Feb 22, 2016 | The «aura» of accelerating cars
Noise is disturbing and can be harmful to health. Empa researchers have now succeeded in simulating road noise by means of «auralisation». The aim is to make noise audible along traffic routes that are merely in the...
Feb 9, 2016 | Left-handed or right-handed?
Crystals of biominerals like the ones in bone or teeth oftentimes occur only either in a left- or right-handed form, which relate to each other like an object and its mirror image. How this “chirality” is conferred to...
Feb 8, 2016 | Clean energy from water and sunlight
Fuel cells generate electrical energy through a chemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen. To obtain clean energy, the splitting of water into its components of hydrogen and oxygen is critical. Researchers at Empa and the...
Feb 5, 2016 | ERC Grants
Generous research funding is allocated to Empa from the EU's budget. Two Empa researchers – Rolf Erni, Manager of the Electron Microscopy Center, and Josep Puigmarti, who works in the Department of Safety and Physiology...