Boost for high-performance ceramics: Empa researchers to enhance ceramic materials properties e.g. for medicine, mechanical engineering, electronics. Supported by Swiss National Science Foundation.
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#ceramics #snsf
Safe and Sustainable by Design (#SSbD): Empa researchers show why safe and sustainable #innovation pays off for companies – and how SSbD helps identify risks early and avoid costly missteps.
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GEMS simulates geochemical time travel in seconds. A new consortium comprising PSI, ETHZ, Empa, the University of Bern, EPFL and Nagra is safeguarding the future of this unique PSI software platform. @nagra.bsky.social @unibe.ch @ethz.ch @empa-materials.bsky.social
🚨Early detection of micro blood clots could save lives. Empa researchers are mapping the composition of tiny blood clots linked to #stroke and other complications. Open-source model aims to make early detection and risk assessment available to everyone.
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Von Schutzbekleidung über schwer entflammbare Holzwerkstoffe bis zur hitzeresistenten FireDrone: Die Empa entwickelt flammhemmende und nicht brennbare Materialien für mehr Sicherheit in Gebäuden, Mobilität und Einsatzsituationen. 🔗 www.empa.ch/web/s604/brandschutz-for...
From protective gear and wood‑based fire‑retardant materials to the heat‑resistant FireDrone: Empa is advancing flame‑retardant and fireproof materials for safer buildings, mobility and emergency response. 🔗www.empa.ch/web/s604/brandschutz-for...
Wie entstehen nachhaltige Lösungen für die Bauwirtschaft?
Im NEST-Podcast diskutieren Peter Richner und Holger Wallbaum, Prof. für nachhaltiges Bauen an der Chalmers University, aktuelle Ansätze und Herausforderungen in Schweden.
Die ganze Folge hier: https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast
Empa researcher Alessia Cesarini has been awarded the Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship 2026. She’s developing climate‑friendly gasoline compatible with today’s engines and fuel stations. 🔗www.empa.ch/web/s604/entrepreneur-fe...
Empa-Forscherin Alessia Cesarini erhält das Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship 2026. Sie entwickelt ein klimafreundliches Benzin, das in bestehenden Motoren und Tankstellen funktioniert. 🔗www.empa.ch/web/s604/entrepreneur-fe...
Advances in sustainable construction with less concrete and steel: European research team, incl. Empa, focuses on use of intelligent shapes, digital manufacturing, alternative binders. Structures can also be 3D-printed, dismantled, and reused.
https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/beton-aus-dem-3d-drucker
Versatile group of materials suitable for a wide range of applications, from #energystorage to #medicine: #MXenes, a new class of two-dimensional materials. Empa researchers make significant progress in modeling and synthesizing MXenes.
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An elastic polymer electrolyte could boost the safety and energy density of #solidstate #batteries – and could be used, e.g. in #flexiblebatteries in #medtech. Developed by Empa researchers from the Laboratory for Functional Polymers.
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Emerging #solarcell technologies – can they make it from the lab to the market? Empa researchers and collaborators publish paper in @nature.com Energy on conditions for successful collaboration between research and industry.
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#cigs #perovskite
We recently shared this research on fully compostable smart sensing tags: ➡️: bit.ly/44Ip59N — now you can take a deeper dive. Listen to more on the topic with Oleksandr, one of @csem.ch's engineers behind the work (🗣️FR only): bit.ly/4aLn9Qh
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🌍️ Wie kreislaufgerecht bauen wir heute? 🏗️
🎙️Der NEST-Podcast mit Peter Richner und Martin Pauli, Global Circular Economy Services Leader bei Arup, zu Realität, Herausforderungen und Entwicklungen der #Kreislaufwirtschaft im Bau.
Die ganze Folge hören:https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast
🌍Invisible gases, visible impact: Empa researcher Alina Begley detects tiny, climate-relevant pollutants, building data that informs regulation. Restart Grant support allows her to resume research after maternity leave.
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#womeninscience #empamaterialsscience
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) hold exceptional promise for next-generation nanoelectronics. Prof. Mickael Perrin, Assistant Professor at D-ITET and Group Leader Quantum Devices @empa-materials.bsky.social, has co-authored an insightful Review in “Nature Reviews Materials”.
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Empa contributes to @esa.int -led research on the ISS. Through THERMOPROP and SESAME, Empa researchers are studying metallic glasses in microgravity and space exposure, strengthening materials science capabilities in orbit and beyond.
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#empamaterialsscience
Muons receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation @snsf.ch, led by Paul Scherrer Institut and the University of Zurich, with involvement of Empa researchers.
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#nccr #muoniverse #empamaterialsscience
Congratulations to Tanja Zimmermann for being re-elected by the Federal Council as director of Empa 👏
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As part of the #ICOSCities project, Zurich now has 60 atmospheric sensors measuring real-time CO₂ levels across the city. For the first time, authorities can compare live atmospheric data with the traditional emissions inventory.
👉 Read more in FLUXES: www.icos-cp.eu/fluxes/4/tra...
FireDrone: first drone developed to withstand extreme heat while sending real-time data from danger zones. Developed at Empa and now continued as a spin-off.
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FireDrone: www.firedrone.com
Empa develops a “stress ECG” for #batteries by monitoring them in operando in the EU Green Deal project HyMetBat – boosting sustainable, high-performance #energystorage for #netzero.
https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/hymetbat
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Empa researchers and industry partner TI Solutions develop #polymer-based cables that enable #EEG, #ECG & stimulation inside #MRI – without heating or image distortion.
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#empamaterialsscience
⚡️Voller Energie ins neue Jahr! 🔋
🎙️Der NEST-Podcast mit Peter Richner und Cornelia Mellenberger, CEO Energie Wasser Bern, zu langfristiger #Versorgungssicherheit, Ausbau von #erneuerbarenEnergien und flexiblen Strompreisen.
Zur aktuellen Folge: https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast
Empa researchers develop new kind of #epoxy resin – widely used as coatings, adhesives or as part of fiber-reinforced materials – that can be reprocessed, chemically recycled, is flame retardant and easy to manufacture.
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#empamaterialsscience
Empa researchers and partners investigate in new study how trifluoroacetic acid #TFA, the smallest molecule among #PFAS, enters water bodies via precipitation. Results show TFA concentrations have multiplied in recent decades.
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Empa researchers succeed in making thin interlayers in superinsulation for e.g. #satellites more resistant. Tech could also be used to improve #flexibleelectronics and #medicalsensors.
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Goncalo Catarina receives two-year Empa Young Scientist Fellowship for research into the calculation of quantum effects in carbon molecules @nanotechsurflab.bsky.social
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#nanotech #quantummaterials #empamaterialsscience
Ultrafast electron control⚡️In our new Nature Communications paper, we switch single-atom charge states in WSe₂ with picosecond THz pulses capturing atomic-scale ultrafast dynamics.
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#QuantumMaterials
#2Dmaterials
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