EmpaQuarterly 2024
What are the hot topics in research and technology? What is Empa’s role in all of this? How are inventions from the lab turned into innovations that succeed in the market? Empa Quarterly, our magazine for research and innovation, provides answers to these questions with interviews, portraits and exciting reports from our labs.
# 86 / December 2024 / Focus: Green Technology
Wood is the raw material of the future. It is abundant in Switzerland, is renewable and binds carbon dioxide as it grows. And it is much more versatile than you might think. Empa researchers make wood glow or produce “green electronics” from cellulose fibers, for example environmental sensors or even batteries. They are also analyzing and optimizing the use of wood in Switzerland so that we can use this natural material as sustainably and climate-effectively as possible in the future.
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# 85 / October 2024 / Focus: Technology transfer
How do innovations get out of the lab and into the wider world? There are different ways, summarized under the term technology transfer. At Empa, technology transfer takes many different forms – be it through direct industry cooperation, Innosuisse-funded projects or by founding start-ups. If these endeavours are ultimately successful, they result in innovative products and solutions that make our world a little bit better.
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# 84 / July 2024 / Focus: Open Lab Day: Experience Science
On September 14, 2024, Empa Dübendorf will open the doors of its laboratories to the public. At over 70 stations, visitors will be able to experience current Empa research live on topics such as climate change, the energy transition, human and environmental health and much more. The stories in this issue give a small taste of the variety of materials and technologies that are discovered, researched, and developed in Empa's laboratories. Hungry for more? Visit us on September 14!
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# 83 / April 2024 / Focus: Perovskites: Versatile cristals
Over 180 years ago, a curious crystal was discovered in the Ural Mountains. Today, it has given rise to an entire class of materials that is of great interest to researchers: perovskites. What all perovskites have in common is their crystal structure, which gives them unusual properties. By changing the exact composition of the perovskite, scientists can control these properties. Empa researchers are using this promising material to develop solar cells, detectors and quantum dots.
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