Mission We strive to solve industry-relevant challenges for sustainable energy conversion and storage technologies through materials and device innovation.

Expertise Our laboratory possesses strong competencies in the synthesis and processing of functional electronic and ion conducting materials, the characterization of their structural, electronic, ionic and thermal transport properties, as well as their integration and performance assessment in operational devices.

Research Our research aims at developing fundamental knowledge through experiment and modeling enabling new materials and processes that improve device performance, stability, cost, and sustainability. We focus on the following application-driven topics: batteries for short-term energy storage and electrochemical fuels for long-term energy storage.

News

June 2025: We welcome Moritz and Augustin as new members of our lab.

March 2025: We welcome Alexandre, Adrian, Evamaria and Fionn as new members of our lab.

January 2025: Congratulations to Edouard for winning the 2025 Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship.

January 2025: Congratulations to Carlota for winning the 2025 Empa Young Scientist Fellowship. More information here.

January 2025: We welcome Andrea and Karin as new members of our lab.

Dezember 2024: We welcome Julia as new member of our lab.

November 2024: We welcome Claudia as new member of our lab.

October 2024: We welcome Finn as new member of our lab.

September 2024: We welcome Alan, Rohat, Lina, Clea, and Florian as new members of our lab.

August 2024: We are ready for the Swiss Battery Days 2024 and are looking forward to three days of stimulations presentations and discussions. More information here.

August 2024: Fun new video about our fantastic new battery labs in the new laboratory building on Empa TV. Watch the video here. 

July 2024: Fire proof batteries! Read the interview with Meike, who is leading our molten-salt battery research in the latest edition of the Empa Quarterly here.

June 2024: Congratulations to Alessandro and coauthors at Empa and Agilent for getting their paper on CO2 electrolysis published in Nature Catalysis. Read the article here. Press release is here.

June 2024: We welcome Carlota as new member of our lab.

Mai 2024: Our lab on national radio RTS in the science broadcast CQFD. Listen the broadcast here.

April 2024: We welcome Devin and Florian as new members of our lab.

April 2024: Our lab on national television RSI in the infotainment show Trend: l’economia di un mondo che cambia. Watch the broadcast here.

March 2024: We welcome Efe as new member of our lab.

March 2024: Congratulations to Hugo, his paper on hydroborate solid-state batteries made it on the cover page of the January issue of ACS Energy Letters and  is among to most read articles for the past month. Read the article here.

March 2024: Where batteries are not an option! Read the interview with Alessandro, who recently launched his SNF Ambizione project on CO₂ conversion. More information here.

March 2024: Our lab on national TV RTS in the 19:30 news. Watch the broadcast here.

February 2024: Our lab on national TV SRF1 in the infotainment broadcast Einstein. Watch the broadcast here.

February 2024: We welcome Graham, Michael and Talia as new members of our lab.