more than €3.5 million, thereby securing partial funding for 50 post-doc positions at Empa over the next five years within...

L'Empa offre en Suisse une plateforme d'information et d'échange de savoir dans le domaine de la fabrication additive: le 18 janvier des spécialistes de l'industrie et de la recherche sont venus s'informer lors d'un...

Die Empa plant in Thun ein Kompetenzzentrum für neuartige metallische Werkstoffe und Prozesse. Der Regierungsrat beantragt dem Grossen Rat des Kantons Bern eine Aufbauhilfe von 10 Mio. Franken, während die Stadt Thun das...

Bridges, houses, dams – for decades, cement has been a permanent feature of our urban environment. What is deemed a robust and lasting material, however, is actually fragile and highly complex on the inside. Barbara...

La nanotechnologie est considérée comme la technologie clé du 21e siècle. Elle fournit les bases pour réaliser des produits d'une taille de quelques nanomètres seulement de n'importe quelle forme: pour des...

Can thermal solar energy be stored until wintertime? Yes, this is possible, using a cheap material like sodium lye. Within a European research consortium Empa scientists and their colleagues have spent four years...

Bernd Nowack was recently admitted by Thomson Reuters, a provider of scientific online data-bases, to the circle of the world’s most influential scientists in the field of environmental scienc-es. The Empa researcher...