Apr 5, 2022 | Agricultural development
Empa and BASE (Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy) launched a data-science driven mobile app that aims to minimize the loss of food production and lower greenhouse gas emissions by enabling access to cooling facilities...
Mar 31, 2022 | Novel batteries for a circular economy
The research project CircuBAT aims to create a circular business model for the production, application and recycling of lithium-ion batteries used for mobility purposes. Seven Swiss research institutions and 24 companies...
Mar 29, 2022 | Smart bandage
A bandage that releases medication as soon as an infection starts in a wound could treat injuries more efficiently. Empa researchers are currently working on polymer fibers that soften as soon as the environment heats up...
Mar 24, 2022 | Engine Technology
The ComprexTM supercharger, like the turbocharger, is a Swiss invention. The Comprex uses pressure waves in direct contact of the exhaust gas with fresh air for supercharging, while a turbocharger couples two flow...
Mar 18, 2022 | ERC Consolidator Grant for Mirko Kovac
Mirko Kovac has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant from Horizon Europe, the EU's key funding program for research and innovation. Kovac, a researcher at both Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science...
Mar 18, 2022 | Equal pay in the ETH Domain
The ETH Board had the six institutions of the ETH Domain check whether women and men are paid the same for the same work. The results are encouraging: nowhere was the difference greater than 2 %. Up to 5 % is considered...
Mar 17, 2022 | Improving urban planning thanks to Superblocks
To meet the challenges in cities related to climate change and increasing urbanization, new approaches to transforming urban space are needed. One possibility are so-called Superblocks, large-scale city blocks with...
Mar 14, 2022 | Noise perception
Kurt Heutschi, a senior scientist in Empa's Acoustics / Noise Control lab, explains what noise does and why we perceive sound so differently.