Dec 18, 2018 | Federal Council elects Gian-Luca Bona to ETH Board
On 14 December 2018, the Federal Council elected Gian-Luca Bona to the ETH Board. The Empa Director will now represent the four research institutions PSI, WSL, Eawag and Empa on the ETH Board.
Dec 14, 2018 | ERC Consolidator Grant for Maksym Kovalenko
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Maksym Kovalenko an ERC Consolidator Grant 2018. His application convinced the jury to give him the opportunity to tackle an ambitious new research topic in the field of...
Dec 11, 2018 | Two Empa scientists on "Highly Cited Researcher" list
Two Empa scientists are on this year's list of "Highly Cited Researchers". The publications of Bernd Nowack and Maksym Kovalenko are among the top-1% most highly cited papers worldwide.
Dec 3, 2018 | New partnership with Imperial College London
The new "NEST Aerial Robotics Hub" of Empa and Imperial College London is all about autonomous, soft-material drones. The aim of the new cooperation is to integrate functional materials into robot technology. As...
Nov 20, 2018 | Technology Briefing at Empa in Thun
Industry representatives met at Empa's Thun campus last week to get information on the latest high-tech trends in industrial coatings. The partnership with the Hightech Zentrum Aargau strengthens the transfer of...
Nov 16, 2018 | World premiere: the first HYDRO_BOT ski jacket
The Swiss sportswear manufacturer KJUS presented the world's first ski jacket with an integrated electronic user-controlled membrane on November 15. Thanks to the HYDRO_BOT technology developed together with Empa, the...
Nov 12, 2018 | Nationaler Zukunftstag 2018
Am Nationalen Zukunftstag 2018 begeisterten sich rund 100 Kinder für die Forschung an der Empa. Durch die spannenden Workshops in Dübendorf und St. Gallen sollte auch das Interesse an MINT-Fächern bei den Schülerinnen...
Nov 12, 2018 | Searching for traces in the atmosphere
35,000 tons of undeclared carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) are released into our atmosphere every year - although applications in which this substance is released into the environment have been officially banned by the...
Nov 7, 2018 | Sandwich structure of nanocrystals as quantum light source
Excited photo-emitters can cooperate and radiate simultaneously, a phenomenon called superfluorescence. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, together with colleagues from IBM Research Zurich, have recently been able to...
Nov 5, 2018 | Swiss Aerosol Award 2018 for Maria Muñoz
This year's Swiss Aerosol Award goes to Maria Muñoz. The Empa researcher investigated the emission behavior of so-called GDI engines (gasoline-direct injection). Her results are alarming: GDI vehicles emit up to 17 times...
Nov 1, 2018 | Novel protective mask for medical personnel
Laughter is the best medicine, says medical research. But how are patients supposed to feel like smiling if the faces of the nursing staff and even their beloved ones are covered with masks? Researchers from Empa and...
Oct 29, 2018 | High-performance components made by electroplating
What happens when something keeps getting smaller and smaller? This is the type of question Empa researcher Johann Michler and his team are investigating. As a by-product of their research completely novel watch springs...
Oct 26, 2018 | 2nd Resources Forum Switzerland at Empa
On 25 October, the second edition of the Swiss Resource Forum took place at the Empa Academy in Dübendorf. The motto of this year's edition of the Forum was «Science, business and cities working together for greater...
Oct 25, 2018 | Processing titanium for pacemakers
Using laser technology Empa scientists optimized a technique to weld the electronics of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators into a titanium case. The medtech company Medtronic is now using the method worldwide to...
Oct 23, 2018 | Memory Steel
A new building material developed at Empa is about to be launched on the market: "memory-steel" can not only be used to reinforce new, but also existing concrete structures. When the material is heated (one-time),...
Oct 18, 2018 | 3D lung model
Graphene has been hailed as the material of the future. As yet, however, little is known about whether and how graphene affects our health if it gets into the body. A team of researchers from Empa and the Adolphe Merkle...
Oct 17, 2018 | The “Norman Foster Solar Award” goes to NEST
At the 28th Swiss Solar Awards Ceremony on 16 October 2018, the NEST unit "Solar Fitness & Wellness" received one of the three coveted "Norman Foster Solar Awards". The solar-powered fitness and wellness facility in the...