Jul 1, 2019 | ArtSci exhibition at ETH Zurich
The beauty of scientific results sometimes only reveals itself to a circle of experts. For the "ArtSci 2019" exhibition at ETH Zurich, however, researchers made the magic of the natural sciences comprehensible to a wider...
Jun 26, 2019 | How to make hydrogen filling stations safer
Hydrogen mobility in Switzerland is picking up speed. The mobility demonstrator "move", which Empa opened in Dübendorf about three years ago with the support of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) and various...
Jun 25, 2019 | "Coeur de public" award for Empa researchers
In the first two years, the BRIDGE funding programme financed 81 projects at the interface of basic research and science-based innovation. These include the project of Empa researchers Andrea Werhli and Michael Gasser....
Jun 25, 2019 | Honor for Empa / ETH researcher
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.
Jun 25, 2019 | Sustainable heating and cooling technology
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...
Jun 20, 2019 | New combustion process
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...
Jun 18, 2019 | Portrait Gustav Nyström
The new head of Empa's Cellulose & Wood Materials lab, Gustav Nyström, has taken everyone by surprise by setting unconventional goals. However, paper batteries and nanocellulose sensors have one main objective: to help...
Jun 13, 2019 | SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition
In July, Swissloop, an association of students from ETH Zurich and other Swiss universities, will once again be competing against teams from all over the world at the Hyperloop Pod Competition in Los Angeles. At Empa,...
Jun 7, 2019 | Two Empa projects nominated
For 13 years, the "bilding" foundation has been committed to promoting the next generation of engineers in the construction industry, which also includes the Building Award for remarkable and innovative engineering...
Jun 4, 2019 | Recycling carbon dioxide from the ocean
Huge floating solar islands on the ocean that produce enough energy to enable CO2-neutral global freight traffic – what sounds like science fiction researchers from ETH Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Empa,...
May 29, 2019 | First structure made of self-curving wood
Since last week there is a unique wooden building in the Remstal near Stuttgart: a tower made of self-formed spruce boards. The method, which has been developed at Empa and ETH Zurich, uses the natural swelling and...
May 28, 2019 | X-ray detectors
Empa and G-ray team up to develop a world's first in metal 3D printing. G-ray, a Neuchatel-based start up, will provide real-time quality control during the manufacturing process.
May 27, 2019 | Insights into our interconnected energy future
Our energy system is changing: The permanent availability of energy in the right place at the right time is becoming more demanding. At the same time, digitalization offers us new tools for better controlling energy...
May 23, 2019 | «Nature» article on atmospheric pollution
Since 2013, annual emissions of the banned chlorofluorocarbon CFC-11 have increased by around 7,000 metric tons from eastern China, according to a new study by an international team of scientists including Empa...
May 21, 2019 | Predict the properties of composite materials
Can the properties of composite materials be predicted? Empa scientists have mastered this feat and thus can help achieve research objectives faster. This leads, for instance, to better recycling techniques and...
May 16, 2019 | Study in “Nature Communications Biology”
In a unique experimental setup, Swiss researchers have investigated the effect of exhaust particles from aircraft turbine engines on human lung cells. The cells reacted most strongly to particles emitted during ground...
May 13, 2019 | The risks to the environment are (still) low
Sea birds dying in agony with a belly full of plastic garbage; plastic accumulations as big as islands: Virtually everyone has seen pictures like these today. But there are also plastic particles that are barely visible...
May 9, 2019 | "Re-FREAM" combines art and science
In the planned project "Re-FREAM" designers develop new and innovative fashion concepts in cooperation with researchers from all over Europe and completely rethink processes, traditions, production methods as well as...
May 6, 2019 | Space suit prototype
In cooperation with Empa, the Austrian Space Forum (ÖFW) is developing the "Serenity" space suit - a prototype for a Mars suit. The two partners have now signed a cooperation agreement to work even more closely together...
May 2, 2019 | Unique insights into concrete
Even if concrete is not flammable, it can be hazardous in tunnel fires: high-performance concrete can explode at high temperatures. Although the phenomenon is well known, the physics behind it have not yet been fully...