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Honor for Empa / ETH researcher

Maksym Kovalenko receives Rössler Prize

Jun 25, 2019 | Maksym Kovalenko, researcher at Empa and ETH Zurich is being recognised for his work on bright nanoparticles with this year’s Rössler Prize, which carries an endowment of 200,000 Swiss francs in research funding.
Sustainable heating and cooling technology

Cooling with the sun

Jun 25, 2019 | Can you cool with waste heat? Sure. A Swiss research project involving Empa, which ended in November, demonstrated this in an impressive way. Now a large-scale EU project is starting: industrial cooling – thanks to the Spanish sun.
New combustion process

Record efficiency for a gas engine

Jun 20, 2019 | At the end of May, the final meeting of the "Horizon 2020" project "GasOn" with the EU Commission took place in Brussels. The aim of this EU project was the further development of gas engines for cars and vans. Around 20 partners participated, includ...

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