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 E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers combined perovskite nanocubes - tiny crystals with useful electrical or optical properties - with spherical nanoparticles to form a regular, repeating structure called a superlattice. Some of these structures... view more  Credit: Image courtesy of Maksym Kovalenko and Ihor Cherniukh/ETH Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology AMES, Iowa - Researchers have developed new types of materials that combines two or three types of nanoparticles into stru...

Eco-energy without limits? Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 11.05.2021 - Even a sustainable circular economy doesnt run without energy. Solar panels and wind farms, tidal and geothermal power plants: They all divert energy from energy fluxes that had remained untapped since time immemorial. The question is therefore: What part of these energy fluxes can mankind use for its own purposes without damaging the Earths e...

Regular virus tests can curb infection rates Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 07.05.2021 - Since February 2021, the canton of Grisons is using saliva-based PCR mass testing within its mobile workforce as a potential means to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and reduce infection rates. Empa researchers are now leading the analysis of data from the first eight weeks of the testing regime. They observed a reduction in th...

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Travels in Geology: To the top of Europe: Jungfrau, Switzerland by Naomi Lubick Tuesday, June 12, 2018 The 4,158-meter-tall Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps, part of the western Swiss Alps. Credit: ©Wengen-Muerren-Lauterbrunnental AG, www.swiss-image.ch Intrepid visitors can take at least two paths to the top of Europe: an excruciating and dangerous ascent up the north face of the Eiger to the top of the nearly 4-kilometer-tall peak, or a comfortable (if steep) train ride through that mo...

Go-ahead for Swiss m4m Center Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 20.04.2021 - Since 15 April, it is official: The Technology Transfer Center for 3D Printing in Medical Technology – Swiss m4m Center, in short – meets the requirements of ISO standard 13485:2016; it is thus allowed to produce implants and instruments for human patients. The starting signal for promising projects with Swiss SMEs: The partner network ...

How much does Switzerland consume? - 87 million tons of material each year Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 15.04.2021 - Empa researchers have analyzed the entire material and energy flows of the Swiss economy. Their final report now provides important data and comparisons. The team also looked into how the behavior of the Swiss population affects greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings, industrial plants, roads, cars...

Tailor-made power grids Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 01.04.2021 - Empa researcher Cristina Dominguez is developing a computer model, which can be used to plan electricity grids in developing countries. To collect data, she travelled to Kenya to get an idea of how people live without electricity and what developments access to the power grid can trigger. http://www.kmu.admin.ch/aktuell/00493/0179...

When used for materials testing, extensometers are used to accurately measure material properties that are critical for a vast range of engineering designs - aircraft, energy systems, medical devices, and civil structures, to name a few. Very often, human lives depend on accurate and consistent measurements made with extensometers. Image Credit: Epsilon Technology Corp. Testing structural materials often requires extensometers to make accurate extension measurements of only a few microns or te...

Modeling eternity in the rock laboratory Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 16.02.2021 - Cement is one of the key materials for the safe storage of radioactive waste. What is needed is an almost infinite durability of the containers. Empa researchers are therefore analyzing material systems that can handle this task. When Barbara Lothenbach pushes ahead with her research projects, she knows that she will not live to ...